Dr Phillip J. Tully

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Psychology

Phillip J. Tully

Phone: +61 02 6773 5028

Email: ptully2@une.edu.au

Biography

Dr. Tully has a Masters and PhD in Clinical Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics. He is a postdoctoral fellow of Bordeaux University France and Freiburg University Germany and previously held consecutive NHMRC fellowships for his work examining evidence-based psychological treatments for patients with cardiovascular disease. Dr Tully is a leading clinical specialist and international expert in providing psychological care for persons with comorbid psychiatric illness and cardiovascular diseases. He is editor of the book “Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression Treatment and Prevention in Psychocardiology” and has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers primarily on the neuropsychiatric outcomes of cardiovascular diseases including cognitive impairment, delirium, dementia, depression, anxiety, stroke, cerebral small vessel disease. Dr. Tully’s research interests are in the field of psychiatry, cardiology, health psychology, chronic disease management, and epidemiology and have a high translational component. He serves on the editorial boards of Gen Hosp Psych, BMC Cardiovasc Disord, BMC Psychiatry, J Geriatric Cardiol, J Cardiol & Therapy, Neurol & Neurosurg, Clin & Transl Neurol J, Curr Psych Rev, and Front Psychiatr.

Qualifications

B.HSc (Hons)., M.Psych (Clin)/Ph.D. The University of Adelaide

Teaching Areas

  • Health Psychology, Rehabilitation, Older Adults
  • Applied Clinical Research
  • Psychopathology

Supervision Areas

  • Mental health in chronic disease
  • Older adult mental health
  • Neuropsychology
  • Behavioural medicine

Research Interests

Dr Tully has a broad interest in health psychology, behavioural medicine, neuropsychology, and clinical psychology. His research focus is on the interplay between chronic diseases, behavioural factors, mental health, and brain outcomes. Dr Tully has a long standing interest in the bidirectional association between cardiovascular disease and brain outcomes including depression and anxiety disorders, anhedonia, cognitive impairment, dementia, and MRI markers of neurodegeneration. This research incorporates biostatistics, epidemiology and cohort studies, meta-analyses (aggregate and IPD), clinical trials, consumer engagement and qualitative research, and has a strong evidence-translation into practice focus.

Publications

For the complete list, check:

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=9va16VwAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phillip-Tully

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2807-1313

Books Edited

Baune BT. & Tully PJ. (Eds.) Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression: Treatment and Prevention in Psychocardiology. Springer, Switzerland 2016

Book Chapters

Tully PJ, Cosh, S., & Pedersen, S. (2020). Cardiovascular Manifestations of Panic and Anxiety. In: Govoni S., Politi P., Vanoli E. (Eds) Brain and Heart Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28008-6_23

Baune BT & Tully PJ. (2016). Introduction. In B.T. Baune and P.J. Tully (eds) Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression - Treatment and Prevention in Psychocardiology, Springer

Tully PJ & Baune BT. Anxiety and the effects on cardiovascular disease. In Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression: Treatment and Prevention in Psychocardiology. Editors: Baune BT & Tully PJ. Pg. 53-70. Springer, Switzerland 2016

Air T, Tully P, Sweeney S, Beltrame J. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease and Depression. In Cardiovascular Diseases and Depression: Treatment and Prevention in Psychocardiology. Editors: Baune BT & Tully PJ. Pg. 5-21. Springer, Switzerland 2016

Invited Papers and Editorials

Ma Y, Tully PJ, Hoffman A, Tzourio C (2021).  Blood pressure variability and dementia: A state-of-the-art review. Am J Hypertension. 33(12):1059-1066. Invited by Prof. Ernesto L. Schiffrin

Tully PJ & Tzourio C. (2020). Heterogeneity in the reporting of blood pressure variability: high time for methodological consensus. Age & Ageing. 49(2):168-170. Invited by Prof. Rowan Harwood (editorial)

Cosh S, Helmer C, Delcourt C, Robins TG & Tully PJ. (2019). Depression in elderly patients with hearing loss: current perspectives. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 14, 1471-1480. Invited by Dr Richard Walker

Tully PJ. (2019). Advancing understanding of depression and cardiovascular disease risk within the social milieu. Kardiol Polska, 77(5):507-508. Invited by Prof. Anetta Undas (editorial)

Baird D, Higgins RO, Jackson AC, Murphy BM, Tully PJ. (2018) Depression screening, assessment and treatment for patients with chronic heart failure. Br J Card Nurs, 13(8), 386–93.  Invited by Aysha Mendes

Pedersen SS, von Kaenel R, Tully PJ, Denollet J. (2017). Psychosocial perspectives in cardiovascular disease. Eur J Prevent Cardiol, 24(3_Suppl),108-115. Invited by Prof. Christian Vrints and the European Society of Cardiology.

