A/Prof Ingrid Hopper
Associate Professor Ingrid Hopper is a consultant physician at Alfred Health.
Ingrid consults in Heart Failure Clinic, Heart Transplant Clinic and undertakes ward service in General Medicine across Alfred, Sandringham and Caulfield Hospitals. She has specialist training in clinical pharmacology, and broad clinical experience in holistic care of complex, older patients. She undertook her PhD in heart failure therapeutics specifically addressing polypharmacy, and post-doctoral studies in clinical quality registries for high risk implantable medical devices, both supported by NHMRC funding at Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Ingrid is a clinician researcher across both Alfred Health and Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Her interests include the safe and effective use of medicines and medical devices, quality improvement in healthcare including delivery of acute care in the community, epidemiology and public health. She is an investigator on a number of clinical trials, has contributed to national guidelines including Australian heart failure guidelines, currently chairs Therapeutic Guidelines Antibiotic and sits on the TGA Advisory Committee for Medicines. She is involved with supervising basic and advanced physician trainees including their research projects at Alfred Health and teaches clinical pharmacology to physician trainees at Fiji National University.