51 newly promoted and recruited Professors are taking part in the 2018 Professorial Inaugural Lecture series at UNSW Sydney to mark their achievement and showcase their specialist knowledge. Please join us for the third in the 2018 series with two Professors from Medicine UNSW.

Lecture 1: Professor Danny J Ekert

Sleep, the next frontier in medicine and the 3rd pillar of health: New approaches to understanding and treating sleep-related breathing disorders

Inadequate or disrupted sleep due to a medical condition or sleep disorder adversely affects every organ in the body. 4/10 Australians have inadequate sleep. Last year, inadequate sleep cost the Australian community $66 billion. Obstructive sleep apnoea is the most common sleep-related breathing disorder (affects > 1 million Australians). The first-line therapy (continuous positive airway pressure: CPAP) developed here in Australia is highly efficacious. However, it is often poorly tolerated (~50% failure rate). This lecture will highlight new discoveries into why people get sleep apnoea and how this work is being used to develop much-needed new targeted therapies.

Lecture 2: Professor Jane Butler

Breathing is not just in the lung

Breathing muscles are important skeletal muscles essential for life, yet in comparison to limb muscles relatively little is known about how they are controlled by the brain and spinal cord. This lecture will demonstrate some of the recent discoveries about the way breathing muscles are controlled in health and disease and highlight a new method to improve respiratory function after spinal cord injury.

Timings: Talks 3.30 - 5pm, followed by a cocktail reception.
Registration: Open from 3.00pm 

Location: The Chancellery, Council Chambers, Gate 9 UNSW (Building C22) Google map