Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Funding overview
Diabetes WA Research Foundation
State Health Research Advisory Committee WA
Raine Foundation
State Health Research Advisory Committee WA
Raine Foundation
Previous positions
Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine-University of Oxford
Biography
Dr Aron Chakera is a Renal Physician with an interest in immune function and host-pathogen interactions. He is co-lead for transplantation at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital one of the two kidney transplant units in Western Australia. He work on decoy cell screening for BK virus in transplant recipients has led to changes in clinical practice and significant cost savings and his current work on post-transplant diabetes has changed clinical care pathways within his unit. In addition to his clinical roles, in 2013 he established the Translational Renal Research Group, housed in the Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research and in 2015 was appointed Director of Research for the Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Health Care Group. He is the custodian of the WA Renal Biobank. He has received over $6M in research funding and is the lead researcher on a number of sponsored and investigator-led clinical trials and his publications span discover science through clinical implementation and epidemiology.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Curtin University
31 Mar 2017 → …
Director of Research, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
7 Aug 2015 → …
Research expertise keywords
- Transplantation
- Autoimmunity
- Anti-viral immune responses
- Renal medicine
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A novel allocation strategy for the difficult-to-allocate donor: audit of deceased donor kidneys utilised for preemptive recipients within Western Australia
Kulkarni, R., Wong, Z. E., Downing, J., Swaminathan, R., Chan, D., Chakera, A., Abraham, A., Irish, A., Lim, W. & D'Orsogna, L. J., Feb 2023, In: Internal Medicine Journal. 53, 2, p. 280-284 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Haemodialysis vascular catheter-related blood stream infection: Organism types and clinical outcomes
Phillips, J., Chan, D. T., Chakera, A., Swaminathan, R., Patankar, K., Boudville, N. & Lim, W. H., Apr 2023, In: Nephrology. 28, 4, p. 249-253 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Antibiotic administration via indwelling peritoneal catheter to treat infected malignant ascites
Jayawardena, T., Vekaria, S., Krivinskas, S., Sidhu, C., Chakera, A. & Lee, Y. C. G., Nov 2022, In: Respirology Case Reports. 10, 11, e01055.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impact of routine reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate using the European Kidney Function Consortium and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations in a Western Australian community population
Napier, K., Lim, D., Thomas, E., Boyd, J., Chakera, A., Williamson, J., Betts, K., Manuel, J., Tuando, T. R. & Robinson, S., Oct 2022, In: Nephrology. 27, 10, p. 823-833 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Plasmid acquired antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis in a peritonitis case
Kopczyk, M., Ramsay, J. P., Mulroney, K., Colombi, E., Mowlaboccus, S., Coombs, G. & Chakera, A., Oct 2022, In: Nephrology. 27, p. 107-107 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Abstract/Meeting Abstract › peer-review
Datasets
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Staphylococcus epidermidis mesothelial array and RT2 data
Chakera, A. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 16 Feb 2017
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RESPECTED metadata-deidentified
Mountain, D. (Creator) & Chakera, A. (Data Manager), The University of Western Australia, 27 Jul 2016
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Use of the Flow Cytometry-Assisted Susceptibility Test (FAST) to provide rapid antifungal susceptibility results
1/02/20 → 31/01/21
Project: Research
Press/Media
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$15 million in funding to support health and medical research
Daniel Green, Evan Ingley, Karol Miller, Livia Hool, Julianne Coffin, Jan Dickinson, Peter Richmond, Kathy Fuller, Wendy Erber, Daniel Fatovich, Louise Winteringham, Louise Naylor, Helen Milroy, Adam Wittek, Helena Viola, Ruth Ganss, Kun Zhu, Benjamin Mullin, Anna Johansson-Percival, Jiulia Satiaputra, Aron Chakera, Macarena Cabrera Serrano, Andy Haynes, David McCutcheon, Toby Richards, Donna Cross, Henry Hui, Joanne McVeigh, Paul M. Parizel & Kieran Mulroney
15/12/20 → 16/12/20
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media