Dr Alice Owen - Researcher Profile

Biography

Alice Owen is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine. Her areas of research interest include the cardiovascular effects of long chain omega-3 fats, epidemiological modelling and community strategies for blood pressure control. Alice is also a senior investigator of the ASPREE Longitudinal Study of Older Persons (ALSOP), a sub-study of the ASPREE clinical trial of aspirin. 

Alice is a physiologist who undertook her PhD through the University of Adelaide, based at the (then) CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. She undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the ARC Key Centre for Smart Foods at the University of Wollongong prior to joining Monash.

Qualifications

SCIENCE

Institution: University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 2005

PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Owen, A.J., Reid, C.M., 2012, Prevention of cardiovascular disease, in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials: Putting the Evidence into Practice, eds Marcus D. Flather, Deepak L. Bhatt and Tobias Geisler, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 345-377.

Journal Articles

Owen, A., Reid, C., 2012, Cardio classics revisited: focus on the role of amlodipine, Integrated Blood Pressure Control [E], vol 5, Dove Medical Press Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 1-7.

Zomer, E., Liew, D., Owen, A.J., Magliano, D.J., Ademi, Z., Reid, C.M., 2012, Cardiovascular risk prediction in a Metabolic Syndrome population: Framingham versus UKPDS algorithms, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology [P], vol e-pub, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-7.

Zomer, E., Owen, A.J., Magliano, D., Liew, D.Y.H., Reid, C.M., 2012, The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of dark chocolate consumption as prevention therapy in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: best case scenario analysis using a Markov model, British Medical Journal [P], vol 344, issue Art. ID: :e3657, B M J Group, United Kingdom, pp. 1-10.

Zomer, E., Owen, A., Magliano, D.J., Liew, D., Reid, C.M., 2011, Validation of two Framingham cardiovascular risk prediction algorithms in an Australian population: The 'old' versus the 'new' Framingham equation, European Journal Of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation [P], vol 18, issue 1, Sage Publicaions Ltd, United Kingdom, France, pp. 115-120.

Slee, E., McLennan, P., Owen, A., Theiss, M., 2010, Low dietary fish-oil threshold for myocardial membrane n-3 PUFA enrichment independent of n-6 PUFA intake in rats, Journal Of Lipid Research [P], vol 51, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc, United States, pp. 1841-1848.

Owen, A.J., Retegan, C., Rockell, M., Jennings, G.L.R., Reid, C.M., 2009, Inertia or inaction? blood pressure management and cardiovascular risk in diabetes, Clinical And Experimental Pharmacology And Physio..., vol 36, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 643-647.

Owen, A.J., Spinks, J.M., Meehan, A.D., Robb, T., Hardy, M., Kwasha, D., Wlodarczyk, J.H., Reid, C.M., 2008, A new model to evaluate the long-term cost effectiveness of orphan and highly specialised drugs following listing on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: the Bosentan Patient Registry, Journal of Medical Economics, vol 11, issue 2, Informa Healthcare, United Kingdom, pp. 235-243.

Abdukeyum, G.G., Owen, A.J., McLennan, P.L., 2008, Dietary (n-3) long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids inhibit ischemia and reperfusion arrhythmias and infarction in rat heart not enhanced by ischemic preconditioning, Journal Of Nutrition [P], vol 138, issue 10, American Society for Nutrition, United States, pp. 1902-1909.

Grenyer, B.F., Crowe, T., Meyer, B., Owen, A.J., Grigonis-Deane, E.M., Caputi, P., Howe, P.R., 2007, Fish oil supplementation in the treatment of major depression: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, vol 31, issue 7, Elsevier Inc., United States, Canada, pp. 1393-1396.

Meyer, B.J., Duvillard, L., Owen, A.J., Packard, C.J., Caslake, M.J., 2007, Fractionation of cholesteryl ester rich intermediate density lipoprotein subpopulations by chondroitin sulphate, Atherosclerosis, vol 195, issue 2, Elsevier Ireland Ltd, Ireland, pp. e28-e34.

McLennan, P.L., Owen, A.J., Slee, E.L., Theiss, M.L., 2007, Myocardial function, ischaemia and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: a membrane basis, Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 8, issue Suppl 1, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, USA & Italy, pp. 15-18.

McLennan, P.L., Owen, A.J., 2006, Omega-3 fatty acids for cardiovascular protection, Medicine Today, vol 7, issue 3, Medicine Today Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 61-64.

Owen, A.J., Reid, C.M., 2006, Prevention and treatment of atherothrombosis: the role of primary care, International Review of Thrombosis, vol 1, issue 3, Medical Review Co Ltd, Japan, pp. 45-52.

Owen, A.J., Batterham, M., Probst, Y.C., Grenyer, B.F.S., Tapsell, L., 2005, Low plasma vitamin E levels in major depression: Diet or disease?, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 59, issue 2, Nature Publishing Group, United Kingdom, Switzerland, pp. 304-306.

Gillen, L.J., Tapsell, L., Patch, C.S., Owen, A.J., Batterham, M., 2005, Structured dietary advice incorporating walnuts achieves optimal fat and energy balance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol 105, issue 7, Elsevier Inc., United States, pp. 1087-1096.

Owen, A.J., Peter-Przyborowska, B.A., Hoy, A., McLennan, P.L., 2004, Dietary fish oil dose- and time-response effects on cardiac phospholipid fatty acid composition, Lipids, vol 39, issue 10, Springer, Germany, United States, pp. 955-961.

Tapsell, L.C., Gillen, L.J., Patch, C.S., Batterham, M., Owen, A.J., Bare, M., Kennedy, M., 2004, Including walnuts in a low-fat/modified-fat diet improves HLD cholesterol-to-total cholesterol ratios in patients with type 2 diabetes, Diabetes Care, vol 27, issue 12, American Diabetes Association, United States, pp. 2777-2783.

Meyer, B.J., Larkin, T.A., Owen, A.J., Astheimer, L.B., Tapsell, L.C., Howe, P.R., 2004, Limited lipid-lowering effects of regular consumption of whole soybean foods, Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol 48, issue 2, S. Karger AG, Switzerland, pp. 67-78.

Owen, A.J., Roach, P.D., Abbey, M., 2004, Regulation of low-density lipoprotein receptor activity by estrogens and phytoestrogens in a HepG2 cell model, Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol 48, issue 4, S. Karger AG, Switzerland, pp. 269-275.

Owen, A.J., Abbey, M., 2004, The effect of estrogens and phytoestrogenic lignans on macrophage uptake of atherogenic lipoproteins, BioFactors, vol 20, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, Switzerland, pp. 119-127.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Zomer, E.

Program of Study:

Epidemiological modelling of cardiovascular disease in those with metabolic syndrome. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Reid, C (Main), Owen, A (Associate).