Board Members
David Hillman is head of the Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia and director of the West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute.
He is an anesthesiologist and sleep physician. His clinical and research interests are centred on respiratory and upper airway physiology and their relationship to sleep disorders and anesthesia. He has published extensively in related areas.
He is a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and an honorary fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia, a past president of the Australasian Sleep Association, founding chair of Australia's Sleep Health Foundation and chairs the steering committee of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine.
Professor Doug McEvoy has been at the forefront of sleep medicine in Australia for over 25 years - as an academic, government advisor, and chairperson and member of national and international scientific advisory and professional committees.
He is Director of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health (AISH), one of Australia's leading clinical and research sleep medicine centres, and is a Practitioner Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is a past President of the Australasian Sleep Association and is a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
For many years Doug has been a mentor and guide to emerging Australian and New Zealand clinicians and scientists in sleep medicine. In the last 10 years alone his department has trained over 20 PhD students and sleep specialists, many of whom are now making significant contributions to the professional development of sleep medicine internationally and successfully forging their own independent research careers. Doug's major research role currently is as Principal Investigator of the international Sleep Apnoea cardio Vascular Endpoints (SAVE) study.
Professor Peter Cistulli has a 20 year career in the sleep field, across clinical care, research and education. He is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Discipline of Sleep Medicine, University of Sydney and Head of Respiratory Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He is a former President of the Australasian Sleep Association.
His research is focussed on novel ways of diagnosing and treating Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, and has earned him an international reputation in the field. He has been a strong advocate for the development of Sleep Medicine as a distinct medical discipline and raising community and medical awareness about sleep problems.
He is a director on a number of boards of not-for-profit organisations, and has expertise in strategy, organisational behaviour and corporate governance. He is a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Professor Dorothy Bruck is a Professor of Psychology at Victoria University (Melbourne) and has been researching sleep and its disorders for over three decades. She has been involved in research on different aspects of sleep with colleagues in Germany, Britain and Canada and has over 100 referred publications covering issues such as narcolepsy, insomnia, sleep inertia, sleep in older adults and arousal thresholds to emergency signals.
Professor Bruck is also a clinician, practicing part-time as a sleep psychologist with a special interest in insomnia and disorders of excessive daytime sleepiness. She founded the Australasian narcolepsy self-help group, NODSS, in the mid 1980s and was a founding executive member of the Australasian Sleep Association and is a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Breathing and Sleep at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. For the past 15 years she has worked as both a researcher and clinician, predominantly in sleep disorders.
Her major research achievements have included work looking at simplified management and diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea and new treatments for insomnia. A recent focus has been breathing during sleep in pregnancy and the impact on both the mother and baby. Maree runs a busy Sleep Clinic, has appointments to both the Senior Medical Staff at Austin Health and the University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, and is actively involved in supervision of post-graduate students.
She has been a member of the Board of the Australasian Sleep Association since 2008 and is a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Associate Professor Craig Hukins is a practising Respiratory and Sleep Physician and is the Director of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He provides clinical services in all sleep disorders and directs the largest public sleep facility in Queensland. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the Queensland Health Sleep Disorders Program since 1999, responsible for the development of clinical standards and guidelines in public sleep facilities in Queensland and the management of the State Government sleep therapy equipment loan program. He has a special research interest in simplified diagnostic and treatment strategies for obstructive sleep apnoea including the analysis of snoring related sounds using novel techniques also used in voice recognition software. He is a past President of the Australasian Sleep Association and served on its board for eight years until 2012. He was a founding Board Member of the Sleep Health Foundation, serving in its first year of operation.
President Sleep Disorders Australia Qld Branch, Chairman of Directors SDA, Secretary of the National Management Committee of Self Help Queensland.
Joe has a background in the Chemical and Dangerous Goods Transport Industry in various management positions over 40 years.
He is now retired.
Matt Harris has worked at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare since 2006 in various executive sales roles within both their Respiratory Acute Care and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea divisions. His current role is as the National Sales & Marketing Manager – OSA for Australia, a position he has held since 2009. He is the elected chair of the Business Council for the Sleep Health Foundation.
Matt has been a lecturer at the College of Nursing in Sydney and his qualifications include a Bachelor of Applied Science (Sport and Exercise Science) from Sydney University and a Masters in Marketing Management from MGSM.
David Hillman
Professor David Hillman MBBS, FANZCA, FRCP(Edin), FRACP(Hon)
Doug McEvoy
Professor Doug McEvoy, MBBS FRACP
Peter Cistulli
Professor Peter Cistulli, MBBS, PhD, MBA, FRACP, FCCP, FAICDDorothy Bruck
Professor Dorothy Bruck, PhD
Maree Barnes
Dr Maree Barnes
Craig Hukins
A/Prof Craig Hukins
Joseph Soda
Mr Joseph Soda
Matt Harris
Matt Harris
