About Dr. Solet

Jo M. Solet, MS EdM, PhD, OTR/L is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a member of the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine and the Department of Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. She holds basic science, clinical, education, and research degrees; her HMS post-doctoral training was in behavioral medicine.

Dr. Solet is uniquely qualified to coordinate and contribute to interdisciplinary efforts. Bringing together evidence-based medicine with evidence-based design, she served as Principal Investigator for a multiple grant study of noise and patient sleep disruption in hospitals with the results published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

She is a voting member of the Health Care Guidelines Revision Committee (HGRC) that develops construction guidelines for healthcare facilities that become law in the majority of the United States. She has also served as the elected Faculty Chair of the Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW), and on The Harvard University Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering. Dr. Solet is a science advisor to Lark Technologies, an MIT/Stanford start-up health technology company and has a small private practice near Harvard Square. More information about Dr. Solet’s research interests and publications is provided in For more information.