MACH-Track PhD projects
These MACH-Track fellows have embarked on a structured, mentored and fully funded career development pathway, pursuing post-registration clinical training or career development in any of the ten health services affiliated to MACH.
Explore the current and completed MACH-Track PhD projects in the table below
| Organisation | Name | Role | Department | Principal Supervisor | Project title | Project status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Health | Emma Boehm | Doctor | Clinical Pathology | A/Prof Richard Tothill | Utilising genomics for discovery of diagnostic and surveillance biomarkers in neuroendocrine neoplasms | Complete |
| Austin Health | Maitri Munsif | Doctor | Medicine (Austin Health) | Prof Mark Howard | Treatable traits and acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Current |
| General Practice | Brent Venning | Doctor | General Practice | Prof Jonathan Emery | A value-based analysis of diagnostic testing for cancer related symptoms in primary care | Complete |
| Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre | Thomas Lew | Doctor | WEHI | Prof Andrew Roberts | Enhancing venetoclax and other pro-apoptotic agents to improve outcomes for patients with haematological malignancies | Complete |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | Ryan McMahon | Doctor | Peter Mac | Prof Shankar Silva | Predictive Outcomes of Combined Radio/Immunotherapy in Solid Organ Malignancies | Complete |
| Royal Children's Hospital | Megan Ball | Doctor | Paediatrics | Prof David Thorburn | Improving the diagnostic pathway in children with suspected mitochondrial disorders | Current |
| Austin Health | Luke Fletcher | Doctor | Critical Care | A/Prof Lachlan Miles | The development and validation of a physiological haemodynamic model of the right heart and pulmonary circulation for use in the perioperative period | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Michael Moso | Doctor | Infectious Diseases | Prof Sharon Lewin | Nanoparticle and gene therapy approaches to HIV cure | Current |
| Royal Children's Hospital | Farrah Rodrigues | Doctor | MCRI | A/Prof Hazel Clothier | Uncovering the burden of youth onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Victoria | Current |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | Jason Ha | Doctor | Anatomy & Physiology | Prof Jenny Wilkinson-Berka | Understanding the contribution of adaptive and innate immunity to RPE/choroidal dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy | Current |
| Western Health | Alex Besson | Doctor | Surgery Western Health | Prof Justin Yeung | Use of computed tomography multilevel body composition to predict chemotherapy toxicities and surgical outcomes in colorectal cancer treatment | Current |
| Austin Health | Nicola Burgess | Physiotherapist | Physiotherapy | Prof Linda Denehy | Investigating new models of care for prehabilitation in total hip and knee arthroplasty | Current |
| Royal Women’s Hospital | Annabelle Huguenin | Doctor | Melbourne School of Population and Global Health | Prof Nancy Baxter | Doctors as leaders: optimising the Australian Health Care System. Who leads, why do they lead, how do they lead? | Current |
| Royal Children’s Hospital | Asha Jois | Doctor | WEHI | Prof James Murphy | Understanding epithelial barrier disruption and cell death patterns in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease | Current |
| Austin Health | Talia Clohessy | Physiotherapist | Physiotherapy | Prof David Berlowitz | The therapeutic impact of acute intermittent hypoxia on people with chronic spinal cord injury | Current |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | Roshan Karri | Doctor | Ophthalmology | Prof Peter Van Wijngaarden | Detecting Retinal Hypoperfusion using Hyperspectral Imaging and Deep Learning | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Paul Kinsella | Doctor | Microbiology & Immunology | Prof Ben Howden | Development and implementation of a shotgun metagenomic- based approach for microbiome characterisation. | Current |
| Royal Children’s Hospital | Ingrid Sutherland | Nurse | Nursing | Prof Fiona Newall | Respite care for children with a severe neurological impairment - evaluation of the Australian system | Current |
| General Practice | Rochelle Sleaby | Doctor | General Practice | Prof Lena Sanci | Preparing primary care for precision diabetes | Current |
| Austin Health | Stacey Haughton | Physiotherapist | Physiotherapy | Prof David Berlowitz | Investigating alternative models of care for identifying and treating obstructive sleep apnoea in spinal cord injury | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Aliya Bryce | Doctor | Department of Infectious Diseases | Prof Steven Tong | Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections in Patients requiring Haemodialysis: Optimising Antimicrobial Treatment and Management Strategies | Current |
| Western Health | Kate Emery | Physiotherapist | The Department of Critical Care (University of Melbourne) | A/Prof Kimberley Haines | Exploring the role of a care co-ordinator for Intensive Care Unit survivors | Current |
| Northern Health | Eleanor Johnson | Midwife | School of Population and Global Health (University of Melbourne) | A/Prof Meghan Bohren | Co-designing abortion care in Melbourne's north | Current |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | Nicole Kinnane | Nurse | Department of Nursing (University of Melbourne) | Prof Mei Krishnasamy | Creating a contemporary evidence-informed and consumer co-designed follow-up pathway plan for people with high-intermediate and high-risk endometrial cancer | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Yeung-Ae Park | Doctor | Department of Medicine (University of Melbourne) | A/Prof Christopher Yates | The Role of Sex Steroids in Pituitary Tumours | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Haustine Patt Panganiban | Nurse - Informatics | Intensive Care Unit | Prof Adam Deane | Electronic Medical Records-embedded Clinical Trials (eTrials) | Current |
| Mercy Hospital for Women | Kristin Ferguson | Doctor | Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health | Prof David Tingay | Lower gas flows during respiratory support for extremely preterm infants | Current |
| Royal Children’s Hospital | Katherine Colman | Doctor | WEHI - Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division | Prof Andrew Roberts | Overcoming therapy resistance in paediatric T-cell leukaemia and lymphoma | Current |
| General Practice | Emily Thrower | Doctor | General Practice | Prof Lena Sanci | GP satisfaction within a shared care training program to initiate gender affirming hormone therapy | Current |
| Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital | Sachin Phakey | Doctor | Surgery (Ophthalmology) | Prof Lyndell Lim | Preventing vision loss in herpes zoster ophthalmicus | Current |
| Austin Health | Elizabeth Walkley | Nurse | Surgery (Austin Health / St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne) | Prof Michelle Dowsey | Assessing the impact of frailty on outcomes for older adults undergoing major Orthopaedic Surgery | Current |
| Austin Health | Dr Joyce Leong | Doctor | Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine | Dr Tracy Leong | Current | |
| Northern Health | Vanessa Leonard-Roberts | Nurse | Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science | Dr Dianne Crellin | Current | |
| Royal Children's Hospital | Dr Jack Lego | Doctor | Immune Development (MCRI) | Dr Jacqui Schiesser | Identification of novel cell surface markers of islets and pancreatic progenitor cells | Current |
| Royal Melbourne Hospital | Dr Andrew Giang | Doctor | Immunology Division/Snow Centre for Immune Health (WEHI), Department of Medical Biology (University of Melbourne) | Prof Philip Hodgkin | Mechanisms of fate determination and fate inheritance in progeny of stimulated lymphocytes | Current |