We are very fortunate to have additional physicians who regularly visit our practice. As demand for sleep services is high and continues to grow these visiting physician provide a valuable service, keep appointment wait times low and enable patients to be diagnosed and treated sooner. This additional consulting services also allows us to provide services in other regional areas.
A new visiting physician is Dr David Cunnington, a Melbourne based sleep physician who will begin consulting in Mildura in May.
Dr Cunnington has over 10 years experience running a comprehensive sleep service for the evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders in Melbourne. As well as managing snoring and sleep apnoea, Dr Cunnington manages the full-range of sleep conditions including insomnia, restless legs syndrome, excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep problems that occur as part of mental or physical illness.
Dr Cunnington completed a sleep medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Boston USA and is one of a handful of recognised International Sleep Medicine Specialists. He is a regular invited speaker on sleep at national and international meetings, and has helped to develop training curricula in sleep medicine for doctors in Australia and overseas. Dr Cunnington's research interests include trials of new drugs for the treatment of insomnia, restless legs syndrome and sleepiness, evaluation of new technologies for the measurement of sleep and the use of non-drug strategies such as meditation and their effects on sleep.
We are very excited to have Dr. Cunnington on board with this new venture into Mildura.
Over the past two years Dr. Garun Hamilton, also a sleep physician from Melbourne has provided consulting services in Hamilton. He graduated with a MBBS from Melbourne University in 1994. After undertaking training as a respiratory physician, he completed training as a level 2 Sleep Physician, the highest such qualification available. He currently holds an appointment as Director of Sleep Research at Monash Medical Centre Clayton in the Department of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine, and in 2005 helped establish the Hamilton Sleep Disorders Centre with Dr Andrew Bradbeer. His special interest is the cardiovascular consequences of obstructive sleep apnoea and he completed a PhD on the topic in 2007.
Dr. Hamilton will be at the Hamilton practice this coming week.
Jessica
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