Dr Tu Nguyen
Co-Chair, The Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration
Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
Dr Tu Nguyen is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Sydney School Public Health, and is on the Leadership Team of the Sydney Health Partners Geriatric Medicine Clinical Academic Group. She is a geriatrician by training with a research passion in geriatric cardiology, frailty and multimorbidity. She has a broad range of research skills and experiences working on large-scale epidemiological and clinical trial studies. She is a Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, and Co-Lead of the Frailty and Cardiovascular Disease Research Theme, Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal on Ageing, and as an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Dr Tu Nguyen’s primary research interest is the management of cardiovascular disease in older and frail adults. Her research focuses on cardiovascular pharmacology, multimorbidity, frailty, and the application of digital health technologies for the prevention and management of chronic diseases in older people. She is passionate about research to improve health and quality of life for older people in low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, she has an interest in climate change and its impact on cardiovascular health and ageing.
Dr Tu Nguyen is a registered primary supervisor for higher degree research students at the University of Sydney. Enquiries about potential PhD projects can be sent directly to her email address.
The NSW Cardiovascular Research Network (Committee Member of the CVRN Rising Stars Sub-Committee Term 2021-2023)
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (Committee Member of the ANZSSFR Early- and Mid- Career Researchers and Clinicians CommitteeTerm 2021-2023)
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
European Society of Hypertension
European Association of Preventive Cardiology
American College of Cardiology (ACC) and ACC Geriatric Cardiology Section
Sydney Health Professions Education Research Network
Sydney Health Partners Geriatric Medicine Clinical Academic Group
- 2024: NSW Cardiovascular Research Network Professional Development Awards
- 2023: Finalist, SUPRA Supervisor of The Year Award
- 2022: Sydney Health Partners Geriatric Medicine Clinical Academic Group Early Career Researcher’s Award
- 2022: Selected to the Sydney Women’s Leadership Program for Academic Staff
- 2022: The University of Sydney Global Development Awards
- 2021: NSW Cardiovascular Research Network Professional Development Awards
- 2020: Westmead Applied Research Centre Integrity Award
- 2020: Elected as Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), and Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC).
- 2019: Clinical Scientist Travel Award, awarded at the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) World Congress in Adelaide, Australia.
- 2018: Travel award - Institute Community Support, awarded by the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institute for Health Research for presenting at the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA.
- 2018: Travel award (Bourse de voyage à caractère scientifique du RECMUS), Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada for presenting at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Boston, USA.
- 2018: The Ascending Star Travel Award, awarded at the International Conference on Sarcopenia Definitions and Outcomes (supported by the National Institute on Aging and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health), Boston, USA.
- 2017: Singapore Young Investigator Award (in Basic Science/Translational Research), awarded at the Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress (SHBC) 2017 in Singapore.
- 2015: Travel award, University of Sydney’s Postgraduate Research Support Scheme 2015 (PRSS) and Research Student Grant Scheme 2015 (RSGS) for presenting at the International Psychogeriatric Association Congress in Berlin, Germany.
- 2014: Travel award, University of Sydney’s Postgraduate Research Support Scheme 2014 (PRSS) and Research Student Grant Scheme 2014 (RSGS) for presenting at the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) in Boston, USA.
- 2014: Kolling Institute of Medical Research Travel Award 2014 for presenting at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2013: Travel award, University of Sydney’s Postgraduate Research Support Scheme 2013 (PRSS) and Research Student Grant Scheme 2013 (RSGS) for presenting at the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide, Australia.
- 2003: First-Rate Medical Student of the Academic Year 2002-2003 (University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).
