Applications close Sunday, 13 April 2025.
The AChAM Nghi Phung Research Project Prize is awarded every 2 years to the best Advanced Training Research Project on addiction medicine.
This prize is named in honour of Associate Professor Phung’s passion for research and her enormous contribution to the alcohol and other drug field.
2023 recipient | Dr Kate Senior
Dr Kate Senior is the current SA Representative on the APSAD Council and a co-convenor of this year’s APSAD Conference. She has a background in General Practice and completed her Addiction Medicine Advanced Training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in February 2023. She has served as the Trainee Representative on the RACP Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine Committee and is currently on the AChAM Curriculum Review Group. She has a passion for harm reduction and reducing the stigma faced by AOD clients, and her interests within the AOD field include Aboriginal Health, blood borne viruses and liver disease, and co-morbid chronic pain and opioid dependence.
Eligibility
You must be a registered Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (AChAM) Advanced Trainee upon submission of your Advanced Training Research Project for assessment. New Fellows who are in their first year of Fellowship are also eligible to apply.
Your Advanced Training Research Project must have been submitted between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.
Prize
The successful recipient is awarded:
- a cash prize of $2,500
- a prize certificate formally presented at the International Medicine in Addiction (IMiA) conference in August 2025.
Apply
Read the terms and conditions for awards and prizes valued up to $5000 before applying.
Submit your application form together with your supporting documents in a single PDF file to Foundation@racp.edu.au
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Selection process
All applications are reviewed by an Award Review Panel comprised of 3 AChAM members.
The Award Review Panel reserves the right not to award the AChAM Nghi Phung Research Project Prize if there are no applications that meet a sufficient standard.
For more information about the AChAM Nghi Phung Research Project Prize, contact the RACP Foundation.
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