DR GUY LESCHZINER

I work as a Consultant Neurologist in London at the BUPA Cromwell Hospital and within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. I am clinical lead for the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's Hospital and Reader in Neurology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. I currently undertake general neurology clinics and specialist clinics for sleep disorders and epilepsy. After medical school at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Imperial College at St Mary's I went on to complete a PhD in the genetics of epilepsy and drug management at Imperial College and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge. After a fellowship in epilepsy and sleep medicine at St Thomas' and Queen Square, I joined Guy's and St Thomas' as a consultant in 2010. My ongoing research interests in narcolepsy, epilepsy, sleepwalking, Kleine-Levin syndrome and restless legs syndrome. I am currently principal investigator or collaborator in several multi-centre studies involving seizures, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,narcolepsy, non-REM parasomnias, REM sleep behaviour disorder and insomnia. I have a keen interest in public engagement and learning with medicine . I have presented a three part series on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the brain and sleep - "Mysteries of Sleep". I have also recently filmed "The Secrets of Sleep" for Channel 4 Television.