Sleep medicine training is often not offered until the final year of advanced training. It can be hard to know if sleep training will be worthwhile, what it involves and the role sleep medicine may play in your future career. This webinar recorded on 6 April 2022 integrates experience from sleep medicine trainees and experienced clinicians on how sleep medicine has influenced their careers. Speakers: Belinda Miller, Ai-Ming Wong, Lachlan Stranks, Monica Hatch, Nathan Hayward

Sleep medicine training is often not offered until the final year of advanced training. It can be hard to know if sleep training will be worthwhile, what it involves and the role sleep medicine may play in your future career. This webinar recorded on 6 April 2022 integrates experience from sleep medicine trainees and experienced clinicians on how sleep medicine has influenced their careers. 

Presentations

Sleep Year Requirements
Belinda Miller, Respiratory and sleep physician, The Alfred and Epworth Sleep Centre

Associate professor Belinda Miller is a respiratory and sleep physician working full-time in the Respiratory Department at The Alfred, Melbourne and in private sleep medicine at the Epworth Sleep Centre. She has ongoing research interests, mainly in the areas of acute and long-term oxygen therapy, sleep disordered breathing and non-invasive ventilation, and has a PhD in respiratory physiology during sleep. She is also involved in pre and post graduate medical education. She has been on a number of TSANZ and RACP committees and working groups and is currently chair of the Advanced Training Committee for respiratory and sleep medicine.

Why I chose sleep medicine training, and what my training involved
Lachlan Stranks, Clinical Sleep Fellow, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research

Dr Lachlan Stranks has recently completed his advanced training in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine. After completing his core respiratory training in South Australia, Lachlan relocated to Sydney to undertake training in sleep medicine at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. His current areas of research include sleep disordered breathing in severe mental illness, and disorders of central hypersomnolence in Australian populations. Lachlan will be relocating to the UK in 2022 to undertake further fellowships in interstitial lung disease, and sleep medicine.

Monica Hatch, Respiratory and Sleep advanced trainee, Western Health/ Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre

Monica is a third year Victorian Respiratory and Sleep advanced trainee, currently undertaking a year of sleep medicine at Western Health/ MSDC. She has previously worked at the Alfred hospital , Frankston Hospital and Darwin hospital in her advanced training program.

How sleep training has influenced my career
Ai- Ming Wong, Respiratory and Sleep physician, Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH); honorary at Monash Health and Monash University

Completed BPT training within St Vincent's Hospital and Barwon Health networks. Then completed Respiratory and Sleep training at Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH), Monash Health and Western Health. Returned to Monash Health/Monash University from 2017-2020 to pursue a PhD (Sleep) in "Understanding the impact of weight loss and upper airway surgery on the physiological causes of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) - a pathway to personalised sleep medicine". Subsequently, commenced work as a Respiratory and Sleep physician at RHH from February 2020 and is in the process of establishing the new Sleep Service/Lab at THS-South.

Nathan Hayward, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Monash Health

Dr Nathan Hayward is a Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon with subspecialist training in Sleep Surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and on completion of training undertook a 12 month Fellowship in Sleep Surgery under Professor Stuart Mackay. He is a Consultant surgeon at Monash Health, where he is the clinical lead of the SNOOSA (Snoring & OSA) clinic. He has a particular interest in Sleep Surgery education and has recently published on this topic.

This webinar is chaired by Christiaan Yu who is a respiratory and sleep physician, working at Alfred health, Melbourne, Victoria. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Monash University and also the deputy chair for ASA Advanced Trainee education subcommittee.

What are the 2-3 key points that the audience will take away after attending this webinar?

Understand the role of sleep medicine in their future careers
Learn from recent trainees what a typical year of sleep training involves
Learn from recent trainees why they chose to do a sleep year

Who would benefit from attending this webinar?

First and second year advanced trainees

 

Free for members, $10 for others.

• Training Hours: 1.50