Meet Our Team
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Dr Amy McLean
Amy is a Respiratory and Sleep Specialist based in Sydney, Australia.
She is a senior physician at Hornsby Hospital and The Sydney Adventist Hospital with extensive experience in sleep medicine.
She is the founder of Sleep Care Pacific, which came about after discussing the unmet needs of patients with one of her medical friends in Tonga.
She gathered together our team and others to take on this challenge.
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Paul-Andre and Alison Thierry
Paul-Andre and Alison are the owners of a business providing services in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders in the Central Coast of NSW and Sydney.
They have extensive experience and knowledge of sleep equipment and is an invaluable resource for training local healthcare staff in its use. They are able to uitilise their contacts with industry to help provide support for developing sleep care in the Pacific region.
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Dr Colin Tuft
Colin is a Respiratory and Sleep specialist based in Sydney. He works with Dr McLean in the same hospital and clinic. He underwent training at Royal Prince Alfred, St Vincent’s and St George Hospitals. During his training he has had experience, spending time in hospitals in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea.
He is passionate about providing health equity and providing high quality healthcare in low-resource settings.
Huge thanks go out to the following amazing folks
Our ever-supportive families who wish us well when we leave home and hug and kiss us when we return .
Our colleagues who cover the hospitals and clinics when we are gone .
Dr Roo Killick who was also a founding member , a visitor to Tonga and who provided her expertise and sleep reports in Tonga and the Cook Islands
Ms Blair Speerin who joined us on our first sleep trip tp Tonga and generously provided her expertise in CPAP technology
In Tonga - Dr Sione Latu , Dr Sisi Mataka , Nurse Mele Sulifa , Nurse Nesi , Nurse Laumanu and all the team at the SOPC and of course the Ministry for Health .
In Rarotonga - Dr Koko Lwin , Dr Makin , Dr Mafi , Ms Estelle Searle , Nurse Kat , Earnst from IT and also the Ministry for Health .
In Tuvalu - watch this space
Resmed Australia and Justin Weight for such generous donations given without strings attached
Australasian Sleep Association for supporting our pacific colleagues in their trip to Sleep Down Under 2025
