Emeritus Prof Leon Lack received his first degree from Stanford University in the USA and PhD from the University of Adelaide. Since 1971, he has been at Flinders University in the School of Psychology teaching and conducting research in the areas of sleep, circadian rhythms, bright light therapy and insomnia. He has received many large research grants, published over 130 refereed articles, books, and book chapters, and given over 200 conference papers in the sleep area. Dr Lack has also taken an active role in public education about sleep and the body clock through invited lectures, workshops, media presentations, and publication of a popular book on the treatment of insomnia. He also has patents and is co-inventor of a portable bright light therapy device, Re-timer.com, for the treatment of a mis-timed body clock.

Dr Gorica Micic is a clinician researcher at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. She was awarded her psychology degree at Flinders University in 2012, a PhD in 2016 and a Master of Clinical Psychology in 2019. Gorica has 10 years of experience within sleep medicine and her expertise are relevant to the understanding and treatment of psychological and physiological bases of sleep and circadian rhythm (body clock) disorders. Since 2016, she has treated and managed sleep, circadian rhythm and mental health disorders across the entire lifespan (from infancy until late adulthood) as a Clinical Psychologist.

Dr Nicole Lovato (B.Psych(Hons.), PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow, the Research Development Coordinator, and provisional Psychologist at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. She has expertise in the basic and clinical aspects of sleep, circadian rhythms, and sleep disorders such as insomnia. and the translation of this knowledge to ensure best practice sleep health care is widely accessible across the community. Dr Lovato has developed innovative online tools and decision support systems to screen for insomnia at the community level. She has also developed novel therapeutic devices that treat insomnia in the patients’ home, significantly reducing treatment time and costs.

Prof Robert Adams, (MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP) is the Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Flinders University and the Medical Director of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. He is an active clinician as consultant specialist physician in the Respiratory and Sleep Services at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN), based at Flinders Medical Centre. He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books and received many large research grants. Prof Adams is a board member of the Sleep Health Foundation, the leading community advocacy organisation for sleep health in Australia.

Dr Thomas Altree is a specialist physician in respiratory and sleep disorders. He completed respiratory training in Adelaide before undertaking a Sleep Medicine fellowship at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He manages patients across the spectrum of sleep disorders. He is also an active researcher at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, assessing the effect of various medications on sleep in patients with conditions that affect the airways.