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Professor Carol Armour

Associate Dean (Research Career Development), Faculty of Medicine and
Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy
Member of the Respiratory Research Group

Qualifications

B Pharm (Hons), PHD, FPS

Contact Details

University of Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9351 4346
Fax: +61 2 9351 6950
Email:
Room S346
Pharmacy Building A15
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Background

Having completed her doctoral studies in 1981 at The University of Sydney with a thesis entitled “Studies on the modes of action of some drugs used in asthma therapy”, Professor Armour was awarded a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship – by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Lung Association - to the Pulmonary Research Laboratory within the University of British Columbia where she acquired skills for histological assessment and computer mapping of human lung tissue.

Professor Armour was Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at The University of Sydney from 2006-2009 and co-leader of the Respiratory Research Group within the Faculty of Pharmacy. In 2005 she was made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society for her services to the profession, and she was awarded the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) medal for research in 2007.

The impact and standing of Professor Armour’s investigations is evidenced by the metrics of her grant success – 81 successful applications in the last 25 years valued at over $13 million – and the metrics of her publication output – nearly 150 refereed journal articles including The Journal of Immunology (IF=6.068), Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (IF=8.115), Thorax (IF=6.626), Allergy (IF=5.014), American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine (IF=9.074) and the European Respiration Journal (IF=5.349). Scopus indicates that Professor Armour has an h-index of 20 with a Citation count in excess of 1,400. Her vision for postgraduate research students includes mentoring and supervision with 18 Doctoral candidates, 7 Masters candidates, 25 Graduate Diploma candidates and 7 undergraduate Honours candidates since 1989.

Research Interests

Professor Armour is a respiratory pharmacologist working toward an understanding of the processes and mechanisms of chronic diseases such as Asthma and Diabetes.

Not only is Professor Armour intimately involved with the theory, but being involved with funded projects developing innovative health care services, she is also aware of the reality of chronic disease in the community. Her respiratory research interests delve deeply: the relationship between airway inflammation in Asthma and the stability of deregulated mRNA; the corticosteroid-sensitive and –insensitive pathways in airway remodelling; airway smooth muscle control of mast cells in Asthma; the role of interleukin 17 in modulating airway smooth muscle functions in Asthma; and, transcriptional regulation of cytokine gene expression in airway smooth muscle by sphigosine 10 phosphate, a novel inflammatory mediator in Asthma.

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Higher Degree Research Candidates

  • Alkhouri, Hatem
    Doctor of Philosophy
    "Airway smooth muscle and mast cells in asthma."
    Start: July 2006
    Submit: July 2011
    Primary Supervisor: Hughes
  • Cheong, Hui M.L.
    Doctor of Philosophy
    "Inter-professional practice in asthma care"
    Start: February 2009
    Submit: February 2013
    Primary Supervisor: Bosnic-Anticevich
  • Liao-Loon, Hannah E.
    Part-time, Master of Philosophy
    "Evaluation of medication aspects of Integrated Home Remote Monitoring with established respiratory care ambulatory care service for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) within the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS)."
    Start: July 2009
    Submit: July 2013
    Secondary Supervisor: McLachlan
  • Naik Panvelkar, Pradnya M.
    Doctor of Philosophy
    "Patient preferences for community pharmacy based asthma services"
    Start: February 2006
    Submit: February 2011
    Primary Supervisor: Saini
  • Welling, Raymond G.
    Doctor of Philosophy, Part-time
    "The impact of firm orientation on e-business adoption and business performance"
    Start: February 2007
    Submit: February 2015
    Primary Supervisor: White

Select Journal Articles

  1. Basheti IA, Reddel HK, Armour CL, Bosnic-Anticevich SZ. Improved asthma outcomes with a simple inhaler technique intervention by community pharmacists. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Jun;119(6):1537-8. Epub 2007 Apr 16.
  2. Armour C, Brillant M, Krass I. (2007) Pharmacists’ view on involvement in pharmacy practice research: Strategies for increasing participation. Pharmacy Practice 5:59-66.
  3. Krass I, Mitchell B, Clarke P, Brillant M, Dienaar R, Hughes J, Lau P, Peterson G, Stewart K, Taylor S, Wilkinson J, Armour C. (2007) Pharmacy Diabetes care Program: Analysis of two screening methods for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in Australian community pharmacy. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 75:339-347.
  4. Krass I, Armour C, Mitchell B, Brillant M, R Dienaar R, J Hughes J, Lau P, Peterson G, Stewart K, Taylor S, Wilkinson J. (2007) The Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program: assessment of a community pharmacy diabetes service model in Australia. Diabet Med 24:677-683.
  5. Smith L, Bosnic-Anticevich S, Mitchell B, Krass I, Saini B Armour C. (2007) Treating asthma with a self-management model of illness behaviour aids in an Australian community pharmacy setting. Social Science and Medicine 64:1501-1511.
  6. Armour C, Bosnic-Anticevich S, Brillant M, Burton D, Emmerton L, Krass I, Saini B, Smith L, Stewart K, (2007) Pharmacy asthma care program (PACP) improves outcomes for patients in the community. Thorax 62:496-502. Thorax Published Online First: 24 January 2007. doi:10.1136/thx.2006.064709
  7. Sutcliffe A, Kaur D, Page S, Woodman L, Armour C, Baraket M, Bradding P, Hughes JM, Brightling C. (2006) Mast cell migration to Th2-stimulated airway smooth muscle from asthmatics. Thorax. 61:657-662.
  8. Armour CL, Taylor SJ, Hourihan F, Smith C, Krass I (2004) Implementation and evaluation of Australian Pharmacist’ Diabetes Care services. J Am Pharm Assoc 44: 455-466.
  9. Armour CL, McKay KO, Johnson PRA, Glanville AR, Black JL (1996). Does the disease state influence the responsiveness of human airways studied in vitro? J Applied Physiol, 80: 2211-2216.
  10. Hughes JM, Sewell WA, Black JL, Armour CL (1996). The effect of dexamethasone on expression of adhesion molecules on CD4+ lymphocytes. Am J Physiol: Lung cell mol physiol, 15: L79-L84.
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