Department of Anaesthesia
Student: Chad Sloley
Supervisors: Professor Ted Shipton, Associate Professor Caroline Bell, Dr Jonathan Williman
Topic: Relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic pain
Department of the Dean
Student: Jen Desrosiers
Supervisors: Professor Tim Wilkinson, Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama
Topic: Medical student explicit attitudes and knowledge about gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity throughout advanced learning in medicine
Student: Sharyn Esteves
Supervisors: Professor Tim Wilkinson and Dr Marcus Henning
Topic: Professionally appropriate social media use for healthcare students: Development of an educational tool to support healthcare students’ appropriate use
Student: Tracy Haitana
Supervisors: Dr Cameron Lacey, Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama and Professor Marie Crowe
Topic: The impact of life events on the course of Bipolar Disorder in Māori
Student: Karen Keelan
Supervisors: Dr Cameron Lacey, Professor Tim Wilkinson and Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama
Topic: He Tirohanga Whanui ki nga Mahi Tikanga mo nga Whare Tiaki Kaumatua: Views on What Constitutes Best Practice in caring for Kaumatua in residential aged care facilities
Student: Joy Rudland
Supervisor: Professor Tim Wilkinson
Topic: The impacts on medical students' learning
Department of Medicine
Student: Rebecca Abey-Nesbit
Supervisors: Professor Tim Wilkinson, Dr Hamish Jamieson and Professor Philip Schluter
Topic: Assessing Health Outcomes of older people using InterRAU data
Student: Russell Buckley
Supervisors: Professor Richard Jones, Professor Lutz Beckert, Dr Carrie Innes and Dr Paul Kelly
Topic: Can early treatment prevent sleep apnoea-related brain damage
Student: Mark Holdaway
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Appleby, Asociate Professor Chris Pemberton
Topic: Assessing Erythroferrone in Acute Heart Failure Patients
Student: Hamish Farquhar
Supervisors: Professor Lisa Stamp, Professor Lutz Beckert
Topic: Rheumatoid interstitial lung disease in Canterbury, New Zealand
Student: Phoebe Heenan
Supervisors: Professor Richard Gearry, Dr Jacqui Keenan, Dr Paula Andrews, Dr Wayne Young and Dr Nicole Roy
Topic: The Association between Diet and Acute Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Student: Tania Huria
Supervisors: Professor Lutz Beckert, Professor Suetonia Palmer and Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama
Topic: "Created Equal" : Investigating health system perspectives of disparities in health outcomes for Māori
Student: Venkat Krishnamoorthy
Supervisors: Professor Richard Jones, Professor Lutz Beckert, Dr Steve Weddell and Dr Reza Shoorangiz
Topic: Real-time detection and prediction of lapses of responsiveness
Student: Amanda Landers
Supervisors: Professor Lutz Beckert, Professor Suzanne Pitama, Professor Suetonia Palmer
Topic: Evaluating a proposed model of integrated care for patients with severe COPD in their last year of life
Student: Leigh O’Brien
Supervisors: Professor Richard Gearry, Dr Catherine Walls, Professor Tim Wilkinson
Topic: Functional diarrhoea in older adults: causes, dietary management and characteristics
Student: Christina Pike
Supervisors: Dr Toni Pitcher, Dr Michael MacAskill, Professor Tim Anderson, Dr Daniel Myall
Topic: Identifying individuals at high risk of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson's Disease
Student: Megan Stark
Supervisors: Dr Tracy Melzer, Professor Tim Anderson, Dr Steven Marsh, Professor John Dalrymple-Alford and Dr Daniel Myall
Topic: Amyloid and Tau positron emission tomography imaging in Parkinson's disease
Student: Evie Templeton
Supervisors: Dr Anna Pilbrow, Associate Professor John Pickering, Professor Vicky Cameron, Dr Moritz Lasse
Topic: Using non-coding RNAs to identify heart failure patients at risk of acute kidney injury
