Symposium session: ‘Inspired unspindling’ - 2024 interactive PSG mentimeter session
Tracks
Track 5
| Saturday, October 19, 2024 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:35 PM |
| Room 7 |
Details
Join us for the always-popular Mentimeter session, returning in 2024 as ‘Inspired unspindling’. Dive into collaborative quiz-based PSG analysis, exploring techniques, confronting artifacts, and embracing advances. Untangle everything from EEG phenomena to respiratory measurements and movement disorders in PSG, catering to both pediatric and adult studies. This session appeals to early career and experienced professionals, including clinical physiologists, scientists, advanced trainees, dentists pursuing FDSM certification, and seasoned physicians reporting PSGs. Don't miss this interactive opportunity to deepen your understanding and refine your skills in sleep study analysis.
Speaker
Dr Kerri Melehan
Sleep Scientist
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Dive into adult respiratory PSG
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Kerri is a sleep scientist at Royal Prince Alfred hospital in Sydney, and programme director & course co-ordinator of the masters of sleep medicine programme and sleep related short courses at University of Sydney.
Mr Thomas Churchward
Head Respiratory and Sleep Scientist
Austin Health
Thinking caps: Adult sleep PSG analysis
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Tom is the Head Respiratory and Sleep Scientist at Austin Health, Victoria. With diverse research and educational interests in measurement, physiology, and treatment optimisation, he served as the founding president of the Australian Council for Clinical Physiologists and is the immediate past president of the Australia and New Zealand Sleep Science Association. Tom is also a NATA technical assessor for Sleep Service accreditation and has recently completed a Master of Digital Health.
Mrs Nicole Verginis
Chief Clinical Scientist
Monash Children's Hospital
Practiced and pliant paediatric PSG analysis
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Nicole is the Chief Clinical Sleep Scientist at ASA/NATA accredited Melbourne Children’s Sleep Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital which is a comprehensive sleep service incorporating diagnostic, non-invasive ventilation, home oximetry and apnoea monitoring services. Nicole has a keen interest in quality management, education and research; and is actively involved in ANZSSA and the ASA.
Mrs Nicole Verginis
Chief Clinical Scientist
Monash Children's Hospital
Chair
Biography
Mr Thomas Churchward
Head Respiratory and Sleep Scientist
Austin Health
Chair
Biography
