Julie Flygare
President and CEO, Project Sleep
Julie Flygare is president and CEO of Project Sleep and the author of Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy. Since receiving a diagnosis of type 1 narcolepsy in 2007, Flygare has advanced her leadership in the sleep and health care space through speaking engagements, publications, earned media, collaborations, and advocacy and awareness initiatives. While a student at Boston College Law School she focused on health law, policy, and rare disease drug development. On March 22, 2022, she delivered the TEDx Talk, “What Can You Learn from a Professional Dreamer?“
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Sleep, perchance to dream—and to awaken restored, energetic, and prepared to meet the challenges of the day. The evolutionary gift of sleep lowers the risk of chronic disease,...