McNamee AP.  Invited lecture. National Youth Science Forum Specialist Lecture. University of Queensland. 2025. “Cardiovascular artificial organs and blood compatibility”. 

McNamee AP.  Invited lecture. Penn State University, Department of Biomedical Engineering. PA, USA. 2024. “From High-Shear Stress to Haemolysis: Unravelling Blood Trauma with Erythrocyte Biophysics and Blood Rheology”

McNamee AP.  Invited lecture. Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan. 2024. “Shear history can alter RBC biophysics and cell dynamics”

McNamee AP. Invited lecture. Heart Foundation and Queensland Cardiovascular Research Network (QCVRN) Showcase. 2024. “Haemocompatibility is not absence of haemolysis”

McNamee AP. Opening keynote lecture. Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics (ANZSB) Queensland Symposium. Brisbane. 2023. "Improving cardiac support devices with blood biophysics."

McNamee AP. Invited lecture. Australian Mechanical Circulatory Support (AUS MCS) Symposium. Melbourne. 2023.  "Adopting blood informed approaches for the design and use of MCS devices."

McNamee AP. Invited lecture. Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART). Adelaide. 2023. 

McNamee AP., Kuck L., Simmonds MJ. “Blood quality influences hemolytic characterization of blood pumps”. P37-F. 48th Annual Congress of the European Society for Artificial Organs, Krems, Austria. (September 2022).

McNamee AP., Kuck L., Simmonds MJ. “Controlling and evaluating thrombus formation within cardiovascular medical devices”. P38. 48th Annual Congress of the European Society, Krems, Austria. (September 2022).

Sing T., Simmonds MJ., Semenzin C., McNamee AP., Pauls JP., Tansley GD. “In Vitro Haemocompatibility Evaluation of an Intra-Ventricular Balloon Pump as Short-Term Mechanical Circulatory Support”. P17-F. . 48th Annual Congress of the European Society for Artificial Organs, Krems, Austria. (September 2022).

Simmonds MJ., McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Nestler F., Bartnikowski N., Timms D. “Haemocompatibility of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart”. O56. 48th Annual Congress 48th Annual Congress of the European Society for Artificial Organs, Krems, Austria (September 2022).

Simmonds MJ., McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Drew J., Kuck L., Provenzano S., Smith A., Pattullo S. “Short-term mechanical circulatory support: impact on the physical properties of blood”. O35-K. 48th Annual Congress of the European Society for Artificial Organs, Krems, Austria (September 2022).

Sing T., Simmonds MJ., Semenzin C., McNamee AP., Pauls JP., Tansley GD. “A pulsatile mock circulatory loop for the evaluation of cardiac assist device haemocompatibility”. EUMS-ISMCS 2022 Congress (May 2022).

Li H., Walker D., Johnson S., McNamee AP., Jing X. “A preliminary study of micro thin wall fabrication on PMMA using an in-house developed micromilling machine” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Nanomanufacturing & 4th AET Symposium on ACSM and Digital Manufacturing. Dublin, Ireland (August 2022).

McNamee AP., Chan C., Pauls J., Tansley G., Timms D., Simmonds MJ. “Investigating the effect of mock circulation loop volume on markers of blood damage; optimizing the ASTM standard”. 47th ESAO Virtual Congress, London, UK (September 2021).

Simmonds MJ., McNamee AP., Tansley GD., “Chasing blood trauma in mechanical circulatory support”. 47th ESAO Virtual Congress, London, UK (September2021)

Watanabe N., McNamee AP., Horobin JT., Fraser JF., Inoue M., Hakozaki M., Matsuzawa F., Simmonds MJ. “Asymmetrical erythrocyte morphology to detect sublethal damage”. ESCHM-ISCH-ISB 2021, S21-03, Fukuoka, Japan, (July 2021).

McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Pauls JP., Simmonds MJ. “Replacing the need for bovine blood products in early stage optimisation of cardiac assist devices: improving the international standard”. The 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Abstract#716. 2021.

Kuck L., McNamee AP., Simmonds MJ., “Blood fluidity is disproportionally impaired by a small fraction of abnormal red cells”. Queensland Cardiovascular Research Network. S1- Bright minds in cardiovascular health (2020).

McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Pauls JP., Simmonds MJ., “Eliminating animal blood products from the development of artificial organs: building evidence for an optimal international standard”, The 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Abstract#716. 2020.

McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Simmonds MJ., “Biophysical alterations to erythrocytes exposed to sublethal shear stresses”, 8th Meeting of the International Federation for Artificial Organs, PE12-5, Osaka, Japan (November 2019).

Inoue M.，Hakozaki M.，Horobin JT.，McNamee AP.，Tansley GD., Fraser JF., Simmonds MJ.，Shibata M., Watanabe N., “The image analysis to detect erythrocyte damage induced by high shear stress”, Life Engineering Symposium 2019, 2C1-2, Bangkok, Thailand (August 2019).

