Fiona C. Baker, PhD is Director of the Center for Health Sciences and Human Sleep Research Program at SRI International, a non-profit research organization in Menlo Park, California, USA. She also holds an appointment as Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dr. Baker has been active in basic and clinical sleep and neuroscience research for over 20 years. She is an expert in women’s health and sleep, considering factors like menstrual pain, premenstrual syndrome, and menopause. She has published extensively in the field, which has advanced understanding of insomnia and sleep disturbances that emerge in the context of women’s health, including during the menopause transition, and identified factors that can be targeted for effective treatment. She also has extensive experience in the study of the sleeping brain, including in adolescents and in alcohol use disorder, as well as considering sex differences.

Dr. Hachul received her degree in Medicine from the Federal University of São Paulo and PhD in Medicine (Gynecology) from the Federal University of São Paulo. She then completed a Post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychobiology - Medicine and Biology of Sleep at UNIFESP. She is currently a supervisor and affiliated professor at UNIFESP. She is also the head of the Women's Sleep Sector - this department aims to provide multidisciplinary care to women with sleep problems based on assistance, teaching, and research. She is a member of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Association of São Paulo and the Brazilian Sleep Academy. Here experience focuses on Gynecoendocrinology and menopause, with interest in sleep disorders, insomnia, hormonal disorders, and sleep. 

Dr. Nowakowski is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine. She is also an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine Section of Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine located within the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness & Safety, a combined Baylor and VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovation. Dr. Nowakowski treats patients with Insomnia and other sleep disorders at the Baylor Sleep Medicine Clinic in Houston. 

Clete A. Kushida, M.D., Ph.D., FAASM is a neurologist, Chief of the Stanford Division of Sleep Medicine, Medical Director of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center, Associate Chair and Professor in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University Medical Center, and Director of the Stanford Human Sleep Research Laboratory. Dr. Kushida received his B.A.S. degree (Biological Sciences and Psychology) and M.S. degree (Biological Sciences) at Stanford University; M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago; and completed a neurology residency at the University of California San Diego and a sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford University. He served as inaugural President of the World Sleep Society, past President of the World Sleep Federation, past President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, past President of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies Board of Directors, and founding President of the California Sleep Society. He also served as Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is currently Founding Chair of both the International Sleep Medicine Practice Recommendations Committee and the International Sleep Research Training Program of the World Sleep Society.

Dr. Jennifer Zitser Koren is a senior neurologist and sleep physician at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, where she works across the Movement Disorders Unit, Sleep Department, and autonomic laboratory. Her clinical and research work focuses on the intersection of sleep medicine, movement disorders, autonomic neuroscience, and cognitive aging, with particular emphasis on Parkinson’s disease, REM sleep behavior disorder, hypersomnolence disorders, and early markers of neurodegeneration.

Dr. Zitser Koren completed neurology training at Tel Aviv Medical Center, followed by advanced international training as an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF and as an International Sleep Research Fellow at Stanford University. She is certified in sleep medicine by the World Sleep Society.

Her research has explored sleep and autonomic dysfunction as windows into prodromal neurodegeneration, including work on REM sleep behavior disorder, Parkinson’s disease, sleep architecture, and autonomic biomarkers. She has published in leading journals including Sleep, Neurology, Brain, JAMA Neurology, Sleep Medicine Reviews, and npj Parkinson’s Disease, and is actively involved in international sleep and movement disorders education and research.

Dr. Arnulf is a sleep neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the Sorbonne University, Paris France. She is also the Director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. She received her medical degree from the University of Grenoble, a master's degree from the University of Lyon and her doctorate from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford USA in the research group of Emmanuel Mignot, studying Kleine-Levin syndrome and narcolepsy. Her research program at the Paris Brain Institute focuses on neurological sleep disorders, abnormal behaviors during sleep, sleep in Parkinson's disease and central hypersomnia's.

Margaret Blattner, MD, PhD, is a Senior Associate Consultant in Sleep Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Blattner's clinical practice focuses on the intersection of sleep disorders and neurologic health, particularly central disorders of hypersomnolence, including narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia. Her research focuses on improving targeted diagnostic approaches and advancing understanding of the underlying physiology of hypersomnia. 