(University of Sherbrooke, Quebec) Collaborations with Professor Martin Fortin and his team on studies of multimorbidity and frailty. | |
(University of Malaya) Collaborate with Associate Professor Tan Kit Mun (Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya) on studies related to diabetes and strokes in older people. | |
(National Heart Centre Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School) I collaborate with Associate Professor Angela Koh on studies related to sarcopenia and heart disease in older people. | |
(National Geriatric Hospital) Collaborate with Associate Professor Vu Thi Thanh Huyen (Department of Geriatrics, Hanoi Medical University) and her team on multiple research studies of frailty, sarcopenia and other chronic conditions in older people in Vietnam. | |
(University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ho Chi Minh City) Collaborate with Associate Professor Tan Van Nguyen (Head, Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City and Head, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thong Nhat Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City) on studies in older people with cardiovascular diseases in Vietnam. |
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Cardiovascular disease in older people with diabetes in Southeast Asia | Wei Jin WONG |
Publications
Journals
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Marschner, S., Turnbull, S., Indrawansa, A., White, R., Burns, M., Gopal, V., Min, H., Quintans, D., Von Huben, A., Usherwood, T., Lindley, R., Kumar, S., Chow, C., et al (2024). A randomised controlled implementation study integrating patient self-screening with a remote central monitoring system to screen community-dwellers aged 75 years and older for atrial fibrillation. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, , 1-11. [More Information]
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Chow, C. (2024). Global implementation and evaluation of atrial fibrillation screening in the past two decades – a narrative review. npj Cardiovascular Health, 1(17), 1-19. [More Information]
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Trankle, S., Usherwood, T., Quintans, D., Marschner, S., Turnbull, S., Indrawansa, A., White, R., Burns, M., Gopal, V., Lindley, R., Kumar, S., Chow, C. (2024). Implementing a remote self-screening programme for atrial fibrillation using digital health technology among community-dwellers aged 75 years and older: a qualitative evaluation. BMJ Open, 14(10), e088260-e088260. [More Information]
2024
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Marschner, S., Turnbull, S., Indrawansa, A., White, R., Burns, M., Gopal, V., Min, H., Quintans, D., Von Huben, A., Usherwood, T., Lindley, R., Kumar, S., Chow, C., et al (2024). A randomised controlled implementation study integrating patient self-screening with a remote central monitoring system to screen community-dwellers aged 75 years and older for atrial fibrillation. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, , 1-11. [More Information]
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Chow, C. (2024). Global implementation and evaluation of atrial fibrillation screening in the past two decades – a narrative review. npj Cardiovascular Health, 1(17), 1-19. [More Information]
- Wong, K., Nguyen, T., Trankle, S., Usherwood, T., Quintans, D., Marschner, S., Turnbull, S., Indrawansa, A., White, R., Burns, M., Gopal, V., Lindley, R., Kumar, S., Chow, C. (2024). Implementing a remote self-screening programme for atrial fibrillation using digital health technology among community-dwellers aged 75 years and older: a qualitative evaluation. BMJ Open, 14(10), e088260-e088260. [More Information]
2023
- Wong, K., Trankle, S., Quintans, D., Nguyen, T., Usherwood, T., Chow, C. (2023). A Systematic Approach to Improving the Transparency of Interview Refinements and Data Sufficiency in Semi-Structured Interviews: An Illustration Using the Mass Atrial Fibrillation Screening Study. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, , 1-12. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Vu, H., Nguyen, T., Thillainadesan, J., Nguyen, A., Nguyen, H., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, H., Nguyen, T., Naganathan, V. (2023). Factors associated with frailty in geriatric patients with and without sarcopenia in Vietnam. Australasian Journal on Ageing. [More Information]
- O'Hagan, E., McIntyre, D., Nguyen, T., Chow, C. (2023). Hypertension therapy using fixed-dose polypills that contain at least three medications. Heart. [More Information]
2022
- Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, A., Nguyen, H., Goldberg, R., Nguyen, H., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Vu, H. (2022). Appendicular Lean Mass and Frailty among Geriatric Outpatients. The Journal of frailty & aging, 11(2), 177-181. [More Information]
- Laranjo, L., Shaw, T., Trivedi, R., Thomas, S., Charlston, E., Klimis, H., Thiagalingam, A., Kumar, S., Tan, T., Nguyen, T., Marschner, S., Chow, C. (2022). Coordinating Health Care With Artificial Intelligence-Supported Technology for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(4), e34470. [More Information]
- Dao, H., Nguyen, A., Vu, H., Nguyen, T. (2022). Examine the Association between Metabolic Syndrome and Frailty in an Older Asian Population. Diabetology, 3(1), 108-116. [More Information]
2021
- Ng, T., Nguyen, T., Gao, Q., Nyunt, M., Yap, K., Wee, S. (2021). Angiotensin receptor blockers use and changes in frailty, muscle mass, and function indexes: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study. JCSM Rapid Communications, 4, 111-121. [More Information]
- Ngangue, P., Brown, J., Forgues, C., Ag Ahmed, M., Nguyen, T., Sasseville, M., Loignon, C., Gallagher, F., Stewart, M., Fortin, M. (2021). Evaluating the implementation of interdisciplinary patient-centred care intervention for people with multimorbidity in primary care: A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(9), e046914. [More Information]
- Yeo, P., Nguyen, T., Ng, M., Choo, R., Lin, P., Yap, K., Ng, T., Wee, S. (2021). Evaluation of the Implementation and Effectiveness of Community-Based Brain-Computer Interface Cognitive Group Training in Healthy Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Randomized Controlled Implementation Trial. JMIR Formative Research, 5(4), e25462.
