Meet Our Advisory Board
Dr. Anne Marie Morse is a neurologist with special training in child neurology and sleep medicine specialist. Although recognized as an avid educator, successful leader, thoughtful clinician and inquisitive researcher, she views her most important roles in medicine as being a health care partner, advocate and changemaker. Credentials Anne Marie Morse, DO, FAASM Chair, Child Neurology and Pediatric Sleep Medicine Geisinger, Janet Weis Children's Hospital Program Director, Child Neurology Residency Geisinger, Janet Weis Children's Hospital Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Neurology and Sleep Medicine Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Claire is an award-winning author and patient advocate for people living with sleep disorders. After her daughter Mathilda developed Type1 Narcolepsy in 2010, her family moved from England to California to secure treatment and expert care for Mathilda under Professor Emmanuel Mignot at Stanford. Her book Waking Mathilda—A Memoir of Childhood Narcolepsy was published in 2017 and tells the story of parenting a young child with Narcolepsy and the impact of Mathilda’s diagnosis on her life and her family. It was Claire’s commitment to raising public awareness, so that people with sleep disorders would be better understood and better treated that compelled her to lead Wake Up Narcolepsy until 2019. Claire co-founded Sleep Consortium with Lindsay Jesteadt , a non-profit to accelerate research in Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence and is also the CEO of the Hypersomnia Foundation—an American based non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those living with Idiopathic Hypersomnia. She lives in Los Angeles with her son, daughter, and cat Mochi.