This fellowship will support a clinical researcher whose focus is improving metabolic and reproductive health by manipulating hormones and improving sleep. This will be achieved from a platform of NHMRC project grants and a NHMRC CCRE in interdisciplinary sleep health.
Prof McEvoy a respiratory physician researching the causes and consequences of sleep breathing disorders. He has a particular research interest in the link between sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease and in increasing access to care for sleep apnea sufferers through the development of new, simplified methods of diagnosis and management.
I am an applied respiratory physiologist investigating the pathophysiology of upper airway dysfunction in individuals with sleep-disordered breathing and the application of exercise physiology principles to the development of novel rehabilitation methods
I am a physiologist working in the area of paediatric sleep and its disorders to elucidate mechanisms involved in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the consequences of preterm birth for later development of cardiovascular compromise and the consequences of sleep disordered breathing in children for disturbance of the cardiovascular system.
I am a neurophysiologist in the field of human motor control. My primary research focus is on the neural control of respiratory muscles in health and disease including obstructive sleep apnoea and spinal cord injury. I also study a number of aspects of mu