Peter Cistulli MBBS, PhD, MBA, FRACP, FCCP, ATSF, FAHMS

Professor Peter Cistulli is a clinician researcher with 30 years’ experience in the fields of respiratory and sleep medicine. He is Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney, and holds the ResMed Chair. He leads the Sleep Research Theme within the multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre, and also Heads the Specialty of Sleep Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He is also Clinical Director of the Sleep Medicine Program in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. 

His thematic research has focussed on the causes of sleep related breathing disorders and their treatment, with particular reference to oral appliance therapy. He has received national and international awards for his academic contributions to the sleep field including his recent election in 2020 to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and in 2019, election to Fellowship of the American Thoracic Society and received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Lifetime Honorary Membership as Fellow of the European Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. He is a former President of the Australasian Sleep Association and a former board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.