Katharine Simon, PhD

Katharine Simon is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UCI School of Medicine and the assistant director of research in Pediatric Sleep at the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). She is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialties in pediatric health and behavioral sleep medicine. She obtained her BA at UC Berkeley and her PhD in both clinical psychology and cognition & neural systems at the University of Arizona.

Simon's current research spans the mechanisms underlying sleep, memory, and mental health across development in healthy and patient populations, memory modification and the development of new sleep-based interventions. Her work is currently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the CHOC.