Student: Uma Venkatasubramanian
Supervisors: Professor Richard Jones, Professor Lutz Beckert, Dr Steve Weddell and Dr John Pearson
Topic: Real-time detection and prediction of lapses of responsiveness
Student: Zoe Ward
Supervisors: Dr Anna Pilbrow, Professor Vicky Cameron, Associate Professor John Pearson and Dr Sebastian Schmeier
Topic: Predicting progression from coronary disease to heart failure
Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies
Student: Natalie Conley
Supervisors: Dr Brigit Mirfin-Vetich and Dr Jenny Conder
Topic: An exploration of the experience of registered nurses caring for people receiving compulsory care as care recipients under the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003
Student: Ahmad Hammad
Supervisors: Associate Professor Philippa Seaton and Dr Virginia Jones
Topic: The role of human patient simulation in undergraduate nursing education learning in practice: students’ perception
Student: Shirley Harris
Supervisors: Associate Professor Philippa Seaton and Dr Beverley Burrell
Topic: Mastery of breathlessness after a six week multidisciplinary breathlessness support service compared with usual care
Student: Amy Henry
Supervisors: Dr Virginia Jones, Professor Lois Surgenor, Associate Professor Tai Sopoaga
Topic: Palliative Health for Cook Islanders in New Zealand
Student: Adrian Higgins
Supervisors: Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch, Dr Jenny Conder and Professor Kate Diesfeld
Topic: An examination of the rehabilitative outcomes for care recipients subject to compulsory care orders under the Intellectual (Disability Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003
Student: Virginia Maskill
Supervisors: Associate Professor Philippa Seaton, Professor Marie Crowe and Dr Maree Inder
Topic: The impact of diabetes on patient's sense of self
Student: Cate McCall
Supervisors: Professor Marie Crowe, Dr Anitra Carr and Dr Sarah Metcalf
Topic: Understanding the personal experience and clinical course of sepsis
Student: Nic McKenzie
Supervisors: Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch, Dr Jenny Conder and Dr Henrietta Trip
Topic: Advance Care Planning and Intellectual Disability
Student: Gargi Sharmi Thapaliya
Supervisors: Dr Beverley Burrell, Associate Professor Philippa Seaton
Topic: Management of long-term conditions: quality of life for people with chronic health needs
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Student: Alex Tino
Supervisors: Dr Kenny Chitcholtan, Associate Professor Gabi Dachs, Professor John Evans and Associate Professor Peter Sykes
Topic: Ovarian Cancer
Student: Irfan Yunianto
Supervisors: Associate Professor Peter Sykes, Dr Kenny Chitcholtan and Associate Professor Margaret Currie
Topic: The JAKs Stats Pathway in Ovarian Cancer
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine
Student: Ellison Aldrich
Supervisors: Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Khoon Lim, Professor Gary Hooper, Professor Wayne McIlwraith and Dr Natalie Parlane
Topic: Development and in vivo Evaluation of Advanced 3D Bioassembled Allogeneic Stem Cell Constructs for Cartilage Repair
Student: Pau Atienza Roca
Supervisors: Dr Khoon Lim, Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Yogamha Ramaswamy and Dr Lyn Wise
Topic: Growth Factor Delivery System for Bone Regeneration
Student: Kenzie Baer
Supervisors: Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Aamir Raja, Dr Khoon Lim, and Professor Gary Hooper
Topic: Quantitative Spectral (MARS) CT Imaging of Cartilage and Bone Health
Student: Selina Fernandez
Supervisors: Dr Khoon Lim, Professor Tim Woodfield
Topic: Biofabrication of hybrid scaffolds for skeletal regenerative medicine
Student: Sandra Kieser
Supervisors: Professor Gary Hooper and Associate Professor Tim Woodfield
Topic: Advanced imaging of early osteoarthritis.
