Dr Denise O'Driscoll

Research Fellow

Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research

Dr Denise O’Driscoll completed her Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) in Psychophysiology at Swinburne University of Technology in 1995. As a board-registered polysomnographic technologist (RPSGT) she then worked as a Senior Sleep Scientist both in Australia and the UK. In 2002 she joined the Clinical and Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing at Imperial College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital London.

Dr O’Driscoll completed her PhD at Imperial College in 2005, researching the cardiovascular mechanisms at arousal from sleep in adults. In 2006 she returned to Melbourne to join the Ritchie Centre of Baby Health Research as the inaugural Kaarene Fitzgerald Research Fellow. Her research interests now focus on cardiorespiratory mechanisms during sleep in infants and children