An Origin Story for IH: "Let's Do What People With Other Diseases Do" - Quinn Eastman
Channel: Hypersomnia Foundation
Date: 30/06/2023

Quinn Eastman discusses his newly published book  The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness. It is one of the first books to specifically talk about idiopathic hypersomnia and the Hypersomnia Foundation. 

Quinn details why he wrote the book and the origins of IH.  He also shares what can people living with IH get out of the book?

Author Quinn Eastman has been a science writer and editor at Emory University School of Medicine since 2007. He was trained as a biochemist, receiving a PhD from Yale University and then working in Munich, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. Later Quinn was a newspaper reporter in the San Diego area, covering local government and environmental issues. He now lives in Decatur, GA, with his family.

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