2020
- Van Nguyen, T., Ly, T., Nguyen, T. (2020). A Pilot Study of the Clinical Frailty Scale to Predict Frailty Transition and Readmission in Older Patients in Vietnam. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(5), 1582. [More Information]
- Van Nguyen, T., Tran, K., Bui, K., Le, D., Nguyen, T. (2020). A preliminary study to identify the likely risk for sarcopenia in older hospitalised patients with cardiovascular disease in Vietnam. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 39(3), e315-e321. [More Information]
- Yu, Y., Meng, Q., Munot, S., Nguyen, T., Redfern, J., Chow, C. (2020). Assessment of Community Interventions for Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e209256. [More Information]
2019
- Nguyen, T., Le, D., Tran, K., Bui, K., Nguyen, T. (2019). Frailty in older patients with acute coronary syndrome in Vietnam. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 14, 2213-2222. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Ngangue, P., Haggerty, J., Bouhalia, T., Fortin, M. (2019). Multimorbidity, polypharmacy and primary prevention in community-dwelling adults in Quebec: a cross-sectional study. Family Practice, 36(6), 706-712. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Ngangue, P., Bouhali, T., Ryan, B., Stewart, M., Fortin, M. (2019). Social Vulnerability in Patients with Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(7), 1244. [More Information]
2017
- Vu, H., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, A., Cumming, R., Hilmer, S., Pham, T. (2017). Prevalence of frailty and its associated factors in older hospitalised patients in Vietnam. BMC Geriatrics, 17(216), 1-7. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Morel-Kopp, M., Pepperell, D., Cumming, R., Hilmer, S., Ward, C. (2017). The impact of frailty on coagulation and responses to warfarin in acute older hospitalised patients with atrial fibrillation: a pilot study. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 29(6), 1129-1138. [More Information]
2016
- Nguyen, T., Cumming, R., Hilmer, S. (2016). Atrial fibrillation in older inpatients: are there any differences in clinical characteristics and pharmacological treatment between the frail and the non-frail? Internal Medicine Journal, 46(1), 86-95. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Pepperell, D., Morel-Kopp, M., Cumming, R., Ward, C., Hilmer, S. (2016). Effect of Frailty and Age on Platelet Aggregation and Response to Aspirin in Older Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Pilot Study. Cardiology and Therapy, 5(1), 51-62. [More Information]
- Nguyen, T., Vu, H., Nguyen, T., Pham, T., Hilmer, S., Cumming, R. (2016). Prevalence, Risk factors and Pharmacological treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Older Hospitalized Patients in Vietnam. International Cardiovascular Forum Journal, 8, 1-7.
2015
- Nguyen, T., Cumming, R., Hilmer, S. (2015). A review of frailty in developing countries. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 19(9), 941-946. [More Information]
2013
- Nguyen, T., Hilmer, S., Cumming, R. (2013). Review of epidemiology and management of atrial fibrillation in developing countries. International Journal of Cardiology, 167(6), 2412-2420. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2021
- Hypertension in older people with frailty and multimorbidity, Nguyen T, Office of Global Engagement/Global Development Awards
2020
- Enabling personalised dietary recommendations to improve cardiometabolic health, Read M, Kumar A, Shanahan E, Luk A, Koay Y, Nguyen T, Wang A, Yoo S, University of Sydney/Cardiovascular Initiative Catalyst Award
In the media
https://diabetes.medicinematters.com/older-adults/cardiovascular-outcomes/advance-trial-frailty-risk-benefit-intensive-type-2-treatment/19201834
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/16/addressing-comorbid-conditions-in-older-people-with-type-2-diabetes/