Speakers
Dr. Michael Gradisar
Professor, Flinder university
Dr. Michael Gradisar is a Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia, as well as the Director and consulting clinical psychologist at the Child & Adolescent Sleep Clinic at Flinders University. Prof Gradisar and his team have conducted several clinical trials evaluating multi-component and single sleep treatments to pediatric samples - from randomized-controlled trials for infants with sleep problems to randomized sleep trials (both clinical and school-based) for adolescents with delayed sleep timing. He has been teaching in the postgraduate clinical psychology programs for 15 years at Flinders University, and has taught hundreds of clinical psychologists across the world about the treatment of sleep disorders across the lifespan. Thus his talks integrate theory with research evidence, and translate into step-by-step protocols that attendees can learn and use in their own clinical practice.
Dr. Kai Spiegelhalder
Temporary head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
Dr. Kai Spiegelhalder holds a medical degree (2008) and a diploma degree in Psychology (2004) from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He finished his PhD under the supervision of Dieter Riemann at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical Centre, in 2008. Thereafter, he worked as a research group leader and deputy head of the Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine at the University of Freiburg Medical Centre. In addition, from 2015 to 2016, he was the temporary head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the University of Freiburg. Research abroad included periods at the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK, the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK. Kai Spiegelhalder’s research is focused on studying the aetiology and treatment of insomnia, the most common sleep disorder defined by difficulties initiating or maintaining sleep and accompanying daytime impairment. For his research, he received the Young Investigator Award of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group in 2006, and the Young Researcher Award of the German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine in 2008.