Current candidates are participating in projects in a variety of areas across the Clinical Campuses. The following is a list of the current projects and their primary supervisors.
| Student | Research Area | Primary Supervisor(s) | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHARYA, Priya | Assessing the prevalence and predictors of Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) in patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a NSW Tertiary Hepatology Centre, using a validated measure | Afaf Girgis | Gastroenterology and hepatology |
| ALAZRAG, Weaam | The role of High sensitivity troponins, functional assessment and coronary imaging in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes focussing on those in whom myocardial infarction is neither confirmed or ruled-out | John French | Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) |
| ALBAYATI, Sinan | Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy for rectal prolapse: Long term outcomes and its impact on quality of life. | Matthew Morgan | Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified |
| ALHARBI, Abdullah | Investigation into the clinical utility of the non-invasive estimation of oxygen delivery and haemodynamic performance in patients undergoing resuscitation in the emergency department. | Paul Middleton Anders Aneman |
Emergency medicine / Intensive care / Systems physiology |
| ALY, Farhannah | The utility of a predictive outcome model as a tool for clinical decision making in older patients with Head and Neck cancer. | Shalini Vinod Lois Holloway |
Radiation therapy |
| ASSAD, Joseph | Implications of remote monitoring and push-notification prompted heart failure management in patients with CIEDs | Hany Dimitri Dominic Leung |
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) |
| BADGE, Helen | Improving services and outcomes for joint replacement recipients | Ian Harris | Orthopaedics |
| BEGG, Jarrad | Investigation into physical and dosimetric properties of a high field inline MRI-Linac | Lois Holloway | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology not elsewhere classified |
| BROOKS, Kostas | Investigating the role of high-risk HPV in gasto-oesophageal junctional, cardia and distal gastric cancers | Shan Rajendra | Medical virology/Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified |
| CHIEW, Kim-Lin | Population variations of quality of care in the management of cancer | Shalini Vinod Bin Jalaludin |
Public health not elsewhere classified |
| CHIN, Vicky | Identifying risk factors to reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality in patients with breast and lung cancer | Geoffrey Delaney Shalini Vinod |
Radiation therapy |
| CHLAP, Phillip | An automated quality assurance of radiotherapy treatment (QART) tool for contour verification | Lois Holloway | Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy) / Image processing / Medical physics |
| CHONG , Serena | Comparison of Gut microbiota profile in General Type 2 Diabetes and in Diabetic Foot Disease | Namson Lau Slade Jensen |
Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches) / Endocrinology |
| CHUNG, Yewon | Respiratory and sleep disorders, screening, and clinical epidemiology | Guy Marks Hima Vedam |
Respiratory diseases / Epidemiology not elsewhere classified |
| EDWARDS, Leon | Deep learning in Acute stroke imaging | Mark Parsons | Central nervous system / Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified |
| FAOUR, Amir | Analysis of transmitted electrocardiograms in out of hospital patients with suspected ST elevation myocardial infarction | John French | Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified |
| FERGUSON, Ian | Cardovascular pathophysiology and pharmacology of emergency intubation | Anders Aneman Ian Harris |
Emergency medicine |
| FLORA, Akshay | A Biomarker-Driven Approach to Identify Pathogenic Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic Targets in Chronic Wounds (Pyogenic Gangrenosum) | John Frew Hugh Dickson |
Dermatology / Innate immunity / Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches) |
| GU, Bonita | Therapeutic drug monitoring: Correlation between infliximab and adalimumab trough levels with fistula healing in patients with Crohn's disease | Susan Connor | Immunology not elsewhere classified |
| HOSEN, S. M. | Novel treatments for pancreatic cancer - targeting the stroma | Minoti Apte | Solid tumours |
| HYASAT, Kais | Coronary Physiology in Epicardial, Microvascular and Valvular Heart Disease. | Kaleab Asrress Craig Juergens |
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) |
| KANAZAKI, Ria | Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Susan Connor Afaf Girgis |
Gastroenterology and hepatology |
| KIM, Andrew | Gastroenterology; Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Susan Connor Afaf Girgis |
Gastroenterology and hepatology |
