Committee members
President | Vice President | Secretary | Treasurer | Ex-officio Members |
New Zealand & State Representatives
President
Name: Dr Shaun Sandow (Shaun.Sandow@unsw.edu.au)
Qualifications: BSc, PhD
Position: Senior Research Fellow (NHMRC RD Wright Fellow), Department of Pharmacology, University of New South Wales
Research Interests:
Endothelial dysfunction is a primary characteristic of cardiovascular disease. Studies focus on determining mechanisms of endothelial function in health and disease, with a particular emphasis on small resistance vessels. Studies correlate anatomy and function to identify the fundamental pathways that underlie blood vessel function.
Specifically, ultrastructural and confocal immunohistochemistry and electrophysiology, pressure myography and calcium imaging, and Western blotting are used to determine mechanisms that underlie vascular function in health and disease. The overall aim of the lab is to identify novel vascular bed specific drug targets.
Vice President
Name: Associate Professor Ken Knight
Qualifications: BSc Hons, PhD, FAACB, FRCPath
Position: Senior Research Scientist at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Dept of Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne.
Research Interests: Current major research interest is role of matrix scaffolds in tissue engineering and in the generation of tissues (eg. adipose tissue) and organoids (notably pancreas and pituitary gland) with their own blood supply for the microsurgical repair of injuries and diseased organs. He also has current and past interests in angiogenesis, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, inflammation, wound healing and the pathophysiology of chronic inflammatory lung disease.
Secretary
Name: Dr Colin Carati (colin.carati@flinders.edu.au)
Qualifications: BSc Hons, PhD
Position: Associate Professor Dept of Anatomy and Histology, School of Medicine, Flinders University
(http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/Anatomy/staff/ColinCarati.htm).
Research Interests:Research interests include the exchange processes between the microcirculation, interstitium and lymphatics and the role of the microcirculation and lymphatics in inflammation and lymphoedema
(http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/Anatomy/MicrocirculationLab/MicrocirculationHome.htm).
Treasurer
Name: Associate Professor James Brock (J.Brock@unsw.edu.au)
Qualifications: BSc Hons, D Phil
Position: NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Research Interests: Investigation is nerve injury induced changes in blood vessel function. Both traumatic injury and disease (e.g. diabetes) can produce partial or complete denervation of the vasculature. These changes are associated with altered tissue perfusion but changes in the reactivity of partially denervated or reinnervated vessels to neural activation are poorly understood. Currently I am using physiological and pharmacological techniques to document and to investigate the changes in vascular function following well-defined nerve injuries.
Ex-officio Members
Name: Associate Professor Michael Perry (m.perry@unsw.edu.au)
Qualifications: BSc, PhD
Position: Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
Research Interests: Gastrointestinal Microcirculation and Inflammation
Name: Associate Professor Tailoi Chan-Ling (tailoi@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Qualifications: M Optom, PhD, FAAO
Position: NHMRC Senior Research Fellow & Head, Retinal Biology Lab, Bosch Institute, University of Sydney
Research Interests: Stemming vision loss with heamatopoietic stem cells, Developmental biology of human fetal neural stem cells in regenerative medicine, angiogenesis and vasculogenesis in the formation of human retinal and choroidal vessels, pericyte and smooth muscle cell biology, Pathogenesis of Retinopathy of Prematurity.
Name: Associate Professor Chris Jackson cjackson@med.usyd.edu.au
Qualifications: BSc, PhD
Position: Associate Professor Chris Jackson, PhD, Director, Sutton Arthritis Research Laboratories
Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney
Research Interests:
General committee members
Keren Abberton (abberton@unimelb.edu.au)
Marianne Tare (marianne.tare@med.monash.edu.au)
Lyn Wise (lyn.wise@stonebow.otago.ac.nz)
New Zealand & State Representatives
NZ: |
Lyn Wise / Tony Wheatley |
ACT: |
Caryl Hill |
NSW: |
Tailoi Chan-Ling |
QLD: |
David Adams |
SA: |
Colin Carati |
VIC: |
Jane Girling |
WA: |
Steve Cringle |
