Lead studies

2013 – 2014, In Progress

Diabetic Huf n Puf Study. Pulmonary microvascular pathology as a cause of exercise limitation in diabetics.

Single-centre

NHF Grant-In-Aid

2013 - 2016

Stiff Heart: Sildenafil and invasive haemodynamic study in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. 

Single-centre

2011 - 2014

Screening elite athletes with ECG.

Single-centre

2014 -

Exercise MRI in the assessment of cardiac reserve.

Single centre

None: seeking

2009 - 2014

Assessment of early pulmonary arterial hypertension using dobutamine stress echocardiograms in patients with scleroderma

Single Centre

NHF Grant-In-Aid

2007 -

Investigation of the pathogenesis of diastolic dysfunction – imaging sub-study examining backscatter and fibrosis

Multi: STV’s, SVI & Monash University

NHF Grant-In-Aid

2011-

INTRACOR: randomised control trial on Abciximab versus placebo in Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction.

Single-centre

SVI

FRS Uni Melb

NHMRC/NHF

2012-

MARS: Microvascular and ventricular function in patients who have suffered a ST elevation myocardial infarction and have not undergone primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Single-centre

SVI

FRS Uni Melb

NHMRC/NHF

2013/14-

The Effect of Ticagrelor on the Coronary Microcirculation in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Currently single centre. Plan to become Multi-centre

NHMRC/NHF

Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Cardiac Surgery

Single (SVHM)

University of Melbourne Bickart Foundation, Uni Melb ECR Scheme, SVH REF Grants

Nitric Oxide Biology, Diabetes and Heart Disease: Role of the ADMA/DDAH Pathway

SVHM, Stanford, UCSF

SVH REF grants

The Mediterranean Diet and Complications of Diabetes

SVHM, Latrobe, UNSA