Meet the Team
Senior Research Fellow
Team Details
Professor Chris Reid
Director
Chris is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with appointments as Research Professor in both the School of Public Health at Curtin University in Perth and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne. He is Director of the Monash Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics and the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cardiovascular Outcomes Improvement (2016-2020). He holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship in addition to being the Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Program Grant (2016-2020) focusing on cardiovascular disease prevention. His major research interests include clinical outcome registries, randomised controlled trials, and epidemiological cohort studies.
He has been Study Director for the 2nd Australian National Blood Pressure (ANBP2) Study and currently a Chief Investigator for the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) Study, the Statins in Reducing Events in the elderly Trial and the Australian arms of the HOPE-3, REACH and CLARIFY Registries. He is a Principal Investigator for the Victorian Cardiac Procedures Registry Project, the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) registry, and the ANZSCTS National Cardiac Surgical Registry. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications, many of which are in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JACC and the BMJ. He participates as a WHO consultant for prevention of cardiovascular disease in Mongolia, Vietnam and the West Pacific region.
Clinical Trial Project Manager
Sue is a registered nurse who has extensive experience in the conduct and management of clinical trials across a variety of settings and therapeutic areas. Her experience includes all phase trials, with a particular focus on cardiovascular outcomes trials in general practice.
Role: Sue’s current role includes oversight and/or management of the conduct of all clinical trials being conducted by the centre with an emphasis on engagement with general practitioners and practices.
Julia Fallon-Ferguson
Executive Officer
Julia has worked in the health sector, in diverse government, non-government and corporate roles. She is a Registered Nurse with a degree in Health Science (Health Promotion). Her previous roles include Regional Manager, Perth North East for the WA Primary Health Alliance, National Manager for PC4, the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (cancer research in primary care) and Senior Development Officer in the Department of Health.
Role: CRE-COI: monitoring funded projects and scholarships, and the budget; drafting a business plan and communications strategy. ANZACT: setting up the ANZ Alliance for Cardiovascular Trials – recruiting members, organising workshops, drafting policies and procedures. WACOR – the WA Cardiac Outcomes Registry, which will collect a minimised, standard set of information from all patients undergoing specific cardiac treatments or procedures at participating hospital sites.
Christine Robins
Clinical Trial Project Coordinator
Clinical Trials Project Coordinator, CTDC, WA Health Translation Network (WAHTN)
Christine has held the position of Surveillance Unit Manager with the Vaccine Trials Group at Telethon Kids Institute, where she trained and managed a team recruiting participants to surveillance studies and clinical trials. She also has worked in primary health care clinical trials as well extensive experience in general practice as both a practice nurse and practice manager.
Role – Clinical Trials Project Coordinator with the WA Health Translation Network (WAHTN), Clinical Trials and Data Centre (CTDC). Christine supports persons involved in investigator-initiated clinical trials across WA hospitals, research institutes, universities and primary health care.
Dr Daniel Xu
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Daniel Xu MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, is a general practitioner and senior research fellow with particular interests in cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, men’s and women’s population health and epidemiology.
Role: As medical liaison officer and researcher, Dan identifies and recruits GPs and community participants for clinical trial projects. He is also principal investigator on the Concussion Recovery (CREST) cohort study in the Curtin School of Population Health, and associate investigator on a number of NHMRC funded studies and provides medical oversight for clinical trial participant visits within the Healthy Living Clinic of CCRE.
Role: As medical liaison officer and researcher, Dan identifies and recruits GPs and community participants for clinical trial projects. He is also principal investigator on the Concussion Recovery (CREST) cohort study in the Curtin School of Population Health, and associate investigator on a number of NHMRC funded studies and provides medical oversight for clinical trial participant visits within the Healthy Living Clinic of CCRE.
Dr Hui Jun Chih
Research Fellow
Dr Jun Chih is a senior lecturer and research fellow at Curtin School of Population Health and Curtin Health Research and Data Analytics Hub – WAHTN Clinical Trials and Data Centre with expertise in a wide range of epidemiological, public health and clinical research studies. She is also the Western Australia Heath Translation Network (WAHTN) Clinical Trials Biostatistics Fellow. In addition to her 0.8FTE teaching and leadership roles, Dr Chih provides her expertise in the designs and statistical analyses of randomised controlled clinical trials and health-related studies to multidisciplinary research teams across public and private hospitals, clinics and research centres. Jun has been awarded nine research grants (total: ~$781K), published 2 book chapters and 39 peer-reviewed papers with a total of 177 citations, and supervised 3 Honours, 13 Masters and 2 PhD students to on-time completion. Junhas been involved in research projects in the area of cardiovascular, cancer, psychosocial, mental health, and effective education practices.
Role: Jun assists clinicians with study designs and data analyses.
Dr Jacquita Affandi
Research Fellow
Jacquita is a Research Fellow undertaking research focusing on identifying pre-clinical markers of cardiovascular disease.
