Aveena is a respiratory and sleep paediatrician who takes pride in providing tailored, holistic and evidence-based care for patients. She completed paediatric training through the Royal Children’s Hospital and Monash Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She is dual-trained in paediatric respiratory and sleep medicine. She completed her sleep fellowship at the Melbourne Children’s Sleep Centre and has since worked in her field at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Cabrini Health and Northern Hospital.

She seeks opportunities to think outside the box and optimise care delivery for all children and adolescents. During her fellowship, Aveena learnt first hand as a parent of a child with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), the complexity with which families navigate the health system when seeking the right treatment for their child. This inspired her to create a seamless, stress-free and patient-centred pathway - Prana Paediatric Sleep Service.

She is passionate in the diagnosis and management of paediatric sleep disorders like snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea, parasomnias and hypersomnias including narcolepsy. She also cares for children and adolescents with other respiratory conditions like asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic cough, habit cough and unexplained breathlessness or noisy breathing. These conditions often co-exist with OSA.

She is a member of the Australasian Sleep Association, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the European Respiratory Society.

Aveena prioritises spending time with her young family and growing her passion as an amateur ceramicist.