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