2018
Graduate Research degree conferrals
Successfully examined theses by our graduate research students in 2018.
| Graduate | Degree | Thesis Title | Principal Supervisor |
ANATOMY | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Fernandez | PhD | Anatomical and Biomechanical Considerations for Hip Protector Design and Function | Joan Ozanne-Smith |
BIOSTATISTICS | |||
| Sam Brilleman | PhD | Joint longitudinal and time-to-event models: development, implementation and applications in health research | Rory Wolfe |
ECONOMICS | |||
| Otgontuya Dugee | PhD | Economic Implications of non-communicable Diseases in Mongolia | Ajay Mahal |
EPIDEMIOLOGY | |||
| Nikki Adler | PhD | Clinical and molecular characteristics and metastatic pathways of patients with primary cutaneous melanoma | Victoria Mar |
| Estifanos Baye | PhD | Interventions for the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Diseases | Barbora de Courten |
| Oliver Black | PhD | Injury differences in the return-to-work process following a work-related injury: What is the role of return-to-work self-efficacy? | Peter Smith |
| Ken Chin | PhD | Optimising Use of Evidence-Based Pharmacological Therapy in Heart Failure | Danny Liew |
| Timothy Coulson | PhD | Mortality risk change as a measure of perioperative quality of care in cardiac surgery | Chris Reid |
| Kathryn Eastwood | PhD | Managing the impact of growing low-acuity demand on ambulance services | Karen Smith |
| Digsu Koye | PhD | Epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes | Dianna Magliano |
| Prabhat Lamichhane | PhD | Policy and behavioural interventions on child health in South Asia: Essays from Nepal and India | Ajay Mahal |
| Aya Mousa | PhD | Vitamin D and cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases | Barbora de Courten |
| Tu Nguyen | MBiomedSc | Validation of ICD-10-AM coding of mental health, drug and alcohol conditions in trauma patients | Belinda Gabbe |
| Berhe Sahle | PhD | Heart failure in older Australians: Epidemiology and risk prediction modelling | Chris Reid |
| Shu Su | PhD | The changing course of the HIV epidemics: implications from the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy and the emergence of synthetic drug use in China | Lei Zhang |
| Caroline van Gemert | PhD | Developing strategies to improve surveillance of hepatitis B virus in Australia | Margaret Hellard |
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | |||
| Gongbo Chen | PhD | Health effects of particulate matter of 1 µm or less in China: novel exposure assessment technology and important health outcomes | Yuming Guo |
FORENSIC MEDICINE | |||
| Samantha Rowbotham | PhD | The skeletal blunt force trauma resulting from fatal falls: an anthropological analysis of fracture distribution and morphology using post-mortem computed tomography | Soren Blau |
HEALTH | |||
| Susie Cartledge | PhD | Targeting high-risk cardiac patients and their family members for basic life support training | Judith Finn |
HEALTH PROMOTION | |||
| Valerie Kay | PhD | Promoting equity, environmental sustainability and health: frameworks for action and advocacy | Charles Livingstone |
INFECTIOUS DISEASES MODELLING | |||
| Sherrie Kelly | PhD | More bang for buck in global HIV resource allocation | David Wilson |
INTERNAL MEDICINE | |||
| Rinaldo Bellomo | PhD | The Randomized Evaluation of Normal versus Augmented Level Replacement Therapy Trial | John McNeil |
| Negar Naderpoor | PhD | Modulation of insulin resistance in conditions associated with high insulin resistance | Barbora de Courten |
| Neil Orford | PhD | The effect of critical illness on bone metabolism and bone mineral density | Jamie Cooper |
| Amanda Wade | PhD | Models of care for hepatitis C in the era of direct acting antiviral therapy | Margaret Hellard |
| Bryan P. Yan | MD (Sup) | Drug-eluting stent utilization and impact in contemporary Australian interventional cardiology practice: insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group Registry | Chris Reid |
MEDICAL STUDIES | |||
| Sameer Pathan | PhD | Renal Colic Management in the Emergency Department | Peter Cameron |
| Soulmaz Shorakae | PhD | Sympathetic nervous system activity, chronic low grade inflammation and insulin resistance in pathophysiology of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome | Helena Teede |
NUTRITION | |||
| Emma Ridley | PhD | Clinical and functional consequences of energy provided by nutrition in critically ill adults | Jamie Cooper |
PSYCHOLOGY | |||
| Irena Bobevski | PhD | Demoralisation as a novel construct for postnatal mental health | Jane Fisher |
PUBLIC HEALTH | |||
| Marliese Alexander | PhD | Outcomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: modelling survival and thromboembolism risk prediction | Sue Evans |
| Nicola Beamish | MPhil | The effects of parents' use of mobile computing devices on parenting and the social and emotional development of children: A systematic review and exploratory study of expert opinion | Jane Fisher |
| Dewan Hoque | PhD | Evaluation of the impact, data collection and feedback mechanisms of clinical registries in Australia | Sue Evans |
| Briony Jain | PhD | The epidemiology and prevention of intentional deaths from suicide and resident-to-resident aggression among nursing home residents in Australia | Joseph Ibrahim |
| Daniel O'Keefe | PhD | Individual-level needle and syringe coverage amongst people who inject drugs | Paul Dietze |
| Eldho Paul | PhD | Improving Mortality Prediction in Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units | Michael Bailey |
| Minh Duc Pham | PhD | Improving Coverage of, and Access to, HIV-related Testing in Low and Middle Income Countries: Barriers, Facilitators and Implications for HIV Research and Public Health Interventions | Stanley Luchters |
| Kathleen Ryan | PhD | Evaluation of PRONTO!, a peer-led rapid point-of-care HIV testing service in Melbourne, Australia | Mark Stoove |
| Melanie Villani | PhD | Utilisation of prehospital Emergency Medical Services for diabetic emergencies | Sophia Zoungas |
| Yohanes Windi | PhD | An Emerging Health Protection System and Its Coverage of A Vulnerable and Marginalised Population: The Waste Pickers of Surabaya, Indonesia | Charles Livingstone |
| Cassandra Wright | PhD | A mobile phone intervention for reducing alcohol consumption delivered during drinking events: development, testing and translation | Megan Lim |