
Dr Thach Tran
After completing his Doctor of Medicine and specialist training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OG), Dr Thach Tran completed his PhD on clinical epidemiology of nosocomial infection in OG at Prince of Songkla University in 1999. He previously worked as both a senior consultant in OG and a university lecturer in Vietnam until 2011 when he migrated to Australia. He was also working as a technical consultant and member of World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline development groups in management of high-risk pregnancy (2006-2014), and a primary statistician for several large randomised controlled trials in Australia (2011-2014). He has extensive experience in experimental design and data analysis, including modelling complex longitudinal related data, developing a prediction model, and analysing linked health care data, as well as managing big and complex datasets, particularly nation-wide linked data. Since joining the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in 2014, Thach has played an important role in the analysis of observational data from several large prospective cohorts to determine the contribution of fragility fractures on mortality and develop a model for predicting the conceptual risks of both fragility fractures and mortality in the elderly. He is interested in the implementation of novel and robust statistical analysis approaches to investigate the trajectories to subsequent hospital admissions and mortality following specific fragility fractures, and the interactions between multimorbidity and post-fracture mortality.
Selected Publications
See all publications- 2023Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research10.1002/jbmr.4930
Denosumab and Mortality in a real-world setting - A Comparative Study.
- 2023BMJ open10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072050
Safer medicines To reduce falls and refractures for OsteoPorosis (#STOP): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of medical specialist-initiated pharmacist-led medication management reviews in primary care.
- 2023JBMR plus10.1002/jbm4.10780
Associations of Type 2 Diabetes, Body Composition, and Insulin Resistance with Bone Parameters: The Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study.
- 2023Archives of gerontology and geriatrics10.1016/j.archger.2023.105084
Mortality, falls and slow walking speed are predicted by different muscle strength and physical performance measures in women and men.
- 2023eLife10.7554/eLife.83888
'Skeletal Age' for mapping the impact of fracture on mortality.