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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 364 0543
Email
allamanda.faatoese@otago.ac.nz
Position
Research Fellow
Department
Department of Medicine (Christchurch)
Qualifications
BSc PhD
Research summary
Cardiovascular risk among indigenous and ethnic minority communities

Research

Dr Faatoese joined the Christchurch Heart Institute as a research assistant for the Hauora Manawa/Community Heart Study and then undertook her doctoral studies that focussed on cardiovascular risk profiles of Maori and non-Maori communities. This research continues explore the potential of novel biomarkers to stratify cardiovascular risk among Maori who bear a greater burden of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Recently, Dr Faatoese was awarded the 2014 HRC Pacific Postdoctoral Fellowship which will support her current interests in novel lipoprotein biomarkers and their associations with cardiovascular risk among Maori and non-Maori communities. This award enables the recruitment of a Pacific Island cohort from the Christchurch community in collaboration with Pacific Trust Canterbury, a whanau-ora based Pacific Health provider.

Dr Faatoese is also the Christchurch representative for the University of Otago Division of Health Sciences Pacific Strategic Group whose primary aim is to provide support for enhancing Pacific achievement in Health Sciences.

Publications

Hitchman, L. M., Faatoese, A., Merriman, T. R., Miller, A. L., Liau, Y., Graham, O. E. E., Kee, P. S., Pearson, J. F., … Cameron, V. A., Kennedy, M. A., & Maggo, S. D. S. (2022). Allelic diversity of the pharmacogene CYP2D6 in New Zealand Māori and Pacific peoples. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, 1016416. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1016416 Journal - Research Article

Faatoese, A., Carr, A., John, C., Fakahau, T., Maoate, B., Skidmore, P., & Cameron, V. (2022, August). From screening to intervention: Vitamin C in the Pasifika Heart study. Verbal presentation at the Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease Satellite Meeting: Queenstown Research Week, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Hitchman, L. M., Faatoese, A., Merriman, T. R., Miller, A. L., Liau, Y., Graham, O. E. E., Kee, P. S., Pearson, J. F., … Cameron, V. A., Kennedy, M. A., & Maggo, S. D. S. (2022, August-September). Allelic diversity of the pharmacogene CYP2D6 in New Zealand Māori and Pacific peoples. Poster session presented at the 31st Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting (QMB), Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Blattner, K., Faatoese, A., Smith, M., Maoate, K., Miller, R., & Richards, R. (2022). New Zealand postgraduate medical training by distance for Pacific Island country-based general practitioners: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(1), 74-79. doi: 10.1071/HC21090 Journal - Research Article

Sika-Paotonu, D., Azevedo, P. M., Faatoese, A., Wihongi, H., Nuku, H., Hudson, M., … Merriman, T., & Lennon, D. (2017, March). Culturally appropriate advisory and governance for the study of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in New Zealand. Poster session presented at the 10th Health Disparities Conference, New Orleans, LA. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

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