The Sir Edward Hughes Memorial Clinical Research Prize in Surgery 2009
The Cabrini Monash Department of Surgery together with the Cabrini Institute -Education and Research and Johnson and Johnson Medical are pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 Prize:
Dr Tarik Sammour : Warming and humidification of insufflation gas in laparoscopic colonic surgery – a double-blinded, randomised, controlled trial.
Congratulations to the other selected finalists:
Dr .Benjamin Loveday
Dr.Tristan Yan
Dr.Deepti Singhal
Dr.Hasanga Jayasekera
Dr.Indu Gunawardena
Dr.Patrick Pritzwald-Stegman
Dr.Ramin Shayan
Dr.Vikram David
Dr.Warren Rozen
The competition for the prize was held at Cabrini Hospital, 17th October 2009.
The prize was open to application by all surgical residents and registrars who have entered or intend entering an accredited surgical training program.
Successful completion of the Primary examination of the RACS (or equivalent) was a prerequisite for application. The trainee must be the principal author, and have contributed the majority of research work for the project. Papers must relate to a topic of predominantly clinical significance in surgery. The abstract should be arranged as follows: Purpose, Methodology, Results and Conclusions.
The Ten finalists presented a seven-minute paper with three minutes to respond to questions. An objective pre-formatted point system was employed to determine the winner. Judging was along the guidelines of the Surgical Research Society, with special emphasis given to the clinical significance of the topic. The panel of adjudicators are selected from clinical surgeons, physicians, academics, basic researchers and ethicists.
The prize is sponsored by Johnson and Johnson Medical and consists of AUD$6000 and a commemorative plaque.
Previous Winners
2008 Dr Michael Wyatt
TOUGHEN UP – too high a price to pay for the best lamb in the world?
Dr Anubhav Mittal
Proteomic Changes in Mesenteric Lymph Secondary to Haemorrhagic Shock
2006 Dr Alkis J Psaltis
An animal model for the Study of Biofilms in Rhinosinusitis
2005 Dr Sebastian King
Colonic Manometry in Paediatric Slow Transit Constipation Shows Consistent Deficiencies in Propagating Contractions: Manometric Evidence of a New Disease
2004 Dr Mehrdad Nikfarjam
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves survival and reduces severity of acute severe pancreatitis
Dr Naeem Samnakay
Morphology and apoptosis in the ovine fetal kidney in prenatal bladder outflow obstruction
2003 Dr Adam Stewart
A pain control infusion pump for post-operative analgesia following inguinal hernia repair: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.
2002 Dr Shomik Sengupta
Butyrate delivery to the distal colon suppresses colorectal tumorgenesis in rats.
2001 Dr Paul Moroz
Targeting liver tumors with hyperthermiz: arterial embolisation hyperthermia in a small animal model.
2000 Dr Marins Pirpiris
Iatrogenic crouch gait: an avoidable complication of calf lengthening.
1999 Dr Charles Douglas
A randomised trial of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis incorporating the Alvarado score.
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