Scientia Professor Anushka Patel
Conjoint Professor
PhD (Medicine) The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2005
FRACP (Cardiology) Royal Australasian College of Physicians, August 1998
SM (Epidemiology) Harvard University, Boston, USA, June 1998
MBBS The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, December 1989
Medicine & Health
School of Biomedical Sciences
Anushka Patel is Chief Executive Officer of The George Institute for Global Health and Scientia Professor at UNSW (University of New South Wales) Sydney. She is a cardiologist, with research interests in the prevention and management of common chronic conditions through large-scale clinical trials and implementation science. Anushka undertook her medical training at the University of Queensland, with subsequent postgraduate research degrees from Harvard University and University of Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Disease grant [APP1169763] – Scale-up of a primary care intervention for cardiovascular risk management in Malang, Indonesia (Patel A, Sujarwoto S, Praveen D, Maharani A, Tampubolon G, Abimbola S, Peiris D, Angell B, Abdurrahman M, Citra J). 2019-2023
Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change [36084171] – System -level interventions to improve the availability, accessibility and quality use of essential medicine for CVD prevention in Indonesia (Patel A, Praveen D, Sujarwoto S, Abdurrahman M, Tampubolon G, Oceandy D, Maharani A, Peiris D, Jan S, Palagyi A). 2018-2019
NHMRC Program Grant [APP1149987] – Clinical, public health and policy interventions to combat cardiovascular diseases (Neal B, Patel A, Anderson C, Woodward M, Rodgers A, Perkovic V, Chalmers J, Chow C, Lindley R, Jan S). 2019-2023
NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Disease grant [APP1143911] - Systematic Medical Appraisal, Referral and Treatment for Common Mental Disorders in India - SMART Mental Health (Peiris D, Maulik P, Thornicroft G, Patel A, Sagar R, Praveen D, Raman U, Essue B, Billot L, Kant S). 2018-2021
NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship [APP1136898] (Patel A) 2018-2022
Give2Asia on the advice of the Pfizer Foundation. SMARThealth EXTEND (Patel A, Praveen D, MacMahon S) 2016-2018
Qualcomm Wireless Reach. China Center for mHealth Innovation (Patel A, MacMahon S, Zhang P) 2015-2018
NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Disease grant [APP1093171] - A lifestyle intervention program for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus among South Asian women with gestational diabetes mellitus (Patel A, Zoungas S, Teede H, De Silva A, Naheed A, Jan S, Lombard C). 2015-2020
NHMRC Global Alliance for Chronic Disease grant [APP1094712] - Systematic Medical Assessment, Referral and Treatment for Diabetes care in China using Lay Family Health Promoters - SMART Diabetes (Peiris D, Zhang P, Ji L, Patel A, Xu J, Liang Z, Liu Y, Tian M, Essue B). 2015-2018
NHMRC Project Grant [APP1084657] – An integrated general practice and pharmacy-based intervention to promote the prescription and use of appropriate preventive medications among individuals at high cardiovascular risk (Patel A, Peiris D, Saini B, Joshi R, Usherwood T, Armour C, Webster R, Lo S) 2015-2019
NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship [APP1079301] (Patel A) 2015-2019
RACGP / Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd Research Grants – HealthTracker: A cloud-based clinical decision support system for translating multiple chronic disease guidelines into practice (Peiris A, Patel A, Gallagher M, Zoungas S, Paton C, Hersch F) 2014
HCF Research Foundation Scholarships and Fellowship in Health Services Research (Patel A, Turnbull F). 2014-2017
NIH (NIMH) [1R01MH100332-01] – Integrating depression care for ACS patients in low resource hospitals in China (PIs: Wu Y, Yu X; Co-Is: Sikemma K, Blumenthal J, Patel A, Maulik P). 2014-2017
NHMRC Program Grant [APP1052555] – Discovery and translation of evidence for new strategies to combat cardiovascular diseases (MacMahon S, Chalmers J, Neal B, Woodward M, Anderson C, Patel A, Rodgers A, Perkovic V) 2014-2018
NHMRC Global Alliance Against Chronic Disease Grant [APP1040152] – Randomised controlled trial of early use of a simplified treatment regimen incorporating a half-dose, three-in-one blood pressure lowering pill vs. usual care for improving hypertension control in India (Patel A, Rodgers A, Prabhakaran D, Jan S, Webster R, Maulik P, Thom S) 2012-2017
NHMRC Global Alliance Against Chronic Disease Grant [APP1040147] – A smartphone-based clinical decision support system for primary health care workers to improve the detection and management of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk in rural India (Peiris D, Patel A, MacMahon S, Prabhakaran D, Clifford G, Maulik P, Joshi R, Jan S, Heritier S) 2012-2015
NSW Health Living Well: the NSW Aboriginal Health Chronic Care Initiative: Electronic Decision Support Tool for improving chronic care for Aboriginal people in NSW (Peiris D, Patel A, Cass A, Feyer A) 2011-2013
NHMRC Partnership Grant [1027847] - Electronic decision support for osteoporosis care to assist clinicians and patients in primary care and hospitals (Eisman J, Center J, Nguyen T, Peiris D, Patel A, Watt W, Salkeld G, Goldstein S, Dartnell J, Selecki Y) 2012-2014
