2017
Graduate Research degree conferrals
Successfully examined theses by our graduate research students in 2017.
| Graduate | Degree | Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor |
ECONOMICS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Thathya Venu Ariyaratne | PhD | A comparison of costs and effectiveness of coronary revascularisation strategies in the Australian context | Chris Reid |
EPIDEMIOLOGY | |||
| Chhavi Raj Bhatt | PhD | Investigation of exposures and health effects from mobile phones and other sources of radio-frequency radiation | Geza Benke |
| Kylie Dyson | PhD | Paramedic exposure to cardiac arrest and patient survival: does practice make perfect? | Judith Finn |
| Neil Glassford | PhD | The epidemiology of fluid administration, fluid accumulation and fluid balance in the critically ill and the relationship between intravenous fluid therapy and patient-centred outcomes | Rinaldo Bellomo |
| Md Nazmul Karim | PhD | Predicting Cardiac Surgery Outcome in an Australian Patient Cohort | Baki Billah |
| Winda Ng | PhD | Obesity and sleep | Anna Peeters |
| Rebecca Winter | PhD | Injecting drug-related harms among prisoners and ex-prisoners in Australia | Stuart Kinner |
| Berihun Zeleke | PhD | Determining the consequences of persistent estrogen depletion in older Australian women | Susan Davis |
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | |||
| Judith McInnes | PhD | Hot Weather and Worker Health in a Changing Climate | Peter Smith |
HEALTH PROMOTION | |||
| Dimitri Batras | PhD | Determinants of organisational change to increase health equity through sport | Ben Smith |
| Michelle Brear | PhD | Participatory action research for health capability in a Swazi community caring for children affected by HIV and AIDS – a project ethnography | Jane Fisher |
INDIGENOUS HEALTH | |||
| Elizabeth Anne Russell | PhD | Improving outcomes for rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous populations | Graeme Maguire |
INTERNAL MEDICINE | |||
| Sally Abell | PhD | Optimising risk prediction, antenatal interventions and treatment targets in hyperglycaemia in pregnancy | Helena Teede |
| Roisin Worsley | PhD | Improving The Health Of Women At Midlife: Menopausal symptoms, mood, medications and sexual function. A nationwide cross-sectional survey | Susan Davis |
NEUROSCIENCE | |||
| Anthony Tsay | PhD | Peripheral and central mechanisms of limb position sense and body representation | Melita Giummarra |
NUTRITION | |||
| Nicole Kellow | PhD | Dietary interventions to reduce advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) | Chris Reid |
PUBLIC HEALTH | |||
| Oyun Chimeddamba | PhD | Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Mongolia: The role of primary care | Anna Peeters |
| Sabrina Gupta | PhD | Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: an exploration amongst South Asians and Anglo-Australians living in Victoria, Australia | Rosalie Aroni |
| Nyssa Hadgraft | PhD | Understanding and Influencing Workplace Sedentary Behaviour | David Dunstan |
| Berhan Haile | PhD | Enhancing access and utility of assays for ART initiation and monitoring in HIV patients in resource-limited settings | Julian Elliott |
| Thi Hong Minh Le | PhD | Poly-victimisation and mental health and quality of life of adolescents in Vietnam | Jane Fisher |
| Dhanya Nambiar Kumar | PhD | Health service utilisation among people who inject drugs: the effects of demographics, substance use and health services | Paul Dietze |
| Ziad Nehme | PhD | The early response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Victoria, Australia | Peter Cameron |
SURGERY | |||
| Ian Loh | MSurg | Evaluation and validation of burn care clinical quality indicators within the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand (BRANZ) | Belinda Gabbe |
| Jason Toppi | MSurg | The Descriptive Epidemiology of Severe Burn Injury in Australia and New Zealand | Belinda Gabbe |