Dr Stewart Cullen

Dr Stewart Cullen completed his physician training at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital before commencing research into sleep disorders and spending more than 20 years working at the Western Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute. His early research assessed the frequency of sleep disorders in the general population and the association of hypertension and sleep apnoea.

Dr Cullen spent 4 years at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, where his research involved headache and other symptoms of sleep apnoea, clinical features predicting the presence of obstructive sleep apnoea and clinical features improved by continuous positive airway pressure therapy. He used lasers to measure oropharyngeal dimensions to improve the assessment of patients with possible sleep apnoea.

Dr Cullen uses new treatments for sleep apnoea, including mandibular advancement splints, CPAP, positional strategies and many other options. Dr Cullen is committed to provide comprehensive and high quality care in all aspects of sleep medicine. He has a particular interest in the areas of management and optimisation of CPAP, mandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, sleep apnoea, unusual behaviors at night, nightmares, narcolepsy, chronic fatigue, persistent cough, chronic fatigue, sleep apnoea and positional therapy and sleep apnoea and chest pain including back pain.