Lis Neubeck
Lis Neubeck

Prof Lis Neubeck PhD, BA (Hons), RN, FRSE, FESC, FIPC (Hon)

Professor

Biography

Lis Neubeck is Professor of Cardiovascular Health in the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University. She is the Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Health Research at Edinburgh Napier University. Lis is the role of National Health Service Research Scotland Cardiovascular Clinical Network Lead. She is an Honorary Professor of Sydney Nursing School, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. She is an Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide. Lis completed a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Early Career Fellowship, and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. Her research focuses on innovative solutions to secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, identification and management of atrial fibrillation, and use of new technologies to improve access to health care. Lis has secured over £5m in competitive research funding and has won notable prizes and awards for her research, including the prestigious Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Nursing Prize (2013). She has supervised to completion 4 Honours students; all achieved Upper Class Honours; and 9 PhD students; and she has 6 current PhD students. Lis is Past President of the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (President 2015-2017), served on the board of the Cardiovascular Nursing Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (2013-2016). She is the immediate Past President of the Association of Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professionals of the European Society of Cardiology (2020-22). She is also a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Themes

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Scottish Cardiac Society Executive Committee- Ex Officio
  • Scottish Heart and Arterial disease Risk Prevention- Trustee
  • Scottish Heart Disease Action Plan Taskforce
  • Member of the Health Improvement, Protection, and Services Research Committee, Chief Scientists Office

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Heart Failure Association Congress- Nursing prize presentation- 18/05/2021- Judge

 

Editorial Activity

  • European Heart Journal Digital Health Editorial Board
  • Editor European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • Consultant Editor British Journal of Cardiac Nursing

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner MSc Preventive Cardiology NUI Galway

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Top cited paper Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
  • Times Higher Education Awards- Knowledge Exchange Finalist 2021
  • The Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2021- Knowledge Exchange Champion- Finalist Finalist
  • Honorary Fellowship of the National Institute of Prevention and Cardiovascular Health
  • Women Transforming Leadership Programme Saïd Business School University of Oxford- March 2022
  • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
  • Extraordinary Service to the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association

 

Invited Speaker

  • FutureScot Digital Health and Care Scotland- Closing the AF detection gap: the ongoing search for abnormal heart rhythms- 16/03/2022
  • ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022- New guidelines: new challenges for the Heart Team?- 07/04/2022
  • University of New Mexico- Community and individual detection of Atrial Fibrillation- 26/01/2022
  • National Institute of Preventive Cardiology- Croi My Slainte Outcomes report launch- international perspective- 27/01/2022
  • National University of Ireland- Digital Health / e-Health and Technologies in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention-12/03/2022
  • eHealth 2021 Sweden- Using apps in detection and treatment-16/03/2021
  • ESC Preventive Cardiology- Big data and digital twins- 15/04/2021
  • British Cardiac Society-Cardiac Rehabilitation, the dawn of a new era. Innovations to modernise CR and increase uptake in the post Covid era- 10/05/2021
  • ESC congress 2021- How can we use new digital approaches to keep the patient at the centre of decision making? -28/08/2021
  • Edinburgh Napier Breakfast Meeting- Heart Health post-covid- 17/08/2021
  • ESC Digital Summit 2021- Co-design: the way ahead in designing digital health- 24/08/2021
  • ESC congress- Healthcare inequities: how to bridge the digital divide- 30/08/2021
  • ESC Preventive Cardiology- Managing cardiovascular risk factors, whose job is it?- 16/04/2021
  • EuroHeartCare- Multidisciplinary approaches to detecting and perfecting care in atrial fibrillation- 18/06/2021
  • EuroHeartCare- Meet the experts in digital revolutions in cardiovascular care: take home messages (roundtable)- 19/06/2021
  • National Institute of Preventive Cardiology- Experiences of Wearables, Trackers and Apps in Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation - 19/11/2021
  • ESC congress - How can we use new digital approaches to keep the patient at the centre of decision making?- 28/08/2021
  • Pakistan Cardiac Society together with World Heart Federation: Arrhythmia- Using digital tools to improve the management of AF- 24/02/2021
  • EuroHeartCare- Co-designed mobile applications for enhancing self-management- 19/06/2021
  • Clinical Fellow Event- National Cardiovascular Recruitment Research-14/09/2021
  • Scottish Lipid Forum and SHARP hybrid meeting- Community and individual detection of Atrial Fibrillation: the tip of the iceberg- 18/11/2021
  • Arrhythmia Alliance Heart Rhythm Congress 2021 - Digital Health- 13/10/2021
  • ESC congress- The benefits of digital health interventions in cardiovascular disease- 28/08/2021
  • A Horizon 2020 AFFECT-EU webinar- Atrial fibrillation screening implementation - state of the art and future directions- 20/08/2021
  • ESC Congress - The digital experience- Virtual cardiac rehabiltation programmes: a way forward to increase access and decrease costs- 30/08/2020
  • Atrial Fibrillation Association-AF Improvement workshop- 29/03/2020
  • ESC Congress - The digital experience 2020- Designing the future - 28/08/2020
  • ACNAP Webinar- Detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation - 10/03/2020
  • National Institute of Preventive Cardiology- Interactive Application of the New ESC Guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation -20/11/2020
  • ESC Congress - The digital experience- Quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure- 29/08/2020
  • British Cardiac Society- digital cardiology symposium- Remote Healthcare for CVD patients during the pandemic- 26/08/2020
  • Daiichi Sankyo Annual Meeting
  • Inverness AF meeting
  • ACNAP Webinar- Increasing understanding of atrial fibrillation (AF) and medication adherence for people living with AF 15/10/2019
  • Mobile applications for heart failure management
  • CSANZ Future Leader Dinner Invited Mentor

