CHIRI is delighted to celebrate one of our own with the announcement of a prestigious NHMRC Research Fellowship awarded to Professor Christopher Reid: Improving the Prevention, Treatment and Management of Cardiovascular & Chronic Disease in the Community ($774,540).  Chris is one of CHIRI’s lead eminent researchers within the Vascular & Metabolic Theme of CHIRI.  Chris  is a cardiovascular epidemiologist with joint appointments as Research Professor in both the School of Public Health at Curtin University in Perth and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne. He is Director of the Monash Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics and the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cardiovascular Outcomes Improvement (2016-2020).  He holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship in addition to being the Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Program Grant (2016-2020), focusing on cardiovascular disease prevention.  His major research interests include clinical outcome registries, randomised controlled trials, and epidemiological cohort studies.Chris has been Study Director for the 2nd Australian National Blood Pressure (ANBP2) Study and currently a Chief Investigator for the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) Study, the Statins in Reducing Events in the elderly Trial and the Australian arms of the HOPE-3, REACH and CLARIFY Registries. He is a Principal Investigator for the Victorian Cardiac Procedures Registry Project, the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) registry, and the ANZSCTS National Cardiac Surgical Registry. He has over 350 peer-reviewed publications, many of which are in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JACC and the BMJ. He participates as a WHO consultant for prevention of cardiovascular disease in Mongolia, Vietnam and the West Pacific region.

The Curtin University based Centre for Research Excellence in Cardiovascular Outcomes Improvement seeks to address the major issues that are relevant to understanding and improving the provision of cardiovascular prevention and management services and the uptake of evidence based strategies to reduce the impact of CVD at the individual and community level. The underlying strategy of the Centre is to support the development and conduct of comparative effectiveness and quality of outcomes research utilising established and emerging clinical outcome registries.  The key themes of research for the Centre will cross a range of key cardiac activities in the clinical areas of primary prevention, emergency care, interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery, and in the management of acute and chronic heart failure.

Please congratulate Chris for his extraordinary achievement and for his ongoing involvement and support of CHIRI.