watson. >> mr. braggmember rosekind and the board of the national transportation safety board, i want to thank you for inviting me today to be here to speak with you on this important topic. my golda is to be a representative of the american academy of sleep medicine to let you know about some of our concerns in regards to novice drivers, drowsy driving, and to present to you a proposal that we're going to be undertaking in regards to how we are going to address this problem. so i wanted to share with you our vision and mission. you can see here that clearly when you look at our vision that if we achieve optimal health through better sleep, we make people more alert. if people are more alert they're going to be more alert behind the wheel and we're going to have safer roadways. if you look at our mission we focus on a broad range of areas including advocacy, education strategic research and practice standards. so i think this really summarizes our strengths that we bring to the table as we work together t

mr. bragg, whenever you are ready. >> thank you.as a reminder for our panelists sh , push the button on the microphone. when done speaking, turn it off by depressing the button. once again, our panel is on the concern for novice drivers. we have dr. nate lawson, president elect of the american academy of sleep medicine and professor of neurology and co-director of sleep centers at the university of washington. >> thank you. thank you very much for the invitation to speak here today. thank you for making some noise back there. i'm very excited that high school students are here this morning for my presentation. because i'm going to be talking about why teens are susceptible to driving fatigue and what's happening to them that's making them susceptible. so i'm going to talk about the biology of teen sleep and what's going on during adolescent development in terms of regulating sleep. then teen behaviors that affect sleep as well as societal restrictions. and then what's going on with teen driving and sleep. so the biology of sleep, wh

mr. bragghank you, member rosekind. as a reminder for our panelists, please push the button on the microphone to activate. bring it close to you. when done speaking, turn off the microphone by again depressing the button. once again our next panel is on concerns for novice drivers. bradley hospital and professor of psychiatrist and human behavior brown university. and we also have dr. nate watson. president elect of the academy of sleep medicine and professor of neurology and co-director of sleep centers at the university of washington. >> thank you.bkm thank you very much for the invitation to speak here today. thank you, member rosekind. and thank you for making some noise back there. i'm very excited that high school students are here this morning for my presentation. because i'm going to be talking about why teens are susceptible to driving fatigue and what's happening to them that's making them susceptible. so i'm going to talk about the biology of teen sleep and what's going on during ado

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