Assoc. Prof. Mark Butlin (BE, PhD, SFHEA) Head, BPAF Laboratory; Macquarie Medical School Co-director of Education; Macquarie Medical School Academic Integrity Officer Publications	Dr Karen Peebles (Dip Phty, MSc, PhD, SFHEA) Integrative Cardiorespiratory Physiologist and Physiotherapist (Senior Lecturer) Publications	Professor Emeritus Alberto Avolio (BE, PhD) Research Advisor Publications	Clinical Associate Professor Edward Barin (FRACP) Clinical Advisor Publications	James Cox Research Associate, CardieX sponsored position.
Gisele Bentley Research Associate, CardieX sponsored position.	Bhargava Veppala PhD candidate Interaction of Cellular Processes and the Extracellular Matrix in Relation to Mechanical Properties of Blood Vessels	Fatemeh Shirbani PhD candidate (submitted, under examination) Measurement of blood pressure by imaged-based photoplethysmography	Kathryn Busch PhD candidate (submitted, under examination) The utilisation of transcranial Doppler and non-invasive pressure measurement to assess cerebrovascular haemodynamic alterations during arterio-venous malformation	Vaidehi Desai PhD candidate Validity of interarm blood pressure difference and its association with beat-to-beat blood pressure variability
Research Rotation, Masters of Research Non-invasive physiological parameter correlates of blood pressure Farhan Ahmed Nocturnal dipping as quantified by peripheral and aortic blood pressure Sarah Jerome	Research Rotation, Bachelor of Clinical Science Assessment of a wearable prototype for cardiovascular health monitoring in an ambulatory environment Humam Salman Jemma Salamon Rory Wylie	Professional And Community Engagement (PACE) program Use of standard mobile phones for pulse waveform acquisition. Haydn Hartono Sanskriti Shrestha Shreyas Moharekar Shriya Gopal

Honorary appointments

Dr Ahmad Qasem Chief Science & Research Officer Cardiex AtCor Medical

Dr Anastasia Mihailidou Lead, Cardiovascular and Hormonal Research Laboratory Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.

Dr Audrey Adji Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney.

Assistant Professor Bart Spronck Maastricht University.

Dr Isabella Tan The George Institute, Sydney, Australia.

Dr Junli Zuo Ruijin Hospital, China.

 

Alumni

Past staff

Dr Isabella Tan 7 years to 2023

Dr Sumudu Gangoda 2020, 2021

Paulina Szwaja 2020

Dr Bart Spronck 2016, 2017

Dr Martin Turner 3 years to 2014

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduates

Dr Stephen Woodford 2022 The pressure field defined by stroke volume and systemic elastance as a novel paradigm for perfusion management of the circulatory system	Dr Kingsley Duru 2021 Synergistic effect of isoflavones and Inonotus obliquus (chaga) extract on streptozotocin induced type II diabetes rats	Dr Mahdieh Rezaeian 2019 Retinal dynamic vascular biomarkers of arterial stiffness	Dr Alireza Rezvani Sharif 2018 Biomechanical characterization of the remodeling of atherosclerotic arteries and plaque rupture	Dr Sumudu Gangoda 2018 Cyclic stretch of brain microvascular endothelial cells and regulation of amyloid processing and expression: evidence for contribution of vascular pulsatility in Alzheimer's disease	Dr Djahida Bedja 2016 Effect of inhibition of glycosphingolipid synthesis on vascular and cardiac function: a novel therapeutic strategy
Dr Audrey Adji 2016 Non-invasive characterisation of age-related changes in ascending aortic blood pressure and blood flow: from old concept to novel approach	Dr Isabella Tan 2016 Effects of heart rate on arterial stiffness	Dr Parisa Kouchaki 2016 Effects of baroreflex activation therapy on vascular hemodynamics: from experimental investigation to patient treatment	Dr Mi Ok Kim 2015 Obligatory role of central aortic blood pressure in pulsatile cerebral hemodynamics	Dr Francesca Giudici 2014 The aortic wrap: an experimental and computational investigation of a device-based method for reduction of arterial pressure Related	Dr Kayla Viegas 2014 The use of genetically modified mouse models for investigations of mechanisms of arterial stiffness
Dr George Lindesay 2013 Effects of sympathetic nerve activity on the stiffness of conduit arteries	Dr Azadeh Farnoush 2012 Morphological assessment of bifurcation cerebral aneurysms using computational fluid dynamic analysis	Dr Mojtaba Golzan 2012 Analysis of pulsatile characteristics of the retinal vasculature and association with cerebrospinal fluid pressure	Dr Wendy Liu 2012 Investigation of arterial function affected by inflammation induced by ionizing radiation.	Dr Keith Wan-Kee Ng 2011 Pressure-dependent vascular function and structure in the rat aorta

