Professor

Wendy Hoy

AO FAA

Wendy Hoy
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Professor Wendy Hoy is recognised internationally for her multidisciplinary research on kidney and related chronic disease and for the scientific rigour she applied to Aboriginal health research. Her work has transformed Aboriginal health services in Australia, saved lives, reduced the need for dialysis and supported development of early intervention programs globally. Wendy’s studies demonstrated the contribution the number of functioning nephrons at birth makes to an individual’s susceptibility to kidney disease and her work has underpinned new kidney imaging technologies.

Fields of research

32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3202 CLINICAL SCIENCES
    • 320214 Nephrology and Urology
4202 EPIDEMIOLOGY 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Epidemiology
  • Aboriginal Kidney Disease
  • Kidney
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Disadvantaged/High-Risk Populations

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