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • President Association of Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professions of the European Society of Cardiology
  • President Elect of the ESC Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions
  • President, Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD examination- University of Oslo 25/06/2021
  • PhD examination Universities of Greenwich and Kent at Medway 08/01/2021
  • PhD examination- University of York
  • PhD examination- University of Technology Sydney
  • PhD examination- City University London
  • PhD examination- University of New South Wales

 

Visiting Positions

  • Honorary Professor, the University of Sydney Susan Wakil School for Nursing and Midwifery, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide

 

Date


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Green Health Partnerships in Scotland; Pathways for Social Prescribing and Physical Activity Referral

Journal Article
McHale, S., Pearsons, A., Neubeck, L., & Hanson, C. L. (2020)
Green Health Partnerships in Scotland; Pathways for Social Prescribing and Physical Activity Referral. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), Article 6832. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186832
Increased exposure to green space has many health benefits. Scottish Green Health Partnerships (GHPs) have established green health referral pathways to enable community-based...

A digital health intervention for cardiovascular disease management in primary care (CONNECT) randomized controlled trial

Journal Article
Redfern, J., Coorey, G., Mulley, J., Scaria, A., Neubeck, L., Hafiz, N., …Peiris, D. (in press)
A digital health intervention for cardiovascular disease management in primary care (CONNECT) randomized controlled trial. npj Digital Medicine, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-00325-z
Digital health applications (apps) have the potential to improve health behaviors and outcomes. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of a consumer web-based app linked to pri...

Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: a cross-sectional study and cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth tools to support all stages of screening

Journal Article
Orchard, J., Li, J., Freedman, B., Webster, R., Salkeld, G., Hespe, C., …Lowres, N. (2020)
Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: a cross-sectional study and cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth tools to support all stages of screening. Journal of the American Heart Association JAHA, 9(18), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.017080
Background Internationally, most atrial fibrillation (AF) management guidelines recommend opportunistic screening for AF in people aged ≥65 years, and oral anticoagulant (OAC)...

A realist evaluation approach to explaining the role of context in the impact of a complex eHealth intervention for improving prevention of cardiovascular disease

Journal Article
Coorey, G., Peiris, D., Neubeck, L., & Redfern, J. (2020)
A realist evaluation approach to explaining the role of context in the impact of a complex eHealth intervention for improving prevention of cardiovascular disease. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05597-5
Background Reduction of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a worldwide health priority and innovative uses of technology-based interventions may assist patients with improving pr...