Student: Jun Li
Supervisors: Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Professor Gary Hooper, Dr Isha Mutreja and Dr Khoon Lim
Topic: 3D printed porous titanium scaffolds with mesenchynal stem cells for cortical bone regeneration
Student: Gretal Major
Supervisors: Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Khoon Lim
Topic: Development of 3D hydrogel breast cancer and adipocyte models for in vitro screening
Student: Axel Norberg
Supervisors: Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Gabriella Lindberg, Dr Khoon Lim, Professor Gary Hooper
Topic: Oxygen control in 3D bioprinted osterochondral constructs
Student: Amy Pullen
Supervisors: Professor Gary Hooper, Dr David Kieser
Topic: The factors in thoracic gunshot injuries
Student: Josie Shum
Supervisors: Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Justin Fernandez and Professor Christian Puttlitz
Topic: In silico and in vivo, biomechanical evaluation of devices and sheep model for optimised additive manufactured scaffolds
Student: Bram Soliman
Supervisors: Dr Khoon Lim, Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Professor Gary Hooper and Gabriella Lindberg
Topic: Biofabrication of hybrid scaffolds for musculoskeletal regenerative medicine
Student: Seth Taylor
Supervisors: Professor Gary Hooper, Dr David Kieser and Associate Professor Niels Hammer
Topic: A further experimental investigation into the viability of synbone ballistic spheres as a proxy to human crania
Department of Paediatrics
Student: Stephanie Brown
Supervisors: Professor Andrew Day, Professor Richard Gearry, and Dr Catherine Wall
Topic: Nutrition and Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Student: Shaun [Siong Chung] Ho
Supervisors: Professor Andrew Day, Dr Jacqui Keenan
Topic: Biomarkers and Intestinal Flora in Children with Coeliac Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Department of Pathology
Student: Eleanor Burgess
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gabi Dachs, Dr Elisabeth Phillips, Professor Margreet Vissers, Professor Bridget Robinson
Topic: The role of ascorbate in glioma
Student: Linda Buss
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gabi Dachs, Associate Professor Margaret Currie, Dr Barry Hock, Professor Bridget Robinson and Dr Abel Ang
Topic: Investigating exercise-mediated changes in the tumour microenvironment of melanoma and lung cancer
Student: Rebekah Crake
Supervisors: Associate Professor Margaret Currie, Dr Elisabeth Phillips, Professor Bridget Robinson and Dr Matthew Strother
Topic: Impact of obesity and inflammation on breast cancer cell response to chemotherapy
Student: Dayang Datu Abdul Salam
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gabi Dachs, Professor Margreet Vissers, Dr Stephanie Bozonet, Dr Elisabeth Phillips and Dr Juliet Pullar
Topic: The mechanisms of toxicity of ascorbate and its interaction with strandard cancer therapies
Student: Piyush Jha
Supervisors: Professor Madhav Bhatia and Professor Steve Chambers
Topic: Evaluating the therapeutic potential of hydrogen sulfide inhibition or administration in polymicrobial sepsis (PMS)
Student: Hyunwoo Jun
Supervisors: Dr Sandy Slow, Dr Steve Chambers
Topic: Developing low risk potting mix products to protect gardeners from Legionnaire's Disease
Student: Ayush Kumar
Supervisors: Professor Madhav Bhatia, Professor Steve Chambers
Topic: Hydrogen sulphide and substance P in acute pancreatitis
Student: Xihua Lian
Supervisors: Professor Madhav Bhatia, Dr Aamir Raja, Professor Steve Chambers, Dr John Lewis
Topic: Invasive Aspergillosis
Student: Cen (Yusmiati) Liau
Supervisors: Professor Martin Kennedy, Dr Simone Cree, and Dr Simran Maggo
Topic: The application of nanopore sequencing technology for pharmacogenomics profiling in adverse drug reactions
Student: Sumeet Manandhar
Supervisors: Professor Madhav Bhatia, Professor Steve Chambers
Topic: Role of H2S and substance P in NF-kB level expression in polymicrobial sepsis
