ProfessorJohn O'Sullivan

Professor O’Sullivan has taught and mentored medical students, basic scientists and clinicians in training for more than two decades.

Teaching. He leads the design and delivery of teaching in cardiometabolic medicine across the University, to students in medicine, dentistry, physiology and science, through lectures, tutorials and bedside teaching. At Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he teaches cardiology advanced trainees and registrars in the HFpEF clinic and on the wards, and as Director of Quality and Outcomes he convenes the Department of Cardiology’s Quality and Outcomes forum, a trainee-facing program that teaches clinical audit, systems thinking and the translation of outcome data into changes in practice.

Research supervision. He supervises Masters and PhD candidates in the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, across the projects listed on this page, together with Honours students and medical students undertaking research years.

The training environment is unusually broad. A student in this group can work with deeply phenotyped patients in clinic, with invasive haemodynamic and exercise physiology, with living human myocardium, and with mass spectrometry and multi-omics, often within a single project. Students are embedded in active clinical trials and in an international network spanning Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Duke-NUS and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and are expected and supported to present their work internationally.

Career outcomes. Members of the group have been recruited from Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand. Dr Yen Chin Koay joined as the group’s first postdoctoral fellow and now holds a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship. Students who have completed research projects in the group have gone on to medical school at the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland and the Australian National University.