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Associate Professor Claire Ellender
Associate Professor

Claire Ellender

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Overview

Background

Dr Claire Ellender BSc MBBS FRACP PhD, is a Respiratory and Sleep specialist at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Her areas of research include evaluating health literacy in sleep education materials and the treatment of complex sleep disorder management. Dr Ellender works closely as a conjoint appointed academic within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland at the PA Southside learning community.

Availability

Associate Professor Claire Ellender is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research impacts

Complex sleep disorders, translation of health equity for vulnerable patients with sleep disorders and management of central disorders of hypersomnolence.

Works

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41 works between 2013 and 2026

41 - 41 of 41 works

2013

Conference Publication

Safety of intravenous amikacin in the treatment of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease

Ellender, Claire, Eather, Geoffrey and Konstantinos, Anastasios (2013). Safety of intravenous amikacin in the treatment of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease. SHEFFIELD: EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD.

Safety of intravenous amikacin in the treatment of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease

Funding

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2028
    Randomised controlled trial of screening patients with Schizophrenia for obstructive sleep apnoea using in-laboratory polysomnography or 3-nights of home oximetry (MRFF OSDMOSA led by Macquarie Uni)
    Macquarie University
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024 - 2025
    Sleepless in GARU? An Observational Study to Assess Sleep on the Geriatric and Rehabilitation Unit
    Metro South Health Research Support Scheme Early Career Researcher Grant
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Claire Ellender is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • A retrospective review of predictors of hypoventilation measured via transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring on diagnostic sleep studies

    Sleep related hypoventilation is deadly, complex to diagnose and very treatable. It is caused by medical comorbidities, such as obesity, opiate medications and rare neuromuscular conditions. Transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring is the gold standard to diagnose sleep related hypoventilation; it is non-invasive, provides trends in changes throughout the study and is relatively accurate and comparable to invasive arterial blood gas partial pressures. As sleep services shift to increasing home-based diagnostics, which cannot diagnose hypoventilation, it is important that this diagnosis is not missed. Thus, this study is important to help identify those patients in the clinic at highest risk of hypoventilation, to ensure that this diagnosis is detected.

  • Bronchoscopic approaches to airway bleeding: a scoping review protocol.

Supervision history

Current supervision

Media

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