Role: She is the Project Manager of the Nasal High-Flow Oxygen Therapy After Cardiac Surgery (NOTACS) randomised clinical trial. This is a collaboration with the Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and the Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand. This trial aims to seek equipoise in determining if prophylactic use of high-flow nasal oxygen therapy vs standard oxygen therapy after cardiac surgery increases days alive and at home in the first 90 days, in adult patients at high risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. This trial also aims to investigate the cost effectiveness of these two therapies for the cardiac patient at 90 days and for the Australian health system. Trial recruitment will begin in March 2022 and will aim for a total of 1,152 participants worldwide
Dr Chau Ho
Research Associate
Dr Chau Ho MBBS, PhD, is a medical researcher with interests in cardiovascular, chronic disease and primary care.
Role: Chau contributes to the analysis of INTEGRATE trial and VCOR registry. She also provides assistance with design, study ethics, data management, and dissemination of findings.
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Alison is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years’ experience in Australia and the UK as well as volunteer experience in Zimbabwe and Indonesia. Previous research roles have been as a Clinical Research Nurse and Research Study Coordinator in the specialties of oncology, diabetes and endocrinology.
Role: Field Officer for the STAREE study conducting participant visits in GP practices. Additionally Alison supports the Healthy Living Clinic as a Research Nurse assisting the GMRx2 study, BIOBANK and other projects.
Amy Ward
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Amy has varied experience in the healthcare sector, she has a degree in Science and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management. Her previous roles have included Cardiac Technician, Laboratory Technician and Research Officer.
Role: Coordination of the day to day activities in the Healthy Living Clinic as well as participant recruitment and performing study visits. Amy is also lead study coordinator for the GMRx2 clinical trial and assists with STAREE Biobank and the PACIFIC study.
Role: Coordination of the day to day activities in the Healthy Living Clinic as well as participant recruitment and performing study visits. Amy is also lead study coordinator for the GMRx2 clinical trial and assists with STAREE Biobank and the PACIFIC study.
Yvonne Stott
Clinical Trial Project Officer
After thirty years as a nurse, Yvonne tried a change of career to bank manager for the last 16 years. She is now very happy to be back in the medical field and enjoying her role as Clinical Trial Project Officer.
Role: As a GP liaison officer, Yvonne is responsible for recruiting general practitioners as co-investigators to the STAREE trial and assisting them to identify and recruit trial participants.
Role: As a GP liaison officer, Yvonne is responsible for recruiting general practitioners as co-investigators to the STAREE trial and assisting them to identify and recruit trial participants.
Annie Syred
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Annie is a registered nurse with 45 years’ experience in general, rural, accident & emergency and ambulance nursing.
Role: Field Officer for the STAREE study conducting participant visits in GP practices. Annie also supports the Healthy Living Clinic as a research nurse assisting the GMRx2 study, STAREE Heart, BIOBANK and other projects where necessary.
Role: Field Officer for the STAREE study conducting participant visits in GP practices. Annie also supports the Healthy Living Clinic as a research nurse assisting the GMRx2 study, STAREE Heart, BIOBANK and other projects where necessary.
Karen French
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Karen is a registered nurse with 20 years’ experience as a Critical Care Nurse working for the NHS in the UK. She moved to WA with her family 13 years ago. Since arriving in Perth, Karen has worked as a Clinical Trial Nurse in areas of Respiratory health, Alzheimer’s disease and Early Phase clinical trials.
Role: Full time Field Officer for the STAREE study conducting participant visits in GP practices.
Eilish McCarthy
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Eilish has diverse experience in the healthcare sector from pharmacy, medical imaging and clinical research. She has a degree is Science, majoring in pharmacology and pathology. Her previous roles include Pharmacy student, X-ray Assistant and Clinical Trial Assistant.
Role: Acting as both a GP Liaison and Field Officer for the STAREE study in the South-West of WA. She works to recruit GP practices to the study and conducts participant visits by phone and in clinics.
Jenny Prince
Clinical Trial Project Officer
Jenny is a Registered Nurse with 50 years of experience in the UK, USA, Victoria and WA, including critical and palliative care, and nursing and managerial experience in primary and Aboriginal health care.
Role: Recruit general practitioners as co-investigators, and assist them to identify, recruit and manage study participants. Jenny also works as a field officer for the STAREE study conducting participants visits in general practice.
John Barrett
Software Developer / REDCap Administrator
John is an experienced Software Developer and enjoys developing custom solutions in an ever-evolving technological space. John also ensures best practices and technologies are used to help keep CCRE systems agile and adaptive to change.
Role: John is the Administrator of CCRE REDCap systems, web site architect and software developer across the team.
Jo Boone
Administration Support
Role: Jo is primarily Administration support for Professor Reid and the wider CCRE team. She also plays a support role for NOTACS, ANZACT and CTEP-WA.
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