Dr Kirryn Williams graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from James Cook University in 2007. She is a qualified General Physician and Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician. She completed her respiratory training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital. She then completed a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Her medical training has been undertaken in both tertiary centres and regional centres including the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Cape York Peninsula. Her goal is to deliver quality health care to regional Australians.
Dr Williams is trained and qualified to analyse, interpret and report sleep studies and complex lung function tests. She has an interest in conditions affecting sleep such as sleep apnoea, respiratory muscle weakness (eg motor neuron disease) and other sleep conditions such as hypersomnolence syndromes and dream disorders.
Dr Williams other medical interests include all respiratory conditions including asthma, smoking-related lung diseases, pulmonary vascular disorders, lung cancer and diagnostic bronchoscopy. She also has an interest managing complex medical patients perioperatively, especially bariatric patients.