Professor Dr. Andrew Coats is Professor Coats is a former Dean of
the Faculty of
Medicine at the
University of Sydney and his major area of research is cardiology.
He has publications in excess of 800 in various medical journals.
His main research interests are clinical integrated pathophysiological
and treatment studies of heart failure; the clinical pathophysiology of
familial and non-familial cardiomyopathies; the epidemiology of
hypertension; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; the development,
assessment and management of hypertensive heart disease; integrated
human cardiovascular physiology, and research policy and governance.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cardiology, an ISI Journal with over 45000 Average monthly article downloads. The journal has an impact factor of 1.765 according to Journal Citation ReportsŪ 2006, published by Thomson Scientific.