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 Liz Tancred, BSc PhD UNSW
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
Dr Aengus Tran, BMed MD UNSW, Co-Founder and CEO of harrison.ai
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 MEDICINE & HEALTH
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Vlado Perkovic, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health
BACHELOR OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY BExPhys
Charlotte Bridson
Edward Ho Chi Chan
Georgia Anne Clark
Patrick Michael Anthony Congiusta
Lucy Anne Copeland
Lauren Dandie
Thi Ngoc Quyen Dang
Hugh Thomas Fitzgerald
Jacinta Margaret Agnes Fletcher
Annie Elizabeth Fotheringham
Subhan Hafeez
Sanjida Noor Islam
Zara Khan
Ken Jian Lin Li
Yuqiao Li
Charlotte Anne De Leyburne Littlejohn
Victoria Fong Yi Long
Mary-Rebecca Megalaa
Alyssa Dawn Montauti
Faiyaz Murshed
Halle Paris Neal
Julie Thuy Van Nguyen-Le
Aaron Bora Pesic
Alec Justin Sullivan-Bunt
Corina Vy Tu Thai
Leo Wang
Rachael Hoi Lam Wong
Emily Wu
Stanley Yan
Distinction
Grace Elizabeth Margaret Dagg
Susan Rosemary Georgina Douglas
Joseph Aidan Doyle
Jasmin Duffus
Blake William Hopper
Tiffany Kaining Huang
Alexander Anagnostu Jensen
Callum Jacob Joyner
Vila Kone
Jessie Laura Langford
Cara-Lee Marks
Andrew Robert Natoli
Jennifer Nguyen
Holly Anne Ormsby
Caitlin Ly Pham
Olivia Maree Resman
Monika Laura Sroba
Hannah Jade Tebbutt
Emily Doris Walker
Cassandra Isabelle Wong
BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH BIPH
Ellana Xi Yi Yeoh
Distinction
Rochelle Dawn Brooker
Lama El-Chaar
Alice Nguyen
Michelle Ann Plant
Braidy Sutton
MASTER OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH MFMH
Excellence
Ashlea Reannan-Maree Anderson
Adam Robert Aubin
Kathryn Anita Goodenough
Vanessa Louise Haden
Melissa Schwartz
Sophie Louise Weisselberg
Dulip Priyantha Wettasinghe
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT MHLM
Samyuktha Anand
Arlene Rosales Balot
Ahmed Ahbab Hamid Dehan
Joy Gakii Dunbar
Yuet Han Liew
Narinder Panesar
Parameswaran Ramachandran
Ashleigh Rebecca Ruth Ramage
Selvanaayagam Shanmuganathan
Rose Saudia Ann Teale
Johanne Caddy Valdez
Lauren Elisabeth Woodgate
Michael Elias Zamora-Rivera
Excellence
Tamika Elyse Camus
Paula Michelle Conroy
Aruna Premalatha Durairaj Chari
Helen Anna Goldsmith
Andrew Thomas Gorrie
Mariam Hamid Khan
Sarah Anne McTaggart
Thomas Ramsay Readford
Sangeeta Subramaniam
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE MIDI
Excellence
Fiona Morag Williams
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH MGH
Lalithambigai Rajagopal
Excellence
Jack Elliott Connolly
Sarah McCredie
Julie Pozdeev
Arti Savidis
MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH MIPH
Miriam Amelia Carter
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MPH
Bella Bushby
Nathan John Chahoud
Natalie Coleman
Trent Julian Curran
Sophie Azura King
Eunice Ling
Ella Fitzpatrick Madden
Joel Anthony Murray
Excellence
Vidthyany Ananthapavan
Emma Jean Armstrong
Tigist Abera Belay
Rosemary Sarah Castle
Alice Margaret Comber-Todd
Ashok Doraiswamy
Thi Thanh Thuong Huynh
Eileen Anne Langford
Alison Georgia Meynink
Gautami Motupally
Meghan Allison O'Hanlon
Sabine Ostrowski
Sakthi Ravitharan
Josephine Rose Smith
Tianyi Zhang
Madeline Maree Eyles
Denise Hui-Ci Zhao
Elise Vanessa Buisson
Emanuela Emily Porrello
Mei Xue Wong
MASTER OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE MPharmMed
Yixuan Ni
Ramsha Syed
Excellence
Christina Sylvia Mathiasz
Krystle Perera
MASTER OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE MRMed
Samina Ahmed
Excellence
Sharvay Jayd Bagratee
Nicole Ni Ki Ho
Amanda Wan Ying Kua
Tabitha Therese McIntosh
MASTER OF WOMEN'S HEALTH MEDICINE MWomHMed
Jill Sarah Richardson
Mauret Rojas Garza
Excellence
Demi Chilchik
MASTER OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
Excellence
MASTER OF WOMEN'S HEALTH MEDICINE MRMed MWomHMed
Virangi Shanika Rajini Fernando
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE MHLM MIDI
Regis Tshuma
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Atika Azura Binti Abdul Rashed
Islam Mostafa Mohamed Ahmed
Jessica Daisy Arnold
Myung Seo Ko
Ogechi Chidi Mbaegbu
Melissa Betty Rigney
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Excellence
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Timothy McKenzie Wark
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Excellence
Freya Siobhan Perinotto Grove
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Excellence
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MHLM MPH
Excellence
Alesha Jemma Kays
Erin Cara McKay
Nirasha Parsotam
Glen Guerreiro Ramos
Jane Elizabeth Tulip
Ashleigh Jayne Webster
MASTER OF HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Excellence
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (EXTENSION) MHLM MPH(Extn)
Excellence
Chang Sheng Leong
MASTER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTELLIGENCE
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MIDI MPH
Hannah Shanks-Colla
Excellence
