Dr Jasneek Chawla

Principal Research Fellow

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

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Grants

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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

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Hartnett, C., Wilson, A., Kilner, D., Davies, K., Slee, N., Chawla, J., Iyer, K. and Kevat, A. (2023). Real-World Utility of Overnight Oximetry for the Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Children. Sleep DownUnder 2023, Adelaide, SA Australia, 8-11 November 2023. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpad035.017

  • Iyer, Kartik K., Roberts, James A., Waak, Michaela, Kevat, Ajay, Chawla, Jasneek, Lauronen, Leena, Vanhatalo, Sampsa and Stevenson, Nathan J. (2023). Optimization of time series features to estimate brain age in children from electroencephalography. 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Sydney, NSW Australia, 24-27 July 2023. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340663

  • Miguel, M., Cooke, E. and Chawla, J. (2021). Parents’ experiences of having a child with Down Syndrome and sleep difficulties. Sleep DownUnder 2021 - 32nd annual scientific meeting of Australasian Sleep Association, Online, 10-13 October 2021. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpab014.016

  • Chawla, J., Burgess, S. and Heussler, H. (2019). Behavioural problems, functional ability and cognitive function in children with Down syndrome and sleep problems. 15th World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 20 - 25 September 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.176

  • Wong, M., Kilner, D. and Chawla, J. (2019). Managing and weaning home oxygen in chronic neonatal lung disease. The Australia & New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (ANZSRS/TSANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 29 March - 2 April 2019. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Wong, M., Terrill, P. and Chawla, J. (2018). A Statewide consensus for interpretation of continuous pulse oximetry data in chronic neonatal lung disease. 30th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of Australasian-Sleep-Association and the Australasian-Sleep-Technologists-Association (Sleep DownUnder), Brisbane Australia, Oct 17-20, 2018. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley.

  • Wong, M., Parsley, C., Williams, G., Terrill, P. and Chawla, J. (2018). An online education module to aid the use of trend oximetry monitoring in preterm infants. 30th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of Australasian-Sleep-Association and the Australasian-Sleep-Technologists-Association (Sleep DownUnder), Brisbane Australia, Oct 17-20, 2018. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jsr.42_12766

  • Scaini, L., Nicholson, L., Hollamby, M., Jess, K., Chawla, J., Harris, M. -A. and Wilson, S. (2018). Development of a structured education and psychosocial program for support workers - home ventilation program. 30th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of Australasian Sleep Association and the Australasian-Sleep-Technologists-Association (Sleep DownUnder), Brisbane, Australia, 17-20 October, 2018. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jsr.97_12766

  • Chawla, J., Heussler, H., Dakin, C., Burns, H., Black, R., Waters, K., Lushington, K. and Harris, M. -A. (2017). Cognitive outcomes in children with mild obstructive sleep disordered breathing. World Sleep Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 October 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.146

  • Chawla, J. and Heussler, H. (2017). Evaluation of behavioural outcomes in children with down syndrome and co-existing sleep problems. World Sleep Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 October 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.145

  • Greenslade, R., Schilling, S., Williams, G., Terril, P. and Chawla, J. (2016). Supporting the use of overnight trend oximetry in infants and children at regional centres across Queensland; a state-wide service profile. 28th ASM of Australasian Sleep Association and Australasian Sleep Technologists Association, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 20‐22 October 2016. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12453

  • Yarrow, P., Hollin, R. and Chawla, J. (2014). Improving the annual review process – the rainbow project. 37th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-14 June 2014. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/s1569-1993(14)60031-x

  • Chawla, Jasneek K., Chilvers, Mark, Al-Rawahi, Ghada and Lillquist, Yolanda (2010). Exophiala dermatitidis: friend or foe?. CHEST 2010, Vancouver, Canada, 30 October – 4 November 2010. Glenview, IL, United States: American College of Chest Physicians. doi: 10.1378/chest.10146

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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