Erik K. St Louis, M.D.

Erik K. St. Louis, M.D, M.S., is Professor of Neurology and Medicine, Director of the Sleep Behavior and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, Consultant in Sleep Medicine and Neurology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and Regional Chair, Research and Scholarship for the Mayo Clinic Health System in Wisconsin. Dr. St. Louis is board certified in Adult Neurology, Sleep Medicine, Epilepsy, EEG/Epilepsy Monitoring, and Clinical Neurophysiology by the American Boards of Psychiatry and Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Sleep Medicine. He was educated at St. Olaf College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Mayo Clinic Rochester, and the University of Iowa. He previously co-directed the Marshfield Clinic and University of Iowa comprehensive epilepsy programs and the Mayo Center for Sleep Medicine in Rochester. Research interests include clinical and neurophysiologic aspects of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) under support of the National Institutes of Health and American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation, and the complex interrelationships between sleep and epilepsy.

The Mayo Sleep Behavior and Neurophysiology Research Laboratory, directed by Dr. St. Louis, has pioneered new quantitative polysomnographic analysis methods and established diagnostic standards for RBD, and is currently analyzing these measures as a biomarker for synucleinopathy neurodegeneration. Dr. St. Louis is co-author of "The Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs" with Philip Patsolos (Cambridge University Press). Dr. St. Louis has Guest Edited several past AAN-Continuum Sleep Neurology and Epilepsy editions, and has edited and curated Sleep Neurology themed issues for Neurotherapeutics and the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.