Dean's Award for Professor Anne Holland

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Congratulations to Professor Anne Holland, Head of the Department of Respiratory Research@Alfred, who won the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research - Engagement and Impact. An NHMRC Leadership Fellow (2021-2025), Professor Holland's research program investigates supportive therapies for people with chronic respiratory disease, with a focus on COPD and pulmonary fibrosis. Her recent clinical trials have tested new models of pulmonary rehabilitation to improve access and uptake, including low cost home-based models and telerehabilitation. Professor Holland is currently leading a multi-national trial of ambulatory oxygen for people with fibrotic lung disease. Anne is a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis and the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Treatable Traits. Find out more about Professor Anne Holland.

See all Dean's Award recipients HERE.

Prof Richelle Mychasiuk wins Dean's Award for Diversity and Inclusion

Professor Richelle Mychasiuk won the 2022 Dean's Award for
Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion

From Professor Helmut Butzkueven, Head, Department of Neuroscience

It gives me great pleasure to share with you all the wonderful news that one of our outstanding academic leaders, Professor Richelle Mychasiuk, has been recognised by the Monash Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

Professor Mychasiuk received the Dean's award for Excellence for her research and service in the category of Diversity and Inclusion at the awards ceremony on 10 October 2022.

Massive congratulations to Professor Mychasiuk, we are enormously proud of you and so grateful to have you as part of our department!

Congratulations for Dean's award for BMedSc(Honours) thesis!

Congratulations to Ms Raysha Farah (pictured), who was the highest achieving student for the BMedSc(Hons) program from the August 2020–June 2020 cohort from Universitas Indonesia! She was supervised by Associate Professor David Wright and Dr Akram Zamani, both in Central Clinical School's Department of Neuroscience.

Raysha said, "My thesis was chosen to be presented at the Dean's Award Ceremony on Saturday 27 November 2021. I would like to thank everyone involved at the Central Clinical School for your continuous and endless support towards the whole honors program. I am really lucky to have talented supervisors such as David and Akram."

2021 Dean's Awards for Central Clinical School staff

This year's Dean's Award winners in Central Clinical School. L-R: Professor Merlin Thomas, Dr Jess Borger, Prof Robyn Slattery, Ms Sharmila Ramesh

Dean's Excellence Awards presentation 12 noon Thurs 17 Sep 2020 - all welcome

Prof Rob Medcalf is a winner of the Dean's Excellence 

Award for Honours Supervision. See video

You are encouraged to tune in to the Dean’s Awards for Excellence virtual town hall, 12 noon - 1.00 pm, Thursday 17 Sep. The event will include a Faculty update from the Dean, Professor Christina Mitchell, followed by the awards presentation.
Register here

The Dean’s Awards for Excellence each year celebrate and recognise the impact of the exceptional work undertaken by the talented and dedicated staff in our Faculty. This year, the Dean's award for Excellence in Research (Excellence in Education - Honours Supervision) is going to the well-liked and respected academic in the Central Clinical School, Professor Rob Medcalf. Congratulations Rob!

Drop in via Zoom at midday on Thursday and find out who has won this year's awards in a variety of categories.

2020 Dean's Award for Excellence to Dr Rob Medcalf

The talent and dedication of outstanding members of the Faculty are recognised through the Dean’s Awards for Excellence. Central Clinical School's Professor Rob Medcalf, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, received the award in the category of Excellence in Education (Honours Supervision).

Prof Terry O'Brien, Head of School, said, "Congratulations Rob. Thoroughly deserved recognition of your many years of outstanding honours supervision." Seconded by all including the students!

CCS staff recognised in Dean's Awards for Excellence

The Dean's Awards for Excellence were announced recently and CCS is delighted to report that two staff members have been recognised for their outstanding achievement within the Faculty. Dr Rachael Borg, Senior Research Services Officer, was awarded "Excellence in Safety" and Professor Robert Medcalf, Group Leader at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, was awarded "Excellence in Research (Postgraduate Research Supervision)". Congratulations to both!

Professor Medcalf is deeply interested in fibrinolysis - the process our bodies implement to remove blood clots. He is investigating how we can use our natural clot busting mechanisms to help treat stroke victims. His interest in the chemicals in our bodies that can help reduce the long-term damage of stroke and also in other diseases of the brain including traumatic brain injury.

Roberto Christanto wins Dean's award for BMedSc(Hons) project

Roberto Christanto and Dr Megan Wallace
BMedSc(Hons) coordinator

Congratulations to Roberto Christanto from A/Prof Justin Hamilton's lab on taking out the 2018 Dean's Award for his BMedSc(Hons) project on quantifying platelet thrombin receptors!

The title of Roberto's project was "Determining the surface levels of the thrombin receptor, PAR4, on human platelets".

See more about the Hamilton group at: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/blood-disease/research/plateletmega

2017 Dean's Awards for Excellence: Congratulations to Dr Eric Chow!

Dr Eric Chow receiving the 2017 Dean's
Award for Research Excellence (Early
Career) from Professor Christina Mitchell

Congratulations to Dr Eric Chow who has won the 2017 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career)!

Dr Chow completed his PhD at UNSW in 2014 and joined the Central Clinical School and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre as a postdoctoral research fellow.

His research mainly focuses on gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus with a wide range of aspects including clinical practice management, sexual health programs evaluation, and understanding the epidemic and related risk behaviours among high-risk populations. These research topics are of high public health relevance and important for policy decision and clinical management. Dr Chow has more than 80 publications since he joined CCS/MSHC.