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Research InterestsDr Ute Vollmer-Conna | | (Position Details) | | Phone 02 9385 2945 | | Email | | Qualifications BSc PhD UNSW |
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| School of Psychiatry | | http://psych.med.unsw.edu.au
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| | Broad Research Areas | |
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Clinical Research
Neuroscience
Inflammation
Infectious Diseases
Genetics - Genome Analysis
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| | | | Specific Research Keywords | |
| Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Psychoneuroimmunology
Emotions
Cytokines
Autonomic Nervous System
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| | | | Research Interests | |
| The field of Psychoneuroimmunology, with a particular focus of cytokine-induced changes in behaviour, emotion, motivation and cognition. Additional interests include the effect of genetic polymorphisms on the severity and duration of illness following acute infection. Cross-disciplinary research involves colleagues from Pathology/Immunology, Virology, Psychiatry, Psychology and General Practice.
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| | | | ILP Research Interests (Will supervise ILP students) |
| Diseases And Disorders
Psychology
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| | | | Project Topics for current Honours Students |
| Autonomic nervous system functioning in post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes | |
| | | | Teaching Interests | |
| My teaching interests are broad and include: psychological medicine, psychosomatic models, medical ethics, doctor-patient relationship, cultural and multicultural aspects of health, and research methods, .
Supervision of postgraduate work in the area of Psychoimmunology, behavioural and immuno-genentics and physiological psychology | |
| | | | Society Memberships & Professional Activities | |
| ASPR (Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research) member
ABA (Australasian Bioethics Association) member
Registered Psychologist
Justice of the Peace | |
| | | | Funding Sources | |
| Mason Foundation: Vollmer-Conna U, Lloyd A. Defining genetic determinants of post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes: Confirmatory and functional studies. 2009: $ 99,564.
Mason Foundation: Vollmer-Conna U, Lloyd A. Autonomic nervous system functioning in post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes. 2008: $89,845.
Mason foundation: Vollmer-Conna U, Lloyd A, Dawes I, Lan R. Post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes after acute infection: What can we learn from genes?
2007: $ 98,895
Mason foundation: Lloyd A, Malhi G, Lagopoulos J, Vollmer-Conna U. The neurobiology of post-infective fatigue syndrome.
2007 - $98,776 | |
| | | | Other Postgraduate Research | |
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-I am the joined supervisor of Barbara Piraino (with A LLoyd) thesis topic is
Genetic determinants of the severity of acute infective illness | |
| | | | Key works/Publications | |
| Vollmer-Conna U, Piraino B, Cameron B, Hickie I, Wakefield D, Lloyd A. Cytokine polymorphisms have a synergistic effect on illness severity after acute infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases accepted for publication, 2008;47 (Dec 1) in press.
Vollmer-Conna U, Chen M, Lloyd A, Donovan B. Emotional dysfunction may be linked to immune activation in patients with genital herpes. Acta Neuropsychiatrica 2008; 20:145-151.
Everett B, Cameron B, Li H, Vollmer-Conna U, Tracey Davenport T, Hickie I, Wakefield D, Vernon S, Reeves WC, Lloyd AR Polymorphisms in Toll-like receptors-2 and -4 are not associated with disease manifestations in acute Q fever. Genes and Immunity. 2007;8:699-702.
Vollmer-Conna U, Cameron B, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Singletary K, Davenport T, Vernon S, William C. Reeves WC, Hickie I, Wakefield D, Lloyd AR. Post-infective fatigue syndrome is not associated with altered cytokine production. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007; 45: 732-735.
Cameron B, Galbraith S, Zhang Y, Davenport T, Vollmer-Conna U, Wakefield D, Hickie I, Dunsmuir W, Whistler T, Vernon S, Reeves WC, Lloyd AR. Gene expression correlates of post infective fatigue syndrome following infectious mononucleosis. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2007;196:56-66.
Sharma NS, Ooi JL, McGarity BH, Vollmer-Conna U, McCluskey P. Temporal artery biopsy length: Comparing a tertiary and a community hospital. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2007; 77 (6): 437-439
Vollmer-Conna U, Aslakson E, White PD. An empirical delineation of the heterogeneity in chronic unexplained fatigue in women. Pharmacogenomics 2006; 7(3), 355-364.
Aslakson E, Vollmer-Conna U, White PD. The validity of an empirical delineation of heterogeneity in chronic unexplained fatigue. Pharmacogenomics 2006; 7(3), 365-373.
Carmel L, Efroni S, White PD, Aslakson E, Vollmer-Conna U, Rajeevan MS Gene expression profile of empirically delineated classes of unexplained chronic fatigue. Pharmacogenomics 2006; 7(3), 375-386.
Smith AK, Aslakson E, Vollmer-Conna U, White PD, Rajeevan MS Polymorphisms in genes regulating HPA axis associated with empirically delineated classes of unexplained chronic fatigue. Pharmacogenomics 2006; 7(3), 387-394.
Hickie I, Davenport T, Wakefield D, Vollmer-Conna U, Cameron B, Vernon SD, Reeves WC, Lloyd AR. Viral and non-viral pathogens precipitate post-infective and chronic fatigue syndromes: a prospective cohort study. British Medical Journal 2006; 333:575-578.
Smith A, Vollmer-Conna U, Geczy A, Dunckley H, Bennett B, Hickie I, Lloyd A. (2005). Does genotype mask the relationship between psychological factors and immune function? Brain, Behaviour and Immunity 19 (2), 147-152
Smith A, Vollmer-Conna U, Bennett B, Wakefield D, Hickie I, Lloyd A.(2004).The relationship between distress and the development of a primary immune response to a novel antigen. Behaviour Brain and Immunity, 18, 65-75.
Vollmer-Conna U, Fazou C, Cameron B, Li H, Brennen C, Luck L, Davenport T, Wakefield D, Hickie I, Lloyd A. (2004). Production of pro-inflammatory cytokines correlates with the symptoms of acute sickness behaviour in humans. Psychological Medicine, 2004; 34, 7:1289-1297.
Burnham D, Kitamura C, Vollmer-Conna U (2002). What’s new pussycat? On talking to babies and animals. SCIENCE, 296, 1435 (May 24).
Vollmer-Conna U (2001) Acute sickness behaviour: an immune system-to-brain communication? Psychological Medicine, 31, 761-767.
Vollmer-Conna U, Lloyd A, Hickie I, Wakefield D. (1998). Chronic fatigue syndrome: an immunological perspective. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32, 523-527.
Vollmer-Conna U, Wakefield D, Lloyd A, Hickie I, Lemon J, Bird KD, Westbrook RF (1997). Cognitive deficits in patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, acute infective illness or depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, 377-381. | |
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