Tully PJ, Harrison NJ, Cheung P, Cosh S. (2016). Anxiety and cardiovascular disease risk. Curr Cardiol Rep, 18(12), 120.  Invited by Prof Andrew Steptoe.

Tully PJ & Higgins R. (2014). Depression screening, assessment and treatment for patients with coronary heart disease: a review for psychologists. Austral Psychol, 49(6), 337-44.  Invited by Prof Nikolaos Kazantzis

Tully PJ. (2013). Quality of life measures for cardiac surgery research and practice: a review and primer. J Extracorp Tech, 45(1), 8-15. (Review) At the invitation of the Perfusion Down Under committee

Tully PJ & Baker RA (2013). Current Readings: Neurocognitive impairment and clinical implications after cardiac surgery. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 25(3), 237-44.  Invited by Dr Todd Rosengart

Tully PJ & Baker RA (2012). Depression and anxiety and morbidity outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients: a practical and contemporary review. J Geriatric Cardiol, 9(2), 197-08.  Invited by Dr Marianna Mazza and Dr Lai-Fu Li

Tully PJ. (2012). Psychological depression and cardiac surgery: a comprehensive review. J Extracorp Tech, 44(4), 224-32. (Review) At the invitation of the Perfusion Down Under committee

Tully PJ Book review: (2013) Psychiatry and heart disease: the mind, brain and heart. Psychol Med, 43(8). 1785.  Invited by Dr Mike Spencer

Tully PJ. (2010) Randomised controlled trial: Telephone-delivered collaborative care for post-CABG depression is more effective than usual care for improving mental-health-related quality of life. Evid Based Med, 15(2), 57-8. Invited by Dr Alan Lovell (Commentary on RCT published in JAMA)

Recent papers since 2017

de Heus RAA, Reumers SFI, van der Have A, Tumelaire M, Tully PJ, Claassen JAHR. (2020). Day-to-Day Home Blood Pressure Variability is Associated with Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden in a Memory Clinic Population. J Alzheimers Dis. 74(2):463-472.

Ding J, Davis‐Plourde KL, Sedaghat S, Tully PJ, Wang W, Phillips C, Pase MP, Himali JJ, Windham BG, Griswold M, Gottesman R, Mosley TH, White L, Gudnason V, Debette S, Beiser AS, Seshadri S, Ikram MA, Meirelles O, Tzourio C, Launer LJ. (2020). Anti-hypertensive medications and risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from prospective cohort studies. The Lancet Neurology. 19(1):61-70.

Tully PJ, Yano Y, Launer LJ, Kario K, Nagai M, Mooijaart SP, Claassen JAHR, Lattanzi S, Vincent AD, Tzourio C, The VARIABLE BRAIN Consortium. (2020). Association between blood pressure variability and cerebral small-vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Am Heart Assoc. 9(1):e013841.

Peters, R., Yasar, S., Anderson, C., Andrews, S Antikainen R, Arima H, Beckett N, Beer JC, Bertens AS, Booth A, van Boxtel M, Brayne C, Brodaty H, Carlson MC, Chalmers J, Corrada M, DeKosky S, Derby C, Dixon RA, Forette F, Ganguli M, van Gool WA, Guaita A, Hever AM, Hogan DB, Jagger C, Katz M, Kawas C, Kehoe PG, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi S, Kenny RA, Köhler S, Kunutsor SK, Laukkanen J, Maxwell C, McFall GP, van Middelaar T, Moll van Charante EP, Ng TP, Peters J, Rawtaer I, Richard E, Rockwood K, Rydén L, Sachdev PS, Skoog I, Skoog I, Staessen JA, Stephan BCM, Sebert S, Thijs L, Trompet S, Tully PJ, Tzourio C, Vaccaro R, Vaaramo E, Walsh E, Warwick J, Anstey KJ. (2020). An investigation of antihypertensive class, dementia and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis. Neurology. 94(3):e267-e281.

Tully PJ, Kurth T, Elbaz A, Tzourio C. (2020). Convergence of psychiatric symptoms and restless legs syndrome: A cross-sectional study in an elderly French population. J Psychosom Res. 128:109884.

Tully PJ, Alpérovitch A, Soumaré A, Mazoyer B, Debette S, Tzourio C. (2020). Association Between Cerebral Small Vessel Disease With Antidepressant Use and Depression: 3C Dijon Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Stroke. 51(2):402-408.

de Heus, R., Olde Rikkert, M. G. M., Tully PJ, Lawlorq, B. A., & Claasseen, J. A. H. R. on behalf of the Nilvad investigators. (2019). Blood pressure variability and progression of clinical Alzheimer’s disease. Hypertension (AHA). 74(5):1172-1180.

