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27 June 2020
Dr Clara Chow is Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Academic Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre and Academic Co-Director of CPC Westmead. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant Leadership awardee and with this leads a research program focused on innovation for health service provision and clinical management of cardiovascular disease prevention. Professor Clara Chow shares her research on cardiovascular disease prevention.
Video transcript
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Professor Clara Chow: My focus is on cardiovascular disease prevention.
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Australia and actually globally.
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With the preventative interventions we’ve developed people can live longer and healthier in the community.
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Without the clinical trial funded by the NHMRC,
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we wouldn’t be able to run the level of randomised clinical trial that we need to be able to commercialise these interventions.
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If I didn’t have funding from NHMRC I would not be able to conduct these projects.
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Without that we can’t commercialise things. Without that we can’t them to people I think that it’s an important pathway
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that we have to go through and NHMRC enables us to do this with investigator led ideas.
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