Service
Dr. Nofzinger has served in a variety of service roles across his career as a means of furthering missions that can impact lives.
Examples include:
Serving as a consultant to the Indian Health Services in the State of Alaska to study ways to improve the delivery of mental health care to Native Americans in remote regions.
Serving as a workgroup member on the DSM-IV task group on sleep disorders.
Representing the Department of Veterans Affairs at meetings of the Advisory Committee for the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research at the National Institute of Health.
Serving as the President of the Sleep Research Society
Serving as a reviewer on NIH site visits for federally funded General Clinical Research Centers at leading Academic Medical Centers such as:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
University of Kentucky
University of Iowa
University of Washington
Temple University
University of California, San Francisco
University of Louisville,
University of California, Davis
University of Wisconsin
And chairing the GCRC site visits at:
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
University of Miami School of Medicine
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Dr. Nofzinger also serves on the Board of Directors for Project Z of the Lowcountry
Project Z of the Lowcountry
Approximately 22,000 children in Charleston County, South Carolina, go to bed each night without an adequate bed to sleep on, often sleeping on the floor.
Project Z’s mission is to provide free twin beds, mattresses and bedding to local youth who lack an adequate, comfortable place to sleep.
By ensuring that every child has a place to lay their head at night, Project Z is transform a community by helping children be healthier and more successful in school, one bed at a time.
Because every child deserves a good night's rest.