[IE-01] Essential knowledge and recent topics on neurological sleep-related disorders

[IE-01-4] How could we make a proper diagnosis of RBD in Japan ?

^○Naoko Tachibana^1,2 (1.Center for Sleep-related Disorders, Kansai Electric Power Hospital, Japan, 2.Division of Sleep Medicine, Kansai Electric Power Medical Reserach Institute, Japan)

Dr. Naoko Tachibana is Director of Center for Sleep-related Disorders in Kansai Electric Power Hospital and Chief Scientist of Division of Sleep Medicine, Kansai Electric Power Medical Research Institute in Osaka. She firstly started her career as a psychiatrist, and later after three year stay in Maudesly Hospital and Queen Square from 1989 to 1991, she changed her career into neurology. The experience in two hospitals in London made her lifetime interest in the boarderland between two specialties. As sleep is definitely situated in this field, she had clinical trainings in Stanford Sleep Clinic and Sleep HealthCenters affiliated to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She obtained a status of International Sleep Specialist in 2001, and RPSGT in 2004. Since then her main interests have been movement /behavior disorders related to sleep as research, but during recent ten years her activity involved education of sleep technologists and development of efficient sleep lab system in the Japanese general hospital setting. She founded non-profit organization named Osaka Sleep Health Network with her colleagues in 2004. She is currently President of Integrated Sleep Medicine Society Japan.