Undergraduate students at Otago School of Pharmacy recently took part in the Annual Research Symposium. The Symposium is hosted over two days to accommodate for two of our Research papers, PHCY 480 Honours Research Project and PHCY 470 Elective Study.
Nine Honours students presented their research at the Colquhoun Lecture Theatre, Dunedin Hospital (Thursday, 6 October 2016) as part of their PHCY 480 Honours Research Project. The students are asked to develop, implement and report on an original individual research project.
Natalie Fleming won first place for her presentation A model for the proximal renal tubule, supervised by Dr Dan Wright and Professor Stephen Duffull.
Claire Fan was awarded Runner-up for her presentation on Inhalable powder formulations for treating latent and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Formulation and in vitro characterization supervised by Dr Shyamal Das.
Jane Wei was also awarded Runner-up for presenting Recognising and managing pain in people with dementia supervised by Associate Professor June Tordoff, and Dr Alesha Smith.
PHCY 480 Honours Research Project Symposium Winners. (From left: Jane Wei (2nd Equal), Natalie Fleming (1st) and Claire Fan(2nd Equal).
PHCY 470 Research Symposium (Friday, 7 October 2016) was entered by 21 different groups of fourth year pharmacy students. The Symposium is part of the PHCY 470 elective paper assessments which introduces the students to scientific research and research methods. The students entered the Oral Presentation category or Best Poster.
Some interesting topics were presented to the audience and panel of judges but it was the “20 is Plenty” group of students that took first prize for Best Oral Presentation. Under the direction of Professor Pauline Norris and Aynsley Peterson, students Jing Bian, Prajakta Lawande, Ga Hee Lee, Yen Theng Neoh, Abigail Paul and Harumi Tanimura presented their research on Increasing public awareness for the prescription subsidy card programme.
20 is Plenty win first prize for Best Oral Presentation. (From left: Professor Pauline Norris, Harumi Tanimura, Abigail Paul, Yen Theng (Ashley) Neoh and Aynsley Peterson.)
Second place winners for Best Oral Presentation, Stephen Chai, Rasneka Ratnayake, Ziqi Song and Kathleen Tong (supervised by Associate Professor Rhiannon Braund), spoke about Sildenafil – Pharmacists' perspectives on the training and clinical impact of the reclassification.
Third place for Best Oral Presentation was awarded to Michaela Ellis, Aden Holmes, Ashleigh Hurring, Jamie Lovegrove, Fion McKibben (Supervised by Dr David Schmierer) for their presentation on An investigation into the activity of plants used by Māori for the treatment of infection and inflammation.
Five posters where displayed for the Best Poster presentations this year. All groups displayed posters at a high level with first prize being given to two groups.
Holly Boyle, Rosalie Chang, Abby Evison, Karensa Houghton, Georgia Lidstone and Sophie Oliff's poster on Pityriasis versicolor: a recommendation for the Cook Islands Ministry of Health on treatment options, application guidelines and clinical information (supervised by Dr Ruth Ferguson and Associate Professor Natalie Medlicott), and Laura Copland, Danielle Kennedy, Abbie Muir and Leah Richardson's poster titled Do published renal drug studies support the intact nephron hypothesis? (supervised by Dr Dan Wright) were awarded first-equal for Best Poster this year.
PHCY 470 First-equal winners of Best Poster Presentation. (From left: Abbey Evison, Rosalie Chang, Holly Boyle, Karensa Houghton, Georgia Lidstone and Sophie Oliff.)
Congratulations to all of our prize winners and thank you to all of the students involved. Thank you to our judges and supporting staff.