Kimberly Hutchison is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and a member of the Sleep Disorders Division.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Hutchison was born and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, near Kansas City. She received her undergraduate degree from The Colorado College in 1995, where she graduated with Distinction in Biology. She returned to Kansas for her medical training and earned her M.D. from the University of Kansas in Kansas City, KS, in 2000. She completed an internal medicine internship and neurology residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. She served as Chief Resident during her final year of neurology training. In 2004 Dr. Hutchison came to Vanderbilt where she served as the first fellow in Sleep Disorders Medicine. She is board certified in Neurology and Sleep Medicine (American Board of Sleep Medicine). Dr. Hutchison joined the facutly at Vanderbilt in May, 2005. She specializes in Sleep Disorders and has a special interest in obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome and sleep in Parkinson's Disease. She sees both adult and pediatric sleep patients.

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Dr. Hutchison has recently collaborated with the Institute of Imaging Science and Department of Radiology to develop the technology of simultaneously acquiring fMRI and EEG data. This will allow sleep researchers to “see” what changes are occurring in the brain during different sleep stages. She won a Young Investigator’s Honorable Mention Award at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s for her abstract entitled ““Cortical Activation Can Be Visualized During Sleep Using Simultaneous EEG-fMRI”.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Kimberly Hutchison, Edward J. Butterworth, Victoria L. Morgan, Daniel S. Greenberg, Peter Howard, John C. Gore. “Cortical Activation Can Be Visualized During Sleep Using Simultaneous EEG-fMRI”. Abstract and platform presentation, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, SLEEP 2007, Minneapolis, MN.

Kimberly Hutchison, Malcolm Avison, Joanna Blankner, Daniel Greenberg, John C. Gore , Beth Malow. “Neural correlates of adaptation to sleep deprivation in obstructive
sleep apnea - A Pilot Study”. Abstract and platform presentation, Sleep Research Society, A Primer of Sleep Research, La Jolla, CA, 2007.

Edward J. Butterworth, Kimberly Hutchison, Victoria L. Morgan, Daniel S. Greenberg, Peter Howard, John C. Gore. Hemodynamic change during sleep: a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study. Abstract and platform presentation, Sleep Research Society, A Primer of Sleep Research, La Jolla, CA, 2007

Hutchison, KN, Sleep Disorders (Chapter 21). In: Kirshner, Howard, ed. "First Exposure: The Neurology Clerkship". New York. McGraw Hill, 2006.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University

A-0118 Medical Center North
Nashville, TN, 37232-2551

Appointments: (615) 936-0060