Dr Oliver Bernath
Consultant Neurologist and Sleep Physician

Special interests: All sleep disorders, especially those with neurological origin: narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, parasomnias (e.g. nightmares, sleepwalking), REM behaviour disorder, restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements in sleep disorder, insomnia, nocturnal epilepsy, sleep/wake rhythm disorder, but also obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring.
Dr Oliver Bernath qualified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy, and sleep disorders. He is registered by the General Medical Council with added qualification in neurology. He is certified as sleep physician by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the German Society of Sleep Medicine (DGSM). He obtained a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Ulm (Germany) for his research in muscle physiology.
Dr Bernath started his medical training at the University of Ulm (Germany) and expanded his studies with terms at University College London and the University of Otago (New Zealand). After graduating from Ulm, he trained as junior doctor at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He then completed his neurology residence at the University of Chicago followed by postgraduate fellowships in clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, and intraoperative monitoring at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and in Sleep Medicine at UCSF/Stanford. He obtained US Board certifications in all of these specialties. In 2000, he returned to the UK and worked at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, Kingston Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and now at Queen Victoria Hospital in the sleep disorders clinic.
His work ranged from operational improvement programmes in clinics and hospitals, to national healthcare transformations, policy development and regulator design.
Dr Bernath was a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and won research prizes in epilepsy and sleep research. His latest field of interest lies in the science and clinical practice of nightmares and dreaming.
Consultants
- Mr Aakshay Gulati
- Mr Adam Blackburn
- Mr Alex Cash
- Miss Alexandra Molina
- Dr Ali Diba
- Dr Alison Chalmers
- Dr Amanda Jewison
- Mr Andre Litwin
- Mr Andy Mellington
- Miss Anita Hazari
- Miss Artemis Matsou
- Mr Asit Khandwala
- Mr Baljit Dheansa
- Dr Ben Carey
- Mr Brian Bisase
- Mr Charles Nduka
- Dr Chetan Patel
- Dr Colin Lawrence
- Mr Damian Lake
- Dr Edward Pickles
- Dr Gary Chow
- Ginny Kingsmill
- Dr Glenn Wearne
- Mr Gokulan Ratnarajan
- Mr Ian King
- Miss Jennifer O’Neill
- Mr John Tighe
- Dr Jonathan Sanders
- Dr Joy Curran
- Dr Julian Giles
- Miss Katia Sindali
- Mr Keith Altman
- Mr Ken Sneddon
- Miss Lauren Hardwick
- Mr Laurence Newman
- Dr Lindsay Winchester
- Mr Mark Cutler
- Mr Mark Pickford
- Dr Mark Wyldbore
- Mr Martin Jones
- Mr Mike Shelley
- Dr Mohamed El-Belihy
- Mr Mohamed Elalfy
- Mr Navdeep Upile
- Dr Niamh Gavin
- Mr Nikhil Maini
- Dr Oliver Bernath
- Mr Paul Drake
- Mr Paul Norris
- Professor Adrian Williams
- Professor Jag Dhanda
- Dr Raad Makadsi
- Miss Rachael Harrison
- Dr Rachael Liebmann
- Mr Raman Malhotra
- Mr Robert Pearl
- Mr Ruben Kannan
- Mr Sam Orkar
- Mr Samer Hamada
- Dr Sarah Bailey
- Mr Simon Harvey
- Mr Simon Mackey
- Mr Siva Kumar
- Miss Sofia Ahmad
- Mr Stefano Stea
- Mr T C Teo
- Miss Tania Cubison
- Dr Timothy Vorster
- Mr Zaid Sadiq