Christopher D. Askew BAppSc, PhD

Associate Professor Chris Askew is a Senior Research Fellow within the School of Health and Sport Sciences. Prior to his current appointment he held academic positions at Queensland University of Technology (2011-13) and USC (2005-2011), and he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Surgery at the University of Queensland - Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (2000-2004). He holds honorary adjunct positions with the Vascular Surgery Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and with Allied Health at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service.

Chris is an exercise physiologist with a particular interest in the pathophysiology and treatment of exercise intolerance in people with chronic disease. Much of his research has focused on the acute and chronic physiological effects of ischaemia, and how these relate to the mechanisms of exercise intolerance in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). He has published a number of clinical studies investigating the effects of exercise rehabilitation in PAD, and these studies are underpinned by experimental investigations of muscle metabolism and morphology, microcirculation and angiogenesis, limb blood flow, endothelial function and muscle fatigue.