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Dr Rita Hwang is an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research, University of Queensland. A clinician-researcher, she specialises in exercise-based and telerehabilitation interventions for patients with heart failure and other cardiorespiratory conditions.
Dr Hwang completed her PhD in 2017 within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland. Her doctoral work focused on delivering heart failure rehabilitation in the home via telerehabilitation, establishing a foundation for her subsequent research.
Her research interests encompass:
- Exercise-based rehabilitation for cardiorespiratory conditions, especially heart failure
- Alternative rehabilitation models, with a strong emphasis on telerehabilitation
- Functional exercise testing and outcome measures in cardiac populations
- Health services delivery and patient preferences in cardiac rehabilitation
- Cost-effectiveness and economic evaluation of home-based interventions
From 2008 to 2025, Dr Hwang has published extensively in leading journals such as Heart Lung and Circulation, Journal of Physiotherapy, European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, and Heart Failure Reviews. Her work demonstrates a clear trajectory from systematic reviews and pilot trials to large-scale randomised controlled trials and economic evaluations, consistently focusing on improving access, effectiveness, and patient-centred outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation.
Contact: s.hwang@uq.edu.au
