EMG-Health | Episode 105
This week, Jonathan is joined by Hugh Selsick, Consultant in Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry at University College London Hospitals, UK. Selsick delves into what led him to his role as a sleep medicine consultant in London all the way from South Africa, as well as unpacking sleep disorders that are often misdiagnosed. Jonathan also discusses Selsick’s recent work on the use of cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for parasomnias, and the reasons behind the negative effects of the pandemic on sleeping habits.
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Speaker Bio:
Dr Hugh Selsick is a Consultant in Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry at University College London Hospitals, and lead clinician at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine and University College London Hospital’s Insomnia Clinic in Bloomsbury. He also works as a Sleep Medicine Consultant at the Sleep Disorders Centre and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Selsick completed his Physiology degree at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, and then gained an MBBCh at the same institution. He is a council member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Sleep Medicine Section, and runs the Sleep Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
