2020 MDHS Staff Excellence Awards announced
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences is delighted to announce the winners of our 2020 MDHS Staff Excellence Awards.
On Monday 23 November, the Faculty hosted a virtual awards ceremony for recipients to celebrate their outstanding achievements.
These awards recognise and reward high-performing academic and professional teams and staff across the Faculty, celebrating those who demonstrate excellence in their contributions to our Faculty and the communities we serve. Importantly, they recognise people for not only what they have achieved, but how they have gone about their work in ways that reflect our values of teamwork and collaboration, compassion, respect, integrity and accountability.
In addition to this, the 2020 nominations included teams and staff who have gone above and beyond to enable the continuation of outstanding teaching, research and operations in the context of COVID-19.
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education winners from the Department of Social Work, who demonstrated excellence in collaboration and teamwork through the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
Recipients were awarded equitably-distributed funds to support a project or activity related to their career development.
Please join the Faculty in congratulating the winners across each of the categories.
View the 2020 Honour Roll here or read below.
2020 Honour Roll
Strategic Excellence
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education
Aunty Barbara Wingard, Tileah Drahm-Butler, Dr David Denborough, Dr David Rose, Cheryl White, Kylie Dowse, Aunty Deb Bowman, Katie Christensen, Paul Herbert, Aunty Patricia Kemp, Ian Maund, Danita Martin, Larissa Minniecon, Aunty Robyn Moylan, Joseph Oui, Karl Rashleigh, Janneen Wanganeen and Rachel Whiteman
Department of Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in collaboration and teamwork between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Faculty through the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
and
Josh Cubillo
Indigenous Development
For excellence in the design and development of the Ngurra-Jarrddjak winter school program, increasing Indigenous post-graduate student numbers across the Faculty
MDHS Award for Excellence in Indigenous Health
Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh Taylor AC, Mitchell Anjou AM, Walter Bathern, Jordan Bryan, Rachael Ferguson, Rosamond Gilden, Dr Guy Gillor, Karl Hampton, Fiona Lange, Lesley Martin, Dr Tessa Saunders, Nick Schubert, Emma Stanford, Nick Wilson and Carol Wynne
Indigenous Eye Health, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in sustained translational research, significantly improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health outcomes in Australia
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 Science
MDHS Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion
Dr Asiel Adan Sanchez
Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in research, community-based initiatives and advocacy furthering the education of health professionals on LGBTQI health
MDHS Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Associate Professor Michelle Dowsey
Department of Surgery, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in impactful, values-based mentoring, building capacity and supporting emerging talents in the field of orthopaedics
and
Associate Professor Matthew Spittal
Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in inspiring, tailored and values-based mentoring across a range of research areas
MDHS Award for Leadership Excellence
Shawana Andrews
Poche Centre
For For excellence in driving Indigenous development across the Faculty and role-modelling our Faculty’s values
and
Lindsay Karakiozakis
People and Culture
For excellence in the development of others, role-modelling our Faculty’s values and supporting the University’s COVID-19 response
MDHS Award for Excellence in Internationalisation
Dr Anita Horvath
Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in innovative international partnerships, delivering expanded clinical research training for future international health leaders in both Australia and Indonesia
and
Dr Kelley Graydon and Chris Waterworth
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in designing and delivering an international placement program, providing Master of Clinical Audiology students with global perspectives and experiences in clinical audiology and health care
Research and Research Training
MDHS Award for Excellence in Team-Based Research Programs
Professor David O'Neal, Professor Alicia Jenkins, Dr Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy, Dr Barbora Paldus, Dr Melissa Lee, Dr Nisha Venkatesh, Dr Dale Morrison, Catriona Sims, Varuni Obeyesekere, Sue Kent, Katie Brown, Lesley Robinson, Emma Netzer and Hannah Jones
Department of Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in the Diabetes Technology Research Group, working nationally and internationally with and for people living with Type 1 diabetes to improve their health outcomes
MDHS Award for Excellence in Industry-Engaged Research
Professor Robert Cowan, Professor Robert Briggs, Dr Adrienne Paterson, Dr Agnes Au and Evelyn Do
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Melbourne School of Health Sciences
For excellence in the HEARnet Clinical Studies unit, improving benefits for adults and children using cochlear implants and supporting long-term, productive collaborations with industry partners
MDHS Award for Excellence in Research by an Early-Career Researcher
Dr Meghan Bohren
Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in advancing knowledge in public health and clinical practice, improving the health and well-being of women and newborns in low- and middle-income countries
MDHS Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervision
Professor Shyamali Dharmage
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in sustained and inspiring leadership, mentorship and graduate supervision in public health research
and
Professor Meredith Temple-Smith
Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in sustained and inspiring leadership, mentorship and graduate supervision in sexual and reproductive health and qualitative research
Learning and Teaching
Award for Sustained Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Dr Abi Brooker
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
For excellence in a developmental approach to teaching, enhancing student wellbeing in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
and
Associate Professor Jason Ivanusic
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences
For excellence in innovative teaching practices, driving active learning of anatomy and inspiring students in the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Biomedicine
Award for Learning and Teaching Achievement
Dr Clare McNally
Melbourne Dental School
For excellence in modernising the dental hygiene curriculum, building community and collaboration to enable students to tell the story of their learning
and
Dr Rosa McCarty, Dr Saw Hoon Lim, Associate Professor Terry Mulhern and Dr Alice Rota-Bartelink
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Biomedical Sciences and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
For excellence in interdisciplinary collaboration to develop graduate attributes, transferable skills and life-long learning in the Bachelor of Biomedicine
Award for Program Innovation
Dr Charlotte Denniston, Dr Lisa Cheshire, Naomi Norris, Neville Chiavaroli and Associate Professor Stephen Lew
Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in a whole-of-course and team approach to promoting professional practice throughout the MD
Engagement
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Partnerships
Professor Jodie McVernon, Professor James McCaw, Dr Nic Geard, Dr Rob Moss, Dr Freya Shearer, Dr David Price, Dr Patricia Campbell, Dr Eamon Conway, Dr Christopher Baker, Nefel Tellioglu Cetinkaya, Associate Professor Nick Golding and Dr Rebecca Chisholm
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Melbourne School of Engineering and Faculty of Science
For excellence in modelling for Australian Government pandemic preparedness and response activities
MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement—Public Value
Rebecca Elliott, Catherine Somerville, Natalie Booth and Kayla Robertson
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
For excellence in The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity’s COVID-19 communications strategy, successfully engaging and influencing the public and other key stakeholders beyond the academy
and
Associate Professor Victoria Palmer
Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in the Co-Design Living Lab, a lived-experience model for co-design in research, education and healthcare system improvement and transformation
Professional Excellence
MDHS Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation
Campus Reactivation Working Group and Local Implementation Contributions, led by Belinda Bain
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
For excellence in a team-based and collaborative approach to the Faculty's Campus Reactivation Working group, planning, coordinating and operationalising the safe return of staff to campus-based activity in 2020
and
Sarah Marcola
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in values-based contributions and achievements, enhancing the overall functioning of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the MD student experience
Award for Outstanding Student Services
Learning and Teaching Unit, led by Kim Stevenson
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
For excellence in sustained, team-based professional services enhancing the student experience across the student lifecycle, including innovation, dedication and commitment to reducing the impact of COVID-19 on students across the Faculty
and
Helen D'Cruz
Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne Medical School
For excellence in dedicated service, values-based teamwork and behind-the-scenes innovative leadership, creating high-quality student experiences