Alex Iranzo De Riquer MD, PhD

Alex Iranzo, MD, Ph.D., graduated in Medicine (1991) and defended his Ph.D. thesis (2002) at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. Presently, he is neurologist Consultant 2 of the Neurology Service, Research Coordinator of the Neuroscience Institute, and Coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Sleep Unit at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. He is an Associate Professor of the University of Barcelona of Medicine, and an investigator at Institute D' Investigations Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and CIBERNED He is the Clinical Coordinator of AdSalutem Center of Sleep Medicine. He is President of the Spanish Sleep Society.

He is a member of numerous national and international societies such as the American Academy of Neurology, Movement Disorder Society, American Academy of Sleep, World Association of Sleep Medicine, European Sleep Society, International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Group, European Restless Legs Syndrome Society, European Narcolepsy Network, Spanish Society of Neurology and Spanish Sleep Society. Dr. Iranzo has widely published as the first and corresponding author in peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Movement Disorders, Sleep, and Sleep Medicine. Presently, he is at the editorial board of the journal Sleep Medicine.