Danny Eckert

Professor Eckert is an experienced sleep and respiratory physiologist. He is a Matthew Flinders Professor within the College of Medicine and Public Health, Director of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health at Flinders University and a NHMRC Leadership Fellow. He also holds adjunct appointments as Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales and Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) in Sydney where he established clinical sleep research programs. From 2006 to 2012 he worked within the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston where he was an Assistant Professor. He leads a comprehensive basic sciences and translational research program that focuses on identification of the causes of sleep apnoea, optimisation of existing therapies, and development of new tailored therapies using novel respiratory endophenotyping techniques. He has authored >180 peer reviewed publications in the leading sleep, respiratory, cross-disciplinary and general medicine journals.