– Research & development manager
Dr Heather Engleman has a long background and extensive experience in sleep psychobiology, completing a first degree in Human Sciences from the University of Sussex (1985) and first appointed with the University of Edinburgh's Dept of Sleep Medicine as a postgraduate in 1989. Her PhD was conducted in the field of the psychobiology of sleep disorders from 1991-1996 under Prof Neil Douglas at Edinburgh University, during which she conducted randomised controlled trials of CPAP therapy for sleep apnoea in a large patient series. During 18 years in the University of Edinburgh's Dept of Sleep Medicine, she was promoted from research fellow to research lecturer. She has conducted and supervised many clinical trials in this capacity, helped establish national clinical guidelines for treatment of sleep disorders and published more than 40 research papers in medical and sleep journals. Amongst her awards are prizes for undergraduate teaching at the University of Edinburgh and the Ann E Surratt prize for 'Young Investigator of the Year' at the Sleep and Breathing Symposium, 2000.
She has an ongoing committment to best-practice assessment and treatment of patients with sleep disorders as well as to methodologically rigorous clinical trials, and has had a high profile in sleep journals and at sleep-related and medical conferences.