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2020 Awards Ceremony Hui Whakanui Tauira

The 2020 Awards ceremony was held on Friday, 20 November 2020 in the Nordmeyer Lecture Theatre, University of Otago, Wellington.

A list of 2020 prize winners can be viewed below:

Radiation Therapy

Name of prize Winners
New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technologists Award for Top Academic Student – Year I  Chloe Kemp
Academic Award – Year I  Courtney Reynolds*
Pacific Allied Health Prize Lose Sinipata*
New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technologists Award for Top Academic Student – Year II  Emily Younger*
Academic Award – Year II  Meg Thompson
Academic Award – Year III  Helen Lee
Cancer Society Merit Award for Consistent Effort and Achievement  Rohini Mohan and Helen Lee
AlpaXRT Award for Top Clinical Student – Year III  Georgia Hay
New Zealand Institute of Medical Radiation Technologists Award for Top Academimc Student – Year III  Nadia Kahan
Varian Prize for Top Planning Student – Year III  Helen Lee
Angela Allen Travelling Scholarship (for the student of the graduating class who has gained the highest aggregate of the marks in the three years of study for the degree of Bachelor of Radiation Therapy) Nadia Kahan

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MBChB – 4th year

Name of prize Winners
Charles Hastings Prize  Brendan Chin*
The Wellington Faculty (RNZCGP) Prize for Excellence in General Practice Brandon Nunns
ANZSGM Prize for 'Care for Elderly'  Natsuko Fushida-Hardy
Pacific Medical Prize Fuatino Heath*

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MBChB – 5th year

Name of prize Winners
J.O. Mercer Memorial Prize in Pathology Greer Jackways*
Nordmeyer Memorial Award for professional development in the 4th and 5th years Jonas Amann
Fowler Scholarship CC Zheng
Hutt Valley Trust prize in Cardiology CC Zheng
Order of St Lazarus Prize in Dermatology  CC Zheng
Tweed/Treadwell Prize in Rheumatology for excellence in rheumatology  Gisela Kristono
Margaret Lewis prize in Paediatrics  Fionnuala Lowry*
O&G prize for a top student in the 5th year Ella Sussock*
Hauora Māori Top Mark Tui Karauti-Lute
Pacific Award Dannielle Gaualofa

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MBChB – 6th year – Trainee Interns

Name of prize Winners
Kenneth Pacey Prize for Excellence in O&G Rebecca Holland
RNZCGP Prize for Professionalism in General Practice Margaret Huggins
RNZCGP Prize for Excellence in General Practice Carys Finlayson
H J Weston Prize Tevita Vaipuna
James Roberts Boyd Prize in Clinical Medicine Kirshni Bhula
David Whyte Prize for Excellence in Clinical Surgery Carys Finlayson
Pacific Prize Tevita Vaipuna
Vera Keefe-Ormsby Prize Māori Public Health Ripeka Moriarty and Kathryn Hippolite

Postgraduate

Name of prize Winners
PHD Research Prize : Social Sciences/Public Health  Paula King
PhD Research Prize : Clinical Research  Gisela Kristono and Steven Davey
PhD  Research Prize: Basic Science  Jodie Chandler
Prize for Excellence in HASC417  Sophie Barham* and Zaine Huntington*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT Prize for Excellence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Elizabeth Swift*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT Prize for Excellence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Leigh McCabe*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT prize for High Achievement in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Alina Zhuravsky*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT prize for High Achievement in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Alice Elgar*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT prize for High Achievement in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Rachel Navanua*
Postgraduate Certificate in CBT prize for High Achievement in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Julia Loughrey*
Regional Public Health Population Health Award Mary Curry
Pacific Postgraduate Award  Tutangi Amataiti
Pacific Leadership Award Salaseini Tikoimaleya

* In Absentia

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