Cardiovascular Research Domain Coordinator - Professor Louise Burrell
Cardiovascular Research Domain Coordinator - Professor Louise Burrell
Louise Burrell's vision is "To make cardiovascular research a major goal of the university." Louise says "It is a challenge to bring together researchers within the domain that are geographically separated."
As coordinator of the cardiovascular domain, which has an impressive rate of international collaboration among its research outputs, Louise Burrell is herself well focussed on the international scene being the newly elected Treasurer to the International Society of Hypertension and Fellow of the American Heart Association. Louise is really the all-round clinical researcher with credentials in grant acquisition, RHD supervision and a high national as well as international profile.
The challenge for Louise in the running of the cardiovascular domain is in bringing together the scattering of cardiovascular researchers across large geographic distances within the faculty, and linking with collaborators across Melbourne, nationally and internationally. Close links with other domains such as diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism and clinical sciences and health practice make this domain one with the broadest coverage of basic and clinical interests and these interests are seen in the profile of Louise herself. Her research interests lie in studying the mechanisms involved in heart disease and high blood pressure, as well as how diabetes can impact on the heart.