Colin Sullivan

Professor Sullivan is recognized as an international leader in the field of sleep disordered breathing. His major research achievements include characterizing the basic physiology of breathing during sleep and the recognition that arousal responses from sleep are crucial to survival in respiratory failure. Professor Sullivan has been the key person in Australia promoting the investigation of sleep disorders medicine and he established the first diagnostic sleep laboratories for adults and children. He is known internationally for developing nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat obstructive sleep apnea. This is now the most widely used treatment for this disease throughout the world.