Conor Heneghan (conor.heneghan@resmed.com) received his
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New
York, in 1995 and was cofounder of BiancaMed, a pioneering company
in noncontact sleep measurement, which was acquired by ResMed in
2011. He is a chief engineer with ResMed Ventures and Initiatives and
adjunct associate professor at the School of Electrical, Electronic, and
Communications Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland.
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.”
—E.M. Forster
Despite the fact that we spend nearly one third of our lives asleep, surprisingly little was known about sleep until the 20th century. Now, sleep medicine...
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