Rate My Professor Tom Van Der Touw

Tom Van Der Touw is a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He holds a PhD and serves as unit coordinator for courses including PSIO332 Cardiovascular Physiology and PSIO335 Human Nutrition and Metabolism. Van Der Touw supervises honours projects, such as investigations into abnormal respiratory muscle function in patients with respiratory disease, and contributes to postgraduate student supervision as principal supervisor in theses on topics like airway function and cardio-protective mechanisms.

His research focuses on clinical exercise physiology, including the effects of exercise training on blood lipids and dyslipidaemia, physiological responses to heat acclimation, metabolic syndrome, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Specific interests encompass chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, and blood flow responses to isometric exercise. Van Der Touw has co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications, garnering more than 565 citations. Notable works include 'Determining the effect size of aerobic exercise training on the standard lipid profile in sedentary adults with three or more metabolic syndrome factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials' (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2022); 'HIIT is not superior to MICT in altering blood lipids: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2019); 'Physiological Responses to Heat Acclimation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials' (Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 2019); 'Estimating the Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Novel Lipid Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials' (Sports Medicine, 2023); 'Exercise training for the management of dyslipidaemia: A position statement from Exercise and Sports Science Australia' (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2025); 'Hospitalisation costs associated with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): a systematic review' (ESC Heart Failure, 2022); 'Effect of low- and high-protein maternal diets during gestation on reproductive outcomes in the rat: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (Journal of Animal Science, 2020); and 'The Effect of Exercise Training on Blood Lipids: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis' (Sports Medicine, 2024). These systematic reviews and meta-analyses quantify exercise intervention impacts on cardiometabolic health markers.