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Research

Our Team

With the support of our partner organisations, we aim to transform the care of individuals and families affected by sudden cardiac arrest

Principal Investigator 

A/Prof Jodie Ingles

Head of the Clinical Genomics Laboratory, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Co-Director of the Garvan Genomic and Inherited Diseases Program. 

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National Coordinator

Dr Laura Yeates

Senior Research Genetic Counsellor

BSc (hons) Grad Dip Gen Couns. PhD. FHGSA (Genetic Counselling)

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Our Team

Jessica Finney

NSW Study Co-ordinator
Research Genetic Counsellor
BMSc MGenCouns

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Natalie Stewart

Research Genetic Counsellor
BSc BBiomed (Hons) MGenCouns
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Lucas Mitchell

Research Genetic Counsellor
BSc MGenCouns
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Dr Rosalind Case

Senior Clinical Psychologist
Senior Research Fellow
BSS (hons) MSSc PGGDipPsych (Clin), PhD

Advisory Committee

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Prof John Atherton

Cardiologist
MBBS PhD FRACP FCSANZ FESC, FHFA

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Prof Janet Bray

Professor
PhD, Grad Dip Research Methods (Clinical trials), Post Grad Dip Applied Statistics, Post Grad Dip Applied Science (Advanced Nursing), Grad Dip Applied Science (Nursing)

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Dr Susie Cartledge

Senior Research Fellow
BN (Hons) PhD

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A/Prof Mark Dennis

Cardiologist
MBBS (Hons) PhD

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A/Prof Belinda Gray

Cardiologist
​MBBS BSc(Med) PhD FRACP FCSANZ FHRS

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A/Prof Haris Haqqani

Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist
MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACP FSCANZ FHRS FACC

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Prof Andre La Gerche

Cardiologist
MBBS, PhD

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Julie Hughes

National Heart Foundation of Australia

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Dr Sonali Munot

Research Fellow
PhD MPH (Hons)

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Dr Ziad Nehme

Director Centre for Research & Evaluation
Ambulance Victoria

PhD, BEmergHlth (Hons)(Paramedic)

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A/Prof Elizabeth Paratz

Cardiologist 
BMeds MBBS(Hons) PhD FRACP

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Dr Vimal Patel

Cardiologist
BSc (Hons) MBBS MD(Res) FRACP

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Dr Kathryn Waddell-Smith

Cardiologist
MBBS PhD FRACP FCSANZ

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Prof Jamie Vandenberg

Co-Deputy Director, VCCRI
B.Sc.(Med) MBBS PhD

Investigators

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Dr Leesa Adlard

Clinical Psychologist
MA ClinPsych, D.Litt et Phil Psych

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A/Prof Clare Arnott

Cardiologist

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A/Prof Richard Bagnall

Head, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Centenary Institute
BSc (Hons), PhD

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Dr Isabel Brouwer

Forensic Pathologist

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Dr Samantha Ross

Researcher & BPT

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Habib Bhurawalla

Researcher

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Dr Alex Butters

Clinical lab manager & Research Officier
BBioMed, MPH, PhD

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Prof Robyn Clark

Registered Nurse & Researcher
RN., RM., ICUCert., DipAppliSci., BN., M.Ed., PhD., ACCCN (Life Member), FACN, FAHA, FCSANZ, FESC, FAAN 

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A/Prof Gemma Figtree

Cardiologist and Clinical Researcher

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Dr Ari Horton

Paediatric Cardiologist & Clinical Geneticist

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Dr Julia Isbister

Cardiologist &
Cardiac Electrophysiologist

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Dr Christopher Kocx

Cardiology Advanced Trainee &
PhD Candidate
MBBS, MPH

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Natasha Luboya

Assoc. Genetic Counsellor

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Dr Claire Lawley

Paediatric Cardiologist & Clinician-Researcher
MBBS (Hons I), BSc (Med) Hons, PhD, FRACP

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A/Prof Han Lim

Cardiac Electrophysiologist
MBBS, PhD

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Kegan Moneghetti

Researcher

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Natalia Moris

Cardiac Genomics 
Clinical Nurse Consultant

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Dima Naswari

Cardiac Registered Nurse
PhD candidate

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Dr Kevin Ng

Cardiac Electrophysiologist

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Prof Nicholas Patcher

Clinical Geneticist and Director, Genetic Health WA

​MBChB FRACP

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Prof Garry Jennings

Chief Medical Officer
Heart Foundation of Australia

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Niru Perera

Researcher

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Prof Jonathan Skinner

Paediatric Cardiologist 
MB ChB, MRCP(UK), DCH, FRACP, MD

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Dr Bo Gregor Winkel

Consultant Cardiologist
MD, PhD

(02) 9056 4099
improvesca@garvan.org.au 

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IMPROVE-SCA acknowledges the First Australian peoples on whose traditional lands we live and work. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We gratefully accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart "to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”.

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