Ailsa Smith
I have 32 years’ experience as a Clinical psychologist working in the NHS and independently. My main interests are children with learning disability, autism and acquired brain injury.
Aliyah Rehman
Dr Aliyah Rehman is a senior lecturer at Sleep Action and has interests in sleep and mental health.
Dr Rehman is also a teaching fellow at the University of Strathclyde and lectures in Psychology. Her teaching focus is primarily in the topic of mental health.
Alyson O'Brien
Alyson is the Sleep Services Manager at Sleep Scotland. She manages our Sleep Support Line and Training teams, and supports our trained sleep counsellors to implement behavioural sleep programmes with children, young people, and their families.
Andrea Tipper
Andrea has been a sleep counsellor since 2018 and is an experienced health visitor of 23 years. She ran a sleep service in the West Midlands in her role as a specialist health visitor for children with disabilities and complex health needs working with families who have children aged 0-5 with sleep difficulties and joined the training team in 2022
She has a daughter with a physical and learning disability who is now 18 who had significant sleep difficulties when she was younger and this led to her passion to support families in similar situations.
Andrew Morley
Andrew is the Lead Sleep Physiologist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.
Barbara Crozier
Barbara is an experienced sleep counsellor and has also worked as a Barnardo’s Northern Ireland Senior Project Worker.
Claire Holdsworth
I’m Claire Holdsworth, a GP with a passionate interest in sleep and Lifestyle Medicine.
I also love to help train doctors to become fully qualified GPs as a GP trainer and Educator. I also work with third sector organisations to deliver programmes to improve health and wellbeing and try to address the root causes of illness and health.
Florian Gahleitner
I am a consultant in paediatric respiratory and sleep medicine at the RHCYP, Edinburgh. I did a fellowship with Prof Cathy Hill, Professor of Paediatric Sleep Medicine, at Southampton General Hospital. I also conduct research in relation to paediatric sleep.
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