Lunchtime lecture and education session

As part of Research Week, we invite health professionals to join us for two free lunchtime lectures.

20 Sep 2017

Details

Date: Wednesday 20 September 2017

Time: 12.00pm to 2.30pm

Venue: St John of God Subiaco Hospital, Level 3 Conference Centre, Auditorium
Parking: Parking is available in our multi-storey off Salvado Road or in our undercover parking off McCourt Street.

Program

12.00pm: ‘Clinical trial and registry initiatives’ – Dr Chris Reid
1.00pm: Light refreshments
1.30pm: ‘Biostatistical considerations when planning your research study’ – Dr Paola Chivers

Presenter details

Dr Chris Reid

Dr Christopher Reid is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with appointments as Research Professor in the Schools of Public Health at both Curtin University, Perth and Monash University, 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).

Chris 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

Dr Paola Chivers

Dr Paola Chivers is a Research Biostatistician at the Institute for Health Research, The University of Notre Dame. Paolas’ primary role is to provide biostatistical support to HDRs, staff and collaborators on a variety of health related research. She also runs applied statistical workshops using SPSS and provides lectures in research design and applied statistics.

Paola is a mid-career researcher whose research has focussed on physical activity and movement related health outcomes in the area of child and adolescent health. She completed her doctoral studies in adolescent obesity working with the internationally renowned Raine Study. She utilised epidemiological research methodology exploring causal pathways to obesity using statistical modelling. These investigations identified possible early preventive health measures that could be targeted to reduce the risk of obesity in adolescence such as breastfeeding. Her current research focus is in the area of movement disorders and bone health and she is a founding member of the WA Bone Research Collaboration.

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