Students and Sleep

Rafael Pelayo, MD was born in New York City and lived for extended periods in Puerto Rico. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Puerto Rico, and his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1988. During this time, he completed an honors thesis on adolescent sleep disorders, interned in Pediatrics at Columbia Presbyterian Babies & Children’s Hospital, and completed a fellowship in child neurology, also at Montefiore. In 1993 he began a sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford University and subsequently requested to join the clinical staff at the Stanford Sleep Disorders clinic. He has remained there ever since and is currently an associate professor at the Sleep Medicine Center with an appointment through the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science.