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Dr. Timothy Hoelscher
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Dr. Timothy J. Hoelscher received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota Morris in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Memphis State University in 1984. Following his internship at Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Hoelscher did a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship with the sleep disorders center at Duke. He served on the Duke faculty as an assistant professor from 1986-1988. He then worked as Assistant Director of the sleep disorders center at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA from 1988-1992. During his academic career, Dr. Hoelscher had the opportunity to work with some of the leading researchers in sleep disorders, including Dr. Ken Lichstein at Memphis State University, Dr. Jack Edinger at Duke University Medical Center, and Dr. J. Catesby Ware at Eastern Virginia Medical School. During these years, Dr. Hoelscher published over 20 journal articles and book chapters, gave frequent talks at national sleep meetings, and organized a symposium on insomnia at the APSS meeting in Minneapolis. He served as a site visitor for accreditation of sleep disorders centers for a 5 year period for the American Sleep Disorders Association. He has been board certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine since 1987.
Dr. Hoelscher moved to Murfreesboro, TN in 1994 to join Dr. William Noah as they started the first sleep disorders center in Rutherford County at Middle Tennessee Medical Center. Under their direction, the sleep disorders center at MTMC was accredited in 1996 and grew from an average of 300 sleep studies per year to more than 1200. Drs. Hoelscher and Noah founded the Sleep Center at StoneCrest in 2004 (accredited in 2005) and the Sleep Center of Murfreesboro in 2006. Dr. Hoelscher lives in Murfreesboro with his wife, Dr. Maura Campbell, and their three children.
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