Yoke Lin Fung
Lecturer
Laboratory Science
University of Sunshine Coast
Australia
Biography
Lin is a medical scientist and researcher with management and leadership experience in the public and private health sector, not for profit organizations and Australian universities. She enjoys teaching undergraduate students and also specializes in mentoring health professionals though their PhD research projects. She leads a translational research team focused on the “Patient and Blood Interface”, and is involved with various hospital patient blood management committees to support evidence based transfusion practice. Lin has developed a murine and a range of ovine models of transfusion to investigate the pathogenesis of TRALI and how extracorporeal circuits (ECMO and CPB) modulate haemostasis.
Research Interest
Clinical, quality of life and health economics of IVIg and SCIg therapy in Australian primary and secondary immunodeficiency patients, blood management in orthopaedic and cardiac surgery, impact of aging on Australia’s blood supply transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) neutrophil immunobiology.