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Barbara Waag Carlson, PhD, RN

Associate Professor

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Nursing
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460

Office: 5105

Phone: (919) 966-9416

Email: bcarlson@email.unc.edu

Specialty Area: Gerontology

Barbara Waag Carlson, RN, PhD is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Biobehavioral Laboratory at the School of Nursing. She has a doctorate in Nursing and a minor in Experimental Psychology from UNC. Her research focuses on hypoxia during sleep and cognitive decline in older adults. In addition to presenting her work at the "Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints Conference" cosponsored by the NIH-FDA, she has received the 1999 Clinical Medicine Award from the Gerontological Society of America and the 2004 Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Agin Research Award from UNC-CH Institute on Aging. Her current 5 year NIH funded project examines the relationship between respiratory periodicity and cerebral oxygenation in older adults, age 70 years and older. She is an expert in computer-based data acquisition and physiological waveform conditioning. She has extensive experience in developing minimally intrusive instrumentation, standard polysomnographic techniques, respiratory monitoring, neurocognitive assessment, and actigraphy.