2025 Department of Psychiatry Awards
We recently held the 2025 Department of Psychiatry End of Year Symposium and Awards, showcasing our innovative and broad research projects and acknowledging the many important achievements across the department.
Symposium Showcase Presenters
- Keynote address: Professor Josselin Houenou: On the Edge: Dynamical Systems Models of Bipolar Disorder
- Dr Matthew Kang: Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain to Support Delirium Diagnosis in Hospitalised Older Adults
- Dr Lukas Roell: Longitudinal Hippocampal Connectivity Changes as a Marker of Early Negative Symptom Trajectories in the Psychosis Risk State
- Dr Elizabeth Thomas: Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Treat Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: An Open Label Pilot Study
- Dr Chiranth Bhagavan: Psilocybin, Motor Function, and Functional Neurological Disorder
Award Highlights
Master of Psychiatry Teaching Awards
- Dr MJ Yoo - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning - PSYT90014 Transcultural Mental Health and PSYT90024 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
- A/Prof Trevor Norman - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning - PSYT90061 Psychopharmacology
- A/Prof Alby Elias - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning - PSYT90004 Psychiatry of Old Age
Doctor of Medicine (MD 3) Teaching Awards
- Dr Dayle Howlett - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning - Rural Clinical School
- Dr Sashin Kumar - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning - Western Clinical School
- Dr Laxmi Balaraman - Awarded for excellence in contributions to teaching and student learning – Austin Clinical School
Bruce Singh Award for the highest achieving student averaged across three years of the Master of Psychiatry.
- Dr Daniel De Battista
- Dr Jonathan Zhou
Poster Presentation Awards
- Leah Hudson and Georgia Caruana - for excellence in research as the recipient of the Best Poster Award – Graduate Research Student
- Sera Manuele - for excellence in research as the recipient of the Best Poster Award – EMCR