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Research Scholarship Recipients 2023

Research Scholarship Recipients 2023

Congratulations to our 2023 research scholarship recipients

Meet our recipients and learn about their 2023 research scholarship activity.

Academy of Surgical Educators Research Scholarship

Dr Jamie-Lee Rahiri (AoNZ)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: Establishing a Rural and Provincial Surgery (RAPS) Wānanga to enhance the regional general surgical experience for registrars in New Zealand (NZ)
Aotearoa New Zealand Research Scholarship

Dr Anantha Narayanan (AoNZ)
Specialty: Vascular Surgery
Topic: The effect of music on the operating surgeon
Brendan Dooley/Gordon Trinca Trauma Research Scholarship

Dr Christopher Mulligan (NSW)
Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery
Topic: Paediatric injury and trauma from off-road vehicles
Eric Bishop Research Scholarship

Dr Sireesha Koneru (NSW)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: Assessment of low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) using high-resolution anorectal manometry (HRAM) and Magnetic Resonance (MR) defecography
F&P Thornell-Shore Memorial Trust for Medical Research Scholarship

Dr Anton Lambers (Vic)
Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery
Topic: Implant breakage in proximal femoral nails: Usage, damage patterns and rates of failure
Foundation for Surgery Research Scholarship

Dr William McGahan (Qld)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: PET imaging of the tumour micro-environment: A new modality to improve early diagnosis, staging and therapy for pancreatic cancer
Herbert and Gloria Kees Research Scholarship

Dr Jocelyn Lippey (Vic)
Speciality: General Surgery
Topic: Stakeholder perspectives on the future implementation of risk stratified population breast cancer screening in Australia

Dr Alex Papachristos (NSW)
Speciality: General Surgery
Topic: Exploring a novel cyto-immuno therapy in advanced medullary thyroid cancer

Dr Andrew Wood (AoNZ)
Specialty: Otolaryngology
Topic: A multi-centre randomised controlled trial of post-operative doxycycline assessing recovery in patients undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis
Ian and Ruth Gough Surgical Education Scholarship

Dr Kathryn McLeod (Vic)
Specialty: Urology
Topic: Improving remediation processes of underperforming surgical trainees
John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship

Associate Professor Jonathan Karpelowsky (NSW)
Specialty: Paediatric
Topic: New Monitoring Strategies for Osteosarcoma – The Utility of ctDNA as a Putative Biomarker for Risk-Stratification and Treatment Response
Lumley Surgical Research Scholarship

Dr Katherine Suter (Vic)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: The impact of lifestyle factors on survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis: A platform for behavioral change
MAIC-RACS Trauma Research Scholarship

Dr Benjamin Hardy (NSW)
Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery
Topic: Epidemiology and outcomes of the most severely injured trauma patients
Margorie Hooper Scholarship

Dr Vikram Padhye (SA)
Specialty: Otolaryngology
Topic: Dr Padhye's aim is to establish a multidisciplinary sleep clinic that will adequately service metropolitan and regional SA
Professor Philip Walker Vascular Surgery Research Scholarship

Dr Cheyaanthan Haran (AoNZ)
Specialty: Vascular Surgery
Topic: Presentation and management of acute aortic syndromes in Aotearoa New Zealand
R & M Edwards Research Scholarship

Dr Nicholas Candy (SA)
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Topic: The pituitary gland membrane and potential targets for fluorescence guided surgery
Reg Worcester Research Scholarship

Dr Odette Hart (AoNZ)
Speciality: Vascular Surgery
Topic: The management and outcome in diabetic foot disease
Richard Jepson Research Scholarship

Dr Luke Traeger (SA)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: Pyridostigmine to Reduce the duration of postoperative Ileus after Colorectal Surgery – a double-blinded Randomised Controlled Trial (PyRICo-RCT)
Sir Roy McCaughey Surgical Fellowship

Dr Mark Ly (NSW)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: Long-term ex-vivo normothermic machine perfusion and transplantation of rat livers can rescue grafts previously considered unusable
Surgical Ethics Research Scholarship

Dr Jazmin Eckhaus (Vic)
Specialty: Cardiothoracic
Topic: Permission to refuse: A core problem in the ethics of consent
Tour de Cure Cancer Research Scholarship

Dr Helen Mohan (VIC)
Speciality: General Surgery
Topic: Simulation in Robotic Colorectal Surgery: Development of a Multimodal Training and Assessment Tool with Cognitive and Technical Simulation
WG Norman Research Fellowship

Dr Shwe Phyo Han (NSW)
Specialty: General Surgery
Topic: New era of diagnosis and treatment of liver and pancreatic tumors: Application with artificial intelligence (AI) innovation

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