Faculty of Medicine & Health
Faculty of Science
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
The Academic Procession proceeds to the dais, the Assembly standing. The University Mace is carried by Emeritus Professor Ross Ernest Griffiths, BSc UNSW, PhD Leeds, CText FTI, FRSN
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Advance Australia Fair
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are one and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
WELCOME
The Chancellor, Mr David Gonski AC, BCom LLB UNSW, FCPA, FAICD
ADMISSION TO AWARDS
Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, MBBS PhD Melbourne, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health requests the Chancellor, on behalf of the University Council, to admit candidates to awards
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
Professor Michelle Haber AM, BSc(Psych)(Hons) PhD Hon.DSc UNSW, Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, MBBS PhD Melbourne, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health
Following the Concluding Remarks, the Assembly will stand while the Academic Procession retires.
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Neuroscience
Aaron D'Hary
Sonia Merin Mathews
Honours Class 1
Biotechnology
William Kentarou Dan
Anton Talor Maraldo
Veronica Padilla
Genetics
Samuel Bang
Medical Science
Juliette Michelle Abrahamse
Mengfei Chen
Molecular and Cell Biology
Natalie Le
Neuroscience
Alexandra Louise Snepvangers
Physiology
Whitney Liang
BACHELOR OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (HONOURS) BBiotech(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Qian Ni Tan
BACHELOR OF LIFE SCIENCES BLS
Alan Shen
Fern Faryda Sirikasemlert
BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE BMedSc
Nidhi Pravin Bhat
Amisha Kumar
Nicky Le
Fanbo Meng
Yuqi Ouyang
Alexander Marshall Paine
Natasha Jade Tomson
Distinction
Sumyukta Garikapati
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE BPsychSc
Yusra Alhindawi
Reenie Condoleon
Daniel Ethan Cooke
Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Metternicht
Artemis Luo Heng Guan
Mikaela Rose Jenkinson
Zhilin Li
Lina Mastroianni
Celine Phi Nguyen
Vanessa Nguyen
Victoria Miriam Shahho
Vanessa Areewan Sik
Amelia Jade Strong
Judy Vuu
Distinction
Georgia Maie Brouner
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (HONOURS) BPsychSc(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Bronte Louise English
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY (HONOURS) BPsych(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Yuen Ting Sze
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE AND BUSINESS BSc&Bus
Shawnway Chiu
Stacey Tanudjaja
Distinction
Anna Thuy Ta
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc
Sidharth Aggarwal
Ashley Bako
Calvin Chang
Alexia Maria Cianciola
Hannah Margaret Dooley
Samantha Dounis
Rashvy Jeremy Elvin
Alizeh Shanzah Jamal
Calvin Leung
Angela Rui Ying Luo
Khandaker Ameer Abdullah Mahdi
Amanda Pang
Michelle Xiao Yun Peng
Justine Ashley Pohlmann
Angela Isabelle Shaw
Anastasia Spathis
Ivana Stojanovic
Kai Lun Tse
Jordan Wang
Ashley Kaewkharinth Wong
Distinction
Matthew James Davison
Nathan James Galvin Valencia
Finlay Conor Gibson-Healey
Sandra Hormoz
Chau Lam Miu
Ming Yong Tan
Sarah Grace Yem
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) BSc(Hons)
Genetics
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Henry Lin
Medical Science
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Sopheakwealthy Heangsarath
Honours Class 1
Phoebe Butler
Yun Rhuen Cheah
Victoria Mary Tyma
Mayeesha Tashmeem Zahin
Microbiology
Honours Class 1
Serena Li
Molecular and Cell Biology
Honours Class 1
J King Chang
Pathology
Honours Class 1
Lily May Channon
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Hugh Gordon Desmond Burton
Alexandria Frances Mackenzie
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Distinction
Katherine Xinyun Wong
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS BSc BFA
Jennifer Anne Tyler
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Physics
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BAdvSci(Hons) BSc
Distinction
Samantha Jane Kirkwood
Honours Class 1
Genetics
Michael Francis O'Dea
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY GDPsych
