Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Paediatric sleep problems including the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and sleep disordered breathing
Preterm infants
Supervision interests
honours, masters and PhD students
Biography
Professor Rosemary Horne holds a NHMRC Leadership Fellowship (2021-2025) and heads the Infant and Child Health theme within the Ritchie Centre, Departments of Paediatrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Hudson Institute of Medical Research.
Her research interests focus on sleep in infants and children and current research projects are investigating mechanisms involved in the Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI), development of cardio-respiratory control in preterm infants and the effects of sleep disordered breathing on daytime performance and the cardiovascular system in children. She has received funding from the NHMRC, the Heart Foundation and both national and international SUDI organisations to support her research. Professor Horne’s findings have had clinical impact, with her study outcomes changing treatment approaches for sleep-disordered breathing in children, as well as advice provided to parents to reduce their baby’s risk of SIDS.
Professor Horne has an international reputation in her field and is the Chair of the Physiology working group of the International Society for the Prevention of Infant Death. She is a Director of the International Paediatric Sleep Association and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sleep Research, Sleep, and Sleep Medicine.
She has published more than 200 research and review scientific articles and has been an invited speaker at a number of national and international sleep and SUDI research conferences. She has supervised 16 PhD students and 40 honours and masters students to completion.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Physiology, DSc, Physiological studies during sleep, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Award Date: 8 Dec 2017
Classics and archiology, BLitt, University of Melbourne
Award Date: 3 Dec 1999
Physiology, PhD, Arousal responses in newborn lambs, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Award Date: 8 Dec 1989
Zoology, MSc, The diet of hares in Tongariro National Park, Massey University
Award Date: 8 Dec 1989
Physiology and Zoology, BSc, Massey University
Award Date: 10 Dec 1986
Research area keywords
- Paediatric Sleep
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Paediatrics
- Premature babies
- Sleep and sleep disorders
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Dangerous Dreams: the next era in paediatric sleep research
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/21 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Improving treatment of sleep disordered breathing in children with Prader-Willi syndrome
Nixon, G., Horne, R., Edwards, B., Downs, J. A., Davey, M., Bergman, P., Wilson, A., Choong, C. S. & Kapur, N.
1/01/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Optimising daytime and cardiovascular function in children with Down syndrome through treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Horne, R., Nixon, G., Walter, L. & Davey, M.
14/02/19 → 11/08/21
Project: Research
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Assessing sleep in children with Down syndrome: Comparison of parental sleep diaries, actigraphy and polysomnography
Horne, R. SC., Shetty, M., Vandeleur, M., Davey, M. J., Walter, L. M. & Nixon, G. M., Jul 2023, In: Sleep Medicine. 107, p. 309-315 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Heart rate surge at respiratory event termination in preterm and term born children with sleep disordered breathing
Walter, L. M., Ooi, J. Y., Kleeman, E. A., Bassam, A., Nixon, G. M. & Horne, R. SC., Jan 2023, In: Sleep Medicine. 101, p. 127-134 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Periodic breathing in clinically stable very preterm infants
Yee, A. K., Siriwardhana, L. S., Nixon, G. M., Walter, L. M., Wong, F. Y. & Horne, R. S. C., Mar 2023, In: Pediatric Pulmonology. 58, 3, p. 887-898 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
The effects of sleep disordered breathing on sleep spindle activity in children and the relationship with sleep, behavior and neurocognition
Shetty, M., Perera, A., Kadar, M., Tan, B., Davey, M. J., Nixon, G. M., Walter, L. M. & Horne, R. SC., Jan 2023, In: Sleep Medicine. 101, p. 468-477 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Childhood snoring cannot be ignored as it has detrimental effects on neurobehavior
Horne, R. S. C., May 2022, In: Sleep. 45, 5, 2 p., zsac045.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Other › peer-review