Silvia Conway is a clinical psychologist trained at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and a doctoral student at the Institute of Psychiatry Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo  (HC-FMUSP). She specializes in the treatment of sleep disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and tinnitus. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. She serves as a clinical psychologist at the Sleep Outpatient Clinic, Institute of Psychiatry (HC-FMUSP), and at the Tinnitus Outpatient Clinic, Department of Otoneurolgy (HC-FMUSP). She is also a co-founder of AkasA- Formação e  Conhecimento, an education and professional develpment organization based in Brazil. 

Dr. Dauvilliers is a Professor of Neurology and Physiology and the Head of the Clinical and Research Activity of the Sleep Lab at the University of Montpellier. He is also the coordinator of the French National Reference Network for Orphan Diseases and Director of one research group in the Institute of Neuroscience INSERM, Montpellier. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 papers published in international and national peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters.

After going through medical school at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Emami was accepted in the anesthesiology residency program of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. She became a board-certified anesthesiologist and joined the sleep program at the University of Chicago as a post doc sleep medicine fellow in 2014-2015. Then, she did a six-month neuro-anesthesia fellowship at UCSF. At the same time, after going through USMLE exams, she was matched in the anesthesiology program of Georgia Regent University in 2017. Two years later she was accepted by the World Sleep Society to join the University of Sydney as a part of the International Sleep Research and Training Program (ISRTP) in 2019-2020. Currently, Dr. Emami works as an anesthesiologist-sleep specialist and runs three sleep clinics. She also works as an anesthesiologist in a large hospital in Tehran.

Dr. Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer is a Professor of Neurology and Staff in the Sleep Disorders and Epilepsy Centers at Cleveland Clinic. She is the Director Emeritus of the Sleep Disorders Center. She has led the development of one of the largest, multidisciplinary sleep teams in the nation. 

Dr. Heidbreder is a neurologist and sleep physician. She is currently a senior consultant and deputy head of the sleep laboratory at the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck. She completed her degree at the Ruhr University in Bochum Germany and completed specialist training as a neurologist at the Department of Neurology at the University of Münster. Her research interests include a focus on excessive daytime sleepiness and central disorders of hypersomnolence. 

Yuichi Inoue completed his MD from Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Tottori Pref. in the year 1987, and BS from Tokyo Medical University-Tokyo in 1982. He worked as a Professor of Psychiatry at Tokyo Medical University in 2007 and became Director of Japan Somnology Center Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in 2008, in the same year he was the Professor of Somnology at Tokyo Medical University and became President of Yoyogi Sleep Disorder Center in 2011. He is involved in The Japanese Society of Sleep Research, Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry, Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, World Federation of Sleep Research Society, and World Sleep 2015 as Board of Director, Board of Councilor, Board of Councilor, Programme Committee Co-chair and Organizing Committee Chair respectively. He has more than 190 publications on his name in the English language.

Dr. Karageorgiou completed both his MD and PhD degrees from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He worked as a post-doctoral associate at the Brain Sciences Center of the University of Minnesota, he also completed a residency in Neurology at the University of Minnesota. After his residency he joined the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California San Francisco. Before returning to Greece he served as Assistant Professor in Neurology at UCSF. Dr. Karageorgiou has worked to establish the Sleep and Memory Center at the Neurological Institute of Athens. With this he has combined his clinical practice with helping patients with sleep problems and cognitive impairment with his research in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 

Thomas Kilduff, Ph.D. received his PhD from Stanford University. He directs the Center for Neuroscience at SRI, a non-profit research institute in Menlo Park, Ca. He is co-discoverer of the neuropeptide hypocretin (aka orexin). His laboratory focuses on the neural circuitry underlying sleep/wake control and the development of therapeutics for insomnia and narcolepsy. He has been elected to several leadership positions in the Sleep Research Society (SRS) and has served on the Executive Boards of the SRS and APSS. He is an AAAS Fellow, an SRI Fellow, a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and has received the SRS Distinguished Scientist Award, a Research Career Award from the European Narcolepsy Network, and the SCNi Academic Prize from the Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at Oxford University.

Kiran Maski, MD MPH is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and child neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts USA/ She is an advocate and researcher for CNS Disorders of Hypersomnolence across the lifespan. She has received grant support from the National Institutes of Health and foundations including the American Sleep Medicine Foundation, Wake up Narcolepsy and industry (Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) and has a number of leadership roles in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine including guideline development for CNS Disorders of Hypersomnolence treatments and conducting Multiple Sleep Latency Tests in children. 

