Faculty of Medicine & Health
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
The Academic Procession proceeds to the dais, the Assembly standing. The University Mace is carried by Dr Elizabeth Tancred, BSc PhD UNSW
WELCOME TO COUNTRY
Aunty Barb Simms
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
Vice-Chancellor & President, Professor Attila Brungs, BSc(Hons) UNSW, DPhil Oxon, FTSE, FRNS
ADMISSION TO AWARDS
Professor Cheryl Jones, MBBS (Honours), FRACP (Paeds) PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health requests the Vice-Chancellor & President, on behalf of the University Council, to admit candidates to awards
HONORARY DEGREE
Professor Cheryl Jones, MBBS (Honours), FRACP (Paeds) PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health presents the award recipient
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Nick Bartlett
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
William Victor Simms (Uncle Vic)
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Professor Cheryl Jones, MBBS (Honours), FRACP (Paeds) PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health
Following the Concluding Remarks, the Assembly will stand while the Academic Procession retires.
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Anatomy
Alexandra Standard
BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE BMedSc
Marina Abdul
Ma Jesusa Ventajar Adriano
Natasha Alexis Alegro
Rafi Ashraf
Phoebe Iris Broadfoot
Harkirat Kaur
Ningxin Sun
Charlotte Fiona Therese Tillbrook
Distinction
Gabriella Skylar Chaves Munoz
Veronica Doeun Seo
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc
Xiya Han
Eve Marie Katherine Hewetson
James Lewis Morched
Marcus Nghiem Duy Nguyen
Yvette Ou
Zmir Rahmaty
Anzalna Shaikh
Hana Hoa Giai Tu
Haoran Xu
Beier Zhang
Distinction
Genevieve Louise Shillington
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) BSc(Hons)
Medical Science
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Hanshana Rajina Nath
Honours Class 1
Michaella Noof Torres Albao
Neuroscience
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Kwannatee Morey-Hype
Pathology
Honours Class 1
Jessica Sydney Ramos
Pharmacology
Honours Class 1
Chen Wang
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Bianca Victoria Linga Nanales
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Ryan Oliver Jepson
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Distinction
Heleen Azeez
FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH
BACHELOR OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY BExPhys
Colin Hoi Lam Chan
Andy Do
Ethan Patrick Gale
Timothy Ham
Michael Panayiotis Kouta
Jonathan Phlek Duch
Tanzeelur Rahman
Ashton John Trollor
Zachary Van
Connie Xie
Gwen V Zaragoza
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (MEDICINE) BSc(Med)
Seung Jun Hur
BACHELOR OF VISION SCIENCE BVisSc
Distinction
Timothy Peter Wing Yan Choong
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT GCertHLM
Timothy David William Arnold
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH GDipFMH
Stephanie Maree Fisher
Apondak Emmanuel Malual
MASTER OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH MFMH
Andrew Custodio
Excellence
Emma Lee Atkins
Xue Alejandro Avendano Pimentel
Susan Homeh Hawil
Chelsea-Rain Lovett
Amanda Pennacchia
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT MHLM
Emma Marie Farmakis
Lothlorian Lucie Fogg
Nor Ilyani binti Hasbullah
Vikas Kesarwani
Excellence
Nazamuddin Zamir Bin Abdul Halim
Aishwarya Gummadavelly
Phillipa Catherine Jenkins
Scott Chern Yaw Ma
Damien Michael Nolan
Mayuri Parmar
Adriana Schiavon
Brooke Linda Sheldon
Fiona Isabel Telford-Sharp
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE MIDI
Swetha Pola
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MGH
Connor Eloise Van Den Berg
Infectious Diseases Control
Donna Luisa Miller
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH (EXTENSION) MGH(Extn)
Excellence
Alison Laura Jaworski
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MPH
Eleanor Louise Gambling
Chimeremogo Perpetua Jennifer John-Alih
Yemurai Theresa Moffat
Excellence
Brody Bamford
Lucinda Madeleine Alice Flood
Ava Astoria Karusoo-Musumeci
Andrea Wing-Yan Sit
Giang Thi Tra Vo
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (EXTENSION) MPH(Extn)
Excellence
Erin Louise Stewart
MASTER OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE MRMed
Kaushalya Arulpragasam
Anna Elizabeth Werner Cross
Fouzia Nawaz Khan
Min Zhao
Excellence
Grace Evelyn Couley
Jessica Elizabeth Cullen
Stephanie Leann Fryman
Sophie Elizabeth Hiscock
Rachel Marama Potae
MASTER OF SCIENCE MSc
Health Data Science
Vito Haryodipa Aria
Haozhi Chen
MASTER OF WOMEN'S HEALTH MEDICINE MWomHMed
Gail Clews Kwan
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MHLM MGH
Allison Jane Jones
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Sivyong Banh
Hira Hamid Hashmi
Joanne Hobday
Sankit Kishor Lalseta
Ellie Thomas
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Excellence
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Excellence
Edward James Elkins
Stephanie Dwi Halena
Kimberley-Ann Helen Kerr
Epidemiology
Excellence
Emily Yuhan Sun
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH (EXTENSION) MHLM MGH(Extn)
Ratu Marika Uuinadawa Lewanavanua
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (EXTENSION) MHLM MPH(Extn)
Aye Myat Mon
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MIDI MGH
Himadri Amarjit Barua
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MIDI MPH
Milindkumar Yogendrabhai Rawal
