Mikhail Poluektov is an associate professor, Ph.D., Neurologist, Somnologist, Head of Sleep Medicine Department of Sechenov First Moscow state medical University, Ministry of the health of Russia. Since 1998, Dr. Poluektov worked at the Department of Pathology of the Autonomic Nervous System, headed by Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Science Dr. Aleksandr Veyn, then taught on the course of somnology created by Professor Yakov Levin at the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Faculty of Postgraduate Professional Education of Physicians. Dr. Poluektov is Vice-President of the National Society for Somnology and Sleep Medicine and President of the National Society for Children's Sleep Specialists, is a member of the editorial board of the journal Obesity and Metabolism, and is the editor of the annual thematic issues of Effective Pharmacotherapy. Sleep and its disorders ”and“ Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov. Sleep disorders ". He is the author of 3 monographs, invention patents, 175 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters in manuals.