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

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

 

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
  • Edinburgh Napier Breakfast Meeting- Heart Health post-covid- 17/08/2021
  • 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
  • ESC congress- Healthcare inequities: how to bridge the digital divide- 30/08/2021
  • ESC Digital Summit 2021- Co-design: the way ahead in designing digital health- 24/08/2021
  • 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
  • National Institute of Preventive Cardiology- Experiences of Wearables, Trackers and Apps in Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation - 19/11/2021
  • EuroHeartCare- Meet the experts in digital revolutions in cardiovascular care: take home messages (roundtable)- 19/06/2021
  • EuroHeartCare- Co-designed mobile applications for enhancing self-management- 19/06/2021
  • Pakistan Cardiac Society together with World Heart Federation: Arrhythmia- Using digital tools to improve the management of AF- 24/02/2021
  • ESC congress - How can we use new digital approaches to keep the patient at the centre of decision making?- 28/08/2021
  • Arrhythmia Alliance Heart Rhythm Congress 2021 - Digital Health- 13/10/2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Atrial Fibrillation Association-AF Improvement workshop- 29/03/2020
  • ACNAP Webinar- Detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation - 10/03/2020
  • ESC Congress - The digital experience 2020- Designing the future - 28/08/2020
  • 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
  • ESC Congress - The digital experience- Virtual cardiac rehabiltation programmes: a way forward to increase access and decrease costs- 30/08/2020
  • Mobile applications for heart failure management
  • Inverness AF meeting
  • ACNAP Webinar- Increasing understanding of atrial fibrillation (AF) and medication adherence for people living with AF 15/10/2019
  • Daiichi Sankyo Annual Meeting
  • 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 Universities of Greenwich and Kent at Medway 08/01/2021
  • PhD examination- University of Oslo 25/06/2021
  • 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

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

 

Date


253 results

Design and rationale of the MyHeartMate study: a randomised controlled trial of a game-based app to promote behaviour change in patients with cardiovascular disease

Journal Article
Gallagher, R., Chow, C., Parker, H., Neubeck, L., Celermajer, D., Redfern, J., …Figtree, G. (2019)
Design and rationale of the MyHeartMate study: a randomised controlled trial of a game-based app to promote behaviour change in patients with cardiovascular disease. BMJ Open, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024269
Introduction: Recurrence of cardiac events is common after a first event, leading to hospitalisations and increased health burden. Patients have difficulties achieving the lif...

ECG-based Cardiac Screening Programs: Legal, Ethical and Logistical Considerations

Journal Article
Orchard, J. J., Neubeck, L., Orchard, J. W., Puranik, R., Raju, H., Freedman, B., …Semsarian, C. (2019)
ECG-based Cardiac Screening Programs: Legal, Ethical and Logistical Considerations. Heart Rhythm, 16(10), 1584-1591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2019.03.025
Screening asymptomatic people with a resting electrocardiogram (ECG) has been theorised to detect latent cardiovascular disease. However, resting ECG screening is not recommen...

ESC e-Cardiology Working Group Position Paper: Overcoming challenges in digital health implementation in cardiovascular medicine

Journal Article
Frederix, I., Caiani, E. G., Dendale, P., Anker, S., Bax, J., Böhm, A., …van der Velde, E. (2019)
ESC e-Cardiology Working Group Position Paper: Overcoming challenges in digital health implementation in cardiovascular medicine. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 26(11), 1166-1177. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319832394
Cardiovascular disease is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite the availability of highly effective treatments, the contemporary burden of dise...

Data management and wearables in older adults: A systematic review.

Journal Article
Straiton, N., Alharbi, M., Smith, S., Neubeck, L., & Gallagher, R. (2019)
Data management and wearables in older adults: A systematic review. Maturitas, 124, 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2019.03.012
Background: Wearable trackers as research or clinical tools are increasingly used to support the care of older adults, due to their practicality in self-monitoring and potenti...

Utilising a data capture tool to populate a cardiac rehabilitation registry: a feasibility study

Journal Article
O’Neil, A., Cadilhac, D. A., Grace, S. L., Thomas, E., Grace, S., Boyle, D., …O'Neil, A. (2020)
Utilising a data capture tool to populate a cardiac rehabilitation registry: a feasibility study. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 29(2), 224-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2018.12.012
Background: Clinical registries are effective for monitoring clinical practice, yet manual data collection can limit their implementation and sustainability. The objective of ...

Telehealth interventions for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal Article
Jin, K., Khonsari, S., Gallagher, R., Gallagher, P., Clark, A. M., Freedman, B., …Neubeck, L. (2019)
Telehealth interventions for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 18(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515119826510
Background - Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of death worldwide. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR), an evidence-based CHD secondary prevention programme, remains under...

eHealth tools to provide structured assistance for Atrial Fibrillation Screening, Management And guideline Recommended Therapy in metropolitan general practice: the AF-SMART study

Journal Article
Orchard, J., Neubeck, L., Freedman, B., Li, J., Webster, R., Zwar, N., …Lowres, N. (2019)
eHealth tools to provide structured assistance for Atrial Fibrillation Screening, Management And guideline Recommended Therapy in metropolitan general practice: the AF-SMART study. Journal of the American Heart Association JAHA, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.010959
Background: This eHealth implementation study aimed to evaluate strategies to promote opportunistic atrial fibrillation (AF) screening using electronic screening prompts and ...

White paper on inequalities and unmet needs in the detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) and use of therapies to prevent AF-related stroke in Europe

Report
Camm, J., Antoniou, S., Caso, V., Doehner, W., Eisle, J., Engdahl, J., …Vanhooren, G. (2018)
White paper on inequalities and unmet needs in the detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) and use of therapies to prevent AF-related stroke in Europe. BMS–Pfizer Alliance
No abstract available.

Increasing The Uptake Of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Within Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs

Presentation / Conference
Cartledge, S., Bray, J. E., Stubb, D., Finn, J., & Neubeck, L. (2018, November)
Increasing The Uptake Of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Within Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs. Presented at American Heart Association
Introduction: Outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs provide an ideal environment to deliver targeted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to cardiac patients and ...

Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: an implementation study protocol

Journal Article
Orchard, J. J., Neubeck, L., Freedman, B., Webster, R., Patel, A., Gallagher, R., …Lowres, N. (2018)
Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: an implementation study protocol. BMJ Open, 8(10), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023130
Introduction: Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in people ≥65 years is now recommended by guidelines and expert consensus. While AF is often asymptomatic, it is the most ...

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)