Vanessa Mcdonald
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
"Professor Vanessa McDonald is co-director of the NHMRC CRE in Severe Asthma, deputy director and research leader in the Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and an academic clinician in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine. She also leads the Chronic Disease and Older Person Research group within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Professor McDonald joined the University of Newcastle in 2011, following the completion of her PhD. Prior to this, she worked clinically within the Hunter New England Local Health District as a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Consultant. She has been a nurse for over 20 years and it is her clinical background and experience that drives her innovation in research. Vanessa’s research programme is centred around the development of innovative approaches to the management of chronic diseases. Her translational research programme links biomedicine, clinical effectiveness and health policy development. At 6 years post-doctoral, Professor Vanessa McDonald has established a productive track record publishing over 80 peer reviewed journal articles. Her work is published in high impact journals including the Lancet, the AJRCCM, Thorax and the Eur Resp J. Complimenting her publication catalogue is a suite of other outputs. She has authored 7 book chapters, 5 separate national clinical practice guidelines for asthma and COPD, national reports, multimedia resources, and national patient education publications."
Research Interest
Respiratory Diseases, Nursing
Publications
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McDonald VM, Gibson PG, Scott HA, Baines PJ, Hensley MJ, Pretto JJ, Wood LG. Should we treat obesity in COPD? The effects of diet and resistance exercise training. Respirology. 2016 Jul 1;21(5):875-82.
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McDonald VM, Maltby S, Reddel HK, King GG, Wark PA, Smith L, Upham JW, James AL, Marks GB, Gibson PG. Severe asthma: Current management, targeted therapies and future directions—A roundtable report. Respirology. 2017 Jan 1;22(1):53-60.
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Negewo NA, Gibson PG, McDonald VM. COPD and its comorbidities: impact, measurement and mechanisms. Respirology. 2015 Nov 1;20(8):1160-71.
