Monthly Updates - November 2022

Welcome

Dear Colleague,

Welcome to the November edition of the SOLVE-CHD monthly updates 2022. This monthly e-newsletter will keep you up to date with the key progress of the SOLVE-CHD projects and provide updates on our events and initiatives. Simply email solve-chd.info@sydney.edu.au if you wish to share/add anything from your area that is directly/indirectly related to the SOLVE-CHD program. We would also strongly encourage you to share your research highlights and successes that is relevant to cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention with us so that we can celebrate your achievements with our network.

Key Updates and Research Highlights

SOLVE-CHD Postgraduate Scholarship applications at Deakin University and University of Sydney are open
Welcome Dion Canderlaria to the team as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow working on the QUICR Study (MRFF funded project led by Prof Robyn Gallagher)
New guidelines from ICCPR provide guidance on how to deliver women-focused Cardiovacular Rehabilitation programming read more
Update your diary for 2023 NHMRC & MRFF grant opportunity dates - calendar is now available here

A special congratulations goes out to the following SOLVE-CHD members:

Dion Canderlaria, who was appointed President-elect for ACRA NSW/ACT
Joseph Weddell, who was awarded the best poster prize at ACRA NSW/ACT ASM 2022
Dr Sarah Gauci, who was awarded the Deakin University Faculty of Health's HAtCH Grant for her project 'At the heart of the matter: Co-designing a lifestyle based mental health intervention for patients following a heart event'
Prof Julie Redfern and team, who were awarded the World Cancer Research Funding for the project 'Bridging the gap in physical activity and diet support for breast cancer survivors: a randomised controlled trial in primary care'
Dr Karice Hyun for her two new leadership roles - committee member for NSW Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Committee and Early Career Researcher Executive for Australian and New Zealand Alliance for Cardiovascular Trials (ANZACT)
Dr Georgia Chaseling et al. for their new publication in Heart, Lung and Circulation, titled 'Extreme Heat and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Australia and New Zealand: What Do We Know?'
Dion Cancelaria, Prof Robyn Gallagher et al. for their new publication in Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, titled 'Exercise Self-efficacy Improvements During Cardiac Rehabilitation'
Dr Karice Hyun for being awarded the CVI Rising Star Award
Julia Ning for being awarded the CVI Inaugural Snelson Award for Cardiovascular Research Support

If you have any research achievements that you'd like to highlight in the SOLVE-CHD newsletter, email us at solve-chd.info@sydney.edu.au

SOLVE-CHD Researcher Spotlight November

Prof Gemma A Figtree MBBS, DPhil (Oxon), FRACP, FCSANZ, FAHA

Professor in Medicine, University of Sydney

Interventional Cardiologist, Royal North Shore Hospital

Gemma is a Professor in Medicine and Chair of the multi-disciplinary Cardiovascular Initiative at the University of Sydney and an Interventional Cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital. She has an international track record across a diverse range of fundamental, translational and implementation research areas, and is recognised for her strategic leadership.

Gemma is committed to preventing heart attacks through innovations to detect and treat silent coronary artery disease (CAD). She leads a diverse team unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals including the Lancet, Circulation, JACC and European Heart Journal, with > 220 publications. Gemma is a principal investigator on grants >$21 Mill. She has 1 awarded patent and 5 provisional patents and is the Chief Medical Officer for Prokardia. She is the lead investigator of CAD Frontiers, a NFP Venture that pulls together an international team of clinicians, researchers, healthcare, and industry leaders into an effective platform combining discovery science, clinical trials and commercial translation, with a vision of a world without heart attacks.

Follow Gemma on Twitter @gemtree

SOLVE-CHD Postgraduate Scholarships are now open

$32,000 per annum (up to 3 years) for Postgraduate/HDR students to undertake research in cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention field.

@The University of Sydney

@Deakin University

Other Events and Opportunities

ACHD Symposium 2022

Fabulous forum for sharing clinical advances and regional/international research complex cases & challenging diagnoses ACHD quality/outcome

Click to find out more

ISHCA 23 - registrations and abstract submission now open

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ACRA ASM 2023 - SAVE THE DATE

SOLVE-CHD will be supporting conference registration again - stay tuned!

Get your work ready for CSANZ & ANZET 2023 - abstract submission is now OPEN!

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