Adult Medicine
Bryan Hudson Medal
Dr Harendran Elangovan | 2021 recipient
Past recipients
2021 | Dr Harendran Elangovan
2020 | Dr Lauren Heath
2019 | Dr Christopher Belder
2018 | Dr Nicholas Montarello
2017 | Dr Kathryn Connelly
2016 | Dr Thalib Mowjood
2015 | Dr Jad Othman
2014 | Dr Megan Brown
2013 | Dr George Heriot
2012 | Dr Brent O'Carrigan
2011 | Dr Kelly Stanton
2010 | Dr Wallace Brownlee
2009 | Dr Andrew McNally
2008 | Dr Thomas Wellings
2007 | Dr Matthew Jacob Kelly
2006 | Dr Shom Goel
2005 | Dr Paul Sexton
2004 | Dr Michael Desmond
2003 | Dr Simon Chatfield
2002 | Dr Harrs Murtaza Haqqani
2001 | Dr Joshua Paul Hanson
2000 | Dr Anthony John White
1999 | Dr Ian Fuad Yusoff
Best Poster Prize in Adult Medicine (Fellow)
2022 | Dr Yada Kanjanapan
2021 | Dr Hashrul Rashid
2020 | Not awarded
2019 | Dr Dharmenaan Palamuthusingam
2018 | Dr Fahmida Ilyas
2017 | Dr Leena Aggarwal
2016 | Dr Leena Aggarwal
2015 | Dr Leena Aggarwal
Best Poster Prize in Adult Medicine (Trainee)
2022 | Dr Yi Chao Foong
2021 | Dr Emily Walsh
2020 | Dr Daniel Mazzoni
2019 | Dr Budhima Nanayakkara
2018 | Dr Angelique Megevand
2017 | Dr Samuel Chan
2016 | Dr Nick Buist
2015 | Dr Gowri Somarajah
Paediatrics & Child Health
Howard Williams Medal
Professor David Isaacs | 2023 recipient
Professor David Isaacs has made major contributions to our college, in both the education and advocacy spaces. He was part of the RACP Written Examinations Committee, first as a member (1991-1994) then Secretary (1994-1997) then Chair from 1998–2003. He was also a member of the RACP Clinical Examinations Committee for 23 years, including 9 years as Secretary. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health (JPCH) since 2009. His editorials every month are insightful and thought provoking. For his services to the RACP, he was awarded the John Sands Medal in 2015.
At the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, he was Director of Clinical Education for 4 years, transforming the hospital’s education program. Along with Dr Henry Kilham, he became concerned about the difficult ethical problems faced by paediatricians. He undertook ethics training, gaining a graduate diploma in bioethics from Monash and developed the hospital’s Clinical Ethics Service which he led until 2021.
In 2005 he initiated a Refugee Clinic at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, working there for 17 years. He has always been a strong advocate for children of asylum seekers and refugees, speaking widely to trauma and torture services, schools, medical students and universities on the needs of refugee children. After consulting on children being held in immigration detention in Nauru, at considerable personal risk (the Border Force Act, 2015 provided for up to 2 years imprisonment for revealing details of immigration detention condition) he revealed to the public and his profession the deplorable conditions prevailing on Nauru.
Despite his accolades and achievements, David is a humble man who, like Howard Williams, has improved the lives of children and brought credit to our profession.
Past recipients
2022 | Professor Wayne Cutfield
2021 | Professor Anne Chang
2020 | Professor Louise Baur AM
2019 | Professor Lex Doyle
2018 | Professor David Forbes
2017 | Professor Elizabeth Elliott
2016 | Professor Dinah Reddihough
2015 | Professor John Septimus Whitehall
Examination Medal in Paediatrics & Child Health
Dr Hannah Uebel | 2021 recipient
Past recipients
2020 | Dr Anne Stewart
2019 | Dr Alison Boast
2018 | Dr Frances Gehrmann
2017 | Dr Emma Williams
2016 | Dr Arun Sett
2015 | Dr Luisa Clucas
2014 | Dr Sarah Curnow
Rue Wright Memorial Award
2023 | Elise D'Abaco
2021 | Dr Shanthi Ameratunga
2020 | Dr Lilian Downie
2019 | Dr Peter Vuillermin
2018 | Dr Anthea Rhodes
2017 | Dr Hasantha Gunasekera
2016 | Dr Jessica Costa-Pinto
2015 | Dr Christine Jeffries-Stokes
Best Poster Prize in Paediatrics & Child Health
2022 | Dr Catherine Brown (Trainee)
2022 | Professor Elizabeth Elliott (Fellow)
2021 | Dr Jared Gursanscky (Trainee)
2020 | Dr Lawrence Gray (Fellow)
2020 | Dr Michelle Scoullar (Trainee)
2019 | Dr Elaine Zaidman
2018 | Dr Jonathan Kaufman
2017 | Dr Sowmya Gandham
2016 | Associate Professor Harriet Hiscock
2015 | Dr Catherine McAdam
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