Board Members
Dorothy Bruck
Emeritus Prof Dorothy Bruck, PhD
Chair, 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 is current Chair and a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Darren Mansfield
A/Prof Darren Mansfield
Darren Mansfield is a sleep disorders and respiratory physician who practices in all aspects of sleep disorders. He is the Director of the Sleep Service in the Monash Lung and Sleep Department of Monash Health, the Director of the Epworth Sleep Centre in East Melbourne and an adjunct A/Professor in the School of Psychological sciences Monash University. He has 20 years of experience in sleep medicine, completing a PhD in the field and continues to research in a range of areas within sleep medicine. He is an exponent of the view that multidisciplinary care has the capacity to achieve superior outcomes to that of the lone clinician, hence the creation of this novel service in insomnia.
Professor John Wheatley
Professor John Wheatley, MBBS (1st Class Honours), FRACP, PhD
Professor John Wheatley is the Director of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Westmead Hospital, and holds appointments as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He is a past President of the Australasian Sleep Association, past executive committee member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, and past Chairman of the SAC in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He is an associate editor for the journal Sleep. His clinical expertise is in the management of obstructive sleep apnoea and other sleep disorders, and he leads an active research program investigating new ways to treat sleep apnoea and its complications.
Professor Wheatley has a long standing interest in quality assurance and has been responsible for the institution of laboratory accreditation processes in Australia and New Zealand for both Respiratory Function Laboratories and Sleep Disorder Services. He currently chairs the ASA/NATA Accreditation Advisory Committee for Sleep Disorder Services, and is Chair of the Laboratory Accreditation Committee for the Professional Standards Sub-Committee of the TSANZ.
Michael Rundus
Michael Rundus - Bachelor of Business (Honours in Accounting), Graduate Diploma of Business (Information Systems), Chartered Accountant.
Michael Rundus is EY’s Advisory leader in Western Australia where he is responsible for developing the talent within his team of 150 professionals as well as ensuring quality service delivery to clients across the mining, education and government sectors. Michael is also EY’s Advisory Mining and Metals Market Segment Leader for Oceania overseeing ensuring that EY is connected, insightful and responsive to mining and metals clients.
Michael is a highly effective communicator who is able to adapt quickly and efficiently to the people and environment in which he is working. A key strength is being able to build rapport with all levels of stakeholder.
As the father of three children in a high paced industry, Michael has a personal interest in health and wellbeing, not only for his own personal work life balance, but also for his colleagues and his team, to which he plays an active mentoring role.
Moira Junge
Moira Junge BA (Hons), D.Psych
Moira is a registered psychologist, having completed a Doctorate in Health Psychology. Health Psychology focuses on health behaviour change at an individual and population level. It is a unique specialty within psychology as it encompasses both health promotion and clinical health skills. She has over twenty years’ experience in the healthcare sector and has worked in the sleep disorders field since 1994. She is a founding member of the Behavioural Management of Sleep Disorders Committee within the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). Moira was the recent Chair of the Insomnia and Sleep Health Council (2008-2015), also within the ASA. Moira has a range of clinical skills and a great deal of clinical experience and has complemented these with public education and health promotion skills. Her areas of expertise include sleep disorders, adjustment to illness, grief and loss as well as the psychological management of substance abuse. She is passionate about promoting the importance of good sleep health and this is the main reason for joining the Board of the Sleep Health Foundation.
David Hillman
Professor David Hillman MBBS, FANZCA, FRCP(Edin), FRACP(Hon)
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.
Siobhan Banks
Dr Siobhan Banks
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sleep in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA.
