Professor Christopher Gordon
Clinical Director
BN GradCertBus MExSc (Research) PhD
Clinical Director of digisleep and a leader in research on insomnia and body-clock disturbances, developing digital insomnia therapies and drug-free treatments to improve sleep patterns.
About Professor Gordon
Professor Christopher Gordon is a Research Leader of Insomnia and Chronobiology in the Sleep and Circadian Research Group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and a nurse academic in the Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University. He leads a multidisciplinary Insomnia research program focusing on understanding the pathophysiology of Insomnia and developing and conducting randomised controlled trials of new digital insomnia therapies and non-pharmacological chronotherapies for treatment of circadian rhythm disruptions.
Professor Gordon worked as clinical nurse specialist for 11 years in Intensive Care at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He completed his PhD in 2010 examining thermal and cardiovascular mechanistic physiology.
He has developed the largest insomnia database in Australia with the most comprehensive collection of clinical, psychophysiological and treatment measures. As well, he has extensive experience in fostering and developing industry-academic partnerships across a range of research areas.
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