Dr Dimitri Gavriloff

Dr Gavriloff is a clinical psychologist and sleep medicine specialist, and sees both adults and children clinically. He lectures in sleep medicine and is a Research Clinical Psychologist at the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), University of Oxford. He also leads the Oxford Two-Day Masterclass in CBT for Insomnia. His research interests are principally in the development and refinement of psychobehavioural treatments for circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders and in the advancement of sleep medicine education within wider clinical training pathways.

As well as his work at the SCNi, he runs an NHS non-respiratory sleep disorders service at the John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), and works part-time as a consultant in sleep medicine, in particular for Sleepio/Big Health Ltd, where my work is focused on making digital CBT for insomnia scalable. He is a founder member of the European Sleep Research Society’s (ESRS) European Academy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (EA-CBTI), and a Somnologist (Expert in Behavioural Sleep Medicine) certified with the ESRS.

Prior to training in clinical psychology he spent several years practicing as a Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition, mainly in the Thai Forest Tradition, and has a particular interest in the use of metacognitive, so-called "third-wave", approaches in the treatment of insomnia.