Richard P. Allen, PhD Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine Asthma and Allergy Center Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Baltimore, MD United States Dr. Richard Allen is Research Associate and Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University in Cambridge, England for his graduate studies in psychology. He founded and was the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and he co-founded the HOPKINS RLS center. Dr. Allen is a leading authority on sleep disorders and has published over fifty articles on topics within this field. An active focus of his research is periodic limb movements and the Restless Legs Syndrome.

Wayne Hening, MD, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor, Neurology University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, NJ United States Dr. Wayne Hening is a specialist in sleep and movement disorders. He received an MD degree and a PhD in neurobiology from NYU, then completed a neurology residency and movement disorders fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Hening has played a leading role in studying and teaching about Restless Legs Syndrome; he has written numerous articles and chapters on the subject and is editing a major treatise on RLS. He has also played a leadership role in the International RLS Study Group, the World Association of Sleep Medicine, and the Sleep Section of the American Academy of Neurology.

Claudia Trenkwalder, MD Department of Clinical Neurophysiology University of Goettingen Germany Dr. Claudia Trenkwalder started her clinical education in neurology and movement disorders at the University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and was head of the research group Movement Disorders and Sleep at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, before she moved to the Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Goettingen in 2000. Since 2003 she has served as medical director of the Paracelsus Elena Klinik in Kassel, Germany. She has published many papers on movement disorders and sleep, especially on the pathophysiology, genetics, and treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome. She is the vice-chair of the IRLSSG and treasurer of the World Association of Sleep Medicine, currently a member of the IEC of the Movement Disorder Society, and a member of many national and international medical societies and boards.

Christopher J. Earley, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Neurology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD United States Dr. Christopher Earley, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also the Co-Director of Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorder and of the Fellowship program in Sleep Medicine. His area of research is on Restless Legs Syndrome, on which he has been awarded several grants and has been published extensively. His primary area of research is the role of iron deficiency in Restless Legs Syndrome.

Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, RPSGT Director, Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research Associate Professor, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford University Center of Excellence for Sleep Disorders Palo Alto, CA United States Dr. Clete Kushida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University Medical Center, an Attending Physician at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic, and Director of the Stanford University Center for Human Sleep Research. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Stanford University, MD and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed a neurology residency at the University of California, San Diego, and a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Stanford University. He is the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine; a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American Sleep Medicine Foundation, and American Board of Sleep Medicine; a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal SLEEP and the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine; a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation; and the immediate past Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Kushida's research interests include the anatomic and neurocognitive changes associated with sleep apnea, the epidemiology and treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome, and countermeasures for sleep loss. He has authored or edited over 100 publications, including six books.