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Dr Emma Ashton

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Health Social Science

PhD, BAppSc(Hum Biol)

Telephone: +61 3 9904 4410
   
Facsimile: +61 3 9903 1658
   
Email:

emma.ashton@med.monash.edu.au

Profile

Emma Ashton holds a PhD from Science and Technology at Deakin University.  After completing her PhD moved to the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University for 6 years working on a number of cardiovascular disease studies. Emma has been awarded a NHMRC Public Health Fellowship.

Research interests

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Chronic Heart Failure
  • Nutrition
  • Coenzyme Q 10

Recent publications

  • Krum, H., Ashton, E., Reid, C., Kalff, V., Rogers, J., Singh, JAB., & Tonkin, A. (2007). Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study of high-dose HMG CoA reductase inhibitor therapy on ventricular remodelling, pro-inflammatory cytokines and neurohormonal parameters in patients with chronic systolic heart failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 13(1):1-7.
  • Ashton, E., Liew, D., & Krum, H. (2003). Should patients with chronic heart failure be treated with 'statins'? Heart Fail Mon, 3:82-86.
  • Magliano, D., Liew, D., Ashton, E., Sundararajan, V., McNeil, J.J. (2003). Novel risk factors for cardiovascular disease. J Cardiovasc Risk, 10:1-17, 41-55.
  • Ahuja, K.D., Ashton, E., & Ball, M. (2003). Effects of two lipid-lowering, carotenoid-controlled diets on the oxidative modification of low-density lipoproteins in free-living humans. Clinical Science, 105(3):355-61.
  • Ahuja, K.D., Ashton, E., & Ball, M. (2002). Effect of high monounsaturated fat, tomato rich diet on serum levels of lycopene and other carotenoids. Eur J Clin Nutr, 57(7):832-41.