Masters of Research graduates

Gisele Bentley 2023 Comparison of active stand and tilt table testing for diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension and tachycardia syndrome	Vaidehi Desai 2022 Non-invasive baroreceptor function measurement in humans and the interaction with large artery stiffness	Kyrollos Louka 2022 Personalised multi-point calibration curves obtained by controlled hydrostatic changes of the upper limb for cuffless estimation of blood pressure from pulse transit time	Saja Alqasas 2021 Standardisation of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia testing in the context of autonomic function testing	James Cox 2019 An investigation of underlying biophysical mechanisms in the use of pulse wave velocity for cuffless measurement of blood pressure	Julio Antonio Lara Hernández 2018 An investigation of systemic haemodynamic correlates of intracranial pressure
Fatemeh Shirbani 2016 Non-invasive characterization of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in multiple sclerosis	Aarathi Venunadan 2015 Regulation of arterial blood pressure: effects of arterial stiffness and respiration	Sumudu Gangoda 2014 High blood pressure and cyclic stretch after cerebral amyloid deposition and endothelial function	Harish Ramachandran 2015 Investigation of heart rate variability and baroreceptor sensitivity in rats	Wendy Liu 2008, UNSW Quantification of response of aortic pulse wave velocity to changes in systemic arterial pressure following infusion of vasoactive agents in rat.

Undergraduate honours projects

Ayman Al Qahtani; George Lindesay (2010).

Research rotation (undergraduate and postgraduate) experience

• 2023 Adriana Haddad, Isaac Edmunds, Sadaf Azimi
• 2022 Amirarshia Jamshidi, Hanna Mazurkiewicz, Yusef Hafez, Madison Kane; Farhan Ahmed; Janani Viswanathan
• 2021 Aidan Moriarty (S1 & S2)
• 2020 Saja Alqasas, Benjamin Grubba, Kyrollos Louka, Olivia Mitchell, Sarah Ozer, Emma Rhall, Aadil Syed
• 2019 Ahmad Al-Qadi, Veronica Bakhoum, Taeyoon Lee, Monique Van Acquoy, Arran Weir
• 2018 Sean Barton, James Cox, Joyce El Haddad, Angela Godinez

Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) projects

In collaboration with Fledge Innovation Labs and with Cardiex AtCor Medical

• 2022 Dana Milnik, Farhan Ahmed, Kristofer Cormack, Samaa Zaman, Olivia Hoffman, Dylan Melnick, Seth Chapman, Robbie El-Bazouni
• 2021 Amelia Smart, Jamie Barnacoat, Chloe Newman, Joshua Baker, Might Nasrabadi, Pranita Kumar, Ravindu Kahawita, Rawan Hajder Mhawe, Thomas Courtney-Stubbs, Tom Murphy; Annica Roberts; Aleksia Grbic, Dylan Lim, Hannah Sexton, Jack Roser, Joseph Iannella, Olivia Otto, Taylah Scutts
• 2020 Hannah Belikoff, Maggie Chan, Benjamin Cook, Jack Davenport, Maddison Gardoni, Gisele Bentley, Samuel Hamilton, Joanne Juma'a, Jonathan Lewis, Jeong Lim, Brock McMillan, Olivia Mitchell, Elicia Petschack, Emma Rhall, Alireza Sadegholvad, Andrew Turner

FMHHS Bachelor Clinical Science projects

• 2021 Afra Ishmam, Caitlin Apcar, Himradri Sagara, Jackson Barkway, Mark Achmar, Matthew Zhang, Nicholas Ryan, Priscilla Chu, Victor Hoang, Xin Zhang