ADVANCED TRAINEES (poster discussion session)
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, November 13, 2026 |
| 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM |
Speaker
Dr Hariette Goldman
Sleep Advanced Trainee (final Year)
Royal North Shore Hospital
Compliance with Positive Airway Pressure Therapy amongst patients with Neuromuscular Disease: A Retrospective Review
3:15 PM - 3:21 PMBiography
Dr Hariette Goldman (BA, Dip BioMed, MBBS, MSurg) is an Australian-trained physician in her final year of Respiratory and Sleep Advanced Training. She is currently the Sleep Advanced Trainee at Royal Norther Shore Hospital. She has a keen interest in sleep disordered breathing, respiratory failure and interstitial lung disease. She has a strong clinical and academia background, and holds a masters in Medicine/Surgery via research.
Dr Michelle Pragassen
Advanced Training Registrar
Monash Children's Hospital
Development of a quality assessment tool for transcutaneous carbon dioxide recordings
3:21 PM - 3:27 PMBiography
Dr Michelle Pragassen is an advanced training resgistrar in General paediatrics, Respiratory and Sleep medicine. She studied medicine at the University of Otago, in Dunedin and trained in General paediatrics in different hospitals across New Zealand. She started her respiratory training at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and is currently working as the Sleep Fellow at the Melbourne Children's Sleep Centre at the Monash Children's Hospital. Michelle has a passion for health equity and enjoys working with society's most disadvantaged children to provide patient and whānau-centred care.
Dr Bree-Anna Gadsby
Sleep Fellow
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Clinician Perspectives of the Hypersomnolence Multi-Disciplinary Team Service
3:27 PM - 3:33 PMBiography
Bree-Anna Gadsby is a current Sleep Fellow at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. She has previously completed her Respiratory core training at sites across Southeast Queensland.
Dr Laura Frederiksen
Respiratory Advanced Trainee
Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Clinical outcomes of domiciliary non-invasive ventilation for chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure: a single-centre retrospective cohort study
3:33 PM - 3:39 PMBiography
Dr Laura Frederiksen is a Respiratory Advanced Trainee at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital. She has a keen interest in Sleep medicine.
Dr Tarunpreet Saluja
Respiratory And Sleep Advanced Trainee
Liverpool Hospital
CPAP Adherence Before Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing: A Tertiary Centre Experience
3:39 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Dr Tarunpreet Saluja is a final year respiratory and sleep trainee with an interest in sleep-related breathing disorders.
Dr George Denby
Advanced Trainee
Queensland Health
Using lung function to predict sleep hypoventilation in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease: a retrospective cohort study
3:45 PM - 3:51 PMBiography
George Denby is currently completing a sleep fellowship at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
He has previously completed core respiratory training and a Mycobacterial diseases fellowship across other sites in Brisbane.
Dr Rebecca Lyons
Advanced Trainee Registrar
Health Nz- Capital, Coast And Hutt Valley
COMISA and OSA– a prospective cohort study of CPAP therapy
3:51 PM - 3:57 PMBiography
Rebecca is an advanced training registrar in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. During her training, she has developed a strong clinical and academic interest in sleep and ventilation medicine, with a particular focus on sleep apnoea and co-morbid insomnia. In the future she aims to continue contributing to the advancement of sleep medicine.
Mr Jack Chen
Respiratory And Sleep Registrar
Western Health
Assessment of follow up rates post admission for patients with type 2 respiratory failure secondary to new diagnosis obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
3:57 PM - 4:03 PMBiography
Dr. Jack Chen is a respiratory and sleep registrar from Victoria completing his final year of training at Western Health. He has completed core general medicine training at Peninsula Health in Victoria and Royal Hobart Hospital in Tasmania prior to commencing respiratory and sleep training at Royal Hobart Hospital and Western Health. He has an interest in general respiratory and sleep medicine.
Dr Tobias Hunt
Sleep Advanced Trainee
Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick
Polysomnography practices in children with Prader–Willi syndrome: A retrospective audit
4:03 PM - 4:09 PMBiography
Toby is an Advanced Trainee in Sleep Medicine at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Since entering the field of paediatric sleep medicine, he has been struck by how fundamental sleep is to health and wellbeing, and by the wide-ranging impact sleep disorders can have on children, families, and daily functioning. He has developed an interest in sleep disorders in children with rare genetic diagnoses and complex medical conditions, particularly where sleep assessment can help identify otherwise under-recognised problems and guide ongoing care.
Miss Jessica Tran
Dental Student
The University Of Queensland
Clinician Perceptions Around Use of Oral Appliances in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing
4:09 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Jessica is a current dental student at the University of Queensland with an interest in sleep dentistry. She has contributed to published research examining the oral health effects of vaping in young people, and her current work explores multidisciplinary clinician perspectives on the use of oral appliances in children with sleep disordered breathing.
Daniel Hynes
Adult Respiratory And Sleep Physician
Monash and Austin Health
Co-Chair
Biography
Rifat Chaudry
Co-Chair
Biography