Emily Christine Alexander
Cassandra Jean Everett
Analisa Fletcher
Laura Grace McClintock
Bianca Leigh Smith
Madeleine Wighton
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (FORENSIC) MPsychol(For)
Friyana Cooper
Janet Zhen Lei O'Sullivan
FACULTY OF MEDICINE & HEALTH
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, Dean of the Faculty Medicine & Health
BACHELOR OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY BExPhys
Jude Francis David Amit
Hannah Jade Ansell
Michael Lieng Yin Chau
Chrysten Jacqueline Kodomichalos
Harry Terence Kyriazis
Michael Anthony Watson
James Yang
Anthony Jisan Zhao
Distinction
Jasmine Ly
Katarina Markovic
Anurag Pandit
Brishna Shah
Het Shah
Paige Karen Winder
BACHELOR OF VISION SCIENCE BVisSc
Distinction
Nancy Hong Nhung Diep
Gemmae Juliane Paredes
BACHELOR OF MEDICAL STUDIES BMed
Jin Hee Kim
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE MD
Dk Nur Anis Amarunnisa Pg Kamarudzaman
BACHELOR OF MEDICAL STUDIES
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE BMed MD
Saikrishna Ananthapadmanabhan
Michelle Kar Kei Foong
Hema Lattha Gunasagaran
Yin Wai Jaclyn Lam
Wey-Lynn Liew
Keerthana Sritharan
Hoi Kiu Sze
Nway Yadanar Tun
Jiayue Zhong
BACHELOR OF MEDICAL STUDIES
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE BMed MD Distinction
Su Lynn Yeoh
Salwa Sayeed Barmaky
Kalutarage Dhanushie Damindri Fernando
Christina Li Chen Seow
Prithvika Sudarshan
Heeral Thakkar
MASTER OF CLINICAL OPTOMETRY MClinOptom
Jesse Nixon
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT MHLM
Megha Chaudhary
Siti Aisyah Nizar
Gaurav Puri
Jennifer Louise Thorncraft
Excellence
Lilly Dam
Rebecca Marie Nutan Kimble
Claire Elizabeth King
Yilin Mao
Benjamin John Newlyn
Sally Judith Raymond
MASTER OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT MHM
Jiefan Wu
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENSION) MHLM(Extn)
Nurina Mayasari
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE MIDI
Ivy Oblenda Gabatan
Excellence
Kevin John Sammut
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MGH
Louise Marie Sealy
MASTER OF OPTOMETRY MOptom
Asma Mohammed A Aljroudi
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MPH
Nur Hannani Binti Abd Ghafar
Nicole Sandra Burkhardt
Meghan Frances Rose Cue
Rose Wambeti Kivuti
Yang Liao
Thomas Allan Bede Molloy
Excellence
Jacqueline Fleetwood
Harmonie Wong-See
Cindy Chong
Manraaj Singh Sidhu
Elizabeth Amy Dawson
Andrew Hadinata Lie
MASTER OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE MPharmMed
Yuet Kee Fu
Excellence
Delia Bernice Liberty
Tze Kai Lim
MASTER OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE MRMed
Nur Atiqah Hairudin
Albert Duc Lam Vu
Excellence
Kim Margaret Gatenby
MASTER OF SCIENCE MSc
Zizheng Wang
MASTER OF WOMEN'S HEALTH MEDICINE MWomHMed
Waduge Dhanushi Thilakshana Fernando
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MHLM MGH
Excellence
Saba Samali
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Chandra Chaulagain
Sally Jean Freeman
Michael Nolan
Excellence
Sahand Imani
Kyra Dawn Thompson
Eliza Clare Wunsch
MASTER OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHM MPH
Excellence
Alexander David Murphy
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE MGH MIDI
Bao Han Helen Nguyen
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
MASTERS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE (EXTENSION) MGH MIDIExtn
Excellence
Damian Alexander Honeyman
MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH (EXTENSION)
MASTER OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT MIPH(Extn) MHM
Robin Jacob Mao
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MGH MPH
Katherine Czarniak
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENSION) MPH MHLM(Extn)
Sakshi Parag Maheshwari
MASTER OF MEDICINE by research MMed
Paediatrics
Blake Jessica Sandery
MASTER OF SCIENCE by research MSc
Medicine
Belinda Louise Arnold
Pathology
Derek John Williamson
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Anatomy
Rokiah Grace Alford
Thesis: Concentration dependent exchange of DNA nanostructures using the multi-site competitive exchange mechanism of the replisome
Sonia Hesam Shariati
Thesis: Environmental, genetic and epigenetic contributors to the risk of bipolar disorder
