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A team of experts with the mission to improve sleep health treatments! Meet them below.

Eddie McKnight - SleepHealth Solutions for Professionals

Eddie McKnight

Commercial Director
LungHealth Ltd.

As well as being the commercial lead for LungHealth, Eddie is also the Managing Director of National Services for Health Improvement and the commercial lead for SleepHealth. Eddie’s business interests include health service design, the provision of UK wide specialist nursing teams and the supply of medical software solutions. Eddie has a particular interest in how healthcare technology products, such as the LungHealth decision support software packages, can be used to deliver guideline level care, reduce healthcare inequality and optimise health outcomes in a resource stretched NHS. These technology solutions in the short to medium term are expected to be utilised on a global basis.

Eddie’s medical interests are focused primarily on respiratory and cardiovascular applications with his teams having supported circa. 6,500 practices and over 30 Trusts in the UK, with the management of these patient groups.

These workstreams have resulted in the publication of various workstreams in peer-reviewed journals.

Current service provision models are focused on remote video consultation with end to end service delivery linked directly to GP clinical systems and secondary care.

Dr. Rob Angus - SleepHealth Solutions for Professionals

Dr Rob Angus

Consultant Respiratory Physician
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Dr Angus studied medicine at Glasgow University and post qualification initially trained in general internal medicine and respiratory medicine in hospitals around Glasgow before completing his training in Liverpool.

He held a British Lung Foundation Research Fellowship and in addition he spent a period of attachment to academic intensive care units in London and Chicago.

He was appointed to Aintree Chest Centre, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, in January 1996. In addition to a general respiratory practice he was medical director of the hospital high dependency unit (HDU) which he helped constitute and establish. He has developed an outpatient non-invasive ventilation (NIV) service and an inpatient ventilation centre. He previously led the severe asthma service at Aintree Chest Centre and has served as the UK secondary care assembly member for GINA the Global Initiative for Asthma.

He also developed, in conjunction with the local community trust, a home care scheme (ACTRITE) for COPD. Publishing the outcomes in the BMJ this is the forerunner of current intermediate care services. He has contributed to the BTS intermediate care and hospital at home guidelines for COPD, and NICE guidelines for the management of motor neurone disease (MND), including NIV, working with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) London and NICE on this. Current research interests include exploring the impact of computer-guided consultations in asthma, COPD and sleep medicine together with Telehealth in the optimisation and remote monitoring of patients on ventilation in particular in MND.

Dr Angus is active in education and is the Respiratory Lead for the medical course at Liverpool University. He is also interested in the post qualification training of professionals in the respiratory field. He was Regional Respiratory Advisor for the RCP London from 2009 to 2019 and chairman of the Education Charity Respiratory Education UK, which in the last 20 years this has developed diploma, degree and masters courses in Respiratory Disease Management. This has now merged with Education for Health of which he is co-chair.

Dr. Biswajit Chakrabarti - SleepHealth Solutions for Professionals

Dr Biswajit Chakrabarti

Consultant
Respiratory Physician MD FRCP

Dr. Biswajit Chakrabarti is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool.

Dr Chakrabarti (MD FRCP) completed his undergraduate training at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London in 1998 prior to undertaking Specialty training in Respiratory Medicine in the Mersey region.

This included a Research fellowship in the field of COPD and Ventilation at University Hospital Aintree followed by a period as a Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine where he completed an MD in the field of Non Invasive Ventilation for COPD. His specialist interests include Sleep Medicine and Ventilation, Pneumonia and Pleural Disease.

In 2018 Dr Chakrabarti was named In the ‘Top 70 NHS Stars’ as part of a national poll launched by the NHS, to honour individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to patient care, services and local communities over the last 70 years.

Dr. Sonia Craig | SleepHealth Solutions for Professionals

Dr. Sonya Craig

Sleep and Respiratory Physician

Dr. Sonya Craig is a sleep and respiratory physician working at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool where she is lead clinician for sleep medicine. She trained at Cambridge University and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London before completing an MD investigating cardiovascular risk and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (MOSAIC trial) with Prof. John Stradling in Oxford.

Her main research interests are vascular risk in OSA and the delivery of Sleep medicine and care effectively and efficiently within the NHS. She is part of the UK Sleep research network and her most recent publication is the results of the MERGE study published in the Lancet Respiratory, December 2019.

Emmy Lippold - SleepHealth Solutions for Professionals

Emmy Lippold

Marketing Director

Emmy Lippold is an accomplished marketing leader with 16+ years of success in building global brands, teams and driving revenue growth. Having predominantly worked in the tech sector, Emmy brings a proven track record of growing companies and managing high-impact demand creation campaigns, budgets, new brand identities and positioning. She holds a global head of marketing and strategy position at a digital asset and work management software company and has previously held marketing leadership roles in software-as-a-service organizations. Hands-on inspirational leader with deep experience building go-to-market strategies for growth and driving positive outcomes, as reflected in promotions and career progression to date. Emmy also serves as a non-exec director for a global non-profit and holds a Master of Science in Global Marketing from University of Liverpool.

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