About SNORE Australia

SNORE Australia is one of Australia's largest groups of sleep disorders centres. Our mission is to provide high quality, affordable sleep studies, so that every patient referred to us can achieve optimal medical care for their sleep problem, regardless of their financial status. We have been providing sleep study services since 2000, and presently provide both bulk-billed and fully private hospital studies (and home-studies at some locations). We perform only full "Level 1" sleep studies, which are of the highest international standard.

We have conveniently located sleep clinics in Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. We perform over 15 000 sleep studies each year, offering patients and referring doctors what we believe to be an unsurpassed, comprehensive, state-of the-art service for diagnosing and treating patients with sleep disorders. We also offer specialist clinical consultations to all patients at the recommended AMA fee.

A/Prof John Corbett

Consultant Neurologist and Sleep Physician
MB, BS (Hons), FRCP (UK), FRACP, MA (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford), MACLM

A/Prof John Corbett graduated dux of his year at the University of Queensland Medical School before travelling to Oxford University as the Queensland Rhodes Scholar of 1965. He then spent nine years in study and research in Neurology at Oxford, much of this as an Oxford Don, before becoming a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He then returned to Australia in order to practice neurology.

In 1994, A/Prof Corbett studied sleep disorders as a Visiting Scientist at John Hopkins University, and has practiced ever since in Queensland in Neurology and Sleep Medicine. He is one of only three Neurologists in Australia who is also a Credentialled Sleep Physician. He is the Queensland Patron of the Sleep Disorders Association of Australia and in 2003, was awarded a Centenary Medal for 'Distinguished Service to Medicine'.

Dr Sean L. Tolhurst

Consultant Respiratory and Sleep Physician
BSc (Hons), BMBS (Hons), RPSGT, FRACP

Dr Sean Tolhurst graduated from The University of Queensland as a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours and then from The Flinders University of South Australia with his Medical Degree, again at an Honours level. He is formally qualified as a Consultant Physician in Thoracic and Sleep Medicine. Since 1993, he has had hands-on technical, scientific and medical experience of sleep-disorders.

Dr Tolhurst is one of the co-authors of the combined Australasian Sleep Association and Thoracic society of Australia and New Zealand’s Guidelines for the performance of sleep studies in adults, and is the only Sleep Physician in Australia to hold the USA sleep technologists’ board qualification (RPSGT). He has served as the Director of Clinical Training at the Greenslopes Private Hospital and is actively involved in the education and training of the next generation of doctors with his work through the University of Queensland and Griffith University medical schools.

Charitable Activities - The Brain Foundation & Sleep Disorders Australia

Both of SNORE Australia's Sleep Physicians carry out frequent ad-hoc current charitable work. In addition, A/Prof Corbett is a Director of the Brain Foundation, a National foundation which supports research into a wide range of neurological disorders. A/Prof Corbett has also been active in forging links between the Brain Foundation and the Queensland Muscular Dystophy Association. Click here to visit the brain foundation website. 

A/Prof Corbett is also the Queensland Patron of Sleep Disorders Australia, Australia's national patient-support group.  Click here to visit the SDA website.