John W. Winkelman, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Winkelman is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Sleep Health Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.  He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in Psychobiology from Harvard University and completed both a residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Winkelman has published extensively in the areas of Restless Legs Syndrome and periodic limb movements of sleep, insomnia, parasomnias, and the effects of medications on sleep. He has directed multiple post-graduate medical education courses in sleep disorders nationally and internationally. Dr. Winkelman is chair of the American Academy of Neurology practice parameter committee for the treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome, is an Associate Editor of Sleep and serves on the editorial boards of Sleep Medicine, CNS Drugs, and the International Journal of Sleep Disorders.
 

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