Ron is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate at Tulane University, Ron studied biomedical engineering and philosophy. He traveled north for the University of Minnesota's MD/PhD program where he completed his graduate degree in mechanics. He still cannot fix his car! His graduate research with Ted Wilson focused on the mechanics of asthmatic bronchoconstriction. After an internal medicine residency at the University of Vermont, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania for clinical training in sleep medicine. Ron stayed at Penn for a postdoctoral fellowship in bioinformatics working with both Allan Pack and John Hogenesch. Ron’s lab uses techniques from machine learning, engineering, and systems biology to understand how sleep and molecular rhythms influence physiology in the brain and body. Ron sees patients at the Penn Sleep Center