Rosalie Chen
MASTER OF GLOBAL HEALTH
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH MGH MPH
Excellence
Tayla Danae Iellamo
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (RESEARCH) MPH(Res)
Bonita Beryl Byrne
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Medicine
Rabiah Al Adawiyah
Thesis: The delivery and scale up of antenatal HIV and syphilis testing in Indonesia: A supply-side perspective
Maria John Newton Amaldoss
Thesis: Nanocatalytic CePO4·H2O (Rhabdophane): Mitochondrial-Targeting, Cell-Discriminative, ROS-Mediated Cancer Therapy
Peter Andreas Beshara
Thesis: Prehabilitation for the management of rotator cuff surgery
Mohana Priya D/O Kunasekaran
Thesis: Impact and management of influenza in aged care facilities in Australia
Rama Dhenni
Thesis: Memory B cell localization and cell fate potential
Isabella Epiu
Thesis: Impairments in Respiratory Motor Function in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Healthy Ageing
Christina Fichter
Thesis: Development of Novel Transient Delivery Systems for Gene Therapy
Christopher Stephen Mulligan
Thesis: Paediatric Injury from Powered Off-Road Vehicles
Hossain Mohammad Shahed Sazzad
Thesis: Understanding transmission of hepatitis C in the prisons
Mallory Jean Trent
Thesis: Barriers and enablers of vaccination - informing whole of life vaccination policy in Australia
Kiet Peter Tuan Truong
Thesis: Identifying novel genetic targets that regulate azacitidine sensitivity in myelodysplastic syndromes
Verena Shuwen Wu
Thesis: Developing and evaluating a culturally appropriate self-management resource (WeCope) for Chinese-Australian immigrant patients and caregivers affected by cancer
Clara Catherine Young
Thesis: "Rogue" B cells: An investigation into B cells that break tolerance in autoimmune disease
Ye Zhang
Thesis: Mixed-method approaches to inform the implementation of HIV self-testing in Australia
Yanran Zhao
Thesis: Phenotypic, functional characterisation and transcriptomatic analysis of CD8+ T memory stem cell and its role in HCV re-infection
Medicine (The George Institute)
Whenayon Simeon Ajisegiri
Thesis: Improving Primary Health Care Services for Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria
Pestheruwe Liyanaralalage Nipuna Udara Cooray
Thesis: Preventing Infant Falls: A Behaviour Theory Informed User Centered Digital Intervention
Brendon Lange Neuen
Thesis: Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibition to improve outcomes in type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease
Emalie Brooke Rosewarne
Thesis: Evaluations of nutrition policy and advocacy to improve the food environment in Australia
Azeb Gebresilassie Tesema
Thesis: Improving the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases through primary health care in Ethiopia
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Nicola Susan Meagher
Thesis: Profiling mucinous ovarian cancer and comparisons with tumours of the gastro-intestinal tract: identification of markers for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment targets
Paediatrics
Clarissa Evelyn Gok
Thesis: Assessing and addressing social well-being and social anxiety among adolescents and young adults with cancer in Australia
Psychiatry
Rebecca Elizabeth Koncz
Thesis: The heritability of cerebral amyloid in older people and its relationship to vascular risk factors, cerebral small vessel disease and cognition
Emiliana Tonini
Thesis: Schizotypy: environmental risk, genetic vulnerability, and neural correlates
Public Health and Community Medicine
Helen Fagerlind
Thesis: An injury analysis tool combining mortality and long-term outcomes to prioritise road trauma countermeasures
Myron Anthony Godinho
Thesis: Developing and testing a framework for using Social Enterprise, Digital Health, and Citizen Engagement for delivering Integrated People-Centered Health Services
A Y M Alamgir Kabir
Thesis: Evaluation of vaccination programs in Australia's Indigenous and medically at-risk children using record linkage of national immunisation and state health data
Mohammed Owais Qureshi
Thesis: Occupational infection prevention and control training for the protection of hospital healthcare workers
Public Health and Community Medicine (NDARC)
Thomas Santo Jr
Thesis: Examining childhood trauma and comorbid mental disorders among people with opioid use disorder
Surgery
Kyle Alexander Sheldrick
Thesis: Decay Variance: A novel technique for the diagnosis of intervertebral disc degeneration
DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH DrPH
Temitope Eniope Adepoyibi
Thesis: Communicable and non-communicable disease prevention: three public health challenges
Lynelle Christina Hales
Thesis: Implementing Primary Health Care initiatives in Australian General Practice: practitioner experiences and implications for primary health networks
Julie Ann McEniery
Thesis: The voice of the infant: towards understanding the excess infant mortality in Queensland
Robert Roy Stirling
Thesis: Performance measurement in alcohol and other drug treatment services