Teaching Interests
I am a PBL Tutor for the Graduate Entry Medical School Year 1 & 2 students.
I teach Public Health to the Graduate Entry Medical students from year 1 to year 4.
Areas of Interest are: Health Needs Assessment, Health Inequalities, Refugee Health, Ethnicity, Risk & trends & Causality, Epidemiology of diseases, Population Health, Population Health Research and Palliative Care
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal
Soluble ST2 Associates with Diabetes but Not Established Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A New Inflammatory Pathway of Relevance to Diabetes?
Miller, AM,Purves, D,McConnachie, A,Asquith, DL,Batty, GD,Burns, H,Cavanagh, J,Ford, I,McLean, JS,Packard, CJ,Shiels, PG,Turner, H,Velupillai, YN,Deans, KA,Welsh, P,McInnes, IB,Sattar, N
Plos One
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047830
25-Hydroxyvitamin D is lower in deprived groups, but is not associated with carotid intima media thickness or plaques: Results from pSoBid
4. Susan Knox , Paul Welsh , Vladimir Bezlyak , Alex McConnachie , Emma Boulton , Kevin A. Deans , Ian Ford , G. David Batty , Harry Burns , Jonathan Cavanagh , Keith Millar , Iain B. McInnes , Jennifer McLean , Yoga Velupillai , Paul Shiels , Carol Tannahill , Chris J. Packard, A. Michael Wallace , Naveed Sattar
Atherosclerosis
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.05.001
Early life socioeconomic status, chronic physiological stress and hippocampal N-acetyl aspartate concentrations
3. John McLean, , Rajeev Krishnadas , G. David Batty, Harry Burns , Kevin A. Deans, Ian Ford , Alex McConnachie , Agnes McGinty , Jennifer S. McLean , Keith Millar , Naveed Sattar , Paul G. Shiels , Carol Tannahill , Yoga N. Velupillai , Chris J. Packard , Barrie R. Condon , Donald M. Hadley, Jonathan Cavanagh
Behavioural Brain Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.013
Socio-economic status is associated with epigenetic differences in the pSoBid cohort
McGuinness, D,McGlynn, LM,Johnson, PC,MacIntyre, A,Batty, GD,Burns, H,Cavanagh, J,Deans, KA,Ford, I,McConnachie, A,McGinty, A,McLean, JS,Millar, K,Packard, CJ,Sattar, NA,Tannahill, C,Velupillai, YN,Shiels, PG
International Journal Of Epidemiology
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr215
Accelerated telomere attrition is associated with relative household income, diet and inflammation in the pSoBid cohort
7. Paul G Shiels, Liane M McGlynn, Alan MacIntyre, Paul CD Johnson, G David Batty, Harry Burns, Jonathan Cavanagh, Kevin A Deans, Ian Ford, Alex McConnachie, Agnes McGinty, Jennifer S McLean, Keith Millar, Naveed Sattar, Carol Tannahill, Yoga N Velupillai and Chris J Packard
Plos One
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022521
Early life socioeconomic adversity is associated in adult life with chronic inflammation, carotid atherosclerosis, poorer lung function and decreased cognitive performance: a cross-sectional, population-based study
Packard CJ; Bezlyak V, McLean JS; Batty GD, Ford I, Burns H, Cavanagh J, Deans KA, Henderson M; McGinty A, Millar K, Sattar N, Shiels PG, Velupillai YN, Tannahill C.
Bmc Public Health
Differences in atherosclerosis according to area level socioeconomic deprivation: cross sectional, population based study.
Deans KA, Bezlyak V, Ford I, Batty GD, Burns H, Cavanagh J, de Groot E, McGinty A, Millar K, Shiels PG, Tannahill C, Velupillai YN, Sattar N, Packard CJ.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b4170
Psychological, social and biological
Velupillai YN, Packard CJ, Batty GD, Bezlyak V, Burns H, Cavanagh J, Deans K, Ford I, McGinty A, Millar K, Sattar N, Shiels P, Tannahill C
Bmc Public Health
A rapid health needs assessment of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
11. Velupillai Y; McEwen J
Journal Of Public Health Medicine
When is referral to a Specialist Palliative Care Team appropriate?
14. Velupillai Y, Welsh J and McEwen J
Palliative Medicine
DOI: doi:10.1191/026921600672282827
General Practitioners' and district nurses' perception of bed availability in hospice and hospitals for palliative care patients.
13. Velupillai Y, Welsh J and McEwen
Palliative Medicine
DOI: doi:10.1191/026921600672282827
General Practitioners' and district nurses' perception of patients preferred place of death and obstacles preventing this happening.
Velupillai Y, Welsh J and McEwen J
Palliative Medicine
DOI: doi:10.1191/026921600672282827