2024 Hubert Sydney Jacobs Memorial Scholarship
Pictured above Sherine Sandhu
Congratulations to Sherine Sandhu who was awarded the prestigious Dr Hubert Sydney Jacobs Memorial Scholarship for 2024.
Applicants to this award submit one peer reviewed research paper that was published (in print, epub ahead of print) in the 12 months prior to the Scholarship application deadline.
Sherine Sandhu was awarded for the 2024 paper published in published in Human Reproduction entitled “Eggsurance? A randomized controlled trial of a decision aid for elective egg freezing”.
As a mechanism to promote the careers of promising students, this scholarship is awarded to Graduate Research Students from the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health for the best peer reviewed research paper published in the previous 12 months. The goal is to encourage Graduate Research students to publish their research and present their findings at scientific meetings.
The Scholarship is named in honour of Dr Hubert Sydney Jacobs (1892 - 1950), a Medical Officer and Captain in WWI and a respected Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who was an "Honorary" at the Royal Women's Hospital in the 1920's, and whose generous bequest funds the award.
Sherine Sandhu, Martha Hickey, Digsu N Koye, Sabine Braat, Raelia Lew, Roger Hart, Robert J Norman, Karin Hammarberg, Richard A Anderson, Michelle Peate, Eggsurance Collaborative Group , Eggsurance? A randomized controlled trial of a decision aid for elective egg freezing, Human Reproduction, Volume 39, Issue 8, August 2024, Pages 1724–1734, https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deae121