[S-01] Symposium 01

[S-01-4] Treatment strategy for long-term management of patients with restless legs syndrome

Naoko Tachibana^1,2 (1.Center for Sleep-related Disorders, Kansai Electric Power Hospital, Japan, 2.Division of Sleep Medicine, Kansai Electric Power Medical Research 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 in London from 1989 to 1991, she changed her career into neurology. The experience in two hospitals made her lifetime interest in the boarderland between two specialties. As sleep is definitely situated in this field, she had clinical training about sleep medicine in Stanford Sleep Clinic and Sleep HealthCenters affiliated to Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She obtained a status of International Sleep Specialist in 2001, and RPSGT in 2004. During recent 10 years, she has been activity involved in education of technologists and young neurologists to develop an integrated sleep team. She is currently President of Integrated Sleep Medicine Society Japan.