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


 

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