NEUROLOGY & SLEEP MEDICINE
ProfessorGuy Leschziner
Consultant Neurologist & Sleep Specialist · King's College London.Guy's & St Thomas' · London Bridge · Cromwell · One Welbeck
Education
Peer-reviewed publication
Years leading the Sleep Disorders Centre
Books for general readers
Clinical practice
Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist practising in both neurology and sleep medicine - clinical lead of the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest sleep units, for over a decade. He trained at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Imperial College London, completed his PhD in epilepsy genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, and joined Guy's & St Thomas' as a consultant in 2010. His clinical focus spans the full range of sleep disorders - insomnia, narcolepsy, parasomnias, restless legs syndrome, sleep apnoea, REM sleep behaviour disorder - alongside epilepsy.
Areas of expertise
Insomnia
Evidence-based assessment and management of chronic and complex insomnia.
Narcolepsy
Specialist diagnosis and care, including current multi-centre research.
Parasomnias
Diagnosis and treatment of non-REM and REM sleep behaviour disorders.
Sleep Apnoea
Comprehensive evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing across severities.
Restless Legs Syndrome
Targeted therapy for RLS and related sensorimotor sleep disorders.
Epilepsy & Sleep
Neurological care at the intersection of epilepsy and sleep medicine.
Research & Scholarship
He is neurology section editor of Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (7th edition, Elsevier) - the discipline's definitive clinical reference - and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Sleep Medicine (OUP, 2022). His peer-reviewed output spans over 100 publications in journals including The Lancet, PNAS, and Nature Scientific Reports.
Private practice locations
London Bridge
London Bridge Hospital
Cromwell
The Cromwell Hospital
One Welbeck
One Welbeck Neurology
