Dr Sinead McDonagh

About me:

Sinead completed her BSc in Sport Sciences at Brunel University in 2011. She then moved to the University of Exeter to study for a MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine.

During her time as a Masters student, Sinead became very interested in the effects of dietary nitrate supplementation and lifestyle choices on cardiovascular health and exercise tolerance and went on to pursue a PhD in this area.

In 2017, Sinead joined the University of Exeter Medical School Primary Care department as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where her research focuses on the detection and management of postural hypotension, hypertension and atrial fibrillation in primary care and the implementation of a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme (REACH-HF) in the NHS. Sinead has recently been awarded a 2-year NIHR School for Primary Care Research Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her research interests in detecting postural hypotension in primary care, as well as training and development.

Interests:

• Recognition and management of postural hypotension in primary care
• Improving blood pressure control in patients with hypertension
• Significance and implications of a difference in blood pressures between arms
• Heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation
• Access to primary care
• Rural healthcare
• Lowering blood pressure and improving exercise capacity through dietary nitrate supplementation
• Cardiovascular Physiology
• Multimorbidity and decision making about healthcare

Qualifications:

• BSc Sport Sciences (Brunel University)
• MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine (University of Exeter)
• PhD Sport Sciences - Exercise Physiology and Nutrition (University of Exeter)
• AFHEA