Awards & Memberships

Awards

Postgraduate Awards

• Excellence in Post-Graduate Teaching, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, November 2009
• National Heart Foundation Career Development Fellow, 2006-2010
• John Yu Scholarship, Career Development Award, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, 2001
• Registrar of the Year, Mentorship and Training, St Vincent’s Hospital, 1998
• Victor Chang Award for Surgical Research, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, June 1995
• Young Investigators Travel Grant, Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, (to attend meeting in San Francisco, April 1995)
• Cardiovascular Research Award, St Vincent’s Symposium, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, September, 1994
• Young Investigators Award, Surgical Research Society of Australasia, Sydney, August, 1994
• Young Investigators Award, Australasian Chapter of the International Society for Heart Research, Winifred Naylor Travel Grant, Adelaide, August 1994
• Ralph Reader Young Investigators Award, Finalist, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, August 1994
• Young Investigators Award, Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand, May 1994
• St Vincent’s Hospital Research Grant for Cardiology Research, 1994
• Vascular Research Scholarship, St Vincent’s Hospital, 1993

Undergraduate Awards

• Foundation Graduates Medal for “Fellowship and Leadership” 1990, UNSW
• Royal Australasian College of Ophthalmologists Undergraduate Medal. ‘The causes of blindness in the developing world’

Memberships

• American Heart Association Professional Member
• Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Ordinary Member
• Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand
• International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Registration

• New South Wales, United Kingdom, United States

Research Supervision

Completion of PhD theses, Primary Supervisor

• 2009 Dr Jonathan Egan, The role of myocardial membrane proteins and myocardial oedema in postoperative myocardial dysfunction.University of Sydney.
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• 2009 Dr Carol Gar-YookAu, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and associated cardiomyopathy: focus on aquaporins and cardiac fibrosis. University of Sydney.
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