Associate Professor Jessica Orchard

Biography

Jessica is an Associate Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, Australia. Jessica is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Plus and Associate Editor at the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Jessica is a Cardiac Research Fellow at Cricket Australia and was selected for the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders Program 2023. Jessica was awarded the NSW Ministerial Award for Rising Stars in Cardiovascular Research in 2023.

Jessica’s research aims to improve the quality of screening programs to prevent sudden cardiac death and catastrophic disability from stroke. Jessica is Director and Principal Investigator of the Australasian Registry of ECGs of National Athletes (the ARENA Project), which aims to provide a long-term data repository to improve our understanding of athlete ECG interpretation, cardiac diagnoses, and the rates of major cardiovascular outcomes in screened athletes. She is also interested in digital health, and legal and ethical issues in cardiac screening.

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