Sleep Doctors East Melbourne

SleepDoctors is a network of sleep doctors and clinics, where you’ll find assessment, advice and treatment options for the full range of sleep disorders, all under one roof. Our services include sleep medicine, sleep psychology and the latest sleep diagnostic and treatment technologies. A sleep disorders physician is a specialist doctor, with years of training and experience in the exciting field of sleep disorders medicine. Sleep disorders can be across a range of medical areas: breathing, neurology, psychology, behavioural and occupational. A sleep physician will use a detailed history, a physical examination, sleep studies, sleep diaries and electronic home monitoring, to establish the diagnoses present in each case. There is often more than one condition at the heart of longstanding sleep problems and the best way to treat these is with a team-based approach. The founder of SleepDoctors, Dr John Swieca, is an Australian sleep disorders physician, who thought he new everything about sleep medicine, when he was completing his training as a respiratory physician in Melbourne in the early 1990s.

He had trained at the best clinical schools and was exposed to the new and exciting world of sleep studies and effective treatment for the dangerous sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnoea. Dr Swieca’s view of sleep medicine changed forever, when he moved to the United States in 1993, to undergo a sleep disorders fellowship, at the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He found himself in a multidisciplinary sleep disorders centre, where respiratory physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, scientists and surgeons were all involved in the care of patients with complex sleep disorders. Each specialty brought its own approach to diagnosis and treatment, to use the best of all worlds in managing patients’ needs, at all levels. This collaborative team-based approach was the ethos of the his first clinic, the Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre, now in its twentieth year of service. Whether the disorder seems simple at the outset or complex and resistant to previous treatments, all patients deserve individualised care. SleepDoctors is a group of like-minded sleep disorders centres across metropolitan and regional areas that believe in the coordinated care model in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders.