2023 Recipients

Left to right: Nur Amalina Md Isa, Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks, Sarah-Grace Paguinto, Dr Dominic Vickers, Dr Hannah Uebel, Jason Djafar, Christopher Chan, Annice Fulvia, and Isobel Williams.
Absent: Afraah Cassim, Dr Rachel Langford, and Tayla McCutcheon.

Prize(s)	Recipient	Affiliation	Presentation Title
Basic Science Division Winner Basic Science People’s Choice PhD Top-Up Scholarship	Isobel Williams	School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney.	Reversing the effects of prenatal opioid exposure: the efficacy of sodium butyrate in animal models.
Basic Science Poster	Tayla McCutcheon	School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney.	Early life inflammation accelerates the development of emotion regulation in infant rat.
Basic Science People’s Choice Poster	Afraah Cassim	Cancer Epigenetic Biology and Therapeutics, Children’s Cancer Institute.	Establishing the epigenomic features of the newly discovered subtype, h3-wildtype with ezhip overexpression in diffuse midline gliomas.
Clinical Division Winner Clinical Division People’s Choice	Dr Hannah Uebel	Sydney Children’s Hospital; Randwick Clinical Campus, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.	Out of Home Care Reduces Risk of Poor School Outcomes in Children with Prenatal Drug Exposure – A data linkage study of 901,323 Australian children.
Clinical Division Poster	Dr Rachel Langford	Departments of Rheumatology & Nuclear Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital.	Analysis of the utility of morning cortisol in screening for adrenal insufficiency.
Clinical Poster People’s Choice	Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks	Midwifery & Women’s Health Nursing Research Unit, Royal Hospital for Women.	What barriers do reproductive-age women experience when navigating healthcare and can a women’s health A.I tool (OVUM.) improve their engagement in preventative health activities?
Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health Division Winner Nurse / Midwife / Allied Health People’s Choice	Sarah-Grace Paguinto	Occupational Therapy Department, Sydney Children’s Hospital.	Getting Wheels: Development and evaluation of a psychoeducational resource for parents of children with a neuromuscular condition following recommendation of wheelchair equipment.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Division Winner Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice	Jason Djafar	Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.	Characterising common phenotypes across the childhood dementia disorders – a cross-sectional study from two Australian centers.
Independent Learning Project & Honours Poster	Christopher Chan	Gastroenterology; Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.	The prevalence of PKS+ E.coli in cystic fibrosis.
Independent Learning Project & Honours People’s Choice Poster	Annice Fulvia	Respiratory Medicine, Sydney Children’s Hospital; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney.	Evaluating Impact of Pectus Excavatum Deformity on Respiratory Function in Children and Adolescents.
Case Presentation Division Winner Case Presentation People’s Choice	Dr Dominic Vickers	Department of Cardiology, Prince of Wales Hospital.	Checkmate by checkpoint; no-one’s immune to a broken heart.