Inclusion in the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines of non-vitamin K anticoagulants for treatment of non-valvular atrial fibrillation: A step towards reducing the burden of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality

Journal Article
Zaidel, E. J., Leng, X., Moshood Adeoye, A., Hakim, F., Karmacharya, B., Katbeh, A., …Di Cesare, M. (2020)
Inclusion in the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines of non-vitamin K anticoagulants for treatment of non-valvular atrial fibrillation: A step towards reducing the burden of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Global Heart, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.608
Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) with major practice guidelines around...

Atrial Fibrillation in Indigenous Australians: A Multisite Screening Study Using a Single-Lead ECG Device in Aboriginal Primary Health Settings

Journal Article
Gwynn, J., Gwynne, K., Rodrigues, R., Thompson, S., Bolton, G., Dimitropoulos, Y., …Freedman, B. (2021)
Atrial Fibrillation in Indigenous Australians: A Multisite Screening Study Using a Single-Lead ECG Device in Aboriginal Primary Health Settings. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 30(2), 267-274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2020.06.009
Background Circulatory diseases continue to be the greatest cause of mortality for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and a major cause of persistently l...

Our Natural Health Service - Gathering the views of key individuals with an operational or strategic role in the Green Health Partnership Intervention

Report
Hanson, C., McHale, S., Pearsons, A., & Neubeck, L. (2020)
Our Natural Health Service - Gathering the views of key individuals with an operational or strategic role in the Green Health Partnership Intervention. Inverness: Scottish Natural Heritage
Background: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is the lead organisation in the Our Natural Health Service (ONHS) programme, which aims to make better use of Scotland’s natural en...

Cognitive Impairment and Psychological State in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients: A prospective descriptive study at Cardiac Rehabilitation Entry, Completion and Follow-up

Journal Article
Gallagher, R., Woolaston, A., Tofler, G., Bauman, A., Zhao, E., Jeon, Y., …Naismith, S. (2021)
Cognitive Impairment and Psychological State in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients: A prospective descriptive study at Cardiac Rehabilitation Entry, Completion and Follow-up. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 20(1), 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515120933105
Background: Cognitive impairments (CI) may limit uptake of secondary prevention in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients but is poorly understood, including in cardiac rehabi...

Process Evaluation for Technology Enabled Atrial Fibrillation Screening after a Stroke in Scotland

Report
Lennon, M., McCann, L., Horan, S., Kyfonidis, B., Munford, R., Bruce, A., …Brennan, K. (2020)
Process Evaluation for Technology Enabled Atrial Fibrillation Screening after a Stroke in Scotland. Scottish Government
Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) after stroke is a national priority. AF-related strokes typically cost twice as much to manage as non-AF related strokes (Miller et al, 2...

Delivering healthcare remotely to cardiovascular patients during COVID-19: A rapid review of the evidence

Journal Article
Neubeck, L., Hansen, T., Jaarsma, T., Klompstra, L., & Gallagher, R. (2020)
Delivering healthcare remotely to cardiovascular patients during COVID-19: A rapid review of the evidence. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 19(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515120924530
Background: Although attention is focused on addressing the acute situation created by the COVID-19 illness, it is imperative to continue our efforts to prevent cardiovascular...

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Stacey Stewart- Cardiac troponin testing to inform risk and improve cardiovascular health in primary care.
  • Jessica Orchard- Cardiac screening in older adults and elite athletes. Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney (PhD)
  • Ling Zhang- Health Literacy of Chinese Immigrants Living in Australia: Measurements, Health Consequences and Opportunities for Interventions. Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney (PhD)
  • Muaddi Al-Harbi- Self-efficacy and physical activity among people with coronary heart disease and/or diabetes mellitus who are commencing a weight management program. Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney (PhD)
  • Kai Jin- Risk factor profiles and the health behaviours and health literacy related to Coronary Heart Disease amongst recent Chinese immigrants to Australia. Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney (PhD)
  • Nicole Lowres- Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation through screening and lifestyle interventions. Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney (PhD)