Dr Papadopoulos is a conjoint lecturer at the UNSW and at the University of Sydney, directs the Paediatric Sleep Disorders Unit at St George Private hospital and Seaforth Terrace Millers Point, is a staff specialist sleep paediatrician in the South East Sydney Local Health District and an Honorary sleep paediatrician at St George Public Hospital.

 

He is one of Australia's leading sleep medicine physicians and is widely known for his work with sleep studies in children, and in particular children with developmental delay and disability, AD/HD, orthodontic problems, gastro-intestinal issues and need for CPAP therapy.

 

Dr Papadopoulos qualified as a General Paediatrician in 2002 and in 2003 he became the first prospectively accredited Level 2 Paediatric sleep physician in Australasia (highest possible level).

 

Dr Papadopoulos also established Australia’s first multidisciplinary Sleep Clinic for developmentally delayed children (2003), the adolescent sleep unit at St George Hospital (2008) and the first paediatric sleep clinic within the Department of Orthodontics at Sydney Dental Hospital (2008). 

 

He has established two Paediatric Sleep Laboratories, the first at St George Private Hospital (2003), which subsequently became the first ASA/NATA accredited Paediatric Sleep Laboratory in Sydney (2016).  This continues to be the only Private Hospital Paediatric Sleep Unit in NSW to offer accredited services for both diagnostic studies and CPAP, making it unique amongst private paediatric sleep laboratories in Sydney. 

 

In 2023, his second sleep laboratory was established in the Sydney CBD at Seaforth Terrace, a restored State Heritage Listed building in historical Millers Point near Barangaroo. 

 

Dr Papadopoulos is also in great demand for his down-to-earth and enjoyable lectures and interviews about sleep in children and how important it is for their growth, development, behaviour and learning.  There are links to a few of these below.  He makes it easy to understand sleep studies, when they should be done, how they are done, what they might show and how different sleep disorders are managed. 

 

Here parents can find out what the next steps should be for their kids who are sleeping poorly or acting sleep deprived during the day.  It becomes clear how they could potentially find help for their children diagnosed with ADHD, sensory processing disorders, poor emotional regulation, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorders, language delays, reading problems, teeth-grinding, sleepwalking, night terrors etc or who use Melatonin to sleep.

 

• YouTube Interview about sleep disorders in children (51 minutes)
• Podcast about signs your child may need a sleep study (48 minutes)
• YouTube clip about the importance of sleep studies (3 minutes)
• Podcast interview on sleep disorders in children (37 minutes)
• Learning Links 50 year anniversary parent webinar on Sleep, Behaviour and Learning in Children (Highly recommended!  Dr Papadopoulos gives a PowerPoint presentation which includes real life cases and examples from sleep studies.  1 hour and 54 minutes)

Paediatric Behavioural and Developmental Sleep Disorders. This includes children with ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Anxiety and Depression, Cerebral Palsy and syndromes for example Angelman's Syndrome, Down Syndrome and Prader-Willi Syndrome. Paediatric Oro-facial Sleep Disorders including orthodontic aspects of diagnosis and treatment. Adolescent Sleep Disorders. Gastrointestinal aspects of paediatric Sleep Disorders such as gastro-oesophageal reflux, food intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation. Circadian Rhythm (Body Clock) Disorders. Parasomnias such as nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking. Enuresis (bedwetting). Bruxism (teeth-grinding). CPAP and non-invasive Ventilation in infants, children and adolescents.

German, Greek