RLS Quality Care Centers

RLS Specialists

The RLS Foundation offers a network of certified RLS Quality Care Centers. Centers are staffed by leading RLS specialists who provide expert care and specialized disease management.

Quality Care Centers are renowned for outstanding performance in the field. To achieve certification, Centers undergo review by the RLS Foundation Scientific and Medical Advisory Board and must demonstrate a high level of expertise and experience treating the disease.

Are you a healthcare professional, who is looking to join the Quality Care Center Network? Here’s how to apply for Quality Care Center Certification.

QCC Mapt

1. Johns Hopkins Center for Restless Legs Syndrome
2. Houston Methodist Neurological Institute

6560 Fannin Street, Suite 1002
Houston, TX 77030

Phone: (713) 363-8184

Certified Providers:

  • William G. Ondo, MD (QCC Director)
  • Andrew Billnitzer, MD, MPH
  • Olga Wahn, MD

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3. Center for Sleep Medicine at Mayo Clinic

200 1st Street SW
Rochester, MN 55905

Phone: (507) 538-3270

Certified Providers:

  • Michael H. Silber, MB, ChB (QCC Director)
  • Suresh Kotagal, MD
  • Mithri Junna, MD
  • Melissa C. Lipford, MD
  • Erik K. St. Louis, MD
  • Maja Tippmann-Peikert, MD

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4. Innsbruck Medical University, Department of Neurology, Sleep Lab and Sleep Disorders Outpatient Clinic

Anichstr. 35
6020 Innsbruck Austria
Phone: + 43 512 405-23890
Appointments: Maria Kuscher, Cesarie Ndayisaba, Manuela Oberlechner schlaf-neurologie@i-med.ac.at

Certified Providers:

  • Birgit Hogl, MD, Associated Professor of Neurology, Senior Board Certified Sleep Specialist (QCC Director)
  • Elisabeth Brandauer, MD
  • Birgit Frauscher, MD, Associated Professor of Neurology, Senior Board Certified Sleep Specialist
  • Anna Heidbreder, MD
  • Ambra Stefani, MD
  • Melanie Bergmann, MD
5. Stanford Sleep Medicine Center

450 Broadway Street
Pavilion B, 2nd Floor, MC 5730
Redwood City, CA 94063

Phone: (650) 723-6601
Fax: (650) 721-3448

Certified Providers:

  • Clete Kushida, MD, PhD, RST, RPSGT (QCC Director)
  • Mark Buchfuhrer, MD, FAASM (available 1 day/month)

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6. Emory Sleep Center (not accepting new patients at this time)

12 Executive Park Dr NE
Atlanta, GA 30329

Appointments: (404) 712-7533



Certified Providers:

  • Lynn Marie Trotti, MD, MSc (QCC Director)
  • Donald Bliwise, PhD
  • Romy Hoque, MD

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7. Yale Centers for Restless Legs Syndrome

8 Devine Street
New Haven, CT 06473

Appointments: (203) 287-3550

Certified Providers:

  • Dr. Brian Koo (QCC Director)

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8. Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt Sleep Center
2105 Edwards Curd Lane
Franklin, TN 37067

Vanderbilt Neurology One Hundred Oaks
719 Thompson Lane, Suite 24100
Nashville, TN 37204

Appointments: (615) 936-0060

Certified Providers:

  • Arthur Scott Walters, MD (QCC Director)
  • Kanika Bagai, MSCI, MD
  • Mariana Bedoya, MD
  • Lana Jeradeh Boursoulian, MD (pediatrics)
  • Beth Ann Malow, MS, MD
  • Laurel Schaefer, DNP, APRN
  • Althea Robinson-Shelton, MD (adult and pediatrics)
  • Allison Stepuszek, DNP, FNP-BC

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9. Scripps Clinic Sleep Center

10666 North Torrey Pines Rd.
La Jolla CA 92037

Phone: (858) 554-8845

Certified Providers:


  • J. Steven Poceta, MD (QCC Director)
  • Victoria Christison, PA-C

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10. Sleep Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland

Civic Hospital of Lugano
Via Tesserete 46
Lugano, Switzerland 6900

Phone: 0041 (0)91 811 6825

Certified Providers:

  • Mauro Manconi, MD, PhD (QCC Director)
  • Sylvia Miano, MD, PhD
  • Stephany Fulda, PhD

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11. Massachusetts General Hospital

1 Bowdoin Square, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114

Appointments: 617-724-7426

Certified Providers:

  • John W. Winkelman MD, PhD (QCC Director)
  • Aleksander Videnovic, MD, MSc, FAAN, FAASM
  • Lee R. Sullivan, MD
  • Amit Chopra, MBBS, DFAPA

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12. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

3601 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3403

Appointments: (412) 681-2000

Certified Providers:

  • Avinash Aggarwal, MD (QCC Director)

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