Student: Ali Mohammadi
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Chambers, Professor David Murdoch and Dr Amy Scott-Thomas
Topic: Volatile organic compounds: identification and application as a diagnostic target for Legionnaires disease
Student: Stephanie Moran
Supervisors: Professor Mark Hampton, Dr Andrea Pearson and Professor Margreet Vissers
Topic: Peroxiredoxins as markers of oxidative stress
Student: Hadley Northcott
Supervisors: Professor Mark Hampton, Dr Andree Pearson, Professor Margreet Vissers
Topic: Allele-specific expression analysis of BRCA1/2 variants in breast cancer patients
Student: Citra Praditi
Supervisors: Professor Margreet Vissers and Associate Professor Gabriele Dachs
Topic: Vitamin C and Metastasis
Student: Annika Seddon
Supervisors: Professor Mark Hampton, Associate Professor Margaret Currie and Professor Tony Kettle
Topic: Investigating the biology of tumour-associated neutrophils
Student: Heather Shearer
Supervisors: Professor Mark Hampton, Dr Paul Pace and Dr Heather Parker
Topic: Sensitising pathogenic bacteria to neutrophil oxidants
Student: Priyanka Sinha
Supervisors: Professor Martin Kennedy, Dr Simone Cree and Associate Professor John Pearson
Topic: Genomic analysis of mood disorder drugs in bipolar disorder
Student: Ping Siu Kee
Supervisors: Professor Martin Kennedy, Dr Simram Maggo
Topic: The application of pharmacogenetics to understanding Adverse Drug Reactions
Student: Cassie Stylianou
Supervisors: Dr Logan Walker, Associate Professor John Pearson, Dr Vanessa Lattimore
Topic: Copy number variants and endometrial cancer risk.
Student: Eveline van Leeuwen
Supervisors: Professor Mark Hampton, Professor Margret Vissers
Topic: Oxidative stress and redox regulation of the cytoskeleton
Student: George Wiggins
Supervisors: Dr Logan Walker, Associate Professor John Pearson, Associate Professor Michael Black and Dr Anita Dunbier
Topic: Gene expression variability in breast tumour development.
Student: Jessika Wise
Supervisors: Dr Elisabeth Phillips, Associate Professor Tim Woodfield, Dr Khoon Lim and Associate Professor Margaret Currie
Topic: 3D breast tumour models for drug discovery
Student: Zhixing Zhu
Supervisors: Professor Madhav Bhatia, Professor Steve Chambers, Professor Xiangdong Wang, Professor Yiming Zeng
Topic: The role of exosome miRNA in acute lung injury
Department of Population Health
Student: Susan Bidwell
Supervisors: Associate Professor Lee Thompson and Associate Professor Gillian Abel
Topic: Exploring how and why people seek out and use dietary supplements and natural medicines to maintain and improve their health
Student: Toyin Kolawole
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gillian Abel and Associate Professor Lee Thompson
Topic: Perceptions of HIV Risk and Acceptability of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black African Women in New Zealand
Student: Claire Weinhold
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gillian Abel, Associate Professor Lee Thompson
Topic: Decriminalisation and the management of brothels in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Student: Lev Zhuravsky
Supervisors: Associate Professor Gillian Abel and Associate Professor Lee Thompson
Topic: Creating Resilience in Health Care Organizations. Role of Shared Leadership in Realigning a Gap between Work as Imagined and Work as Done
Department of Psychological Medicine
Student: Zoe Barczyk
Supervisors: Dr Katie Douglas, Professor Richard Porter, Dr James Foulds
Topic: Cognitive functioning during treatment for severe depression: changes in cognitive functioning and predictors of change
Student: Ben Beaglehole
Supervisors: Associate Professor Caroline Bell, Professor Roger Mulder and Associate Professor Joe Boden
Topic: The psychological impacts of the Canterbury Earthquakes
Student: Kate Eggleston
Supervisors: Professor Richard Porter, Dr Katie Douglas, Professor Marie Crowe