Tully PJ, Helmer C, Peters R, Tzourio C. (2019). Exploiting drug-APOE gene interactions in hypertension to preserve cognitive function: The Three City cohort study, J Am Med Dir Assoc. 20(2):188-194.

Grech M, Turnbull DA, Wittert GA, Tully PJ; CHAMPS Investigators. (2019). Identifying the internalizing disorder clusters among recently hospitalized cardiovascular disease patients: a receiver operating characteristics study. Front Psychol.10:2829.

Tully PJ & Cosh S. Post-traumatic stress disorder in heart failure patients: a test of the cardiac disease-induced PTSD hypothesis. (2019). Current Psychiatry Research and Reviews, 15(4). 290-296.

Holndonner-Kirst E, Czobor NR, Tully PJ, Szekely A. (2019). Frailty in patients undergoing vascular surgery: a narrative review of current evidence, Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management.  15:1217-1232.

See CK, Turnbull D, Ritson F, Martin S, Tully P, Wittert G. (2019). Association of endogenous testosterone concentration with depression in men: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 17(9):1894-1900.

Cosh S, Tully P, Crabb S. (2019). Discursive practices around the body of the female athlete: An analysis of sport psychology interactions in elite sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 43:90-104.

The VARIABLE BRAIN consortium, (2018). The association between blood pressure variability (BPV) with dementia and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol, BMC Systematic Reviews, 7(1):163.

Tully PJ, Debette S, Tzourio C.  (2018). The association between systolic blood pressure variability with depression, cognitive decline and white matter hyperintensities: the 3C Dijon MRI study. Psychol Med, 48(9):1444-1453.

Tully PJ, Peters R, Pérès K, Anstey KJ, Tzourio C. (2018). Effect of SSRI and calcium channel blockers on depressive symptoms and cognitive function in elderly persons treated for hypertension: Three City cohort study, Inter Psychogeriatr, 30(9):1345-1354.

Le J, Dorstyn DS, Mpofu E, Prior E, Tully PJ. (2018). Health-related quality of life in adults with coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta analysis mapped against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, Qual Life Res, 27(10): 2491-2503.

Tully PJ & Cosh SM. (2018). Much a review about nothing: a comment on the treatment of anxiety in patients with coronary heart disease, Psychosomatics. e-Letter.

Tully PJ, Debette S, Mazoyer B, Tzourio C.  (2017). White Matter Lesions are Associated with Specific Depressive Symptom Trajectories among Incident Depression and Dementia Populations: Three-City Dijon MRI Study.  Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 25(12):1311-1321.

Tully PJ, Sardinha A, Nardi AE. (2017). A new CBT model for panic attack treatment in comorbid heart diseases (PATCHD): how to calm an anxious heart and mind. Cog Behav Practice, 24(3), 329-341.

Tully PJ & Tzourio C. (2017). Psychiatric correlates of blood pressure variability in the elderly: The Three City cohort study, Physiol & Behav, 168, 91-97.

On ZX, Grant J, Shi Z, Taylor AW, Wittert GA, Tully PJ, Hayley AC, Martin S. (2017).  The association between gastroesophageal reflux disease with sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in a cohort study of Australian men.  J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 32(6):1170-1177.

Nucifora G, Tantiongco JP, Crouch G, Bennetts J, Sinhal A, Tully PJ, Bradbrook C, Baker RA, Selvanayagam JB. (2017). Changes of left ventricular mechanics after trans-catheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis: A tissue-tracking cardiac magnetic resonance study. Int J Cardiol, 228:184-190.

Bowyer J. Tully PJ, Ganesan AN, Chahadi FK, Singleton CB, McGavigan AD. (2017). A randomised controlled trial on the effect of nurse-led educational intervention at the time of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation on quality of life, symptom severity and rehospitalisation. Heart Lung Circulation, 26(1):73-81.

Abberger B, Haschke A, Tully PJ, Forkmann T, Berger J, Wirtz M, Bengel J, Baumeister H. (2017). Development and validation of parallel short forms PaSA-cardio for the assessment of general anxiety in cardiovascular rehabilitation patients using Rasch analysis. Clinical Rehabilitation, 31(1):104-114.

Memberships

American Heart Association

Cochrane Heart Group

High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia

Australian Cardiovascular Alliance

European Society of Cardiology

Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association

International Research Network for Dementia Prevention

European Psychiatric Association

Menzies Memorial Scholars Association

Professional Activities

Editorial board member

General Hospital Psychiatry (2015 - current)

Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (2012 - current)

Journal of Cardiology and Therapy (2012 - current)

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2018 - current)

Neurology & Neurosurgery (2018-current)

Current Psychiatry Research & Reviews (2018 - current)

BMC Psychiatry (2018 - current)