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Jodi Mindell, PhD

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Jodi Mindell PhD

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Dr. Jodi A. Mindell, Professor of Psychology, is a clinical psychologist specializing in pediatric sleep medicine. Dr. Mindell has written extensively on pediatric sleep disorders and presented over 500 papers at national and international conferences. Her research focuses on assessment and treatment of infant and toddler sleep disturbances, cross-cultural differences in sleep in young children, and the impact of sleep on development. She is the author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers, and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep(HarperCollins) and co-author of A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). She is also chair of the Pediatric Sleep Council that provides publicly available information about infant and toddler sleep (www.babysleep.com).

    • State University of New York at Albany

    • Williamson, A.A., Uwah, E.A., Min, J., Zhang, X., Griffis, H., Cielo, C.M., Tapia, I.E., Fiks, A.G., & Mindell, J.A.(2024). Diagnosis of sleep disorders in child healthcare settings. Sleep Medicine, 119, 80-87.
    • Moon, R., Mindell, J. A., Honaker, S., Keim, S., Roberts, K. J., McAdams, R. J., & McKenzie, L. B. (2024). The tension between AAP safe sleep guidelines and infant sleep. Pediatrics, 153, e2023064675.
    • Mindell, J. A., Leichman, E., and Rotella, K. (2024). Maternal beliefs and cognitions about naps in infants and toddlers. European Journal of Pediatrics, 183, 263-269.
    • Lupini, F.L., Daniel, L. C., Mindell, J. A., & Williamson, A. A. (2023). Variation in caregiver-reported child sleep patterns and problems by family socioeconomic indicators. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 44, e551-e558. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.01.009.
    • Williamson, A. A., Min, J., Fay, K., Cicalese, O., Meltzer, L. J., & Mindell, J. A. (2023). A multi-method evaluation of bed provision and sleep education for young children and their families living in poverty. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 19, 1583-1594. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.10614.
    • Carson, M., Cicalese, O., Bhandari, E., Stefanovski, D., Fiks, A.G., Mindell, J.A., & Williamson, A.A. (2023). Discrepancies between caregiver reported early childhood sleep problems and clinician documentation and referral. Academic Pediatrics, 23, 1234-1241. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2023.02.001.
    • Carson, M., Moore, M., Cicalese, M., Dunnewald, M., Varker, A., Mindell, J. A.*, & Williamson, A. A.* (2023). Variation in twitter posts referencing pediatric sleep aids. (*denotes both senior authors). Sleep Health, 9, 451-459. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.04.009.
    • Lam, J. T. Y., Williamson, A. A., Salih, Z., Heere, M., & Mindell, J. A. (2023). Bedtime routines, development, and socioeconomic factors in childhood. Frontiers in Sleep (Section: Pediatric and Adolescent Sleep), 2, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2023.1197297.
    • Mindell, J. A., Collins, M., Leichman, E. S., Bartle, A., Kohyama, J., Sekartini, R., Veeravigrom, M., Kwon, R., & Goh, D. Y. T. (2022). Caregiver perceptions of sleep problems and desired areas of change in young children, Sleep Medicine, 90, 67-72.
    • Williamson, A. A., Okoroji, C., Cicalese, O., Evans, B. C., Ayala, A., Harvey, B., Honore, R., Kratchman, A., Beidas, R. S., Fiks, A. G., Power T. J., & Mindell, J. A. (2022). Sleep Well!: An adapted behavioral sleep intervention implemented in urban primary care. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 18, 1153-1166.
    • Lupini, F., Leichman, E. S., Gould, R., Walters, R., Mindell, J. A.*, & Williamson, A. A.* (2022). Correlates of a caregiver-reported child sleep problem and variation by community disadvantage. Sleep Medicine, 90, 83-90 (*denotes both senior authors).
    • Mindell, J. A., Leichman, E. S., Walters, R., Bhullar, B. (2021). Development and dissemination of a consumer health information website on infant and toddler sleep. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 11, 1699-1707.
    • Williamson, A. A., Davenport, M., Cicalese, O., & Mindell, J. A. (2021). Sleep problems, cumulative risks, and psychological functioning in early childhood. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 46, 878-890.
    • Williamson, A. A., Gould, R. A., Leichman, E. S., Walters, R. M., & Mindell, J. A. (2021). Socioeconomic disadvantage and early childhood sleep: Real-world findings from a mobile health application. Sleep Health, 7, 143-152.
    • Meltzer, L. J., Williamson, A. A., & Mindell, J. A. (2021). Pediatric sleep health: It matters, and so does how we define it. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 57, 101425.
    • Lupini, F., Leichman, E. S., Lee, C., & Mindell, J. A. (2021). Sleep patterns, problems, and ecology in young children born preterm and full-term and their mothers. Sleep Medicine, 81, 443-450.
    • Meltzer, L. J., Wainer, A., Engstrom, E., Pepa, L., & Mindell, J. A. (2021). Seeing the whole elephant: A comprehensive review of behavioral treatments for pediatric insomnia. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 56, 101410.
    • Williamson, A. A., & Mindell, J. A. (2020). Cumulative socio-demographic risk factors and sleep outcomes in early childhood. Sleep, 40, 1-13.
    • Williamson, A. A., Milaniak, I., Watson, B., Cicalese, O., Fiks, A. G., Power, T. J., Barg, F. K., Beidas, R. S., Mindell, J. A., & Rendle, K. A. (2020). Early childhood behavioral sleep intervention in urban primary care: Perspectives from caregiver and clinician stakeholders. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 45, 933-945. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsaa024. * Recipient of 2020 Diane J. Willis Award for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology in recognition of an article having the potential for enduring impact on the field of pediatric psychology. 
    • Leichman, E. S.., Gould, R. A., Williamson, A. A., Walters, R. M., & Mindell, J. A. (2020). Effectiveness of an mHealth intervention for infant sleep disturbances. Behavior Therapy, 51, 548-558.
    • Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award, Sleep Research Society
    • Tengelmann Award (excellence in scholarship, teaching, and research), Saint Joseph's University