Strategic Excellence

MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education

Dr Alyce Wilson
Dr Ngaree Blow
Dr Cindy Ahearn

Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School and LIME Network

For excellence in the First Nations Health team,
transforming the way Indigenous health is taught to medical students

MDHS Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion

Dr Megan Sharp

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

For excellence in LGBTI+ inclusion in the
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

MDHS Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Professor Julie Simpson

Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

For excellence as a mentoring model for promoting a
balanced, independent and sustainable research portfolio

MDHS Award for Leadership Excellence

Associate Professor Stephen Lew

Western Clinical School, Department of Medical Education,
Melbourne Medical School

For excellence in leading and developing others as
Clinical Dean, Western Clinical School

MDHS Award for Excellence in Internationalisation

Associate Professor Lianne Schmaal

Centre for Youth Mental Health

For excellence in a global alliance to elucidate
eurobiological signatures of depression and suicide

Learning and Teaching

Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching

Dr Snezana Kusljic

Melbourne School of Health Sciences

For excellence in rising to the challenge of teaching bioscience subjects to
current and future health professionals

Award for Learning and Teaching Achievement

Dr Angelina Fong

School of Biomedical Sciences

For excellence in practical teaching re-imagined:
Training and developing skills for life beyond the lab and university

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Dr Enes Makalic

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

For excellence in an effective, motivating and personally relevant methodology of
teaching foundational biostatistics to multi-disciplinary students from diverse backgrounds

Award for Program Innovation

Dr Alison Morgan
Prarthna Dayal
Professor Peter Annear
Dr Krishna Hort
Dr Matthew Reeve
Ms Katherine Gilbert
Professor Ajay Mahal
Professor Barbara McPake

Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

For excellence in blended learning to build health systems
across 70 countries: The UNICEF Nossal Health Systems Strengthening Course

Professional Excellence

MDHS Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation

Petula Frantz
Lloyd Alderman​
Vinitha Thakur
Alan Sweeney​
Rene Tessmer

Centre for Youth Mental Health

For excellence in finance systems transformation,
building a cloud-based solution to
enable operational excellence across multiple entities

Our Faculty is investing in award funding to support our great people to do their best work.

Award recipients, whether teams or individuals, were awarded $5,000 to support a project or activity related to their career development or work of benefit to our Faculty and the recipient.

Award recipients were also invited to attend a luncheon with the Dean and the Faculty's senior leadership, incorporating the formal award ceremony, which was held on:

Monday 2 December 2019
12.00pm to 2.00pm
University House at the Woodward

View photos from the event