Gillian Whalley

Gillian Amanda Whalley is a New Zealand Professor of Clinical Sonography at the University of Otago.

Gillian Whalley
CitizenshipNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsEchocardiography
InstitutionsUnitec Institute of Technology, University of Otago
Thesis

Academic career

Whalley first became a sonographer in 1985. She practised for five years before becoming a researcher in 1990.[1]

Her 1998 MSc Selection bias and confounding associated with echocardiographic estimation of left ventricular mass[2] was followed in 2006 by a PhD titled The role of contemporary echocardiography in the management of heart failure at the University of Auckland.[3] Whalley rose to full professorship at Unitec Institute of Technology,[4] moving to the University of Otago in 2018[5] while maintaining an honorary position at Auckland.[6]

Whalley has been funded by the New Zealand Health Council to study the differing effects of heart disease on Māori or Pacific peoples. This was required because existing methods are based on research using American or European subjects and more diverse data is required.[4] For example, Māori and Pacific peoples have hearts that are larger on average than the baseline data from North American Caucasians, and this can make a difference when attempting to diagnose heart condition based on an enlarged heart. Whalley's research included screening 900 New Zealanders to collect information on normal heart sizes.[7] The research was published in the New Zealand Medical Journal in 2022.[8] Whalley has described the diagnosis of heart disease in New Zealand, using North American baselines, as 'systemically racist', and one of the reasons that Māori and Pacific people have higher heart disease.[9]

In 2021, Whalley was appointed Editor in Chief of the Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.[10]

Writing

Under the name "Gillian Whalley-Torckler", and often in conjunction with her husband, photographer Darryl Torckler, Whalley has written several books of fiction and non-fiction, for children and adults. These include photo essays, creative non-fiction for children, guides to NZ marine fishes, SCUBA diving sites, and the rocky shore, and books of knitting patterns.[11]

Selected works


References
  1. "Prof Gillian Whalley". WFUMB 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  2. "Selection bias and confounding associated with echocardiographic estimation of left ventricular mass". catalogue.library.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. Whalley, Gillian (2006). The role of contemporary echocardiography in the management of heart failure (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/61.
  4. "Professor Gillian Whalley | Health Research Council". www.hrc.govt.nz. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. Medicine, Dunedin School of. "DSM staff profile". www.otago.ac.nz.
  6. "Dr Gillian Whalley - The University of Auckland". unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz.
  7. "Heart size and ethnicity – Gillian Whalley". Unitec. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  8. "New Echocardiography Reference Ranges for Aotearoa (NewERA) Study: the application of international echocardiographic reference values to linear measurements of the hearts of healthy, young Māori and Pacific adults may not detect cardiac enlargement". journal.nzma.org.nz. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  9. Jacobs, Maxine (14 July 2022). "Heart measuring for cardiovascular disease systemically racist, study finds". Stuff. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  10. "Echoes Issue No. 25 [ June 2021 ] – WFUMB". Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  11. Whalley Torckler, Gillian. "My Books". GillianTorckler.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
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