Dr Mandie Griffiths
Dr Mandie Griffiths MBBS, B Med Sc., FRACP Respiratory and Level II Sleep
Paediatric Respiratory & Sleep Physician
Mandie is a paediatric respiratory and sleep physician who has worked for 24 years in the field. She is Head of Sleep Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne (RCH) where she set up and now runs the diagnostic sleep unit, as well as working as a staff consultant in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep medicine. She is also the lead paediatric sleep physician at Cabrini Brighton Sleep Disorders Centre. She is an Honorary consultant at the Victorian Respiratory Support Service at the Austin where she has worked on two sabbaticals and transitions complex patients. She is an active clinical researcher and works clinically in private and public practice. She is a member of the RACP, TSANZ, ASA and Sleep Health Foundation and presents regularly at their meetings. When she is not working, she is balancing family responsibilities and exercise with work-related travel.
Clinical interests:
Mandie has interests in all aspects of respiratory and sleep medicine, in particular respiratory disorders of sleep, CPAP and home ventilation, narcolepsy and the hypersomnia’, asthma & chronic lung disease.
Background and Training:
University of Melbourne (MBBS, BMedSc), Royal Children’s Hospital Paediatric training program under RACP, Respiratory and Sleep fellowship Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, Mini-Fellowship in Sleep Medicine, American Academy of Sleep Medicine (Milwaulkee Wisconsin).
Current Research Projects at the Royal Children’s Hospital:
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Achondroplasia trials & audit of management over the last 10 years at RCH
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50 years of Duchenne muscular dystrophy care in Melbourne
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Transition of complex patients on respiratory support to adult care
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APAP titration versus CPAP titration sleep studies
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Level 1 versus Level 2 polysomnography
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20 years of home respiratory support at the Royal Children’s Hospital