HCF Health and Medical Research Foundation Research Grant. An integrated electronic decision support system for cardiovascular disease management (Redfern J, Peiris D, Patel A, Turnbull F, Stowasser D) 2012-2014
NHMRC Project Grant [1010547] – Evaluation of a novel electronic decision support tool for cardiovascular risk management – the TORPEDO study (Patel A, Peiris D, Usherwood T, Harris M, Hayman N, Panaretto K, Redfern J, Zwar N, Colagiuri S) 2011-2012
Australia-India Council (Australian Government) Grant – Working towards a disability inclusive society in Andhra Pradesh, India (Lindley R, Anderson C, Maher C, Ivers R, Patel A, Murthy GV) 2010
Australian Diabetes Society – Servier Diabetes Strategy Grant – The management of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes: predictors of therapeutic efficacy and evidence based guidelines (Zoungas S, Chalmers J, Patel A, Shaw J) 2010
International Diabetes Federation BRIDGES Grant – prevention of type 2 diabetes in women with gestational diabetes in urban India – a feasibility study (Tandon N, Prabhakaran D, Patel A, Reddy P, Joshi R, Desai A) 2010-2011
NHMRC -EU (FP7) Health Collaborative Research Grant [571456] - The Use of a Multidrug Pill in Reducing Cardiovascular Events (UMPIRE) trial (Rodgers A, Patel A, Neal B) 2010-2012
NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship [632938] (Patel A) 2010-2014
University of Sydney International Program Development Fund Project Grant (Patel A, R Ivers, C Cowell) 2010
European Commission FP7 (7th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration) Collaborative Project [FP7 – 241849] – Use of a Multidrug Pill to Reduce Cardiovascular Events (UMPIRE) (Thom S, Stanton A, Grobbee D, Patel A, Reddy KS, Rodgers A, Cidambi R) 2010-2012
NHMRC Development Grant [571381] – A new model of cardiovascular prevention in primary care (MacMahon S, Neal B, Patel A, Harris M) 2009-2010
NHMRC Program Grant [571281] – Generating the evidence for new strategies to combat cardiovascular diseases (MacMahon S, Chalmers J, Neal B, Woodward M, Anderson C, Patel A) 2009-2013
Cardiovascular Lipid Research Grant. A novel decision support tool to improve guidelines implementation for managing vascular risk in general practice (Webster R, Patel A) 2008
NHLBI / Ovations Chronic Disease Initiative – China Ovations Centre (Han Q, Ke Y, Wu Y, MacMahon S, Neal B, Leeder S, Lopez A, Elliott, P, Anderson C, Bauman A, Carroll T, Chapman S, Dibley MJ, Owen N, Patel A, Salkeld G, Stevenson M, Taylor R , Shi J, Zhang R, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Feng X) 2008-2012
NHMRC General Practice Clinical Research Program Grant [510173] The feasibility and impact of cardiovascular absolute risk assessment in general practice (Harris M, Zwar N, Campbell T, Patel A, Vagholkar S, Wan Q, McKenzie S, Walker C) 2008-2010
NHMRC Project Grant [512463] Development and validation of an Australian Diabetes Health Policy Simulation Model (Clarke P, Gray A, Davis T, Patel A) 2008-2010
NHMRC Primary Health Care Project Grant [457508] – Randomised trial of a “polypill” to improve guidelines adherence for vascular disease prevention in primary health care (Patel A, Rodgers A, Usherwood T, Jan S, Tonkin A, Henry D) 2008-2010
Sanofi-Aventis China – Investigator-initiated grant: Clinical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China Phase 2 [CPACS-2] (Patel A, Wu Y, Gao R) 2007-2010
NHMRC Health Services Research Program [402797]- Reduction in disparities in health outcomes in cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease for Indigenous Australians (Cass A, Brown A, Patel A, Devitt J, Eades S, Hayman N, Isbel N, Jan S, Ring I, Stewart G, Tonkin A, Weeramanthri T) 2006-2010
National Heart Foundation of Australia Career [CR 05S 2276] Development Fellowship (Patel A) 2006-2010
Royal Australasian College of Physicians – Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research Fellowship (Patel A) – revised award for project costs 2006
Heart Research Council of New Zealand (CRodgers A; Patel A - CI and Lead International Investigator). International Investment Opportunity Grant – The polypill for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a pilot study 2006-2007
Health Research Council of New Zealand: Does a polypill improve cardiovascular guideline implementation in primary care? (Rodgers A, Rafter N, Arroll B, Bramley D, Connor J, Cook R, Crengle S, Doughty R, Feigin V, Jackson R, Maling T, Milne R, Neal B, Patel A, Simmons D, Vander Hoorn S) 2006-2008
Sanofi-Aventis Australia – Unrestricted educational grant: electronic decision support for vascular risk management in primary health care (Patel A, Anderson C, Neal B) 2005
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Cottrell Fellowship (Patel A) 2005
Sanofi-Aventis China - Unrestricted educational grant: Clinical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China [CPACS] (Patel A, Gao R) 2004-2005
Initiative for Cardiovascular Health in Developing Countries (IC Health) Protocol Development Grant. Development and evaluation of a high-risk practice guide for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in China (Tang JL, Patel A, Zhan SY, Sun NL, Hu YH, Woo J, Kong LZ, Li LM) 2004
