Dr Jasneek Chawla

Principal Research Fellow (Secondme

Child Health Research Centre
Faculty of Medicine

ATH - Associate Professor

Child Health Research Centre
Faculty of Medicine

Associate Professor/Specialist

Children's Health Queensland Clinical Unit
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

Dr Jasneek Chawla undertook her specialist training in Edinburgh UK, followed by a Paediatric Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. She is now a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and Senior Lecturer with the Medical School, University of Queensland. Dr Chawla is actively involved in clinical research and has been awarded a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship for 2020 towards her PhD, evaluating the impact of sleep interventions on outcomes in children with Down syndrome. Her areas of research interest include sleep in children with disability, the relationship between sleep and long-term cognitive & behavioural outcomes in children and optimisation of the utilisation of continuous oximetry in infants with chronic neonatal lung disease. Dr Chawla is the deputy chair of the ASA conference committee and a member of the ASA Paediatric Council. She is the paediatric representative on the ASA/NATA Accreditation Advisory Committee and the ASA GP Education Sub-Committee. She is currently leading the revision of the TSANZ/ASA paediatric home ventilation guidelines and was involved in the recent working party developing a guideline relating to oximetry use for paediatric sleep-disordered breathing.

Research Interests

  • Paediatric Sleep
  • Sleep and Disability

Research Impacts

Dr Chawla's research focuses on raising awareness of the importance of sleep for children. It aims to improve sleep evaluation for high-risk children such as those with Down syndrome and other disabilities. Dr Chawla is collaborating internationally and nationally to develop services for these groups. Down Syndrome Queensland has also endorsed her PhD work.

Qualifications

  • Doctoral (Research) of Medicine (Research), The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Wong, Matthew, Chaudry, Rifat, Kevat, Ajay, Best, James, Lovato, Nicole, Vandeleur, Moya and Chawla, Jasneek (2024). An approach to common sleep presentations in infants and toddlers. Australian Journal of General Practice, 53 (6) ARTN 377, 371-378. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-05-23-6825

  • Chawla, Jasneek, Lovato, Nicole, Wong, Matthew, Best, James, Chaudry, Rifat, Kevat, Ajay and Vandeleur, Moya (2024). Optimising sleep in adolescents: The challenges. Australian Journal of General Practice, 53 (6), 379-386. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-05-23-6841

  • Cameron, M., Suresh, S., Douglas, T., Nicholas, F. and Chawla, J. (2024). Helping Children Come Home the Use of Non Invasive Ventilation in Life Limiting Conditions. American Thoracic Society. doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2024.209.1_meetingabstracts.a4112

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Coles, Laetitia, Cooke, Emma and Chawla, Jasneek (2023). Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies. Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. (pp. 158-193) edited by Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press. doi: 10.56687/9781447365648-013

  • Coles, Laetitia, Cooke, Emma and Chawla, Jasneek (2023). Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies. Biographical research and the meanings of mothering: life choices, identities and methods. (pp. 158-193) edited by Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press. doi: 10.56687/9781447365648-013

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Note for students: Dr Jasneek Chawla is not currently available to take on new students.

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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