Annual Awards Event Celebrates Excellence at Queen Mary University of London’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

This year 183 different individuals were nominated across all categories. All nominees were invited to the event, where they were joined by Faculty Leadership, Institute Directors, Institute Managers, and other staff to celebrate their achievements.

The awards and their winners were:

Outstanding Contribution to Professional and Technical Services Award

• Commendation: Violet Chan, VP (Health) Office
• Joint winners:
  • Steven Coppen, Deputy Institute Manager at the William Harvey Research Institute
  • Khalid Rouas, Institute Technician at the Blizard Institute

Outstanding Team Award

• Joint winners:
  • Faculty Admissions Team
  • Malta Student Support Team

EDI Champion Award

• Commendation: Professor Chloe Orkin
• Winner: Dr Georgina Hosang, Reader (Associate Professor) in Mental Illness & Chronic Diseases at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Emerging Professional Services Leader Award

• Commendations:
  • Rachel Day, VP Health Office
  • Gillian Vythelingum, Institute of Health Sciences Education
  • William Ng, Institute of Dentistry
• Winner: Dr Rebecca Gresham, Principal Laboratory Manager at Barts Cancer Institute

Inspirational Leadership Award

• Commendations:
  • Dr Nyree Myatt, Institute of Health Sciences Education
  • Dr Megan Clinch, Wolfson Institute of Population Health
• Winner: Professor Chloe Orkin, Professor of Infection and Inequities at the Centre for Immunobiology

VP Award for Excellence in Citizenship 

• Joint winners:
  • Steven Coppen, Deputy Institute Manager at the William Harvey Research Institute
  • Rossye Alvarez, Research Project Manager, VP Health Office

Innovation and Enterprise Award

• Professor Pedro Cutillas, Professor of Cell Signalling and Proteomics at Barts Cancer Institute

Research Supervisor of the Year Award

• Commendation: Professor Deborah Swinglehurst, Wolfson Institute of Population Health
• Winner: Dr Oliver Pearce, Senior Lecturer at Barts Cancer Institute

Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award 

• Commendation: Dr Mirjana Efremova, Barts Cancer Institute
• Winner: Dr Tom Abbott, NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the William Harvey Research Institute

Research Professional of the Year Award

• Joint winners:
  • Dr Marie Spreckley, Director of Business Operations and Partnerships, Genes and Health, The Blizard Institute
  • Carlos De Oliveira,  Research Manager at the Blizard Institute

Impact Award

• Commendation: Professor Peter Szlosarek, Barts Cancer Institute
• Winner: Professor Thomas Powles, Professor of Genitourinary Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute

VP Award for Research Excellence

• Joint winners:
  • Dr Louise Barber, Senior Scientific Officer, Barts Cancer Institute
  • Dr Suchita Nadkarni, Senior Lecturer in Immunology, William Harvey Research Institute

Award for Teaching Innovation

• Commendation: Learning Innovation Team at IHSE
• Winner: E-Resources Team in the Institute of Dentistry

Outstanding Scholarship Award

• Dr Sam Miles, Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the Institute of Health Sciences Education

Student Experience Excellence Award

• Dr Dominic Hurst, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Adult Oral Health at the Institute of Dentistry

Outstanding Early Career Educator Award

• Jathurshika Vigneswaran, Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Health Sciences Education

Education Professional of the Year Award 

• Dr Nina Ravic, Education Manager at William Harvey Research Institute

VP Award for Education Excellence 

• Dr Michael Page, Reader in Medical Education at the Institute of Health Sciences Education

Student/ Staff Collaboration: 

• Rob Tucker and Graham Easton
• Tristen Arkless and the BLSA Malta Board