Dr Alexandra Dollman

Dr Alexandra Dollman is a Specialist Respiratory and Sleep Physician. She graduated at the University of Adelaide in Medicine in 2010 and in 2012 moved to London where she completed a Masters of Science in Aviation Medicine at Kings College London and also obtained a Diploma of Aviation Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians Faculty of Occupational Medicine. In London, she conducted research at the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas' Hospital. She then returned to Australia in 2014 where she completed physician training in Sydney and then went on to undertale Specialist Sleep Medicine training at Canberra Sleep Clinic and Respiratory training at Prince of Wales and St Vincent's Hospitals. During her advanced training she also completed 6 months training in lung transplantation. Upon obtaining her RACP Fellowship, she worked as a Fellow at Northern Beaches Hospital in 2019 and then across several hospitals in Adelaide in 2020 to be closer to family during the initial Covid19 response. Since then, she has returned to Sydney and holds a Senior Staff Specialist position at Macquarie University Hospital where she is also involved in teaching at the medical school and is a Senior Conjoint Lecturer. She runs the respiratory failure service with Macquarie Neurology where she manages complex respiratory failure in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. She has a special interest in sleep disordered breathing and complex respiratory failure, particularly in ventilatory respiratory support. She has experience working in 6 different sleep laboratories before joining Sydney Sleep Centre and enjoys a multidisciplinary approach to managing sleep conditions, working closely with CPAP technicians, sleep psychologists, sleep dentists, ENT surgeons, respiratory physiotherapists and weight loss specialists. She is also trained to manage general respiratory conditions such as asthma, COPD, lung cancer and interstitial lung disease.