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DR KEVIN GERARD ROWLEY



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW (CHS)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Applied Science Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1984
Graduate Diploma of Epidemiology & Biostatistics University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Interventions to improve cardiovascular health in Aboriginal people Chief Investigator VIC HEALTH Senior/Public Health Research Fellowships (VIC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION) 01/01/2002
Predictive models and interventions for coronary heart disease in aboriginal and torres strait islander people Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
HEALTH OUTCOMES MONITORING AND EVALUATION: LEARNING ABOUT ACTITIVY,NUTRITION,DIET AND SOCIAL FACTORS Chief Investigator MENZIES SCHOOL HEALTH RESEARCH Program Grants (NHMRC) 01/01/2005
DEVELOPING NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY GUIDELINES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Victorian Department of Human Services Public Health Research Projects 01/07/2005
NHMRC Research Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2008
Culturally appropriate general practice services for Aboriginal Australians Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
Theme 4 Leaders Discretion Fund (Chronic and infectious diseases) Chief Investigator CRC FOR ABORIGINAL HEALTH 01/07/2003
VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL CHILD HEALTH DEVELOPMENT AND WELL BEING SURVEY Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES 13/06/2007

Additional Grant and Contract Information

VicHealth Public Health Research Fellowship #2001-1081, 2002-6

National Health & Medical Research Council PHRDC Postdoctoral Training Fellowship #974302, ‘Nutritional markers and coronary risk in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’, 1997-2000

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Glutathionyl haemoglobin is not increased in diabetes nor related to glycaemia, complications, dyslipidaemia, inflammation or other measures of oxidative stress
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 80
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: e1-3
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  • Homocysteine and diabetic retinopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Diabetes Care
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 50-6
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  • Longitudinal analysis of low-molecular weight fluorophores in type 1 diabetes mellitus
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Medical Investigation
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 29-36
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  • Low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol is the most prevalent metabolic abnormality for Australian Aboriginal men and women even when lean
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-51
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  • Lower than expected morbidity and mortality for an Australian Aboriginal population: 10-year follow-up in a decentralised community
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 188
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 283-7
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  • Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 activity in type 2 diabetes: a different relationship with coronary heart disease and diabetic retinopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 786-91
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A collaborative cardiovascular health program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Goulburn-Murray region: development and risk factor screening at Indigenous community organisations


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Primary Health
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-17
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  • Koori community-directed health promotion in the Goulburn Valley


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Community Psychologist
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-46
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  • Anthropometric indices and their relationship with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia in Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders
    Year: 2007
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 172-8
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  • Diabetes in Indigenous Australians: possible ways forward
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 186
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 494-495
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  • Differential association of C-reactive protein with adiposity in men and women in an Aboriginal community in northeast Arnhem Land of Australia.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 103-108
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  • Hemostatic factors in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 629-35
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  • Increased serum pigment epithelium-derived factor is associated with microvascular complications, vascular stiffness and inflammation in Type 1 diabetes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Diabetic Medicine
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1345-51
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  • Urban Indigenous health
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-5
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Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

  • A statewide evaluation framework for the Aboriginal Health Promotion and Chronic Care Partnerships (AHPACC) initiative
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Australian Institute of Primary Care(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Agreement between laboratory results and on-site pathology testing using Bayer DCA2000+ and Cholestech LDX point-of-care methods in remote Australian Aboriginal communities
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinica Chimica Acta
    Volume: 367
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 69-76
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  • Blood pressure and hypertension for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 438-43
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  • Exercise frequency and arterial compliance in non-diabetic and type 1 diabetic individuals
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 598-603
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  • Leanness and type 2 diabetes in a population of Indigenous Australians
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
    Volume: 72
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 93-9
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  • Test agreement for classifying diabetes in Indigenous Australians
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 128-131
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  • Traditional risk factor assessment does not capture the extent of cardiovascular risk in systemic lupus erythematosus
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 237-43
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Contamination in HPLC quantified benzaldehyde is from polypropylene microtubes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications
    Volume: 826
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 277-278
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Increases in plasma lycopene concentration after consumption of tomatoes cooked in olive oil
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 131-136
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  • Oxidative stress and high-density lipoprotein function in Type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical Science
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 497-506
    Publisher: Portland Press(London)
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  • Paraoxonase activity in Greek migrants and Anglo-Celtic persons in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study: relationship to dietary markers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: European Journal of Nutrition
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 223-230
    Publisher: Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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