I am a Research Assistant within the Heart Failure Research group and an Appointed Adjunct Research Fellow in the Monash Alfred Baker Centre for Cardiovascular Research.

I’ve always strived to try and improve the health and wellbeing of people from disadvantageous backgrounds and underdeveloped countries where access to healthcare is scarce and quality lacking. In more recent times I’ve developed an interest in cardiovascular diseases stemming from a personal level due to having numerous family members suffering from the disease and not having access to information and or the required care to improve their lives.

Currently our research aims to better understand one of the major heart failure diseases out there being heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Using animal models to establish a robust disease model for HFpEF we are then able to test novel therapeutic approaches to treating HFpEF. This allows us to not only better understand how the disease is established and functions on a physiological and molecular level but it also allows us to test the most optimal therapies to treat it.

With all the comorbidities and external factors that can affect HFpEF there seems to always be something new to learn and discover which keeps things exciting as there seem to be a constant path forward for improvement in the care given to people suffering from this disease.