Dr. Pérez Carbonell is a Consultant Neurologist and Sleep Specialist at the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust (London, UK). She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Academic Neuroscience. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (King's College London, UK); and a Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Prevention, Detection and Diagnosis at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (Queen Mary University of London, UK). Dr. Pérez Carbonell is an expert in Sleep Medicine certified by the European Sleep Research Society. She completed her PhD in Medicine and Translational Research in sleep and neurodegenerative diseases at Hospital Clinic (University of Barcelona, Spain).

Dr. Peyron is a neuroscientist and director of research at the center for research in neuroscience of Lyon (CRNL), University of Lyon in France. She is also the co-leader of the SLEEP lab at the CRNL and leads the research group on narcolepsy. Dr. Peyron participated in the discovery of hypocretins neuropeptides (Orexins) while a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. She also showed that hypocretin neuropeptides are missing in narcoleptic patients while post-doc. 

Dr. Rosenzweig is currently Head of the Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre at King's College London. The purpose of the SleepCity Laboratory is to generate a new understanding of mechanisms behind serious neurological and psychiatric disorders, and to propose their treatment and prevention through sleep neurobiology. She is also a consultant neuropsychiatrist specializing in sleep and has received a Wellcome Trust award for research in unravelling the mechanisms of sleep, neuroplasticity and inflammation. 

Dr. Takeshi Sakurai is a Professor at the University of Tsukuba within the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Dr. Sakurai conducts his research within the Takeshi Sakurai Lab in Molecular Behavioral Physiology. He is known for his work in neuropeptides, sleep-wake regulation, and orexin research. 

Sheila Sivam, MD, PhD, is a sleep clinician and researcher based in Sydney, Australia, affiliated with the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is actively involved in clinical research on narcolepsy type 1 and orexin-based therapies. Dr. Sivam has contributed as an author and investigator to several phase 3 clinical programs examining treatment effects on quality of life and related outcomes, and has participated in international collaborations supporting the development and dissemination of sleep medicine research. 

Dr. Danielle Wasserman Berkovitz is currently a senior doctor in Neurology and Epilepsy at Shaare Zedk Hospital, Jerusalem. She is a supervisor of Clinical Neuropsychiatry MSc at King's College, she is a King's College Honorary Research Associate, as well as a lecturer in Epilepsy and Sleep. Dr. Berkovitz specializes in Neurology, sleep disorders, epilepsy treatment and PSG. 

Dr. Naricha Chirakalwasan is a quadruple American Boards certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. She is a Professor of Medicine at Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 

She also holds the position of Associate Dean of International Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Head for Respiratory Neurobiology and Sleep Assembly of Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), Head for Junior chamber committee of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine, Secretary-General of Federation of South East Asia Sleep Medicine (FSSM), and current President of Sleep Society of Thailand. 

Dr. Naricha Chirakalwasan published extensively in original articles and international textbooks with H-index of 23 https://scholar.google.com/cit...

She also holds a position of an Associate Editor for Respirology Journal. She received several awards including "Outstanding Young Physician" award in 2021 from the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand. Her research interests are obstructive sleep apnea, NIV, insomnia, sleep health, and asthma. 

Fauziya Hassan, MBBS, MS is a clinical professor at the U-M Medical School Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Pulmonology. Dr. Hassan has board certifications in Sleep Medicine and Pediatric Pulmonology. She has clinical interests in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, including sleep apnea and hypoventilation in children and non-invasive ventilation in children. She is also interested in sleep disorders in children with chronic diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis along with the relationship between obesity and sleep. 

Dayna Johnson, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She earned her Master of Science and PhD in Epidemiologic Science and her Master of Public Health and Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan. Dr. Johnson completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Sleep and Circadian Disorders. Her research focused on understanding the social determinants of sleep health disparities and their implications for adverse health outcomes. She also focuses on the underlying social and environmental factors contributing to sleep disorders and insufficient sleep among different population, with an emphasis on African American communities. 

