PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): Expanding OSA care in children: evidence-based alternatives/adjuncts to CPAP and adenotonsillectomy
Tracks
Track 2
| Saturday, November 14, 2026 |
| 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM |
Details
The symposium aims to provide an evidence- based approach to managing OSA for children beyond adenotonsillectomy and CPAP. This symposium will focus on the alternative and adjunctive methods used to managed OSA in children, providing the surgical and medical perspectives and including data from recent randomised controlled trials and clinical research.
Speaker
Associate Professor Raewyn Campbell
VMO
Macquarie University Hospital
Rhinitis and Paediatric OSA: Optimising upper airway health
3:48 PM - 4:06 PMBiography
Associate Professor Raewyn Campbell is a rhinologist and skull base surgeon in Sydney, Australia. Raewyn completed 3 international fellowships in Rhinology and Skull Base surgery. Raewyn is the president of the Australia and New Zealand Rhinologic Society, the secretary of the Australia and New Zealand Skull Base Society and is the Australian representative on the European Rhinologic Society Advisory Board. Raewyn is the ENT research lead for the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Institute of Academic Surgery. Raewyn is currently undertaking a PhD in ergonomics at The University of Sydney.
Danielle Longmore
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist
Royal Children's Hospital
Giving weight to incretin-based pharmacotherapy for obesity in children
4:06 PM - 4:24 PMBiography
Dr Danielle Longmore is a Senior Paediatric Endocrinologist and clinician-scientist at The Royal Children's Hospital and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, focused on improving outcomes in youth-onset type 2 diabetes and obesity. One of a small but growing number of experts nationally and internationally, she leads clinical services across Victoria for some of the most medically and socially vulnerable young people. Her research program links clinical care, science and policy. Her work has helped establish new clinical services, informed national and international guidelines, and fed into policy discussions on diabetes, obesity, maternal–child health, and cardiometabolic prevention in Australia and globally.
Dr Moya Vandeleur
Paediatric Respiratory And Sleep Specialist
The Royal Children's Hospital
Shifting the scale: GLP-1 agonists and weight focused care in paediatric OSA
4:24 PM - 4:42 PMBiography
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).
Dr Jasneek Chawla
Smo Paediatric Respiratory And Sleep Medicine
Children's Health Queensland
Integrating mandibular advancement splints into paediatric OSA practice
4:42 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
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.
Dr Leon Kitipornchai
Ent Surgeon
Completeent
Chair
Biography
Assoc Prof Sadasivam Suresh
Service Director
Children's Health Queensland
Chair
Biography