John Winkelman, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Chief of the Sleep Disorders Clinical Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Winkelman received his PhD in Psychobiology from Harvard University, an MD from Harvard Medical School and then completed both a residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was Medical Director of the Sleep Program at McLean Hospital and subsequently Medical Director of the sleep laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is currently 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. Dr. Winkelman was chair of the most recent American Academy of Neurology practice guideline committee for the treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome and is currently chair of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Restless Legs Syndrome. He is chairman of the International RLS Study Group, and serves on the editorial boards of Sleep Medicine, Frontiers in Sleep-Movement Disorders and Parasomnias, and CNS Drugs. He has published more than 150 articles, reviews and book chapters and is also the editor of the textbook Foundations of Psychiatric Sleep Medicine, Cambridge University Press (2011).