News and Events – May 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Wu CC, Fairhall SL, McNair NA, Hamm JP, Kirk IJ, Cunnington R, Anderson TA, Lim VK (2010). Impaired sensorimotor integration in focal hand dystonia patients in the absence of symptoms. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 81: 659-665
GRADUATIONS
Govinda Poudel graduated with a PhD in Medicine from the University of Otago on the 22nd May. Govinda’s PhD was titled ‘Functional magnetic resonance imaging of lapses of responsiveness during visuomotor tracking’ and supervised by Richard Jones, Carrie Innes, and Phil Bones.
AWARDS
Petra Hoggarth was one of two students to win the Department of Psychology University of Canterbury, heat of the ‘PhD in 3’ Competition.
Ramesh Kaipa won 2nd place in the Health Research Society of Canterbury Poster Expo for his poster titled ‘Recovery of Speech following total glossectomy: An acoustic and perceptual appraisal’ (Authors: Ramesh Kaipa, Michael P Robb, Greg A. O’ Beirne, Robert S. Allison).
Phoebe Macrae was awarded the ‘Research Excellence Award’ by the New Zealand Speech Therapists Association. This award recognises innovative research that contributes to clinical work.
Phoebe Macrae won 2nd place in the Scientific Abstract Award at the meeting of the 18th annual Dyspagia Research Society meeting in San Diego, in March with her paper ‘Manometric pressures within and across 3 sessions: within subject variance and order effects’.
Phoebe Macrae won the Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury, heat of the ‘PhD in 3’ Competition.
PUBLICITY
Richard Jones, Govinda Poudel, and Carrie Innes were interviewed for a story based on their Marsden Funded project ‘Losing the struggle to stay awake: What happens in the brain during a lapse of responsiveness?’ which will air on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Our Changing World programme. From 10th June, a link to the interview will be on the Radio New Zealand website at www.radionz.co.nz/ourchangingworld.