Simmonds MJ., McNamee AP., Tansley GD., “Changes in the physical properties of blood and the microcirculation during cardiopulmonary bypass”, The 46th ESAO Congress, Hannover, Germany (September 2019).

McNamee AP., Tansley GD., Simmonds MJ., “Sublethal damage to erythrocytes alters low-shear blood flow”, XLV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, P34, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).

Simmonds MJ., McNamee AP., Tansley GT., “Effect of supraphysiological shear stress on blood: insights from haemorheology”, XLV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, O6, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).

Horobin JT., McNamee AP., Sabapathy S., Simmonds MJ., “Does the subhaemolytic threshold accurately whether erythrocytes are sublethally damaged following shear exposure?”, XLV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, O7, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).

Hakozaki M., Simmonds MJ., Horobin JT., McNamee AP., Shimada T., Hara R., Watanabe N., “Visualisation of the erythrocyte damage process induced by sublethal shear stress”, XLV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, O5, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).

Richardson K., McNamee AP., Simmonds MJ., “Blood obtained from haemochromatosis patients is more susceptible to mechanical sublethal damage than healthy donors”, XLV European Society for Artificial Organs Congress, P33, Madrid, Spain (September 2018).

McNamee AP., Tansley G., Simmonds MJ., “Subhaemolytic mechanical trauma increases RBC aggregation by altering cell electrochemistry”, Joint meeting of: The European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, The International Society for Clinical Hemorheology, and, The International Society of Biorheology, O1-3, Krakow, Poland (July 2018).

McNamee AP., Tansley G., Simmonds MJ., “Subhaemolytic mechanical damage alters erythrocyte behaviour in subsequent low-shear flows”, Joint meeting of: The European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, The International Society for Clinical Hemorheology, and, The International Society of Biorheology, O1-4, Krakow, Poland (July 2018).

McNamee AP., Richardson K., Kuck L., Robertson K., Simmonds MJ., “Susceptibility to mechanical damage of density-fractionated red blood cells”, Joint meeting of: The European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, The International Society for Clinical Hemorheology, and, The International Society of Biorheology, P24, Krakow, Poland (July 2018).

Turner J., McNamee AP., Horobin JT., Kuck L., Richardson K., Simmonds MJ., “Determinants of sublethal trauma to red blood cells: effects of shear rate at standardised shear stresses”, Joint meeting of: The European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, The International Society for Clinical Hemorheology, and, The International Society of Biorheology, P23, Krakow, Poland (July 2018).

Richardson K., McNamee AP., Simmonds MJ., “Physical properties of erythrocytes improve in hemochromatosis patients with repeated venesection therapy”, Joint meeting of: The European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, The International Society for Clinical Hemorheology, and, The International Society of Biorheology, P28, Krakow, Poland (July 2018).

McNamee AP., Tansley G., Simmonds MJ., “Shear stress exposure alters the electrochemical and physical properties of erythrocytes”, Conference of the 44th European Society for Artificial Organs and 7th International Federation for Artificial Organs, O80, Vienna, Austria (September 2017).

McNamee AP., Horobin J., Tansley G., Simmonds MJ., “Oxidative stress increases susceptibility of red blood cells to shear-mediated damage”, Conference of the 44th European Society for Artificial Organs and 7th International Federation for Artificial Organs, P21, Vienna, Austria (September 2017).

Richardson K, McNamee AP., Simmonds MJ. “A single venesection improves the mechanical properties of blood in patients with haemochromatosis”, Conference of the 44th European Society for Artificial Organs and 7th International Federation for Artificial Organs, LP14, Vienna, Austria (September 2017).

McNamee AP., Horobin J., Tansley G., Sabapathy S., Simmonds MJ., “Biphasic responses of RBC function following repeat exposures to short duration, supraphysiological, subhaemolytic shear stress”, 18th Conference of the European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, OC32, Lisbon, Portugal (June 2016).

McNamee AP., Horobin J., Tansley G., Simmonds MJ., “Oxidative stress increases erythrocyte susceptibility to mechanical damage”, 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Free Radical Research (Australasia), P17, Gold Coast, Australia (December 2016).

McNamee AP., Tansley G., Horobin J., Sabapathy S., Simmonds MJ., “The effects of supraphysiological shear stress on erythrocyte function”, Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference, Australia (December 2015).

McNamee AP., Sabapathy S., Horobin J., Singh I., Guerrero J., Simmonds MJ., “Haemochromatosis does not impair the hemorheological properties of blood”, 15th International Congress of Biorheology and 8th International Conference on Clinical Hemorheology, P1-32, Seoul, Korea (May 2015).