Samuel Tu

Samuel Tu is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital. His thesis and research interests focus on characterising the cardiometabolic, genetic and lifestyle risk factors that are important in the development of cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, and the prognostic implications of these risk factors in patients with arrhythmias. He is supervised by A/Prof Christopher Wong, Dr Celine Gallagher and Prof Prashanthan Sanders and is supported by the prestigious NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship.

Samuel is also a Basic Physician Trainee at the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network in South Australia. In 2020, he completed an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences and was awarded the University Medal.