April 9, 2020

Scientific and Medical Advisory Board Member and NightWalker "In the News" Author

Dr. Trotti has made many contributions to the RLS community, both clinically and through research. Since 2014, Dr. Trotti has served on the RLS Foundation Scientific and Medical Advisory Board. She is the director of the RLS Quality Care Center at the Emory Sleep Center, and an associate professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Trotti treats patients with all sleep disorders, including RLS. Her research focuses on the central disorders of hypersomnolence, such as narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, and Kleine-Levin syndrome; on parasomnias, such as rapid-eye movement (REM) behavior disorder and sleepwalking; and on the overlap of sleep and movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Trotti has been awarded federal grants for several projects, including “Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep (PLMs).” Her contributions to research articles on the genetic risk factors for PLMs, and the association between elevated C-reactive protein with PLMs in patients with RLS, have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, respectively.

Dr. Trotti holds leadership roles as a committee member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation and the Hypersomnia Foundation. In 2011, she received the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Movement Disorders Section Investigator Award and the Sleep Research Network Diversity Travel Award. Dr. Trotti is also an active participant in community outreach, providing her expertise to various platforms such as the Narcolepsy Network annual meeting and the American Parkinson’s Disease Association education meeting.

The RLS Foundation is grateful for Dr. Trotti’s many contributions: her knowledge, her impact on the lives of countless patients, and her dedication to understanding and finding a cure for RLS through research.