Ms Angela Brennan

Angela BrennanCC RN
Program Manager, Cardiac Registries

Phone: +61 3 9903 0517
Email: Angela.Brennan@monash.edu

Angela Brennan is a Critical Care Registered Nurse who transitioned from cardiac nursing into the higher education research sector in 2004. Her major research and academic achievements have been in the Clinical Quality Registry (CQR) arena. She's the Program Manager across the cardiac registries in the CCRET.

Leveraging off her clinical background she was able to implement a clinician led research based registry (Melbourne Interventional Group - MIG) that now has over 80 publications in peer review journals and has enabled many training clinician cardiologists to undertake research.

Her work with the MIG Registry led to the ACPR Pilot project, funded by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) whose aim was to 'Test and Validate the Operating Principles for Quality Clinical Registries'.

Following ACPR, funding was successfully obtained to undertake the Victorian Cardiac Outcomes Registry (VCOR) – the first state-wide percutaneous coronary intervention registry in Australia whose aim is to monitor the performance of health services in Victoria in the delivery of high quality, cardiac-based therapies. Broadly, VCOR provides information to clinicians, hospitals, health funders and consumers that can be utilised to ensure patients receive the highest quality cardiac care possible. VCOR has been highly successful and since 2017 has all public and private hospitals undertaking PCI in the state contributing data – an unparalleled achievement in the Australian cardiac registry arena. VCOR has also undertaken activities related to ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) and Heart Failure. In 2018 VCOR began a Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) module. VCOR has a rich research program with over 50 publications in peer review journals.

In 2019 Ms Brennan undertook the coursework for the Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) program and successfully attained certification.