Dr Siobhan Banks is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia. Dr Banks received her Ph.D. from Flinders University of South Australia in 2004 and undertook a post doctoral fellowship with Professor David Dinges at the University Of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty in the School of Medicine as a Research Assistant Professor in 2006. In 2009 she returned to Australia with a Fellowship for Women in Science from the University of South Australia, to continue her work investigating the impact of sleep loss on health and performance. Dr Banks’ recent research has focused on the impact of chronic sleep restriction and recovery sleep opportunities on neurobehavioral and physiological functioning in both patient populations and healthy individuals. This research has been funded by the NIH, The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Space and Biomedical Research Institute through NASA, Beyond Blue, SA Department of Health and Aging and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Dr Banks is on the editorial board of the specialty journal SLEEP, and has recently been awarded a South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2010) and the USA Sleep Research Society Young Investigator Award (2011).
Jennifer Low
Jennifer Low
Associate Director
Work Health & Safety and Workers’ Compensation Policy
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jennifer acts as a leading advocate for employers in the design, implementation and operation of Australia's national and state legislative frameworks governing WHS and workers' compensation. She is an appointed member of a number of Federal advisory committees for Workers’ Compensation, Work Health and Safety, Mental Health and Health. With primary qualifications in psychology and safety, Jennifer’s expertise is in workplace psychosocial issues, behavioral safety, workers’ compensation and safety leadership and culture.
Shantha Rajaratnam
Professor Shantha Rajaratnam
Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University.
Shantha Rajaratnam was awarded his PhD degree from Monash University in 1998, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2000. He undertook postdoctoral training at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey, UK from 2000-2002, where he investigated human sleep-wake regulation, in particular the role of melatonin. In 2004 he took up a visiting academic position at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. He returned to Monash in 2006 and established the Monash Sleep Network (now serving as the Chair of its Executive Committee), which combines scientific and clinical expertise in sleep research within the University and the affiliated hospitals. He continues to hold an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and holds an adjunct research appointment at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He is a registered psychologist, Chartered Psychologist in the UK and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams has extensive experience and a proven track record in clinical research and business development.
As a team leader with international, national and regional roles, Anthony has expertise in research management, financial modelling, corporate governance, intellectual property management and contract development. He is an output focused operator with exceptional project management, communication and negotiation skills.
He has worked in the area of sleep and alertness for over fifteen years and has developed extensive networks and relationships across industry and academia, both in Australia and internationally.
Board Members
Emeritus Prof Dorothy Bruck, PhD
Chair, 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 is current Chair and a founding Board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.
A/Prof Darren Mansfield
Darren Mansfield is a sleep disorders and respiratory physician who practices in all aspects of sleep disorders. He is the Director of the Sleep Service in the Monash Lung and Sleep Department of Monash Health, the Director of the Epworth Sleep Centre in East Melbourne and an adjunct A/Professor in the School of Psychological sciences Monash University. He has 20 years of experience in sleep medicine, completing a PhD in the field and continues to research in a range of areas within sleep medicine. He is an exponent of the view that multidisciplinary care has the capacity to achieve superior outcomes to that of the lone clinician, hence the creation of this novel service in insomnia.
Professor John Wheatley, MBBS (1st Class Honours), FRACP, PhD
Professor John Wheatley is the Director of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Westmead Hospital, and holds appointments as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He is a past President of the Australasian Sleep Association, past executive committee member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, and past Chairman of the SAC in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He is an associate editor for the journal Sleep. His clinical expertise is in the management of obstructive sleep apnoea and other sleep disorders, and he leads an active research program investigating new ways to treat sleep apnoea and its complications.
Professor Wheatley has a long standing interest in quality assurance and has been responsible for the institution of laboratory accreditation processes in Australia and New Zealand for both Respiratory Function Laboratories and Sleep Disorder Services. He currently chairs the ASA/NATA Accreditation Advisory Committee for Sleep Disorder Services, and is Chair of the Laboratory Accreditation Committee for the Professional Standards Sub-Committee of the TSANZ.
Michael Rundus - Bachelor of Business (Honours in Accounting), Graduate Diploma of Business (Information Systems), Chartered Accountant.
