
Doctor Dion Candelaria
University of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
Membership:
FESC Member
ACNAP Member
Biography
Dr Dion Candelaria is a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience in cardiothoracic and coronary care nursing. He is a National Heart Foundation of Australia Postdoctoral Fellow and his research focuses on transforming cardiovascular rehabilitation programs through health system re-design. He aims to ensure that more people with heart disease are supported to reduce cardiovascular risk and maximise health outcomes through secondary prevention and cardiovascular rehabilitation.
Dion has won highly prestigious awards and prizes for his research in his field.
He is the incoming President 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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Predictors of poor exercise self-efficacy improvements after cardiac rehabilitation
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