Associate Professor Kim van Schooten is a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and UNSW Sydney, internationally recognised for pioneering wearable sensor methods and digital interventions to assess, monitor and improve mobility, and prevent falls in older people. Her algorithms are incorporated into commercial products and applied in clinical aged care. She has secured over $6.7M in funding, published 80+ papers (>4,500 citations), and leads a multidisciplinary team advancing biomechanics, neuroscience and public health approaches to safe mobility. Kim serves on the International Society of Posture and Gait Research Board and advises WHO AI for Health, shaping global practice and policy in digital mobility assessment.

Kelly Sansom is a research associate holding part-time appointments at Flinders University and Murdoch University. Her research focuses on the impact of sleep behaviours such as sleep timing and regularity and sleep disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnoea, on health and safety outcomes.

A/Prof Vakulin is a senior researcher at FHMRI Sleep Health where he leads the “Biomarkers and Risk Prevention” research theme. A/Prof Vakulin has a research interest and expertise investigating the impact of sleep loss and sleep disorders on daytime sleepiness, sleep neurobiology and neurobehavioral function, particularly in relation to operational performance and the risk of motor vehicle/workplace accident and risk of falls older people. More recently he has been leading the development of innovative online sleep health decision support tools and digital sleep health solutions, utilising new sleep monitoring technologies for simplified screening, diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in the community and primary care.

Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology, Clinical & Translational Science Dr. Sanjay R. Patel, an expert in sleep health, is certified in pulmonary disease and sleep medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Patel is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at University of Pittsburgh, and medical director of UPMC Comprehensive Sleep Disorders program. He earned a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed a residency at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Patel’s research focuses on the health implications of poor sleep with particular interest on the relationships between sleep and cardiometabolic disease. He directs the Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published extensively on the subject of obesity management and glucose metabolism with sleep apnea, as well as the association between curtailed sleep and long-term health effects. Research and Clinical Interests: Understanding the epidemiology of sleep disorders with particular emphasis on chronic partial sleep deprivation and obstructive sleep apnea and the potential effects of these disorders on metabolism. One of the first to identify long sleep as a predictor of adverse health outcomes and is currently conducting a clinical trial evaluating the cardiovascular impact of treating sleep apnea in a diabetic population.