Professor E Michael Sedgwick.  BSc MB ChB MD FRCP

Qualified in 1962 (Bristol), formerly a Professor in Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Southampton and President of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology.  Professor Sedgwick has extensive experience of brain and sleep disorders and runs a private clinic in diagnostic clinical neurophysiology. He has an established track record in research and development of neurophysiological techniques for the diagnosis of diseases ranging from muscle and peripheral nerve to spinal cord and brain and sleep disorders. He is a member of  the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (formerly president); Association of British Neurologists; Royal Society of Medicine; Physiological Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Mehri Sarfarazi MD PhD

Dr Sarfarazi received her medical degree from Ferdosi Medical University, in Mashad, Iran in 1978 and became a Full member of the Iranian Medical Council. She has been in private practice as a medical physician before coming to the UK. On arrival in the UK she changed her medical focus towards research in Clinical Neurophysiology. She developed and ran the first cognitive evoked potential laboratory in Wessex Neurological Centre in Southampton General Hospital and obtained her PhD degree from Southampton University in 2001. She is a member of the British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology. With her long standing experience of recording and studying brain waves she has developed her interest in sleep medicine augmented by training at the Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine (USA) in 2004. She decided to open a private sleep clinic to provide the facility for diagnosis and management for people who suffer from sleep disorders as sophisticated sleep diagnostic facilities are poorly provided for within the NHS.

 

Dr Catherine M Hill BM MSc MRCP FRCPCH

 

Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Southampton School Of Medicine and is an honorary consultant paediatrician. She has over 10 years experience of working in Paediatric Sleep Medicine. She has developed her interest in and knowledge of sleep diagnostics through training both in the Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine and at the Woolcock Research Institute in Sydney Australia. She has developed a research programme to study the consequences of sleep disordered breathing in young children and has published internationally in the field. In 2005 she was awarded the prize for the best new research to be presented at the British Sleep Society Annual Research meeting. She has presented her work in the US (selected as one of top 5 presentations US Paediatric sleep medicine conference 2006) and in Europe. She is a member of the British Sleep Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.