Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lifestyle Sleep

Board Certified by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (for Sleep Medicine), and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine

Former longtime Sleep Medicine Physician, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Practitioner and Lifestyle Medicine Physician at Redwood Pulmonary Medical Associates

Sleep-related research consultant to Google, and independent consultant and writer through FitPros and Medium

Clinical Practice Committee Member and former Insomnia Care Pathways Task Force member, Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Lecturer on sleep's importance and on the non-pharmacologic management of sleep disorders, to physicians, school policy-makers, Intensive Care Unit personnel, community groups, high school and elementary school students, and podcast listeners

Longtime member of the Payer Policy Review Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Michelle Jonelis, MD DipABLM earned her doctorate in medicine from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine after receiving a BS degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.  She continued with a Preliminary Residency in Internal Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, then completed a Neurology Residency followed by a Sleep Medicine Fellowship plus special training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia at Stanford University.  She is Board Certified by the Board of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (for Sleep Medicine), and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.

For more than seven years, Dr. Jonelis served as a Sleep Medicine Physician, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Practitioner and Lifestyle Medicine Physician for Redwood Pulmonary Medical Associates, where she established her own clinical focus:  the non-pharmacologic management of sleep disorders using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, circadian realignment/optimization, and lifestyle medicine techniques.  She moved on to founding the Lifestyle Sleep clinic, where the practice seeks to address the underlying causes of sleep disorders in adult and pediatric patients through behavior and lifestyle change.  The mission is to guide individuals on falling and staying asleep without medication or supplements, relying on simple smart science-backed (and sustainable) strategies to improve the quality of sleep and to optimize its health-promoting effects.

Dr. Jonelis is a Clinical Practice Committee Member and former Insomnia Care Pathways Task Force member at the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and a longtime member of the Payer Policy Review Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, where she has evaluated insurance reimbursement practices in the area of insomnia and advocated for fair reimbursement policies.  She is a sleep-related research consultant to Google, and independent consultant and writer through FitPros and Medium, and has provided her expertise to a number of entities exploring sleep issues.  She lectures frequently on sleep's importance and on non-pharmacologic strategies for enhancing sleep, to physicians, school policy-makers, Intensive Care Unit personnel, community groups, high school and elementary school students, and podcast listeners.