Wednesday December 4, 2024

Thanks to all who joined us at the Barwon Health Research Symposium to celebrate what has been a great year in research.

For photos from the day, please visit our Symposium page here.

Congratulations to our Research Prize winners, who received their awards from Frances Diver, Chief Executive, Barwon Health.

 

Inaugural Barwon Health Research Career Achievement Award

  • Professor Mark Kotowicz, Dept of Diabetes and Endocrinology

 

​Research Poster Award – qualitative research

  • Dr Sarah Price, Neuropsychologist, McKellar Community Rehabilitation Centre. An Interdisciplinary Group Intervention Program for Persisting Symptoms After Concussion. View the poster here.

Research Poster Award – clinical registry data analysis

  • Dr Anna Cunliffe, Endocrinology Fellow, Dept of Endocrinology and Diabetes. Prevalence of obesity among hospital inpatients. View the poster here.

Research Poster Award – translational research

  • Dr Ian Tang, Paediatric Fellow, Women’s and Children’s Services. Transformative impact of routine screening for family violence on a paediatric ward. View the poster here.

Research Poster Award – cohort/ population studies research 

  • Tiffany Pe, Public Health Officer, Barwon South West Public Health Unit. Destination micro-elimination: Barwon South West Hepatitis C point-of-care testing uptake. View the poster here.

Best Paper of the Year Award

  • Prof Adrienne O’Neil, IMPACT, Clinical and cost-effectiveness of remote-delivered, online lifestyle therapy versus psychotherapy for reducing depression: results from the CALM non-inferiority, randomised trial. Read the paper here.