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Prof Mark Nelson

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Chair, General Practice
Head, Discipline of General Practice

MBBS(Hons), PhD, MFM, FRACGP, FAFPHM

Mark Nelson

Contact Details

Contact Campus Hobart CBD Campuses
Building Medical Science 1
Room Reference 313B (Level 3)
Telephone +61 3 6226 4734
Fax +61 3 6226 4770
Email Mark.Nelson@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate teaching years 3-5.

Units Taught

Publications

  • Nelson, M. R., Britt, H., & Harrison, C., (2010). Evidence of increasing prevalence of zoster in general practice post introduction of a herpes zoster vaccine. Medical Journal of Australia, 193(2), 110-113.
  • Nelson, M. R., Ryan, P., Ramsay, E., Willson, K., Tonkin, A. M., Wing, L. M. H., & Reid, C. M. (2010). Prediction of cardiovascular events in subjects in the second Australian National Blood Pressure study. Hypertension, 56(1), 44-48.
  • Nelson, M. R., Alkhateeb, A. N., Ryan, P., Willson, K., Gartlan, J. G., & Reid, C. M. (2010). Physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use and associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Second Australian National Blood Pressure study cohort. Age and Ageing, 39(1), 112-116.
  • Head, G. A., Mihailidou, A. S., Duggan, K. A., Beilin, L. J., Berry, N., Brown, M. A., Bune, A. J., Cowley, D., Chalmers, J. P., Howe, P. R. C., Hodgson, J., Ludbrook, J., Mangoni, A. A., McGrath, B. P., Nelson, M. R., Sharman, J. E., & Stowasser, M. for the Ambulatory Blood Pressure Working Group of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia. (2010). Relationship between ambulatory and clinic blood pressure: Defining diagnostic points and treatment targets. British Medical Journal, 340, c1104.
  • Howes, F., Hansen, E., Williams, D., & Nelson, M. R. (2010). A qualitative study of barriers to initiating treatment in hypertension and treating to target levels in primary care. Australian Family Physician, 39(7), 511-516.
  • Imms, A., Quinn, S., & Nelson, M. R. (2010). General practitioners’ use of absolute cardiovascular disease risk calculators. Australian Family Physician, 39(12), 57-60.
  • Nelson, M. R. (2010). Drug treatment of elevated blood pressure. Australian Prescriber, 33,/em>(4), 108-112.
  • Howes, F., & Nelson, M. R. (2010). Hypertension – treating to target. Medicine Today, 11(10), 37-44.

Web Access Research Portal (WARP)

Additional Information

Research Areas
  • Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in general practice
  • Large-scale clinical trials