Daniel S. Lewin, Ph.D., D.ABSM, is a pediatric psychologist, sleep specialist and licensed clinical psychologist. He provides comprehensive evaluation and behavioral medicine treatment services to patients in two practice areas: sleep disorders medicine and pulmonary behavioral medicine. His clinical and training programs in sleep medicine are shared with Gustavo Nino, M.D., and Miriam Weiss. This multidisciplinary team provides comprehensive sleep medicine services based in the Children’s National Health System Accredited Sleep Center. The Pulmonary Medicine program provides a wide range of services to patients with acute and chronic respiratory diseases.
Dr. Lewin is board-certified in sleep medicine and behavioral sleep medicine. He is the associate director of the Pediatric Sleep Medicine Program, director of the Pulmonary Behavioral Medicine Program and associate professor of pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, and completed pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at the Yale Child Study Center and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Lewin’s NIH and Children’s Hospital Foundation-funded research has focused on the impact of sleep disturbances on the regulation of attention, mood and behavior. His ongoing studies investigate the impact of medical illness and psychiatric disorders on sleep and development.