2023 Recipients

 

2023 Recipients

Left to right: Nur Amalina Md Isa, Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks, Sarah-Grace Paguinto, Dr Dominic Vickers, Dr Hannah Uebel, Jason Djafar, Christopher Chan, Annice Fulvia, and Isobel Williams.
Absent: Afraah Cassim, Dr Rachel Langford, and Tayla McCutcheon.

Prize(s) Recipient Affiliation Presentation Title
  • Basic Science Division Winner
  • Basic Science People’s Choice
  • PhD Top-Up Scholarship

Isobel Williams

School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney. Reversing the effects of prenatal opioid exposure: the efficacy of sodium butyrate in animal models.
  • Basic Science Poster

Tayla McCutcheon

School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney. Early life inflammation accelerates the development of emotion regulation in infant rat.
  • Basic Science People’s Choice Poster

Afraah Cassim

Cancer Epigenetic Biology and Therapeutics, Children’s Cancer Institute. Establishing the epigenomic features of the newly discovered subtype, h3-wildtype with ezhip overexpression in diffuse midline gliomas.
  • Clinical Division Winner
  • Clinical Division People’s Choice 

Dr Hannah Uebel

Sydney Children’s Hospital; Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney. Out of Home Care Reduces Risk of Poor School Outcomes in Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure – A data linkage study of 901,323 Australian children.
  • Clinical Division Poster

Dr Rachel Langford

Departments of Rheumatology & Nuclear Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital. Analysis of the utility of morning cortisol in screening for adrenal insufficiency.
  • Clinical Poster People’s Choice

Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks

Midwifery & Women’s Health Nursing Research Unit, Royal Hospital for Women. What barriers do reproductive-age women experience when navigating healthcare and can a women’s health A.I tool (OVUM.) improve their engagement in preventative health activities?
  • Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health Division Winner
  • Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health People’s Choice

Sarah-Grace Paguinto

Occupational Therapy Department, Sydney Children’s Hospital. Getting Wheels: Development and evaluation of a psychoeducational resource for parents of children with a neuromuscular condition following recommendation of wheelchair equipment.
  • Independent Learning Project & Honours Division Winner
  • Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice

Jason Djafar

Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney. Characterising common phenotypes across the childhood dementia disorders – a cross-sectional study from two Australian centers.
  • Independent Learning Project & Honours Poster

Christopher Chan

Gastroenterology; Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney. The prevalence of PKS+ E.coli in cystic fibrosis.
  • Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice Poster

Annice Fulvia

Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney. Evaluating Impact of Pectus Excavatum Deformity on Respiratory Function in Children and
Adolescents.
  • Case Presentation Division Winner
  • Case Presentation People’s Choice

Dr Dominic Vickers

Department of Cardiology, Prince of Wales Hospital. Checkmate by checkpoint; no-one’s immune to a broken heart.

 

 

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