H. Kenneth Fisher, M.D.
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H. Kenneth Fisher, M.D.
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Sleep: A User’s Guide is Dr. Fisher’s first full-length book. He has authored more than twenty medical research papers and contributed chapters to books published by UCLA and the Fogarty Center of the National Institutes of Health. A popular lecturer, he has given hundreds of talks to audiences of the general public as well as to physicians at every level of training and practice. He has been invited to comment on public health issues for television news programs.
A native of St. Louis, Dr. Fisher studied at Carleton College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and MIT before returning home to attend and graduate from Washington University School of Medicine. After internship and residencies at Barnes Hospital and Bronx Municipal Hospital, he completed his training at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of UC San Francisco. For over a decade, he directed programs in lung disease at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and at VA Hospitals in Tucson and Los Angeles. He held professorships at the University of Washington, University of Arizona, and UCLA. He also served as clinical chief of the Pulmonary Division at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
He first became engaged in the science of sleep when he treated several patients with severe sleep disorders. Later, he trained as a sleep specialist and participated in research involving sleep disturbances in chronic illness. He served the Los Angeles community in private practice as an internist and consultant in pulmonary diseases and sleep medicine for forty years. He has been chairman of the Environmental Health Committee of LA County Medical Association and was founding treasurer of the Los Angeles Sleep Medicine Society.
Dr. Fisher enjoys foreign travel, photography, tennis, and computer technology. His partner Judith Pacht is a poet, and their family includes a molecular biologist, two lawyers, a website analyst, an architect, and a senior executive at a large tech company.
Fun facts about Dr Fisher:
“I’ve been an avid camper and long-time member of the Boy Scouts of America. In my youth, I became an Eagle Scout and a member of the Order of the Arrow, a scouting honor society. As a high school senior, I was runner-up in the Missouri State men’s badminton competition. I have long been a fan of beautiful birds; my most thrilling find happened during a winter camping trip in the Missouri Ozark Mountains when I spotted a Pileated Woodpecker—thought at that time to be extinct, and now acknowledged as the largest woodpecker living in North America.”