Prof. J. Durán
Univ. País Vasco, ESP
Pulmonology specialist and PHD from the University of Cantabria. Expert in Sleep Disorders (CEAMS) and President of the Spanish Federation of Sleep Medicine. Director of the Sleep Disorders Unit of the Eduardo Anitua Clinic. Head of the Research Service of the Bioaraba Research Institute, Vitoria. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Basque Country. It stands out internationally in the field of sleep breathing disorders.
Prof. Carlos Egea
OSI Araba Hospital Universitario, ESP
Specialist in Pulmonology. Expert in Sleep Disorders (CEAMS). Head of the Functional Sleep Unit of the Alava University Hospital. Director of Quality and Innovation of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR). It stands out internationally in the field of sleep breathing disorders.
Prof. C. Espie
Universidad de Oxford, GB
Colin is the Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford where he is Director of the Experimental & Clinical Sleep Medicine research programme, and Clinical Director of the Sleep & Circadian Neurosciences Institute (https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/colin-espie). He is also an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, at the University of Glasgow. He is internationally known for his work on insomnia and its treatment, using cognitive behavioural therapeutics (CBTx).
Prof. A. Iranzo
Univ. de Barcelona
Alex Iranzo, MD, PhD, graduated in Medicine (1991) and defended his PhD thesis (2002) at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. Presently, he is neurologist Consultant 2 of the Neurology Service, Research Coordinator of the Neuroscience Institute and Coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Sleep Unit at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Prof.Dr. G.J. Lammers
Universidad de Leiden, Países Bajos
Dr. Lammers, neurologist, is the head of the Sleep-wake centre SEIN (Heemstede) and affiliated with the Leiden University Medical Centre. Lammers has been involved in sleep research for over 20 years, during which he has mainly focussed on narcolepsy. He is one of the founders of the European Narcolepsy Network, of which he currently also is president.
Prof L. de Lecea
Stanford University,Palo Alto, EEUU
Luis de Lecea obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Barcelona. He then moved to The Scripps Research Institute where he identified two neuropeptides with key functions in cortical excitability and sleep regulation: cortistatin and the hypocretins (Hcrts).
In the early 2000s Dr. de Lecea continued to decipher the role of Hcrt neurons on normal sleep/wake regulation and in brain reward function.
Prof. Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong Jr
University of Colorado Denver, EEUU
Is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He has authored or edited 20 textbooks in sleep medicine and pulmonary medicine. In addition, he developed and serves as the consulting editor of Sleep Medicine Clinics, and is a member of the editorial board and reviewer of several medical journals and publications. He served as the chair of the Nosology Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), vice-chair of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS) Program Committee, and chair of both the Sleep Medicine NetWork and Sleep Institute Steering Committees of the American College of Chest Medicine (ACCP). He also has served on the Council of Governors for the ACCP. He is the recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Sleep Medicine Excellence in Education Award.
Prof. Josep María Montserrat.
Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain
Specialist in Pneumology and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona. Research fellow in New Cross Hospital in London and visiting professor at McGill University in Canada. Director of the sleep laboratory at Hospital Clinic Barcelona. Professor of Medicine at University of Barcelona. Expert in Sleep Disorders (CEAMS). Main research topics: respiratory sleep disorders, technological and telemedicine studies, animals models of sleep.
Prof. F. Provini
Univ. De Bolonia, Italia
Dr. Provini’s main research activities focus on sleep medicine, including the characterization of movement disorders during sleep and the description of sleep features in neurological diseases (in particular neurodegenerative diseases). Using an integrated approach combining clinical observation and video-polysomnographic recording of electroencephalographic, motor and autonomic parameters during wake and sleep, she collected original data in different pathological conditions, such as Sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy (SHE), REM and NREM Parasomnias, Restless Legs Syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Morvan Syndrome and Delirium Tremens.
Prof. D. Rosen
Boston´s Children Hospital, Harvard University, EEUU
Dr. Dennis Rosen is a pediatric pulmonologist and sleep specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1996, did a pediatric residency at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel, and pediatric residency and a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Prof. Dr. Lourdes del Rosso
Seattle Children´s Hospital
Lourdes DelRosso is a Sleep Physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor in the department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree at the University of Miami; completed a residency in Family Medicine at Kaiser Permanente/UC Irvine, a Sleep Medicine fellowship at Louisiana State University and a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prof.Dr. Debra J. Skene
Universidad de Surrey, GB
Debra J. Skene, PhD, Professor of Neuroendocrinology is Section Lead for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey, UK. She has over 25 years of research experience studying the human circadian timing system and circadian rhythm sleep/wake disorders as experienced by blind people, shift workers and older people.
Prof M. Zucconi
Univ. San Raffaele, Milan, Italia
Dr Marco Zucconi is the clinical officer of Sleep Disorders Centre and he is actually Contract Professor of Neurophysiology for the School of Neurology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, since 2000. He was one of the founders of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG) and member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation (RLSF) and one of the founder, Past President and Secretary of the European Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (EURLSSG).
Dr. Sara Boi
Especialista en Psiquiatría
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery (2007) from the University of Cagliari (Italy). She specialized in Cardiovascular Surgery (Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, 2014) and Psychiatry (Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, 2020).
Doctoral student in the Medicine and Surgery program at the Autonomous University of Madrid (project “Diagnostic and prognostic evaluation in cannabis…
Dr. Carles Gaig
Neurologist Specialized in Sleep Medicine
Dr. Carles Gagi is a neurologist and sleep specialist at the Hospital Clinic in the University of Barcelona. He is the author of more than 140 internationally published articles in the area of movement disorders during sleep and parasomnias. Dr. Carles Gaig is also the coordinator of the study group on Sleep and Wake Disorders of the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN).
Dr. Juan Antonio Madrid Pérez
Doctorate in Physiology
Dr. Juan Antonio Madrid Perez is an Extraordinary Award recipient of the Biology bachelor’s degree from the University of Granada (1979) and Extraordinary Award recipient of Doctorate in Physiology, University of Granada (1983). Specialist in Nutrition from the University of Granada (1985) and Specialist in Chronobiology from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris (1988)
Dr. Milagros Merino Andreu
Head of the Sleep Medicine Program at the Rúber International Hospital
Dr. Milagros Merino Andreu is Head of the Sleep Medicine Program at the Rúber International Hospital, as well as the Coordinator of the Neurological Sleep Disorders Unit at the La Paz University Hospital, a center recognized in the Orphanet international network (knowledge and research of rare and orphan pharmaceuticals), both in
Dr. Javier Puertas
Neurophysiologist Specialized in Sleep Medicine
Dr. Puertas graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Valencia, 1993. Certified in Advanced Studies (DEA), Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Cardenal Herrera-CEU University of Valencia in 2004. Specialist in..
Dr. Sofía Romero Peralta
Especialista Neumología
Dr. Sofía Romero Peralta studied Medicine at the University of Alcalá de Henares (2005-2011) and specialized in Pneumology at the University Hospital of Guadalajara (2012-2016).
During her training, she expanded her studies in sleep pathology in Manhattan, New York, in…
Dr. Cristian Sánchez
Sleep Medicine Neurophysiologist
Specialist in Neurophysiology and Doctor of Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is part of the Working Group on Movement and Behaviour Disorders during Sleep of the Spanish Sleep Society.
Curso lectivo: del 1 de marzo 2021 al 31 de enero 2022, aproximadamente.