Professor Peter Cistulli is a clinician researcher with 35 years’ experience in the fields of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine. He is Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney and holds the ResMed Chair. He leads the Sleep Research Theme within the multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre and is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L3). He is also Clinical Director of the Sleep Medicine Program at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He is currently President-elect of the World Sleep Society.

Olivier M. Vanderveken is a full-time ENT and head and neck surgeon at the Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium. He has been appointed Chairman of the Department of ENT-HNS at Antwerp University Hospital. He holds a position as a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Antwerp. He received his medical degree from the University of Antwerp in 2001. He completed an ENT and head and neck surgery residency at the Antwerp University Hospital. In 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences on the topic of the fundamental and multidisciplinary approach to upper airway collapse during sleep-disordered breathing. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal 'Sleep and Breathing' and the Deputy Editor of the ‘Journal of Dental Sleep Medicine’. In the past, he has been awarded several national and international scientific awards, including the “AADSM Clinical Research Award” in 2011, the “AADSM Clinical Excellence Award” in 2011, and the “Pierre Robin Academic Award” of AADSM in 2012 from the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.

Danny J. Eckert BAppl Sci, BSc (Hons), PhD, FAASM, ATSF is a Matthew Flinders Professor at Flinders University, a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Leadership Fellow and a Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (part-time), and a visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He serves as Director of the Flagship Sleep Health Program at Flinders University where he leads a comprehensive basic sciences and translational research program comprised of >130 multidisciplinary sleep researchers. Professor Eckert has published >250 papers in the leading sleep/respiratory and general medical journals. He is most well-known for his pioneering sleep apnoea mechanistic endo-phenotyping and treatment work which has led to new precision medicine approaches to treat this chronic respiratory condition including development of novel pharmacotherapy and for his broader sleep health research and advocacy work including leading the multi-award winning 3-part TV series, Australia’s Sleep Revolution with Dr Michael Mosley.