; Whereas Congress established the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in 1993 to foster the coordination of sleep and circadian research within the National Institutes of Health and other Federal agencies; Whereas sleep medicine is a multi-disciplinary medical specialty involving internal medicine physicians, pulmonologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, otolaryngologists, family physicians, pediatricians, anesthesiologists, dentists, psychologists, advanced practice providers, sleep technologists, and other health care professionals; and Whereas more sleep and circadian research is needed to help improve the treatment of sleep disorders and reduce sleep health disparities in children and adolescents: Now, therefore, be it