Topic: Patient perspectives of cognition and functioning in mood disorders
Student: Vanessa Gray
Supervisors: Professor Richard Porter and Dr Katie Douglas
Topic: Cognitive remediation and Apophenia in the elderly depressed
Student: Samantha Groves
Supervisors: Professor Richard Porter, Dr Jenny Jordan and Dr Katie Douglas
Topic: The impack of IPSRT and cognitive remediation on neuropsychological function in recurrent mood disorders
Student: Nathan Monk
Supervisors: Associate Professor Joe Boden, Dr Janet Spittlehouse, Dr Geri McLeod
Topic: Network analysis of mental disorder in the Christchurch Health and Development Study cohort
Student: Donna Ritchie
Supervisors: Professor Marie Crowe and Dr Dave Carlyle
Topic: How men living with disabilities are occupied with constructing and reproducing their own masculinity
Department of Radiology
Student: Sikiru Adebileje
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Professor Phil Butler and Dr Niels de Ruiter
Topic: Spectral reconstruction of MARS data.
Student: Fatemeh Asghariomabad
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Professor Phil Butler and Dr Aamir Raja
Topic: Developing novel approaches and laboratory environments for Spectral (multi-energy) CT imaging of atheroma to detect and monitor vulnerable plaque
Student: Krishna Chapagain
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Aamir Raja
Topic: Application of MARS-CT scanner for differentiation of prostatic carcinoma
Student: Jennifer Clark
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Aamir Raja
Topic: Using MARS-Spectral CT for osteoporosis imaging and fracture risk assessment
Student: Shishir Dahal
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Aamir Raja and Associate Professor Steven Gieseg
Topic: Characterisation of atherosclerotic plaque with MARS spectral scannerreceptors for molecular imaging to differentiate differ
Student: Theo Dapamede
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Neils de Ruiter
Topic: Application of MARS Spectral CT in cardiovascular imaging
Student: Chiara Lowe
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler and Dr Aamir Raja
Topic: Measuring the activity of cancer using targeted nanoparticles and MARS imaging
Student: Emmanuel Marfo
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Aamir Raja and Dr Nanette Schleich
Topic: Radiation protection of patients undergoing high dose rate brachytherapy treatment
Student: Aysouda Matanaghi
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Dr Aamir Raja and Dr Benjamin Bamford
Topic: Bone health assessment using MARS spectral computed tomography (title changed 30.8.18)
Student: Maya Rajeswari Amma
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler, Associate Professor Nigel Anderson, Dr Aamir Raja and Dr Ben Bamford
Topic: Study of bone-metal interface in orthopaedic application using spectral CT
Student: Jereena Sreedharan Sheeja
Supervisors: Professor Anthony Butler and Professor Phil Butler
Topic: High Performance MARS Spectral Multi-Energy CT scanner in Clinical Applications
Department of Surgery
Student: Alan Aitchison
Supervisors: Dr Jacqui Keenen, Professor Martin Kennedy and Dr Paul Pace
Topic: The role of Enterotoxic Bacteroides fragilis in the loss of E-cadherin in colorectal cancer
Student: Scott Loeffler
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jacqui Keenan, Associate Professor John Pearson, Professor Frank Frizelle
Topic: Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis [ETBF] infection in selected NZ sheep flocks - a possible zoonotic reservoir
Student: Will Taylor
Supervisors: Dr Rachel Purcell, Professor Frank Frizelle, Associate Professor John Pearson
Topic: An investigation of prognostic microbial factors involved in colorectal cancer responses to radiotherapy
For more information
Dr Ruth Helms
Manager, Research Degrees
University of Otago, Christchurch
PO Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 364 0527
Email ruth.helms@otago.ac.nz
