Dr. Shane Creado is a double board-certified sleep medicine doctor and psychiatrist. He practices functional sleep medicine, integrative psychiatry, and sports psychiatry, putting all those skills together to uncover underlying factors that sabotage the patients, comprehensively treat them, and help them achieve their goals. He completed an undergraduate degree in physical therapy, went on to do an MD, graduating at the top of his class. He completed his psychiatric training at the University of Wisconsin where they awarded him the graduating resident award for academic achievement. He then went on to a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin because of the huge overlap between sleep and psychiatric issues. As a sports psychiatrist and sleep performance doctor, he has been on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry (ISSP) for several years, and works with a number of elite athletes, CEO’s and business leaders, and is affiliated with the Amen Clinics, the PGA tour Europe, the NBA Players association, the Australian Football League and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. He is now the chair of the Sleep Performance Committee for the International Society for Sports Psychiatry, as well as the lead on Innovation and Technology for the ISSP, working toward the integration of sleep and performance metrics in the technology space. He is the author of the book ‘Peak Sleep Performance for Athletes’, The cutting-edge sleep science that will guarantee a competitive advantage, which debuted #1 in Sports Medicine on Amazon in March 2020. He is the host of the Overcoming Insomnia course, available on Amen University (https://brainmd.com/overcoming-insomnia-course), which teaches the best evidence-based strategies to improve sleep, and has designed a best-selling sleep supplement for BrainMD, called Put Me To Sleep. He is also a contributing author to 5 principal books in Sports Psychiatry.
