The Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health (AISH) Clinic at FHMRI: Sleep Health Flinders University is a unique, world-renowned and specialist sleep disorder centre. We are dedicated to translating the science of sleep in order to deliver evidence-based treatments that are proven to improve sleep, health and wellbeing for all people in our community.
Our multi-disciplinary team of sleep specialists includes clinical, registered and provisional psychologists, respiratory and sleep physicians, dentists, laboratory managers, research assistants, and sleep technicians.
Our sleep service is the only multidisciplinary sleep medicine and sleep psychology institute with a dedicated 6-bedroom laboratory co-located within a University, in the same precinct as a tertiary hospital.
We are uniquely placed to support the community using state-of-the art innovations in research and technology, and focus on providing cutting edge, evidence-based treatments. If you are experiencing, insomnia, circadian rhythm (body clock) sleep disorders and/or sleep-related mental health disorders you may be referred by your GP, specialist or sleep physician for treatment.
For other sleep disorders, including but not limited to, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, Restless Legs Syndrome, Narcolepsy, we run an extensive program of clinical research studies.
We offer in-person appointments and video conferencing options for metro, rural and remote residents.
PLEASE NOTE that our services are currently only available to South Australian residents. For appointments outside South Australia please contact your general practitioner.
To book your appointments using Medicare rebated services prior to contacting us, please:
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For non-Medicare rebated services, please contact our clinic directly to book your appointments and discuss your preferred payment option.
The Insomnia Treatment Program is currently open every week on:
Our team of psychologists and physicians below also support the training of students who are undertaking a postgraduate clinical degree.
Emeritus Prof Leon Lack received his first degree from Stanford University in the USA and PhD from the University of Adelaide. Since 1971, he has been at Flinders University in the School of Psychology teaching and conducting research in the areas of sleep, circadian rhythms, bright light therapy and insomnia. He has received many large research grants, published over 130 refereed articles, books, and book chapters, and given over 200 conference papers in the sleep area. Dr Lack has also taken an active role in public education about sleep and the body clock through invited lectures, workshops, media presentations, and publication of a popular book on the treatment of insomnia. He also has patents and is co-inventor of a portable bright light therapy device, Re-timer.com, for the treatment of a mis-timed body clock.
Dr Gorica Micic is a clinician researcher at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. She was awarded her psychology degree at Flinders University in 2012, a PhD in 2016 and a Master of Clinical Psychology in 2019. Gorica has 10 years of experience within sleep medicine and her expertise are relevant to the understanding and treatment of psychological and physiological bases of sleep and circadian rhythm (body clock) disorders. Since 2016, she has treated and managed sleep, circadian rhythm and mental health disorders across the entire lifespan (from infancy until late adulthood) as a Clinical Psychologist.
Dr Nicole Lovato (B.Psych(Hons.), PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow, the Research Development Coordinator, and provisional Psychologist at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. She has expertise in the basic and clinical aspects of sleep, circadian rhythms, and sleep disorders such as insomnia. and the translation of this knowledge to ensure best practice sleep health care is widely accessible across the community. Dr Lovato has developed innovative online tools and decision support systems to screen for insomnia at the community level. She has also developed novel therapeutic devices that treat insomnia in the patients’ home, significantly reducing treatment time and costs.
Prof Robert Adams, (MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP) is the Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Flinders University and the Medical Director of the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health. He is an active clinician as consultant specialist physician in the Respiratory and Sleep Services at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN), based at Flinders Medical Centre. He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books and received many large research grants. Prof Adams is a board member of the Sleep Health Foundation, the leading community advocacy organisation for sleep health in Australia.
Dr Thomas Altree is a specialist physician in respiratory and sleep disorders. He completed respiratory training in Adelaide before undertaking a Sleep Medicine fellowship at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. He manages patients across the spectrum of sleep disorders. He is also an active researcher at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, assessing the effect of various medications on sleep in patients with conditions that affect the airways.