2026 Meeting
IRLSSG 2026 Annual Meeting
Sunday, June 14, 2026 – Baltimore, MD, United States
Registration is open to all sleep professionals.
Registration is free for IRLSSG members and $250 for non-members.
Location:
The Rita Rossi Colwell Center
701 E Pratt St
Baltimore, MD 21202
Why Attend?
- This international meeting is devoted entirely and exclusively to Restless Legs Syndrome and other sleep-related movement disorders.
- Expand your knowledge with the most recent advances in research, unpublished data and have a first-hand opportunity to discuss the topics with the authors
- Present your ideas, your research results, and receive feedback
- Network with your colleagues. Make new connections while strengthening old ones.
- Become an active participant in the IRLSSG community and help shape the future of RLS research
Add Your Voice to the Conversation
The IRLSSG Annual Meeting is a unique opportunity to share your work with a room full of people similarly focused on and/or interested in Restless Legs Syndrome in terms of both basic science and clinical assessment/treatment.
The Program Committee is seeking abstracts for 15 minute oral presentations to include in the program. You can submit your work here.
As well, the Wayne Hening Young Investigator Award will be given at this meeting. Early career researchers are encouraged to learn more here and consider submitting their work.
Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2026. If you have any questions regarding submitting your work, please email secretary@irlssg.org
2026 Program Committee
Cornelius Bachmann
Stefan Clemens
Elias Karroum
Co-Chair
Mauro Manconi
Maria Paola Mogavero
Denise Sharon
Rosalia Silvestri
Ambra Stefani
Co-Chair
Meeting Schedule
Our 2026 Program is still in the planning stages. Want to share your research? Submit science here!
7:45am – 8:15am: Breakfast
8:15am – 8:20am: Welcome
John W Winkelman (USA)
8:20am – 8:30am: Baltimore Presentation
Christopher Earley (USA)
8:30am – 9:00am: Richard Allen Keynote
9:00am – 12:00pm: Hot Topics in RLS
9:00am – 9:45am: Parkinson disease and RLS
- 9:00am – 9:30am: Differential diagnoses, augmentation, and challenges in diagnosis and treatment of RLS in Parkinson disease
- 9:30am – 9:45am: Association and risk of Parkinson disease in RLS
9:45am – 10:30am: Gabapentinoids risk in RLS
- 9:45am – 10:00am: Short-term side effects
- 10:00am – 10:30am: Long-term side effects and evidence for association with cognitive impairment and dementia
10:30am – 11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am – 11:30am: Iron therapy in RLS
- 11:00am – 11:15am: Differences in serum ferritin measurements: Implications for iron therapy in RLS
- 11:15am – 11:30am: Efficacy and safety of IV iron therapy in RLS patients with normal serum ferritin levels: What is the evidence?
11:30am – 12:00pm: Phenotypes in RLS
- 11:30am – 11:45am: Targeting sensory and motor symptoms in RLS: What does the literature tell us?
- 11:45am – 12:00pm: Heterogeneity in RLS: Insights from clinical, laboratory, and PSG-based phenotyping