John Kokkinos
Thesis: Reprogramming Pancreatic Cancer Cells to Surrender to Microenvironmental Death Signals
Collin Tran
Thesis: Investigating the role of sphingosine 1-phosphate in neuroprotective signalling
Children's Cancer
Aria Maree Ahmed-Cox
Thesis: Cancer Nanomedicine: Quantitative Visualisation and Efficacy of Nanoparticle Delivery
Alice Salib
Thesis: Exploring the oncogenic role of the splicing associated protein, SNRPD3 in
MYCN-driven neuroblastoma
Medical Education
Pin-Hsiang Huang
Thesis: The Impact of Cultural Attributes on Perceived Clinical Teaching
Medicine
Sichan He
Thesis: The impact of improved hepatitis B and C antiviral therapy on hepatocellular
carcinoma
Praveen Indraratna
Thesis: TeleClinical Care: A novel digital technology to enhance delivery of cardiovascular healthcare
Muhammad Nasir Riaz
Thesis: Single molecule whole genome sequencing of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and its applications
Sarah Elizabeth Scheuer
Thesis: Improving donor heart preservation: pharmacologic conditioning and optimisation of donor heart procurement
Marija Kate Simic
Thesis: Wnt-Targeted Therapy to Treat Myeloma-Induced Bone Loss and Prevent Disease Relapse
Medicine (The George Institute)
Rosemary Wyber
Thesis: Evidence-based policy to end rheumatic heart disease in Australia
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Nicole Laurencia Yuwono
Thesis: Characterisation of Circulating Cell-free DNA in Healthy Women and Implications for the Development of an Ovarian Cancer Screening Test
Paediatrics
Brittany Claire McGill
Thesis: Genetics, genomics and precision medicine: Innovations in childhood cancer care through the eyes of families and oncology professionals
Pathology
Lauren Oi-Yee Ha
Thesis: A patient-centred approach to engage childhood cancer survivors in health
behaviours using novel digital technologies
Physiology and Pharmacology
Md Jakir Hossain
Thesis: Evaluation of Peripheral Neuropathy in Rodent Models of Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Psychiatry
Adriano Henrique De Matos Moffa
Thesis: Assessing neuromodulatory effects of non-invasive brain stimulation to the prefrontal cortex
Hamish Fibbins
Thesis: Promoting physical health within mental health workforce culture through staff-focused exercise interventions
Diane Elise Macdonald
Thesis: Through my eyes: Self-portraits by women with disability creating pathways for social change
Michael John Murphy
Thesis: The role of internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) for the treatment of anxiety and depression in cancer
Public Health and Community Medicine
Md Saiful Islam
Thesis: Tuberculosis infection prevention and control policies, practices, and the risk of TB infection among healthcare workers
Public Health and Community Medicine (Centre for Big Data)
Oluwadamisola Temilade Sotade
Thesis: Using routinely collected data to generate real-world evidence about the use and outcomes of aortic valve replacement procedures
Monica Min Tang
Thesis: Real-world data for cancer medicines research in Australia: Bridging the evidence gap
Jie Zhu
Thesis: Causal Inference in Survival Analysis for Personalised Health Care
Vision Science
Huy Dinh Minh Tran
Thesis: Efficacy and safety of low dose Atropine and Caffeine eye drops for myopia control
DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH DrPH
Anna Lauren Morell
Thesis: Australia's rural and remote health workforce: Geographical distribution mechanisms, retention, and harnessing the power of data to support improved policymaking
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Akira Gokoolparsadh
Thesis: Characterising the landscape of circular RNAs in the human brain
Ryan John Separovich
Thesis: The post-translational regulation of histone methylation enzymes by upstream signalling pathways
Biotechnology
Nicole Benaud
Thesis: Bacterial Natural Product Gene Biomining in Polar Desert Soils
Molecular Genetics
Sarah Katherine Topfer
Thesis: Using genome editing to investigate deletional mutations associated with elevated foetal haemoglobin as a novel approach for treating ß-aemoglobinopathies
Psychology
Jeremy Ngo
Thesis: The effects of stimulus information and stimulus reliability on the time course of bias effects in decision-making