2015 Tow Award Winners

Award Winner Institution Presentation Title
Case Presentation Kerrie-Anne Chen
Sydney Children’s Hospital EPC – The Phantom Menace
Clinical Division Julia Nelson
Dept of Geriatric Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital Evaluation of glucose metabolism in delirium using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) – a pilot study
Nursing/Midwives/Allied Health Division Rachelle Robinson Dept of Speech Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital Outcomes of primary trachea-oesophageal fistula with voice prosthesis insertion at the time of surgery in laryngectomy patients at Prince of Wales Hospital
Open Junior Division Emma Devenney Neuroscience Research Australia Psychosis in the Frontotemporal Dementia – Motor Neuron Disease continuum – clinical features and neuroimaging correlates
Open Senior Division Jessica Koach Children’s Cancer Institute Targeting a novel oncogenic protein, PA2G4, for the treatment of neuroblastoma
Poster Santosh Valvi Children’s Cancer Institute A novel therapy targeting the apoptosis pathway in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
Poster Christina Signorelli Sydney Children’s Hospital General Practitioner involvement in childhood cancer survivorship: a mixed-methods, multi-perspective study