Neil Smart
Associate Professor, School of Science and Technology
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), M.Med, PhD
Contact
| Email: | nsmart2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Physiology (W28) C21 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 4076 (or +61 2 6773 4076 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6772 5011 |
Convenor of Clinical Exercise Physiology
Neil is convenor for the new degrees of exercise and sport science and exercise physiology at UNE. Neil is keen to see the degrees develop a reputation for quality and also provide strong career outcomes for graduates. Neil hopes the local community will both support and benefit from the sport and exercise events and research activities that will occur now the degree programs are established.
Areas of Teaching
Neil teaches units in exercise physiology, exercise testing, exercise prescription for disease populations, exercise training and patho-physiology of chronic disease.
Research interests
In terms of sport science, Neil is hoping to set up an altitude research laboratory at UNE and develop research collaborations with the AIS and professional clubs from AFL, NRL, Super 15 and the A-League .
Neil’s main research interests in exercise science are in exercise therapy for the management of chronic disease. Neil has worked extensively with people with heart failure and type II diabetes. Neil has also completed several meta-analyses of the various benefits of exercise training in patients with chronic disease such as heart failure and renal failure. It is hoped that a rehabilitation clinic will be developed at UNE so the local community can access the benefits of regular physical exercise.
Additional Qualifications
ESSA Accredited Exercise Physiologist
Level 2 Football (Soccer) License
Selected Publications
Smart N.A. and Steele M., Exercise Training in Hemodialysis Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Nephrology 2011, Accepted for publication April 17, 2011.
Smart N.A., Meyer T., Butterfield J.A., Faddy S.C., Passino C., Malfatto G., Jonsdottir S., Sarullo F., Wisloff U., Vigorito C. and Giallauria F., An individual patient meta-analysis of exercise training effects on systemic brain natriuretic peptide expression in heart failure. European Journal Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Accepted for publication April 13th, 2011.
Smart N.A. and Titus T., Outcomes of early versus late nephrology referral in chronic kidney disease – a systematic review, American Journal of Medicine, accepted for publication April 4th 2011.
Smart N.A. and Steele M., The effect of physical training on systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in heart failure patients: A systematic review, Congestive Heart Failure, Accepted for publication January 25th 2011.
Smart N.A., Larsen A.I., LeMaitre J.P. and Ferraz A.S., Effect of exercise training on interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor alpha and functional capacity in heart failure. Cardiology Research and Practice, Special issue Heart Failue, Accepted for publication January 14th 2011.
Smart N.A., Marshall B.J., Daley M., Boulos E., Windus J., Baker N. and Kwok N., Low-fat diets for acquired hypercholesterolaemia, The Cochrane Library - issue 2, 2011.
Smart N.A., Exercise Training for Heart Failure Patients with and without Systolic Dysfunction - An Evidence-Based Analysis of how Patients Benefit, Cardiology Research and Practice, Cardiol Res Pract, 2010 Sep 30, pii: 837238, 2011.
Steele M., Smart N.A., Hurst. and Chaseling, J.A., Comparison of the power of the discrete Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Chi-Square goodness-of-fit tests, Conference proceedings for International conference on Recent Developments in Statistics, Applied Econometrics and Forecasting, December 2010.
Selig S., Levinger I., Williams A.D., Smart N.A., Holland D., Maiorana A., Green D.J. and Hare D., Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) Position Statement on Exercise Training and Chronic Heart Failure, J. Sci. Med. in Sport, 2010 May;13(3):288-94, Epub Mar 15, 2010.
Smart N.A. and Steele M., A systematic review of the effect of aerobic and resistance exercise training on systemic brain naturietic peptide (BNP) and N-Terminal BNP expression in heart failure patients. Int. J. Cardiol. 2010 Apr 30;140(3):260-5, Epub Aug 6, 2009.
Smart N.A., What is the number needed to treat when exercise training heart failure patients? Journal of Exercise Physiology on-line, Accepted for publication 4th June 2009.
Steele M., Smart N., Hurst C. and Chaseling J., Evaluating the statistical power of goodness-of-fit tests for health and medicine survey data, 18TH IMACS CONGRESS MODSIM 2009.
Smart N.A., MacAuley L., Marshall B., Daley M., Boulos E. and Ebenstreit, C., Low fat diet for acquired hypercholesterolemia. Cochrane systematic review protocol, diabetes group, Issue 2, 2009.