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Dr. Jessica Lunsford-Avery is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Virginia and earned her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Lunsford-Avery completed her clinical internship at the Duke University Medical Center. Following internship, she joined the Duke ADHD Program faculty, where she engages in research, education, and clinical services.
Dr. Lunsford-Avery has published more than 30 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Over the past 6 years, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences have supported her research. Dr. Lunsford-Avery currently leads multiple studies investigating sleep and psychiatric health in youth, with a specific focus on individuals with ADHD. She is also a member of the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders, Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine, International Pediatric Sleep Association, and Sleep Research Society, for which she has served as a standing member of the Scientific Review and Membership Committees. She serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Neuroscience – Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, and Sleep Advances, and has reviewed for more than 25 different peer reviewed journals. In 2020, she served as the guest editor of a special issue on Pediatric Sleep Disorders for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.
Dr. Lunsford-Avery is a licensed clinical psychologist and maintains a practice through the Duke ADHD Program’s outpatient clinic. Her research interests are in the areas of sleep disturbances and risk for, onset, and progression of behavioral and developmental disorders; associations between sleep and cognition and social performance; prevention and treatment of sleep problems; and leveraging mobile and digital health technologies to increase access to best-practice psychiatric care.