Dr. Barry Krakow is the founder of the Nightmare Treatment Center. Dr. Krakow is a board certified sleep disorders specialist who has conducted more than a decade of research in the treatment of chronic nightmares and disturbing dreams at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. His worked has focused on the use of cognitive-behavioral methods for the treatment of chronic nightmares and disturbing dreams. He is currently the medical director of the Sleep & Human Health Institute and the Eastern New Mexico Sleep Disorders Center. He maintains a position as a volunteer faculty (associate research professor of emergency medicine and psychiatry) at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and has published several scientific articles on nightmares, nightmare therapy and the impact of sleep disorders on chronic nightmare sufferers. He is also co-author of Conquering Bad Dreams and Nightmares (Berkley Books, 1992).

Dr. Krakow graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He was residency trained and board certified in internal medicine and also has ten years of clinical work in emergency medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society and is the former medical director of University Hospital Sleep Disorders Center.

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