Guidant Corporation. Unrestricted educational grant: Clinical Pathways for Acute Coronary Syndromes in China [CPACS] (CIs: Patel A, Gao R) 2003
Cardiovascular Lipid Research Grant. Plasma lipids as predictors of recurrent ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke in patients with prior stroke or transient ischaemic attack (CIs: Patel A, Woodward M, Sullivan D) 2002
John Yu Oration & Medal, 2019
Australian Academy of Science Gustav Nossal Medal in Global Health 2018
NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship 2018-2022
NHMRC Research Excellence Award (Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship) 2015
NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship 2015-2019
NHMRC Achievement Award for the highest-ranked Program Grant 2013
Named as one of the 100 most influential people in Sydney (2011), Sydney Morning Herald, 8 Dec 2011
NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship 2010-2014
NHMRC Achievement Award for the highest-ranked Program Grant 2008
Peter Bancroft Prize, University of Sydney 2006
National Heart Foundation of Australia Career Development Fellowship 2006-2009
RACP Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research Fellowship 2006
RACP Cottrell Fellowship 2005
Patron’s Prize, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1996
AMA Memorial Prize in Clinical Medicine, University of Queensland 1989
Principal Investigator (2010 to present): Program of research aimed at reducing the incidence of type 2 diabetes among women with gestational diabetes in South Asia. Large multi-country study ongoing.
Principal Investigator (2006 to present): Program of research encompassing development, implementation and evaluation of primary care interventions for improving management of vascular risk and other chronic conditions (Australia, India, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka). Multiple completed and ongoing studies.
Principal Investigator (2004 to present): Program of studies evaluating the role of fixed-dose combination therapy (“polypills”) for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Multiple completed and ongoing studies.
Principal Investigator (2003 to 2018): Clinical pathways in the management of acute coronary syndromes in China (CPACS) – 4 consecutive large cluster trials aimed at increasing evidence-based care of ACS and common co-morbidities. Completed and major findings published.
Study Director and Steering Committee member (2001 to 2015): ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease). Randomised trial of intensive blood pressure lowering and glucose control in 11,140 individuals with type 2 diabetes – blood pressure arm completed and reported in September 2007; glucose lowering arm completed and reported in June 2008. Director of the International Coordinating Centre for ADVANCE-ON (long-term follow-up of surviving participants) commenced 2009 with follow-up until 2014. Completed and major findings published.
Investigator (Jan 2002 to 2010): Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration (APCSC) – individual participant data overview of cohort studies in the Asia-Pacific region. Completed and major findings published.
Investigator and Coordinator (1999 to 2002): PCAT (Primary Coronary Angioplasty versus Thrombolysis) Collaboration. Individual patient data overview of randomised trials comparing primary coronary angioplasty and thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. Completed and major findings published.
Investigator (1999 to 2006): FIELD (Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes) Vascular Substudy. Effect of comicronised fenofibrate on carotid intima-media thickness and vascular reactivity in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Completed and major findings published.
My Research Supervision
PhD students
2018 – ongoing Ms Briar McKenzie (Scientia Scholarship – UNSW)
2017 – ongoing Ms Robyn Walsh (University of Western Sydney)
MPhil students
2017 – ongoing Ms Ainsley Goff (University of Sydney)
My Teaching
Courses
2008 NSW Health Office for Science & Medical Research Clinical Trials Course
Lectures, tutorials, clinical teaching
2011 – 2016 Online Moderator, MPH, University of Sydney
2003 – 2010 Lecturer, Master of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Sydney
2003 – 2010 Year 1 Case Coordinator, Graduate Medical Program, University of Sydney
2002 – 2014 Lecturer, Master of International Public Health, University of Sydney
2000 – 2010 Consultant Lecturer, RPAH FRACP First Part Preparation Course
2009 Lecturer, PUBH5020, University of Sydney
2008 Examiner, Graduate Medical Program Year 3 Summative long Cases, University of Sydney
2003 – 2008 Cardiology registrar training seminars, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1999 – 2008 Tutor in Evidence Based Medicine, Graduate Medical Program, University of Sydney
1999 – 2008 Clinical Tutor (Cardiology), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1999 – 2002 Lecture Program for FRACP Candidates, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital