TEXTME Team
TEXTME Team
Research Driven
A multiskilled team
Our team includes research physicians, nurses and physiotherapists with interests and expertise in a variety of different aspects of chronic disease prevention and management.
Expertise in Health Promotion
Our team have research and published articles on a wide variety of disease prevention and health promotion topics including prevention of cardiovascular disease, smoking reduction, and physical activity.
Innovative approaches
With a wide range of skillsets and experience our team have been able to successfully complete projects spanning from mHealth, app based to more conventional research trials.
Professor Clara Chow
Professor Clara Chow is a cardiologist committed to reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease through prevention and innovative approaches to achieve this. She is Director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, Program Director Community Based Cardiac Services, Westmead Hospital and Professor of Medicine, Western Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. She has a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney and completed a postdoc in Cardiovascular epidemiology and clinical trials at McMaster University, Canada. Clara holds a Career Development Fellowship of the NHMRC co-funded by the National Heart Foundation. She has over 100 publications, focused on clinical and community approaches to cardiovascular prevention and including papers in leading international journals. She led the initial TEXT ME trial that showed text messaging programs were effective in lowering cholesterol, blood pressure and weight in patients with coronary heart disease.
Assoc. Professor Julie Redfern
Dr Aravinda Thiagalingam
Content Collaborators
Dr Stephen Jan
Stephen Jan is a Senior Health Economist, Professor in the Sydney Medical School and an Associate at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy. Stephen’s areas of research interest are economic evaluation alongside clinical and public health studies, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, health systems research, the analysis of the household economic impact of chronic illness, institutionalist economics and health policy.
As an economist working mainly with public health researchers, he is involved in projects across numerous disease areas and in collaborations with partners within the Institute and outside. He is the lead Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in Health Services Research which funds traineeships for a number of health economics researchers at the George Institute and the University Sydney.
Professor Wah Cheung
Professor Christine Jenkins
Ms Cate Ferry
Associate Professor Maree Hackett
Associate Professor Maree Hackett is Program Head, Mental Health at The George Institute for Global Health. She leads a program of public health and health services research focusing on developing simple, cost effective strategies (which can be integrated with other secondary prevention strategies) to prevent depression and significantly improve the outcome for people with cardiovascular disease. Associate Professor Hackett has an interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. This is in concordance with her current National Health and Medical Research Foundation Career Development Fellowship (Level 2) on Improving the identification, management and outcome of people with depression and other chronic diseases. She works one day per week as a Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at The University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.
Dr Vincent Lee
Associate Professor Vincent Lee is a renal physician who is dedicated to better health outcomes for the community, particularly in the area of chronic kidney disease. Dr Lee is based at Westmead Hospital and is Clinical Associate Professor in the Western Clinical School, Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney. He is passionate about the pivotal role of education to equip the future leaders in medicine, with key roles in leadership within the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology and the International Society of Nephrology. His research aims to improve best practice in kidney disease, both basic science and clinical, with over 60 peer-reviewed publications to date, and in particular focuses on how a person’s dietary and lifestyle behaviour can be improved through the use of technological interventions.