Robert Rudock, MD

Pediatric neurologist Robert Rudock is a sleep medicine specialist and epileptologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders in infants, children and young adults with complex neurologic, psychiatric and behavioral conditions. Dr. Rudock has expertise in evaluating sleep-disordered breathing, nocturnal spells and the intersection of sleep and neurologic disorders. He co-directs a multidisciplinary sleep clinic and oversees the sleep laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Dr. Rudock earned his medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and an M.B.A. from the University of Miami. He completed residency training in pediatrics, adult neurology and pediatric neurology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and fellowships in sleep medicine and epilepsy at the Washington University School of Medicine.

His research focuses on improving sleep quality and outcomes for neurologically complex pediatric patients. Dr. Rudock has led and collaborated on studies examining sleep-disordered breathing in infants with myelomeningocele, innovative approaches to sleep staging using density spectral array EEG technology and treatments for rare sleep disorders such as Kleine-Levin syndrome.

Dr. Rudock has developed clinical electives in pediatric sleep medicine. He mentors trainees pursuing careers in sleep neurology and lectures on topics including sleep disorders in autism spectrum disorder, pediatric sleep medicine and the relationship between sleep and seizures.

• Best Doctors, St. Louis Magazine (2022, 2023, 2024)        
• Castle Connolly Rising Star (2021, 2022)   

• American Academy of Neurology
• American Academy of Sleep Medicine
• Child Neurology Society