Sleep and the Biological Clock

Learn the importance of sleep for optimum wellness and peak performance!

How critical is adequate sleep to wellness and overall success in life? Chancellor Gene Block will discuss how the chronic lack of sleep could be the "sleeper" issue for American health. Chancellor Block teaches both psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. Join us for this special opportunity to hear the Chancellor speak about his academic research!

Before the program, mingle with alumni and other friends of UCLA at a reception featuring plenty of satisfying hors d'oeuvres and beverages--all included in the registration price.

Chancellor's Society
Join the Chancellor's Society at the Chancellor's Circle level or above and receive a number of benefits when you attend On the Road events, including complimentary registration for two attendees. For more information, call 310-794-2363.

Gene Block
Chancellor, UCLA
Gene Block became chancellor of UCLA in August 2007. He holds faculty appointments in psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and in the department of integrative biology and physiology in the College of Letters and Science. His academic specialization, circadian biology, deals with the functioning of 24-hour rhythms in higher organisms. Chancellor Block is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The inventor of a number of devices, he holds a patent for a non-contact respiratory monitor for the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.