Summer Haddad is a doctoral student and pediatric nurse who works with critically-ill newborns and their families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Summer obtained her BScN at McMaster University and began her nursing career in the NICU at the Hospital for Sick Children. Through her clinical work, Summer developed an interest in seeking ways to best support families through the NICU-to-home transition. She completed one year in the Master of Nursing Degree (Clinical Specialization) prior to transferring into the PhD program at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral work supervised by Dr. Robyn Stremler and committee members Dr. Prakesh Shah and Dr. Cindy-Lee Dennis, will examine sleep and correlates of sleep (depression, anxiety, nighttime behaviours) for parents of preterm infants during NICU hospitalization and at two timepoints following discharge. A cohort of parents of healthy-term infants will provide comparison to the preterm family data. This will be the first study to assess sleep for parents of preterm infants in Canada. A better understanding sleep and contributing factors is necessary to identify at-risk families and guide future research on ways to maximize sleep and well-being for parents after preterm birth. Summer’s graduate education has been supported by the Alma Rae Fellows Scholarship Award, Hospital for Sick Children; Seymour Schulich Graduate Student Award in Nursing and funding support from the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing; as well as the Better Nights Better Days CIHR Team Grant in Pediatric Sleep. She is a recent recipient of the Maria Györössy-Csepreghy Kluge Award for Excellence in Infant & Neonatal Care (2018) and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2018). Her doctoral work is supported by the Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP), Hospital for Sick Children.