Christopher Earley, MBBCh, PhD completed his medical degree as well as a PhD in Pharmacology from the University College in Galway, Ireland. He went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor Medical College and a residency in Neurology at the University of Charlottesville in Virginia. Dr. Earley has been a faculty member at John Hopkins since 1991. Currently he is a professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is also the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Restless Legs. His research and clinical interests are devoted to Sleep Medicine with special interest in Restless Legs Syndrome. Dr. Earley also serves as the Chair of the RLS Foundation Scientific and Medical Advisory Board. 

Maria Paola Mogavero, MD, PhD is a Neurologist and Sleep Medicine Specialist with extensive expertise in sleep disorders research. She currently serves as Research Neurologist at the IRCCS Oasi Research Institute (Troina, Italy), where she is the Lead Principal Investigator of an RLS Foundation Grant conducted in collaboration with Yale University (CT, USA) and Texas Tech University (TX, USA). She is also Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Neurology Residency Program of the University of Milan.

Dr. Mogavero graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery and completed her Neurology Residency with honors at the University of Bari. She subsequently earned a PhD in Neuroscience with honors from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan and completed a Second-Level Master’s Degree in Sleep Medicine at the University of Bologna.

Her academic activities include teaching appointments at the Scuola Superiore di Catania, University of Catania; the Sleep Medicine Master’s Programs of the University of Bologna and the University of Foggia; the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Washington (WA, USA); and the Oxford Online Programme in Sleep Medicine, University of Oxford (UK).

Dr. Mogavero serves on the Executive Committee of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG) and the European Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (EURLSSG). She is a Faculty Member of the Research Committee of the World Sleep Society (WSS), a member of the Educational Committee of the Bertinoro Sleep Medicine Course promoted by the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (AIMS), and serves as member and co-chair of several international IRLSSG task forces.

Dr. Mogavero has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters. Her research focuses on neurology and sleep disorders, with particular interest in movement disorders across the lifespan and the interplay between sleep and cancer.

Her scientific achievements have been recognized through several prestigious awards, including the RLS Foundation Grant (2025), the IRLSSG Wayne Hening Young Investigator Award (2022 and 2023), and the World Sleep Society New Investigator Award (2023).

Dr. Mogavero has been invited as speaker, invited speaker, and session chair at major national and international scientific meetings, including the World Sleep Congress (WSS), the APSS Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and Sleep Research Society (SRS), the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), the Chinese Sleep Research Society (CSRS), and the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine (AIMS).

Gulcin Benbir Senel, MD, is Professor of Neurology at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa. Her research is concentrated in the field of sleep medicine, with particular expertise in restless legs syndrome (RLS), REM sleep behavior disorder, and narcolepsy.

Professor Benbir Senel earned her medical degree from Marmara University English Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2002. She completed her postdoctoral training and residency in Neurology at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology in 2008. She advanced to the rank of Professor of Neurology at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa in August 2022.

Professor Benbir Senel has a broad background in Neurology, with specific training and expertise in Sleep Medicine. She has served as principal investigator (PI) or co-investigator on numerous university- and TUBITAK-funded grants, where she has been responsible for developing effective measures of sleep quality and sleep disorders relevant to patients with neurological disorders. Her work has also involved establishing strong ties with community providers to facilitate the recruitment and long-term tracking of research participants. She has demonstrated her ability to administer research projects effectively, including staffing, research protections, and budget management, and has a strong record of peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Benbir Senel’s early publications addressed neurological diseases in addition to sleep disorders in adults. Her clinical work and research studies focus on sleep medicine, and her publications document emerging concerns regarding the consequences of sleep-related disorders. She has also worked to guide primary care providers in recognizing symptoms, assessing sleep and its disorders, and applying appropriate interventions. She is the author of many Turkish book chapters and edited the main textbook of “Sleep” in Turkish literature.

Professor Benbir Senel’s research has also contributed to the understanding of restless sleep disorder, a newly defined disorder, in both children and adults. Her work has explored its association with other sleep disorders and medical conditions.

Professor Benbir Senel is a board member of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group. She is also actively involved in several other professional organizations, including serving as Editor of the Journal of Turkish Sleep Medicine, Executive Member of the Turkish Sleep Medicine Society, Founder President of the Turkish Narcolepsy Network, Member of the International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group, and Teaching Committee member of the European Narcolepsy Network.

