THE VALID STUDY (VASCULAR ACCESS)

A/Prof Andrea Viecelli is an academic nephrologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia and was awarded her PhD on strategies to improve vascular access outcomes in patients on haemodialysis in 2019 through the University of Queensland. As a clinical trialist of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) she plays a key role in designing and conducting international clinical trials in people with chronic kidney disease. As the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant and a Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship she currently pursues a program of clinical and qualitative research to improve patient-important outcomes in haemodialysis including the VALID study, an international feasibility and validation study for the core outcome measure of vascular access function established through the Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology (SONG).