Queens University Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
Dr Chantal Ski is Honorary Professor in the School of nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, UK and at the Australian Centre for Heart Health, Deakin University, Australia and Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. As a psychologist Prof Ski has extensive clinical and research experience in the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. As a researcher, Dr Ski has been awarded over £16M in competitive funding. Her major interests are in the development and evaluation of brief novel psychosocial interventions for cardiovascular patients and their carers and integrating these into existing health services. She has published widely including journals such as Nature Cardiol Rev, Trends Endocrinol Metab, Cochrane Database Syst Rev, Int J Cardiol and Nature Rev Cardiol. Prof Ski has expertise in evaluation of health service models of care for patients with cardiovascular disease inclusive of government consultation.