Event Details
Research Skills Workshop and NSW/ACT Trainee Research Awards 2027
Date:
11 Nov 2026 at 5:15 PM to 9:00 PM
Location:
Hybrid – RACP Sydney Office, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, and online via Zoom
Join us for an evening of research skills, insights and presentations at the Research Skills Workshop and NSW/ACT Trainee Research Awards 2027 on Wednesday, 11 November 2026.
The evening will begin with a practical Research Skills Workshop designed to support trainees at different stages of their research journey. Hear from experienced researchers as they share their advice on:
- How to choose a topic, Dr Matthew Georgiades
- How to get started, Dr Craig Coorey
- How to stay on track
Professor, Martin Veysey
After the workshop, we’ll celebrate the outstanding research of 6 NSW/ACT trainees shortlisted as finalists in the RACP Trainee Research Awards. The following 3 Adult Medicine and 3 Paediatric Medicine finalists will present their research to a judging panel for a final round of assessment:
Finalist | Specialty | Research area |
| Dr Russell Wong | neurology Advanced Trainee | Anosognosia-linked hypometabolism, pre-conversion FDG-PET trajectories and dementia-free survival in MCI: A multi-year ADNI study |
| Dr Samantha Giang | nephrology Advanced Trainee | Sex and intersectional disparities in cardiac mortality for kidney transplant patients: A Binational Population-Based Data-Linkage Study 1988-2022 in Australia and New Zealand |
| Dr Mitchel Hurlbert | clinical pharmacology Advanced Trainee | Authority to Access: Rituximab dispensing at St Vincent’s Hospital after PBS changes |
| Dr Margot Price | paediatric neurology Advanced Trainee | Stroke complicating paediatric bacterial meningitis: A retrospective case-controlled cohort analysis |
| Dr Jade Stewart | paediatric medical oncology Advanced Trainee | High dose methotrexate in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a 5-year, retrospective, single-site analysis of clearance and toxicities |
| Dr Niall Johnston | general paediatrics and infectious diseases Advanced Trainee | Management and Outcomes of Paediatric Bone and Joint Infections in a Regional Australian Hospital: A 10-Year Retrospective Study |
Successful finalists will have the opportunity to present at the Trainee Research Awards Symposium in Sydney in 2027, with regional top honour trainees also invited to have their abstracts published in an RACP supplement of the Internal Medicine Journal or the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.
The presentations will be judged by Dr Graeme Rich, Dr Hasantha Gunasekera and Dr Chanukya Colonne, and chaired by Professor Martin Veysey.
Research Skills Workshop: 5pm arrival for a 5.15pm start
Trainee Research Awards: 6.35pm arrival for a 7pm start
Catering: Canapés and refreshments
Cost: Free
Register
Location
Hybrid – RACP Sydney Office, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, and online via Zoom