Marsha Luginbuehl, PhD

Marsha Luginbuehl, Ph.D., is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Achiever in the field of education and medicine as a Sleep Medicine Specialist.

Sleep disorders are known to seriously impair a child’s health, cognitive functioning, learning, behaviors, or jeopardize the safety of themselves or others. In children, Over 20% will suffer from one or more major sleep disorders sometime in their childhood or adolescence.

Sleep deprivation or oxygen deprivation during sleep could also be the cause of oppositional behaviors, poor concentration, and low academic achievement.

Dr. Marsha Luginbuehl has over 28 years of experience as a former school psychologist and sleep disorders screening specialist. With a doctoral emphasis in Pediatric Sleep Disorders, Pediatric Psychology, and Family Therapy, Dr. Luginbuehl has helped thousands of children both within the United States and internationally identify their sleep disorders. With her company, Child Uplift, Inc., and the Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students (SDIS), the Sleep Disorders Inventory for Students – Revised (SDIS-R), and the Sleep Inventory for Adults (SDI-A) that were developed by Luginbuehl and leading sleep specialists and sleep clinics, adults and parents of children have a convenient place to go to the screen and determine if they have a high risk of having a major sleep disorder (see screening website: www.SleepInventory.com). This screening enables them to know when to seek treatment from a sleep specialist to correct their sleep disorders and decrease possible cognitive, learning, behavioral, and/or emotional problems often caused by untreated sleep disorders. This can result in greatly improved health, safety, and promote success and quality of life.

Dr. Luginbuehl has recently published a new book entitled “Settle for No More Bullying, Harassment or Abuse!” that can be found on Amazon (www.amazon.com/Settle-More-BullyingHarassment-abuse/dp/1543985149/ref=sr_1_1?crid= 2WW56QZ4773I3&dchild=1&keywords=settle+for+no+more+bu llying%2C+harassment+or+abuse&qid=1589221450&s=books&s prefix=Settle+For+No+More+Bullying%2C+H%2Caps%2C235& sr=1-1).

This is a comprehensive book with great advice from experts and many illustrations written for parents and students to teach them how to stop bullying and harassment immediately, easily and safely. Some chapters teach parents how to avoid raising a bully or a victim, teach schools how to decrease the incidence rate of bullying, including mistreatment by the tough or dangerous, hardcore bullies, and advice for adolescent and young adult females to recognize the warning signs so they can avoid or extricate themselves from males who may be controlling or abusive.

Dr. Luginbuehl graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and then move on to earn her Master’s Degree with the University of South Florida and remained there to earn her Ph.D. designation. Her success has led to her affiliations as a member of NASP, AASM, AAPMD, and the ADA Dental Screening Task Force to help them develop a sleep screening process for all dentists nationally. Dr. Luginbuehl continues to donate her time and resources to the American Red Cross as a crisis counselor, a little league coach, a volunteer counselor for a local Addiction Recovery Program, and the American Cancer Society.

Outside of work, Dr. Luginbuehl enjoys hiking; snow skiing, gardening, photography, cooking foreign foods, and traveling and spending time with her husband, children, and her 20 beautiful grandchildren.

Dr. Luginbuehl dedicates her success to her mentors Dr. Kathy Bradley Klug, Dr. Mcdowell Anderson, Dr. Selim Benbabis, Dr. William Kohler, and many other sleep specialists.