Professor Jamie Sleigh

Jamie Sleigh is Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Waikato Clinical Campus, of the University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand. He grew up in Zimbabwe, and specialised in anaesthesia in the United Kingdom, before moving to New Zealand in 1988.  He has practiced in both intensive care medicine and anaesthesia, and has been active in research for more than 30 years. His current research interests include: the practical use of EEG in anaesthesia and consciousness; EEG signal processing; modelling of brain dynamics in anaesthesia; and the use of ketamine ester analogues for perioperative sedation and analgesia.