Dr. S.A. Sathyapala distinguished academic and researcher in the field Behavioural Networks. Amanda Sathyapala is a Senior Lecturer in the Airways Disease Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London and a Consultant Respiratory Physician, and Clinical Lead of the Home Ventilation Service, at Harefield Hospital. Her clinical expertise is in sleep-disordered breathing, which includes obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and hypoventilation secondary to obesity and severe chronic lung disease, chest wall deformity or neuromuscular conditions, chronic respiratory failure and home nocturnal non-invasive ventilation. She is also accredited to deliver Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia. Her current research is aimed at improving patient adherence to CPAP. She is Research Committee Lead for the British Sleep Society and sits on their Executive Board, is a member of the Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) for the RfPB London region NIHR funding scheme and reviews for the top ranked respiratory and muscle journals.
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Dr Sathyapala is a tenured academic at Imperial College London and a practising respiratory physician, specialising in Sleep Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust in London, in the UK. She qualified with First Class Honours in Pre-Clinical Medicine and an intercalated BSc in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge University and completed her Clinical Medicine training at Oxford University (1996-1999). She completed her junior doctor training in Oxford and London and her PhD at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and Maastricht University, which was funded by aprestigious Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship. She then took up her permanent position at Imperial College London after winning one of 30 national awards in the final roundof a scheme to support clinical academics long-term.