Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Member of the BCCH Interdisciplinary Sleep Clinic, offering service at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Principle Investigator at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute and Director of the H-Behaviours Lab with the Brain, Behaviour & Development Theme.

Based on my interest in adherence research, socio-cultural aspects of medicine, child development and neurology I developed, in collaboration with medical anthropology and educational psychology, a comprehensive functional sleep/wake-behaviours assessment concept and began to transform physiological knowledge with questions of sleep health and management.

In collaboration with the Cognitive Systems Lab at UBC, we have developed a 'Virtual-Sleep-Lab', where Videosomnography is used for screening ‘visible’ and ‘recognizable’ sleep disorders in children with neurodevelopmental/-psychiatric conditions in their natural setting, at home. Recently, we developed the Suggested Clinical Immobilization Test (SCIT), which enables health professionals to monitor sitting behaviours (interaction of tension/relaxation) of their clients in clinical practice and can be applied during the assessment.

Current Projects: (1) H-Behaviour Lab; (2) The content of the community-based data collection concept (incl. the assessment forms) and use of the SCIT and SIT video clips has been integrated in the International Pediatric RLS Study Group project protocol and Dr. Ipsiroglu has been invited to become a Co-PI together with Professor Arthur Walters, one of the doyens of adult and pediatric RLS research. (3) iron deficiency presentations.