Doctor Dion Candelaria
University of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
Membership:
FESC Member
ACNAP Member
Biography
Mr. Candelaria is a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in cardiothoracic and coronary care nursing. Dion is a National Heart Foundation of Australia Postdoctoral Fellow and aims to modernise cardiac rehabilitation programs through health system re-design, so more Australians with heart disease attend and complete rehabilitation, reduce ongoing cardiovascular risk, and maximise health outcomes.
Dion has won highly prestigious awards and prizes for his research in his field.
He is the current Secretary of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (ICCPR) and President-Elect of the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA). He is a also member of the Science committee of ACNAP (2024-26).
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Quality improvement interventions boosts cardiac rehabilitation referrals: patient education does it eightfold
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Does perceived usability of a multi-component mobile device intervention improve health-related quality of life?
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Ethnic minorities who complete cardiac rehabilitation achieve equivalent functional capacity outcomes after cardiac rehabilitation but only half complete
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Women achieve equivalent health-related quality of life benefits to men from attending cardiac rehabilitation: a matched case-control study
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Do ethnic minorities improve in exercise capacity following cardiac rehabilitation? a secondary analysis
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