Paediatric sleep
This two-week short course will help you to understand the importance of good paediatric sleep health. Along with an overview of common sleep problems, you will discuss the consequences of poor sleep.
Course key facts
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Date
9 - 20 March 2026
Duration
2 weeks
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Credits
Non credit bearing
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Format
Online
Fee
£200
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Location
Online
Overview
This two-week short course will help you to understand the importance of good paediatric sleep health. Along with an overview of common sleep problems, you will discuss the consequences of poor sleep. Sleep investigations and management strategies will be introduced.
The course is part of a range of short courses spread throughout the academic year which are available both to students who are enrolled on the MSc Applied Paediatrics course and as stand-alone CPD programmes for all healthcare professionals.
- By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Consider critically the value of normal sleep across childhood and contrast this with the damage caused by common respiratory and non-respiratory sleep problems.
- Propose an investigation and management strategy for a paediatric sleep problem.
Course details
This course will benefit paediatricians, GPs, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare professionals involved in Child Health.
As the course is a multi-professional programme, students will develop an understanding of how their own individual behaviours, and those of the teams within which they work, can have a significant influence on the quality of care delivered.
All participants will be awarded an Imperial College London Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.
Evidence of sufficient participation will be required to obtain a course certificate.
A 20% administration fee will be levied for cancellations made up to two weeks prior to the start of the course. Cancellations thereafter will be liable to the loss of the full fee. Notice of cancellation must be given in writing by letter or fax and action will be taken to recover, from the delegates or their employers, that proportion of the fee owing at the time of cancellation.
Imperial College London reserves the right to cancel an advertised course at short notice. It will endeavour to provide participants with as much notice as possible, but will not accept liability for costs incurred by participants or their organisations for the cancellation of travel arrangements and/or accommodation reservations as a result of the course being cancelled or postponed. If a course is cancelled, fees will be refunded in full. Imperial College also reserves the right to postpone or make such alterations to the content of a course as may be necessary.
Your instructors
Dr James Di Pasquale
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Honorary Teaching Fellow
Since 2001 Dr Di Pasquale has been active in adult and paediatric sleep medicine in Australia and the UK. He co-founded the Imperial College Centre for Sleep Science and Medicine and has served as an NHS Consultant at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington since 2008. In 2017 he founded the UK’s first independent paediatric sleep laboratory to improve accessibility to sleep services for both public and private patients. He has analysed and reported more than 20,000 adult and paediatric sleep studies.
Dr Deena-Shefali Patel
Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London
Deena-Shefali Patel is an Honorary Lecturer and the Lead for the Applied Paediatrics (PG Cert, PG Dip, MSc) at Imperial. She is a Consultant Neonatologist at the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. She holds an MD (res) following research based on neonatal ventilation and a PG Cert. in Healthcare Ethics and Law. Her vision for the postgraduate offering is to encourage recognition, collaboration, and innovation within education. She hopes that as a community of educators we can inspire future generations of Paediatric practitioners to take on the challenge of advancing Paediatric health promotion and healthcare.
Contact us
Have a question?
We’d love to hear from you. Get in touch and a member of the team will be happy to help.
- Phone: +44 (0) 20 7594 6884
- Email: cpd@imperial.ac.uk
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