Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health SciencesDepartment of Ophthalmology

Current Students

Recent Graduates

Dr Madeleine Adams - PhD

Thesis title: How does genotype determine the phenotype of age related macular degeneration (AMD) and its responses to treatment?

Supervisors: Paul Baird, Robyn Guymer, Julie Simpson, Luba Robman

2009 - Dr Thanh Nguyen - PHD - Novel Markers in Pre-diabetes, Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy:  Static and Dynamic Retinal Vascular Calibre

Stuart Cantsilieris - PhD

Thesis title: Genetic variants and risk factors associated with age-related macular degeneration

Supervisors: Paul Baird, Robyn Guymer, Maria Schache

2010 - Dr Swetha Jeganathan - MPhil -  Retinal associations of diabetes and vascular disease

Rahul Charkrabarti - PhD

Thesis title: Pathways exploring the effect of mitochondrial dysfunction and ageing on the retinal response to injury

Supervisors:

2010 - Dr Cong Sun - PhD - Effect of Genetic, Environmental, and Systemic Factors on Retinal Vascular Calibre

Dr Danny Cheung – MD

Thesis title: Retinal vascular changes in children and adults:  pathophysiological and prognostic relevance in cardiovascular disease

Supervisor:  Tien Wong

2010 – Dr Michelle Baker – PhD - The impact of refractive error on the progression of diabetic retinopathy in a clinical sample

Heather Connor - PhD

Thesis title: Structural and functional changes in the visual cortex and visual pathway in glaucoma

Supervisors: Sarah Hosking, Dave Abbot

2011 - Manjula Marella - PhD - Development and validation of a framework to evaluate vision-specific community based rehabilitation (CBR-VI) services.

Eva Fenwick - PhD

Thesis title: Development and validation of an instrument to measure quality of life in patients with diabetes and vision threatening diabetic retinopathy

Supervisors: Ecosse Lamoureux,  Gwyn Rees

2011 - Tony Wells – DmedSc - Trabeculectomy surgery:methods to improve safety, optimise outcomes, and assess filtering blebs

Dr Robert Finger – PhD

Thesis title: Anti-VEGF therapy in patients characterized with the severity of AMD: an understanding of its clinical effectiveness, costs, patients’ treatment satisfaction and quality of life benefits.

Supervisors:  Robyn Guymer

2011 - Nazim Uddin - MPhil A statistical model to explore  the role of small vessel changes on pathways to cardiovascular disease (CVD)

Dr Jefitha Karimurio - PhD

Thesis title: Control of active trachoma

Supervisors: Jill Keeffe, Richard Le Mesurier

2011 - Dr George Kong – PhD -The effect of aging and mitochondrial dysfunction on the optic nerve responses to oxidative stress injury

Annie McAuley- PhD

Thesis title: Characterising the Expressional Pattern of miRNA in diabetic retinopathy; a novel class of biomarkers allow the potential for creating a tool for early detection of diabetic retinopathy

Supervisors: Jie Jin Wang, Ecosse Lamoureux, Mohamed Dirani

2011 - Dr Anu Mathew - MD - Trachoma in the Pacific Islands

Paul Sanfilippo - PhD

Thesis title: The heritability of optic disc shape

Supervisors: David Mackey, Alex Hewitt, Jonathan Crowston

 

Srujana Sahebjada - PhD

Thesis title: Neuro pharmalogical control of myopia

Supervisors: Paul Baird

 

Dr Bayu Sasongko - PhD

Thesis title: The association of retinal vascular structure with cognitive performance and systemic condition in elderly

Supervisors: Jie Jin Wang, Tien Wong

 

                     

Srujana Sahebjada - PhD

Thesis title: Neuro pharmalogical control of myopia

Supervisors: Paul Baird

 

Nicole Van Bergen - PhD

Thesis title: The role of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation dysfunction in optic neuropathies

Supervisors: Jonathan Crowston, Ian Trounce

 

Hayley Waugh - PhD

Thesis title: Amyloid precursor protein-mediated neuroprotection and processing in glaucoma and the aged retina

Supervisors: Ian Trounce, Jonathan Crowston

 

Dr Christine Wittig-Silva - PhD

Thesis title: Cross linking for Keratoconus

Supervisors: Graeme Pollock, Grant Snibson

 

Dr Farshad Abedi – DmedSC

Thesis title: Treatment outcome in patients with neovascular AMD

Supervisors: Robyn Guymer

 

Dr Marc Sarossy - MD

Thesis title: Novel quantitative outcome measures for the anti VEGF treatment of retinal diseases

Supervisors: Robyn Guymer, Tien Wong, Robert Shepherd

Felix Aplin – MPhil

Thesis title: Blind feline model for retinal prosthesis

Supervisors: Robyn Guymer

Dr Rehab Benarous - MPhil

Thesis title: The impact of refractive error on the progression of diabetic retinopathy in a clinical sample

Supervisors: Ecosse Lamoureux, Mohamed Dirani, Tien Wong

 

Michelle Lim – MPhil

Thesis title: The relationship between metabolic syndrome and DR and DME in non-English speaking Australians

Supervisors: Ecosse Lamoureux,

 

Fleur O'Hare - MPhil

Thesis title: Auditory processing deficits in individuals with glaucoma

Supervisors: Jonathan Crowston, Gary Rance, Alison McKendrick

 

Ryan Man – MPhil

Thesis title: Ocular and systemic risk factors in the incidence and severity of Diabetic Retinopathy

Supervisors: Ecosse Lamoureux,

 

Joanne Yau - MMed

Thesis title: Diabetic retinopathy: Systematic review and meta-analysis of its prevalance and relationship to cardiovascular risk factors

Supervisors: Ecosse Lamoureux, Tien Wong

 


 

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