Nathaniel Fletcher Watson, M.D., M.Sc.
Dr. Watson is a board-certified neurologist and sleep specialist. He joined the UW faculty in 2002 and is an active researcher, teacher and practitioner of sleep medicine. His research interests focus on genomic aspects of sleep duration and the effects of sleep curtailment on metabolism and inflammation.
He is a UW associate professor of neurology and co-director of the UW Medicine Sleep Center. Nationally, Dr. Watson is current president of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and American Sleep Medicine Foundation.
To help patients achieve their full potential in life by providing a caring, cooperative environment to manage their sleep and neurological disorders.
Reading, hiking, snowboarding, cycling and spending time with family.
Dr. Watson is adept at diagnosing and treating clinical sleep disorders of all types, including sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias, restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder, and circadian rhythm disorders.
He uses polysomnography, multiple sleep latency testing, maintenance-of-wakefulness testing, and actigraphy in the diagnosis and management of these disorders.
He also attends on the general neurology service at Harborview Medical Center, where he cares for patients with stroke, epilepsy and other acute neurological disorders.
Dr. Watson is currently researching the genetic aspects of habitual sleep duration, sleepiness and circadian rhythms in conjunction with the UW Twin Registry. As part of this work, he is also investigating the impact of habitual sleep curtailment on metabolism, including the effect on obesity and glucose regulation.
He is interested in the interplay between neurological disorders and sleep, and has investigated sleep disorders and sleep quality in patients with traumatic brain injury and Arnold-Chiari-1 malformations.
He is a member of the UW Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research.
English
Epilepsy, Neurology, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Medicine
| Univ. of Washington |
Master |
2009 |
| UW - Division of General Internal Medicine |
Internship |
|
| UW - Dept. of Neurology |
Residency |
|
| UW - Dept. of Neurology |
Fellowship |
|
| Univ. of North Carolina SOM |
Medical education |
1996 |
| American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology |
Sleep Medicine |
2007 |
| American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology |
Neurology |
2002 |
| Year | Name |
| 2011 | Central Society for Clinical Research K Award Grant Award |
| 2011 | Central Society for Clinical Research Trainee Travel Award |
| 2010 | Central Society for Clinical Research K Award Grant Award |
| 2010 | Central Society for Clinical Research Trainee Travel Award |
| 2007 | National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program |
| 2002 | American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Travel Award |
| 2002 | American Professional Sleep Society Trainee Research Merit Award |
Searching for Publications, Please Wait . . .
|