Dr Kerri Melehan BCom BAppSc MAppSc PhD RPSGT ACP (Sleep)

Kerri has been a sleep scientist for more than 25 years, is an Accredited Clinical Physiologist (Sleep), and has worked in major teaching hospitals, private practice, education, and research. She completed her PhD in sleep in 2014 and has been teaching sleep medicine at the University of Sydney since 2015, while continuing clinical work as a sleep scientist at Royal Prince Alfred hospital in Sydney. Her research interests include sleep issues particular to women and the sexual function impacts of sleep apnoea (in men and women), as well as being involved in a variety of studies including sleep in the ICU, timing of exercise in sleep, efficacy of catch up sleep, REM sleep behaviour disorder, among others. She is an author on the Australasian commentary on the sleep scoring guidelines and is previous president of the Australia New Zealand Sleep Science Association