DRIVERS 2023

Awards

DRIVERS 2023 award recipients

Awards were presented at the conference’s gala dinner, acknowledging the excellence of rural research on display at the event. Presentations were judged by Monash University academics and senior medical professionals from a range of backgrounds.

  • Best Scientific Presentation: Dr Jessica Paynter for ‘Colorectal Cancer Surgery Patients in Intensive Care By Hospital Type: A Bi-National Cohort Study Over 10 Years’.
  • Best Quality Improvement Project: Karan Varshney for ‘Is Financial Insecurity a Determinant of Poor Outcomes Among Medical Students Undergoing Rural Clinical Placements?’.
  • Best Case Study Presentation: Dr Jess Wynn for ‘Bladder Rupture: An Isolated Injury in a Fall From Standing Height’.
  • Best Scientific Poster: Tusyita Menon for ‘Neurological Outcomes Post-Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence’.
  • Best Rural Research Poster: Dr Maddie Leung for ‘Insights from Mildura’s first End to End Psychiatry Trainee’.
  • Best Visionary Presentation: Luke Ibbotson for ‘Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Referral Processes in Gippsland: Primary Care Perspective’.
  • Most Impactful Rural Presentation: Lois Segun-Beloved for ‘Factors Associated with Non-Presentation in a Multidisciplinary Team Meeting for Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Regional Australia’.
  • Best Rural Insight Presentation: Dr Amy Sylivris for ‘Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in the Rural Setting: Are There Lessons to be Learnt from the Covid-19 Pandemic?’.
  • Best Reflective Presentation: Dr Thomas Neerhut for ‘Surgical Teamwork Through the Junior Lens: A Qualitative Study of Surgical Residents and Registrars Perspectives on Surgical Teamwork’.
  • Most Innovative Reflective Presentation: Oliver Little for ‘Medical Student’s Perceptions of General Practice and the Influence of Different Employment Models’.
  • Regional Training Hub Director’s Award: Crystelle Vanderplas for ‘Why Medical Students Must Experience Rural Medicine: A Final Year Student's Reflection From a GP Placement on a Remote Island in Tasmania’.
  • DRIVERS Honorary Mention: Dr Jasmine Elliott for ‘Victorian Royal Commission - What the Loddon Mallee Said’.

DRIVERS 2022 award recipients

Awards were presented at the conference’s gala dinner, acknowledging the excellence of rural research on display at the event. Presentations were judged by Monash University academics and senior medical professionals from a range of backgrounds.

Congratulations to the category winners:

  • Best Overall Scientific Presentation: Dr Katie Blunt for ‘A Clinical Audit of Ultrasound Use in Predicting Fetal Macrosomia at a Regional Hospital’.
  • .Best Quality Improvement Project: Dr Gagandeep Singh for ‘Number of patients who presented to Northwest hospital Tasmania and their transfer time in comparison to national guideline for shifting to closest PCI centre’.
  • Most Visionary Presentation: Dr Jessica Paynter for ‘Rural General Surgery:characterising female rural General Surgeons to respond to gender gap’.
  • Best Reflective Presentation: Georgia Maroske for ‘Mother’s experience of Breastfeeding complications. Perspectives from mothers and clinicians’.
  • Best Case Study Presentation: Dr Jessica Wynn for ‘The “spiked helmet sign”, a mimic of ST elevation myocardial infarction in postoperative ileus’.
    Best Rural Medicine Case Study: Dr Manoj Anandan for ‘Sporotrichosis : a rare cause of a forearm ulcer in rural Victoria.’
  • Best Scientific Poster Oral Presentation: Ella Ryan for ‘A retrospective audit looking at the diagnosis, management, and coding of sepsis in the Bendigo Health Emergency Department’.
  • Best Scientific Poster Displayed: Georgia Seamer for ‘Rural Surgical Transfers from Mildura: a tri-state border model of general surgical care’.
  • Regional Training Hub Director’s Award: Dr Vienna Tran for ‘The applications of space medicine for rural and remote health on Earth’.
  • DRIVERS Honorary Mention: Amy Sylvris for “Enhanced Recovery After Surgery" can improve our rural healthcare crisis: An audit at Latrobe Regional Hospital’.

DRIVERS 2021 award winners

A number of awards were given out to presenters at the gala dinner celebration that followed the conference, hosted by Bendigo fine dining restaurant Ms Batterhams. The awards were judged by local senior medical professionals from a range of backgrounds, who acknowledged the excellence on display at the conference.

The winners in each category were:

  • Best overall scientific presentation: Dr Marc Chia for ‘Emergency surgical transfers from a rural hospital: An analysis of the case-mix over three years.’
  • Best quality improvement project: Dr Laura Panozzo for ‘Improving the quality of presentations at multidisciplinary team meetings in regional cancer care.’
  • Best case study presentation: Dr Angela Holmes for ‘Intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence navigation in a robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for a large renal cell carcinoma in a horseshoe kidney.’
  • Best scientific presentation (hospital medicine): Dr Ruby Marslen for ‘Real-world outcomes of immunotherapy in geriatric oncology patients with metastatic lung cancer: A regional single centre retrospective analysis.’
  • Best scientific presentation (community practice and medical education): Yacoub Jayoghli for ‘To Jab or Not To Jab? Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural and Regional Setting’
  • Most visionary presentation: Dr Madeleine Leung for ‘Supratentorial problems? Piloting a Consultation and Liaison psychiatric service in regional Victoria.’
  • Best reflective presentation: Dr James Ooi for ‘Sports & Exercise Medicine and its importance to regional healthcare.’
  • Regional Training Hub Director’s Award: Pia Herrera for ‘Improving accessibility of medical terminations of pregnancy through telehealth for rural and regional women in Australia.’
  • Special commendation: Dr Natasha Pritchard for ‘Sex-specific pregnancy growth standards improve the correlation between small babies and stillbirth: A statewide population study.’
  • Best questions: Dr Aria Naste