Diego García-Borreguero is the Director of the Sleep Research Institute in Madrid, Spain. Until 2005, he was Director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the Department of Neurology of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Autonomous University of Madrid). He has completed fellowships in sleep medicine and sleep research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA and underwent residency training at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He received his MD from the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain) and completed his PhD at the University of Munich.

García-Borreguero’s main area of research is movement disorders in sleep, and restless legs syndrome (RLS) in particular. He has published extensively in this field in international peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations related to the field of sleep science, such as the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (elected fellow).

Elias Karroum, MD, PhD, is a neurologist who treats and researches movement-related sleep disorders, including restless legs syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movements, and sleep disorders in neurological conditions.

Dr. Karroum attended medical school at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, and earned a PhD in neuroscience from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.

He completed a neurological residency at Southern Illinois University, a sleep medicine fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Previously, he was the associate program director for the sleep medicine fellowship at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.

Karem Parejo, MD graduated as a surgeon from the Universidad del Rosario (UR) and, later, specialized in Neurology at the Pontifical Universidad Javeriana (PUJ). She completed her fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Parejo's areas of expertise include Insomnia, Narcolepsy, Dementia, Sleep Apnea, Parasomnias, Parkinson's Disease and Restless Legs. Dr. Parejo is also the President of the Colombian Association of Sueño Medicine. 

Denise Sharon, MD, PhD, a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is Board Certified in Sleep Medicine by the ABSM, providing sleep medicine care and teaching fellows, residents and students. She specializes in treating a wide range of sleep and sleep related movement disorders, including sleep related breathing disorders, excessive sleepiness, insomnia, restless legs syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), parasomnias and sleep disorders associated with trauma and other medical conditions. Her research interests center on RLS, PLMD and quality of care in sleep medicine.

Dr. Sharon’s clinical work with adolescents, college students and shift workers further inspired her interest in sleep-wake cycle disorders. Her research has focused on the brain’s impact on sleep patterns in children, adults and the elderly. In addition, her findings on RLS have been featured in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and she has been a presenter at conferences across the United States and internationally.

Dr. Sharon worked with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine on several projects, including most recently, the development of RLS and PLMD treatment guidelines for children and adults. She is also part of the International RLS Study Group and the RLS Foundation’s Scientific and Medical Advisory Board.  Throughout her career she worked to promote sleep medicine and combined her clinical and research work with actively engaging in association work.  An advocate of education, she serves as a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. 

Dr. Sharon was born in Romania, was raised in Israel, studied in Italy and completed her medical studies and a psychiatry residency in Israel.  She received her PhD in clinical psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, became interested in neurophysiology and was among the first providers to become Board Certified in Sleep Medicine. For over 25 years she is trying to inspire a new generation of sleep medicine providers.  Outside of work, she enjoys entertaining friends and family, reading, attending operas and visiting museums.

Professor Rosalia Silvestri is as Associate Professor of Neurology at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the “G. Martino” University Hospital in Messina. In addition to her academic role, she is the Medical Director of the Regional Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disorders, which operates within the Neurophysiopathology and Movement Disorders Unit at the same institution.

Her primary research interests and clinical expertise include sleep-related movement disorders, particularly Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), gender differences in sleep pathologies, epilepsy, parasomnias, and the interplay between sleep dysfunction and neurological disorders.
Professor Silvestri served as President of the European Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (EURLS-SG) from 2019 to 2023. Currently, she is a board member of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG).

Ambra Stefani is senior neurologist and neuroscientist working at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. Her main research interests are restless legs syndrome (clinical, laboratory, and imaging-based characterization, and pathogenetic mechanisms), isolated RBD (clinical, video-polysomnographic and biomarker characterization), and the link between sleep and neurodegeneration. I have a broad background in neurology and sleep neurophysiology, with specific training expertise in sleep medicine and 12-year research experience in sleep science.

Dr. Winkelman received his PhD in Psychobiology from Harvard University, an MD from Harvard Medical School and completed both a residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Sleep Disorders Clinical Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Winkelman’s research has primarily focused in two areas: 1) epidemiology, physiology, cardiovascular consequences and treatment of restless legs syndrome, and 2) neurobiology and treatment of insomnia. He has lectured in and directed post-graduate medical education courses in sleep disorders nationally and internationally. He has chaired practice guidelines for RLS for the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is currently the Chairman of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group. He has published more than 200 articles, reviews and book chapters.