Associate Professor Sophia Zoungas is a postdoctoral research fellow and honorary senior lecturer in the Jean Hailes Research Unit within the School of Public Health. Sophia is an endocrinologist and emerging opinion leader in the management of cardiovascular risk in high-risk populations. The appointment has extended from her research experience in the hormonal/diabetes/cardiovascular/renal disease areas and from her clinical experience in the care of patients with diabetes.

Sophia is emerging as an authority on the prognostic value of non-invasive indices of arterial function for cardiovascular outcome in renal disease and diabetes and the effects of folic acid and renal transplantation. Her current research interests include examining mechanistic relationships, novel biomarkers and therapeutic interventions and thus improve the translation of basic science into clinical practice and screening policies, especially in the high risk diabetes/renal disease populations. She is also a PhD supervisor and has worked with the George Institute over the past few years to strengthen clinical epidemiology and biostatistics experience

Publications

Ritchie GE, Kengne AP, Joshi R, Chow C, Neal B, Patel A, Zoungas S. Comparison of near-patient capillary glucose measurement and a risk assessment questionnaire in screening for type 2 diabetes in a high-risk population in rural India. Diabetes Care. 2011 Jan;34(1):44-9.

Zoungas S, Lui M, Kerr PG, Teede H, McNeil JJ, McGrath BP, Polkinghorne KR. Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease, Cardiovascular Events and the Effect of Diabetes: Data from the ASFAST study. Internal Medicine Journal. 2010 March 18.

Wong J, Zoungas S, Wright C, Teede H. Evidence Based Guidelines for Peri-operative Management of Diabetes in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery. World Journal of Surgery 2010 March; 34(3):500-13

Moran LJ, Meyer C, Hutchison SK, Zoungas S, Teede HJ. Novel inflammatory markers in overweight women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome and following pharmacological intervention. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 2010 April; 33(4): 258-65.

Teede HJ, Meyer C, Hutchison S, Zoungas S, McGrath B, Moran L. Endothelial function and insulin resistance in polycystic ovary syndrome: the effects of medical therapy. Fertility and Sterility 2010; 93(1) 184-191

Content updated 15 June, 2011