Miguel Meira e Cruz

Miguel Meira e Cruz, DDS, is the head of the Sleep Unit of the Cardiovascular Center of University of Lisbon, School of Medicine and is director of the European Sleep Center, in Portugal and Brazil. He is certified as Somnologist – Sleep Medicine Expert since 2016 by the European Sleep Research Society and served as the president of the Portuguese Association of Chronobiology and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Meira e Cruz is also co-directing the International Center on Clinical Sleep Medicine and Research, in the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health.

He has published several peer reviewed papers and chapters in the clinical chronobiology and sleep medicine fields and signed as the leading author in the first international consensus . He was the leading author of the textbook “Oral Medicine in Sleep”, the first treatise in the topic and he also published a book on the circadian clock in a story directed to young children and educators. He was awarded in Portugal and Brazil for its achievements in the area and received two World Sleep Day distinguished activity awards from the World Sleep Society and an honorable mention for his work on raising awareness of sleep disorders and burden that they place in society.