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Excellence
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENSION)
MGH MHLM(Extn)
Excellence
Komal Nagendraprasad
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MGH MPH
Robyn Merrett
Amber Louise Murphy
Nathan Matos Vidal
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Excellence
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MGH MPH
Infectious Diseases Control
Excellence
Dennis Kieran Redvers Murphy
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH (EXTENSION)
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MGH(Extn) MPH
Anar Enkhtulga
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENSION)
MPH MHLM(Extn)
Saniya Imtiyaz Kudchikar
Ngoc Mai Phuong Nguyen
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY MPhil
Public Health
Samikshya Poudel
MASTER OF SCIENCE (RESEARCH) MSc(Res)
Paediatrics
Suhrad Popatlal Pethani
MASTER OF SURGERY (RESEARCH) MS(Res)
Timothy Quy-Phong Do
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Exercise Physiology
Adrian Khusi Ram
Thesis: Exercise Physiologist-led interventions for people with knee osteoarthritis: Use and influence of pain education and exercise on treatment outcomes
Medical Education
Nurhira Abdul Kadir
Thesis: Medical educators’ attitudes, beliefs, and practices of teaching public health in Indonesian undergraduate medical schools
Medicine
Eva Apostolov
Thesis: Deep insights into the cellular and molecular milieu of hormone-therapy naïve localised PCa using scRNA-seq
Anna Sinead Conway
Thesis: Developing enabling environments to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use opioids
Kerith-Rae Melina Dias
Thesis: The Genomics of Intellectual Disability
David Goodman Jr
Thesis: Natural language processing to identify people who use or inject drugs in unstructured medical text
Abigail Kathleen Grootveld
Thesis: Investigating the origin and cellular dynamics of Tingible Body Macrophages
Andrew Hyunmin Kim
Thesis: Using a Decision Aid (myAID) to Support Shared Decision Making for Individuals with Ulcerative Colitis
Denis Warwick King
Thesis: Screening colonoscopy in high-risk groups: a 42-year study.
Elizabeth Benedict Kpozehouen
Thesis: Patient and provider determinants of influenza, pneumococcal and zoster vaccination in patients with cardiovascular disease
Candy Laurianto
Thesis: Genetic Manipulation of Lymphocytes in Germinal Centre Responses
Bao Viet Le
Thesis: Modelling Uncertainties in Radiation Therapy: The Clinical Impact on Prostate Bed Treatment
Heather Elisabeth McCormack
Thesis: STIs in the 715: Optimising annual routine health assessments to improve STI testing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
Michelle Jingjing Olympian Xu
Thesis: Using iPSC models to characterise the role of genetic and environmental effects in variable response to proarrhythmic drugs
Medicine (The George Institute)
Chen Chen
Thesis: Implications for an early intensive blood pressure lowering strategy in patients with acute ischaemic stroke
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Daniella Frances Susic
Thesis: Understanding the Association between the Maternal Microbiome and Complications of Pregnancy
Paediatrics
Sarah-Grace Paguinto
Thesis: Getting wheels: The psychosocial impact on parents & carers of introducing a wheelchair to children with a neuromuscular condition
Pathology
Ece Cindy Egilmezer
Thesis: Pathogenetic studies of fetal neural malformation in congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Samantha Webster
Thesis: Novel imaging approaches to decipher T cell decision-making
Physiology and Pharmacology
Md Mustahsan Billah
Thesis: Effects of paternal high-fat-diet and micronutrient supplementation on the health outcomes of offspring and grand-offspring
Psychiatry
Chao Dong
Thesis: Genetic and environmental influences on human brain changes in ageing
Matthew Joseph Lennon
Thesis: Blood pressure, antihypertensive use and dementia risk – An international harmonisation of longitudinal studies
Public Health and Community Medicine
Liam Stuart Acheson
Thesis: Pharmacological management of acute methamphetamine withdrawal
Rachel Baffsky
Thesis: An implementation science approach to early mental health programs for young people in Australian schools
Stephanie Peta Colbert
Thesis: Understanding online alcohol sales and home delivery in Australia to inform improved regulation of the industry and minimise alcohol-related harm
Allen Lamarca Nazareno
Thesis: Estimation of the cost-effectiveness of a maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination program in Australia
Public Health and Community Medicine (NDARC)
Daisy Ann Elizabeth Gibbs
Thesis: Improving the evidence for supported accommodation for people released from prison
Madeline Elizabeth News
Thesis: Exploring the influence of policy, research and healthcare service delivery on Aboriginal women's health in New South Wales, Australia
Surgery
Shannon Dean Thomas
Thesis: The Optimisation of Arteriovenous Fistula Vascular Access Outcomes for Haemodialysis
Vision Science
Nahida Akter
Thesis: Machine Learning Approaches for Automated Glaucoma Detection Using Clinical Data and Optical Coherence Tomography Images
Hallur Reynisson
Thesis: Seeing Through the Haze: Developing Optimal Stimulation for Bionic Eyes
HONORARY DEGREE
Professor Cheryl Jones, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health presents to the
Vice-Chancellor & President for the admission to the degree of
DOCTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY Hon.DUniv
honoris causa
William Victor Simms