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 faculty at Vanderbilt in May, 2005. She specializes in all Sleep Disorders and has a special interest in sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome. She is also interested in education and increasing awareness of the importance of sleep and its disorders.

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Dr. Hutchison received an American Sleep Medicine Foundation career advancement award in 2006 for her study entitled, “Neural correlates of adaptation to sleep deprivation in obstructive sleep apnea - A Pilot Study”. This fMRI study looks at brain function before and after 24 hours of sleep deprivation in healthy controls and patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr. Hutchison has recently collaborated with the Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) and the 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

Hutchison KN; Song Y; Wang L; Malow BA. Analysis of sleep parameters in patients with obstructive sleep apnea studied in a hos¬pital vs. a hotel-based sleep center. J Clin Sleep Med 2008;4(2):119.

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.

Hutchison K, Cuevas R, Jankowiak J. Patient Page. Restless Legs, Do They Keep You Awake? Neurology, Dec. 2004.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Neurology
Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
A-0118 Medical Center North
Nashville, TN, 37232-2551