Michael Rundus is EY’s Advisory leader in Western Australia where he is responsible for developing the talent within his team of 150 professionals as well as ensuring quality service delivery to clients across the mining, education and government sectors. Michael is also EY’s Advisory Mining and Metals Market Segment Leader for Oceania overseeing ensuring that EY is connected, insightful and responsive to mining and metals clients.
Michael is a highly effective communicator who is able to adapt quickly and efficiently to the people and environment in which he is working. A key strength is being able to build rapport with all levels of stakeholder.
As the father of three children in a high paced industry, Michael has a personal interest in health and wellbeing, not only for his own personal work life balance, but also for his colleagues and his team, to which he plays an active mentoring role.
Moira Junge BA (Hons), D.Psych
Moira is a registered psychologist, having completed a Doctorate in Health Psychology. Health Psychology focuses on health behaviour change at an individual and population level. It is a unique specialty within psychology as it encompasses both health promotion and clinical health skills. She has over twenty years’ experience in the healthcare sector and has worked in the sleep disorders field since 1994. She is a founding member of the Behavioural Management of Sleep Disorders Committee within the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). Moira was the recent Chair of the Insomnia and Sleep Health Council (2008-2015), also within the ASA. Moira has a range of clinical skills and a great deal of clinical experience and has complemented these with public education and health promotion skills. Her areas of expertise include sleep disorders, adjustment to illness, grief and loss as well as the psychological management of substance abuse. She is passionate about promoting the importance of good sleep health and this is the main reason for joining the Board of the Sleep Health Foundation.
Professor David Hillman MBBS, FANZCA, FRCP(Edin), FRACP(Hon)
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.
Dr Siobhan Banks
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sleep in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA.
Dr Siobhan Banks is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia. Dr Banks received her Ph.D. from Flinders University of South Australia in 2004 and undertook a post doctoral fellowship with Professor David Dinges at the University Of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty in the School of Medicine as a Research Assistant Professor in 2006. In 2009 she returned to Australia with a Fellowship for Women in Science from the University of South Australia, to continue her work investigating the impact of sleep loss on health and performance. Dr Banks’ recent research has focused on the impact of chronic sleep restriction and recovery sleep opportunities on neurobehavioral and physiological functioning in both patient populations and healthy individuals. This research has been funded by the NIH, The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Space and Biomedical Research Institute through NASA, Beyond Blue, SA Department of Health and Aging and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Dr Banks is on the editorial board of the specialty journal SLEEP, and has recently been awarded a South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2010) and the USA Sleep Research Society Young Investigator Award (2011).
Jennifer Low
Associate Director
Work Health & Safety and Workers’ Compensation Policy
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jennifer acts as a leading advocate for employers in the design, implementation and operation of Australia's national and state legislative frameworks governing WHS and workers' compensation. She is an appointed member of a number of Federal advisory committees for Workers’ Compensation, Work Health and Safety, Mental Health and Health. With primary qualifications in psychology and safety, Jennifer’s expertise is in workplace psychosocial issues, behavioral safety, workers’ compensation and safety leadership and culture.
Professor Shantha Rajaratnam
Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University.
Shantha Rajaratnam was awarded his PhD degree from Monash University in 1998, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2000. He undertook postdoctoral training at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey, UK from 2000-2002, where he investigated human sleep-wake regulation, in particular the role of melatonin. In 2004 he took up a visiting academic position at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. He returned to Monash in 2006 and established the Monash Sleep Network (now serving as the Chair of its Executive Committee), which combines scientific and clinical expertise in sleep research within the University and the affiliated hospitals. He continues to hold an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and holds an adjunct research appointment at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He is a registered psychologist, Chartered Psychologist in the UK and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams has extensive experience and a proven track record in clinical research and business development.
As a team leader with international, national and regional roles, Anthony has expertise in research management, financial modelling, corporate governance, intellectual property management and contract development. He is an output focused operator with exceptional project management, communication and negotiation skills.
He has worked in the area of sleep and alertness for over fifteen years and has developed extensive networks and relationships across industry and academia, both in Australia and internationally.