| LAWSON, Andrew | Fractures of the distal radius in older patients | Ian Harris | Orthopaedics |
| LEE, Riccardo | The epidemiology of critically ill patients in urban Australia and the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity on Emergency Medicine. | Paul Middleton Mary-Louise McLaws |
Epidemiology not elsewhere classified / Emergency medicine |
| LIN, Peter | Positron Emission Tomography in head and neck cancer | Lois Holloway | Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified |
| LUONG, Shi-Nan | The Impact of Medications and Immunometabolic Changes on Outcomes and Quality of Life in Pregnant Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Angela Makris Sean O'Neill |
Autoimmunity / Foetal development and medicine |
| MACKENZIE, Penelope | Geriatric Oncology and Radiotherapy Utilisation in New South Wales | Geoffrey Delaney Claire Vajdic |
Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy) |
| MEKAPOGU, Alpha Raj | Novel Treatments for Pancreatic Cancer - Targeting the Stroma | Minoti Apte | Solid tumours |
| MORGAN, Stephen | Advanced respiratory mechanics post-lung transplantation. | Anders Aneman | Intensive care |
| PAVLOVIC, Natalie | Investigating a problematic trilogy: osteoarthritis, obesity and knee or hip arthroplasty. | Justine Naylor | Orthopaedics / Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified |
| PIPICELLA, Joseph | The role of an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)-specific electronic medical record in enhancing health outcomes and care quality & consistency for patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative colitis | Susan Connor | Gastroenterology and hepatology / Health informatics and information systems |
| RAKESH, Prateek | Activation of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Treg with Th2 cytokine | Bruce Hall | Transplantation immunology / Autoimmunity |
| RATTAN, Arti | Investigating the role of high-risk Human Papilloma Virus and Epstein-Barr Virus in gastro-oesophageal junctional, cardia and distal (non-cardia) gastric cancer. | Shan Rajendra | Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified / Medical virology / Infectious diseases |
| SAREEN, Heena | Liquid biopsies for the detection of clinically relevant biomarkers in brain cancer | Therese Becker | Cancer diagnosis / Cancer cell biology |
| SARKAR, Rohit | Pancreatic cancer-related diabetes (PCRD) - novel role of pancreatic stellate cells. | Minoti Apte Chamini Perera |
Solid tumours / Endocrinology |
| SIDHU, Verinder | CRISTAL trial - Cluster Randomised Trial of Aspirin Versus Low Molecular Weight Heparin for Venous Thromboembolism in Joint Replacement Surgery. | Ian Harris | Orthopaedics / Epidemiology not elsewhere classified / Haematology |
| SUN, Jiacheng | Artificial Intelligence System for Guiding Acute Stroke Therapy | Mark Parsons Longting Lin |
Central nervous system / Knowledge representation and reasoning |
| TAN, Thye Yuen | The gut Microbiome in healthy, diseased (Barrett's metaplasia-dysplasia-adenocarinoma sequence and post treatment oesophagus | Shan Rajendra Howard Yim |
Medical microbiology not elsewhere classified / Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified |
| TANG, Simon | Determining toxicity of cancer treatment on cardiac tissue | Lois Holloway James Otton |
Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified |
| THOMAS, James | Advanced imaging and machine learning techniques for diagnosis and prognosis of subcortical ischaemic stroke | Mark Parsons | Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) / Central nervous system |
| TRIEU, Steven | Overcoming drug resistance and improving survival in multiple myeloma by targeting protein degradation pathways | Silvia Ling Tara Roberts |
Haematology |
| VO, Thi | The implications of post myocardial infraction remodelling on atrial and ventricular arrhythmias | Hany Dimitri Liza Thomas |
Nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition |
| WILSON, Brooke | Understanding the utility of chemotherapy and targeted treatments for cancer in high as well as low and middle-income countries | Michael Barton Sallie Pearson |
Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy) |
| WORTHINGTON, John | Non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage epidemiology, outcomes and management | Bin Jalaludin Dominic Leung |
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases / Epidemiology not elsewhere classified |
| WU, Verena | Developing a culturally appropriate self-management resource for Chinese-Australian cancer patients (WeCope). | Afaf Girgis | Mental health services / Decision making / Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies |
| YUEN, Johnson | Multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional guidance on rigid and deformable image registration: providing practical solutions to technical and process challenges | Shrikant Deshpande Lois Holloway | Medical physics / Radiation therapy / Image processing |
