Harriet Hiscock

Professor Hiscock is a clinician researcher with 18 years of research and clinical experience, based at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. In her clinical practice she manages sleep problems in infants, typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism. She has led 8 randomized controlled trials of sleep interventions in children including the...See more

Professor Hiscock is a clinician researcher with 18 years of research and clinical experience, based at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. In her clinical practice she manages sleep problems in infants, typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism. She has led 8 randomized controlled trials of sleep interventions in children including the first trial of a behavioural sleep intervention in children with ADHD, published in the highly prestigious British Medical Journal (2015). She is a member of the Australasian Sleep Association, the Sleep Health Foundation GP Education sub-committee, and is an expert content adviser on sleep and management of sleep problems for the Australian government's evidence-based website Raising Children Network (> 2.5 million hits/year). See less