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1988:
Dun Prize for Surgery and Clinical Surgery (for 1st place in
final year surgery)
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1989:
Sydney B. Clipsham Prize for Operative Surgery (for the best option term
research project, reporting on the experiences of the Royal Alexandra Hospital
for Children, Camperdown with surgical hemispherectomy for intractable epilepsy)
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1991:
Cecil and Beryle Whitmont Research Fellowship from the Australian Brain
Foundation, valued at $14000
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1991:
National Health & Medical Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship,
valued at $22710. Renewed successfully in 1993.
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1991:
Royal Australian College of Surgeons Foundation Research Grant (in
conjunction with Dr. M.K. Morgan), valued at $7000
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1991:
Cockburn Foundation Research Scholarship from the Royal Australian
College of Surgeons, valued at $16000
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1991:
John Brook Moore Scholarship in Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, The
University of Sydney, valued at $16332
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1993:
National Health & Medical Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship,
valued at $22710
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July,
1994: Nominated for the Peter Bancroft Prize for the best research work
in the Faculty of Medicine
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September, 1995: Awarded Peter Leech Prize for the best Neurosurgical
registrar presentation at the 1995 NSA Meeting, Broome. Topic: “Chronic
cerebral hypoperfusion and impaired neuronal function in the rat”
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January, 1996: Nominated for the Cerebrovascular Research Award at the
1996 International Cerebral Hemodynamics and Embolism Symposium, Dallas, USA.
Topic: “Alterations hippocampal structure in the chronic hypoperfusion model
in the rat”
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September 1996: Nominated for The Royal Society of New South Wales The
Edgeworth David Medal, for distinguished contributions to Australian science
by a young scientist
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November, 1996: Awarded the 1996 Douglas Bills Memorial Prize for best
neurosurgeon-in-training presentation at the Spine Seminar, 9th-10th
November, 1996: Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney
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March
1997: Ph.D. histopathological study featured on cover of Neurosurgery
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October 1997: Awarded the 1997 Douglas Bills Memorial Prize for best
neurosurgeon-in-training presentation at the Neuroimaging and Neuropathology
Seminar, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
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April
1997: Awarded the Thomas & Mary Ethel Ewing Traveling Fellowship by the
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, to present at the XIth
International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Amsterdam
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July,
1997: Awarded the Young Neurosurgeons Award by the World Federation of
Neurosurgeons at Amsterdam, The Netherlands for best unpublished neurosurgical
research by a neurosurgeon/trainee less than 35 years of age. Submission
entitled: “The effects of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion associated with
arteriovenous malformations”
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May,
1998: FRACS Examination Part 2: first overall ranking in all
subspecialities including neurosurgery in the Fellowship of the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons (F.R.A.C.S.) Part 2 examinations
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May,
1998: Awarded the Thomas & Mary Ethel Ewing Traveling Fellowship by the
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, to assist in completion of a
neurosurgical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A.
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August, 1998: Awarded the Sofamor Danek International Scholarship, to
assist in completion of a neurosurgical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A.
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July,
1999: Awarded the Sofamor Danek International Scholarship, for a 2nd
time, to assist in completion of a spine fellowship at the Toronto Western
Hospital, Canada
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August, 2000: Finalist for Outstanding Paper Award, 15th
Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society, October 25th-
28th, New Orleans, U.S.A. for the paper entitled “Molecular
mechanisms of cell death in human cervical
spondylotic myelopathy.”
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Nominated to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Young
Neurosurgeons Forum Committee
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December 2000: 2000 Outstanding Clinical Research Award, at the
28th Annual Meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society,
November 30th-December 3rd, 2000, Charleston, North
Carolina, U.S.A., for the paper entitled “Molecular mechanisms of cell
death in human cervical
spondylotic myelopathy: evidence for apoptosis, death receptor expression and
Caspase 3 activation.”
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January 2001- September 2003: Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Royal
North Shore Hospital and the University of Sydney, Australia.
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November 2003: Appointed Clinical Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Royal North Shore Hospital and the University of Sydney, Australia.
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Sep,
2006: AMA Physician's Recognition Award with Commendation
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