Sleep as Performance Medicine
Sleep recurs across Derek H. Suite, MD’s published work — in peer-reviewed research, in writing for other physicians, and in a long-running newspaper column for the public. This page gathers that writing in one place.
Peer-reviewed research
Sleep optimization as sports psychiatry intervention: A clinical framework for elite performance enhancement, published in Sports Psychiatry, the journal of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry.
See the full publication record for the rest of Derek’s peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Psychiatric Times — a continuing series on sleep in elite sport
- Sleep and Sport: How Sleep Deprivation Impacts Coaches and TeamsApril 2026 · with Mena Mirhom, MD and Roy Collins, MD
- Leadership Under Pressure: Coach Sleep, Decision-Making, and Team Functioning in Elite SportApril 2026 · with Mena Mirhom, MD and Roy Collins, MD
- Acute Sleep Medications for Professional AthletesDecember 2025 · CME · with Justin E. Morales, MD
- Sleep as Connective Tissue: Quantifying Team Dynamics in Elite SportsOctober 2025 · with Mena Mirhom, MD
Black Westchester Magazine — the Full Circle Health column
- The Sleep Math Your Doctor Never Told YouBlack Westchester Magazine
- Sleep Disruptors: What's Really Stealing Your RestBlack Westchester Magazine
- When Sleep Goes Wrong: The Disorders No One Told You ExistedBlack Westchester Magazine
- The Medicine You Are Not TakingBlack Westchester Magazine
- Still Exhausted After Sleeping?Black Westchester Magazine
- What the Label Will Not Tell YouBlack Westchester Magazine
Elsewhere on this site
- The book, in progress
- Speaking: Sleep as Performance Medicine
- Approach: clinical-and-performance range
- Approach: the performer trust barrier