Associate Professor Richard O’Brien

Director of Lipid Services and Head of the Diabetes Centre at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne.  He also holds the positions of Associate Professor of Medicine at Monash University and Visiting Scientist at the Baker Heart Research Institute.  After completing undergraduate training at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, he undertook further studies in diabetic renal disease with Professor George Jerums, completing a PhD entitled Diabetic Nephropathy: Early Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Intervention.  He continued his research at the Austin Hospital until 1991 when he moved to Monash Medical Centre.  Over the last 10 years his research work has focused mainly on aspects of atherosclerosis in diabetes, including lipid abnormalities and endothelial dysfunction, and he has authored numerous scientific papers on these subjects. Richard is actively involved in undergraduate and post graduate teaching, and has a long standing interest in continuing education for general practitioners.  He is frequently invited to speak at educational and scientific meetings in Australia and overseas.

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