Prof Mukherjee is an experienced respiratory and sleep physician at SA Health and works in private practice in Adelaide. She is also Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Flinders University. Currently, her major fields of interest are sleep apnoea, sleep disorders and sleep health. Prof Mukherjee been successful in obtaining multiple grants in the US, Canada and Australia (over $15M AUD), and has published extensively (>100 articles, >9000 citations, Google scholar) in high impact journals. Prof Mukherjee is a Past President of the Australasian Sleep Association. She was the featured co-host of Australia’s Sleep Revolution with Michael Mosley which aired on SBS in March 2024 and has won multiple national and international awards.

Associate Professor Suresh is the service director of the Respiratory & Sleep Medicine Department at Qld children's Hospital, Brisbane. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, School of Medicine. He is a past board member of the Australasian Sleep Association and has various educational roles with the Royal Australasian College of Physician. He has established links with his Alma mater; Stanley Medical College in Chennai India through the STARS in Health Education Foundation, promoting education and awareness of public health medicine. Dr Suresh’s research interest in sleep medicine includes investigating sleep disorders, development of screening tools for assessing paediatric sleep disorders, assessing treatment outcomes and benefits of non-invasive ventilation and epidemiological perspective of sleep disorders in children. He also has interests in respiratory research which include clinical management of complicated pneumonias/empyema and understanding adult lung function from a developmental perspective from longitudinal studies.

Professor Brendon Yee is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician who graduated from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and completed his PhD at the University of Sydney. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney. He specializes in sleep disorders and respiratory failure, and has published over 150 scientific manuscripts. He also serves as the Medical Director of Respiratory Failure Services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital .

A/Prof Claire Ellender BSc MBBS FRACP PhD, is a Respiratory and Sleep physician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Her areas of research include evaluating health literacy in sleep medicine, equity in accessing sleep therapies for complex or disadvantaged groups. Dr Ellender is the head of the PA-Southside Clinical Unit at the Faculty of Health Medicine and Behavioural Science, University of Queensland. In this role she oversees the training of 300 medical students annually.

Dr Withers is a paediatric respiratory and sleep physician at Perth Children's Hospital and a researcher at The Kids Institute Australia. Her clinical and research interests include sleep disordered breathing in neuromuscular disorders, complex upper airway obstruction, long-term ventilation and tracheo-malacia in children with cystic fibrosis.

Dr Ramaa Puvvadi is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She completed her General Paediatric training in Adelaide and Perth, followed by specialist training in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine in Perth along with a PhD at the University of Western Australia. She subsequently undertook training in Paediatric Sleep Medicine in Brisbane. Dr Puvvadi manages a broad range of paediatric respiratory and sleep disorders, with particular clinical and research interests in infant sleep disorders, paediatric insomnia, and non-invasive ventilation (NIV).

Associate Professor Elie Matar is a dual-trained consultant neurologist and sleep physician, and a Horizon Fellow at the University of Sydney. He leads the Sleep Neurology and Movement Disorders Services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and practises clinically at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney with a particular interest in neurological sleep disorders. As an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, he leads a research program, which investigates how disturbances of sleep and arousal contribute to cognitive decline, delirium and neurodegenerative disease. His particular focus is on Lewy body disorders and isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder in which he is a recognised international authority. He is the ASA representative on the RACP Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Advanced Training Committee and holds executive and leadership roles across national and international cognitive and movement disorders societies.

Dr Mimi Lu is a Paediatric Sleep and Respiratory Physician at The Children's Hospital Westmead and Woolcock Intitute of Medical Research. She completed her MBBS at the University of New South Wales and undertook fellowship training in Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at The Children's Hospital Westmead. Dr Lu has a research interest in paediatric sleep movements and completed a Master of Philosophy on this topic at the University of Sydney.

Dr David Cunnington is a sleep physician at Sunshine Coast University Hospital, and an Adjunct Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He is Chair of the clinical committee of the Australasian Sleep Association and a Field Editor for the journal Sleep Medicine. David's clinical and research interests span insomnia and its behavioural and pharmacological management, sleep diagnostics, complex sleep disordered breathing, narcolepsy and disorders of hypersomnolence, and sleep in psychiatric conditions.

A/Professor Jasneek Chawla is an experienced Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane and a clinician researcher leading the Kids Sleep Research Group at the Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland. Her clinical and research interests include sleep in children with complex disability, other vulnerable populations and translating emerging paediatric sleep technologies for clinical practice. As the theme leader for Children and Disability within UQ’s Disability Collaboratory Group, Jas is a strong advocate for children with disability and works closely with many consumer representative organisations and individuals with lived experience in her work. Jas is the current president of the Australasian Sleep Association and is passionate about improving sleep for all Australians.

Professor Howard is Director of the Victorian Respiratory Support Service, Professor and Academic Lead for The University of Melbourne Department of Medicine at Austin Health and board member for the Institute for Breathing and Sleep. His clinically based research program spans mechanistic studies and trials for respiratory failure, occupational health in shift workers, drowsy driving and COVID-19 epidemiology, with over 200 peer reviewed journal publications.

Clinical Professor Garun Hamilton is Director of Sleep Medicine at Monash Health and the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University. He leads the Non-Invasive Ventilation service and VRSS satellite service at Monash Health. His research interests include: 1) Endophenotyping to direct personalised sleep apnoea treatment, 2) cardiometabolic consequences of OSA, 3) life course epidemiology of respiratory/sleep disorders, 4) sleep and cognitive decline, 5) non-invasive ventilation, 6) obstructive lung disease. His contributions to the profession include: 1) Clinical guideline development/implementation, 2) National health policy impact and government interaction. He is the Immediate Past President of the Australasian Sleep Association.

Dr. Linda Schachter is a Sleep and Respiratory Physician with over 30 years of experience in the diagnosis and management of all sleep disorders.

A/Prof Claire Ellender BSc MBBS FRACP PhD, is a Respiratory and Sleep physician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Her areas of research include evaluating health literacy in sleep medicine, equity in accessing sleep therapies for complex or disadvantaged groups. Dr Ellender is the head of the PA-Southside Clinical Unit at the Faculty of Health Medicine and Behavioural Science, University of Queensland. In this role she oversees the training of 300 medical students annually.

Dr Moya Vandeleur is a paediatric respiratory and sleep medicine specialist at RCH, Melbourne and the lead for sleep research. She is the clinical lead for the RCH ventilation service and co-authored "Ventilatory support at home for children: A joint position paper from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand/Australasian Sleep Association" (Respirology, 2021).

Sheila Sivam, MD, PhD, is a clinician and researcher based in Sydney, Australia, affiliated with the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is actively involved in clinical research on narcolepsy type 1 and orexin-based therapies. Dr Sivam has contributed as an author and investigator to several phase 3 clinical programmes examining treatment effects on quality of life and related outcomes, and has participated in international collaborations supporting the development and dissemination of sleep medicine research.

Dr Mandie Griffiths MBBS, BMedSc, FRACP Mandie is a paediatric respiratory and sleep physician who is the current Director of the Royal Children’s hospital (RCH) Sleep Unit, Melbourne. She also holds honorary Consultant appointments at the Victorian Respiratory Support Service (VRSS) at the Austin Hospital & Cabrini Hospital Sleep Unit. Her original 4 yr fellowship in Respiratory & Sleep medicine was spent in Melbourne, Perth & Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has worked in Paediatric Sleep Medicine (public and private) for over 25 years. She has special interests in neuromuscular disease, respiratory support and Narcolepsy/The Hypersomnias. She is currently part of an ASA working group writing position statements on Central Disorders of Hypersomnolence from the Australian/New Zealand perspective.