Associate Professor Rosemary Horne

Scientific Director

Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research

Associate Professor Rosemary Horne is the head of the Paediatric Sleep Research group within the Ritchie Centre. She is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and currently holds three projects grants. Her research interests focus on sleep in infants and children and current research projects are investigating mechanisms involved in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, development of cardiorespiratory control in preterm infants and the effects of sleep disordered breathing on daytime performance and the cardiovascular system in children.

Associate Professor Horne has an international reputation in her field and is the Chair of the Physiology working group of the International Society for the Prevention of Infant Death. She is a Director of the International Paediatric Sleep Association and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sleep Research. She has published over 50 research and review scientific articles and has been an invited speaker at a number of national and international sleep and Sudden Infant Death research conferences. Currently her research group consists of a research fellow, three research assistants, six postgraduate students, four honours student and UROP student.

Associate Professor Horne was appointed as the Scientific Director of the Ritchie Centre in February 2008. She is responsible for promoting collaborative interactions between Ritchie Centre scientists, other scientists both within the MIMR and in other institutions and clinicians within Monash Medical Centre.