Celebrating student success: prizes and scholarships
The Faculty of Medicine’s first prizes and scholarships ceremony – held in October - acknowledged both the achievements of students and the contribution of alumni and friends in establishing the various awards. The ceremony also celebrated winners of Medical Foundation grants and scholarships.
The Faculty offers over 40 prizes and scholarships for students in the Graduate Medical Program. The oldest – the Renwick Prize No 2 in Physiology and won this year by Jacqueline Huber – was established in 1877 following a donation by a former Vice Chancellor of the University and former Dean of Medicine, the Hon Sir Arthur Renwick.
Speakers at the ceremony included Faculty Dean, Professor Bruce Robinson; Dr John Gregory-Roberts, Governor of the Medical Foundation; and Dr Paul Lancaster, president of the Medical Alumni Association. Ms Rebecca Saunderson, recipient of the Dr Catherine Hamlin Elective Term Scholarship, also talked about the value of her experience and the impact it had on her future plans.
A number of new scholarships and prizes have been established in the latest year. These include scholarships and prizes which provide financial support for students in need, scholarships awarded on merit, scholarships for Indigenous students in Medicine and Public Health, and to assist with travel costs for elective terms. Other scholarships have been established to reward and encourage researchers in specific fields, including cancer and medical humanities.
A full list of prize, scholarship and grant recipients is below along with photos from the night.
Prizes
Anatomy and Histology
A M Loewenthal Prize for Proficiency in Prosection and Anatomy (1925)
Nicholas Alexander Bajic
Professor John Irvine Hunter Anatomy Prize (1990)
Cynthia Sze Theng Tang
Daniel Demosthenous
Wolfe Solomon Brown Prize for best contribution to the Wilson Museum of Anatomy (1956)
James Michael Digges
Cancer Medicine
Jan Coppleson Memorial Prize for Cancer Medicine (1984)
Therese Shelanah Annemarie Fernando
Christopher Sen-Yuen Seet
General Practice
The AMA Prize in General Practice (1936)
Philippa Jamieson
Sarah Louise Pixton
Timothy Joseph Weston
Gemma Ann Winlo
Infectious Diseases
Harold Alfred Waldron Memorial Prize in Bacteriology (1938)
Kok On Ho
Medicine
Harold John Ritchie Memorial Prize for Clinical Medicine (1955)
Bernadette Zakher
Harry J Clayton Memorial Prize for Medicine and Clinical Medicine (1929)
Keiran Keith Tuck
Tow Chan Yeow
Robert Scot Skirving Memorial Prize for Medicine and Surgery (1975)
Emily Meg Gregory-Roberts
Semmelweis Prize in Clinical Infectious Diseases (1991)
Tristan John Dodds
Arthur Edward Mills Prize for the best USydMP Honours paper (1940)
Joseph David Isaacs
Dr Charlotte Last Memorial Prize for the best Honours project in Paediatrics or Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1997)
Davina Julliard
G S Caird Scholarship No I in the Basic & Clinical Sciences (1918)
Laura Kate Middeldorp
John Harris Scholarship in the Basic and Clinical Sciences (1887)
Benjamin Maxwell Moore
John Wait Scholarship in the Preclinical Sciences (1944)
Stephen Chin
McMahon Tennent Prize in Biochemistry (1952)
Peter Chan
The Renwick Prize No.2 in Physiology (1877)
Jacqueline Phillipa Huber
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Albert Hing Memorial Prize in Gynaecology (1965)
Rachael Jean Rodgers
Dame Constance d’Arcy Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1952)
Peta Jane Harrison
Dr Grace Cuthbert Browne Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1990)
Anthony Peter Sayce
Mabel Elizabeth Leaver Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1955)
Matthew Paul Feain
RANZCOG Women’s Health Award in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2005)
Trevor Mun Yin Kwok
Paediatrics and Child Health
Douglas Cohen Prize for Paediatric Surgery (1985)
Andrew Anthony Cooke
Paediatric Health Education Prize (1984)
Peter Chan
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Medical Staff Council Prize in Paediatrics (1998)
Leo Kyung Pil Kim
Jessica Mae Montfort
Pathology
Allan Douglas Gillies Memorial Prize for Pathology (1942)
Joshua Daniel Smith
Inglis and Ward Prize in Pathology and Bacteriology (1953)
Alexander Georges
Parkinson Memorial Prize for Pathology (1910)
William Bowen
Psychological Medicine
Cedric Swanton Memorial Prize in Psychological Medicine (1974)
Andrew Anthony Cooke
Norton Manning Memorial Prize in Psychological Medicine (1907)
Trevor Mun Yin Kwok
P J V Beumont Prize in Psychological Medicine (2001)
Beatrice Pudadera Dantoc
Public Health
NSW Department of Health Prize for the most proficient student
in Public Health (1994)
Phoebe Williams
Surgery
K C T Rawle 104 ACCS Association Prize in Surgery (1981)
Michael Rossiter-Thornton
Robert Craig Prize in Surgery (1918)
Joseph David Isaacs
Sir John Loewenthal Prize in Surgery (1981)
Steven J Craig
William Henry and Eliza Sharp Prize in Surgery (1938)
Daniel Matthew Raper
Sidney B Clipsham Memorial Prize in Operative Surgery (1913)
Sarah Tolerton
Dun Surgery Prize (1974)
Miriam Russo
Ophthalmology
James and Margaret Claffy Prize in Ophthalmology (1965)
Jeremy Curtin
Clarence and Mabel Clark Prize in Ophthalmology (1988)
Lia Rossiter-Thornton
Scholarships
Nemettallah and Kamle Habib Family Scholarship in Medicine (1998)
Andrew Morris
G S Caird Scholarship No. II / Faculty of Medicine Population Medicine Scholarship
Hamish Dunn
Dr Catherine Hamlin Elective Term Scholarship in Africa (2005)
Rebecca Saunderson
Medical Foundation Grants and Scholarships
Healthy Futures for Young People
Dr Susan Towns
Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination: The Utility in Differentiating Dementia
Dr Nicholas Cordato
Restoring Values to Medicine
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge
This award was accepted by Dr Chris Jordens
Ophthalmology Research Laboratories, The Save Sight Institute
Professor John McAvoy
Gene Therapy for Cardiac Diseases
Dr Ryuichi Aikawa
Vascular Applications of Synthetic Human Elastin
Dr Martin Ng
High Field Cardiac MRI
Dr Gemma Figtree
MRI in Congenital Heart Disease
Dr Rajesh Puranik
Medical Foundation Roly Dunlop Scholarship for Neurological Research
Dr Constance Yap
Medical Foundation Scholarship
Ms Emily Fuller
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