Fellowships & Awards
UGSA offers a number of scholarships, fellowships and awards to support workforce development in Urogynaecology through networking, training, education and research between colleagues across our region and globally.
Fellowships
The Urogynaecological Society of Australasia previously offered an annual Research Scholarship valued between 10K and 20K.
UGSA, in the past, has worked collaboratively with the RANZCOG Women’s Health Foundation who assisted in administering the UGSA Research Scholarship. The RANZCOG Research Grants Committee assessed applications using a process modelled on the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) process with revisions to ensure, as much as possible, that early-career support for high quality research with a commitment to women’s health was promoted through the selection process.
The winners are listed below.
Past Fellowship Winners
- 2023
Mooska Raoofi
Institution | Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne
Project | Preoperative and intraoperative assessment of the uterosacral ligaments in women undergoing pelvic organ prolapse surgery: an observational study - 2022
Ellen Yeung
Institution | Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Project | Histological analysis and imaging of explanted pelvic mesh - 2021
Victoria Buckley
Project | Is improved voiding associated with improved urgency urinary incontinence after prolapse repair? - 2019
Zhuoran Chen
Institution | University of New South Wales
Project | Refractory Urge Incontinence: the role of cytokines a marker for persistent infection in these patients? - Chin Yong
Institution | The Royal Women's Hospital
Project | Bilateral sacrospinous ligament flap for treatment of apical pelvic organ prolapse: a combined adaveric study and magnetic resonance imaging study. - 2018
- Alexandra Mowat
Institution | Royal Brisbane ad Women's Hospital
Project | Evaluation of Polycaprolactone (PCL) as a tissue engineering scaffold for the surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse in the sheep model. - 2017
- Lin Li Ow
Institution | Monash Health
Project |Mini sling or Retropubic sling in women with intrinsic sphincter deficiency - a RCT study (Mini RISD)
Abstracts
UGSA annually invites Abstracts for submission to the Free Communication and Poster Presentation at the UGSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Abstracts are welcome on any topic relevant to female pelvic floor dysfunction. Abstracts will be selected according to scientific merit. Abstracts should be submitted by the presenting author. Only one author per abstract can be nominated by the ‘presenting author’
Abstract Winners
- 2024 | Sascha Vereeck & Natharnia Young
- 2023 | Davide Hennes & Chin Yong
- 2022 | Stephanie Khaw & James Alexander
- 2020 | Yvonne Wong
- 2019 | Lin Li Ow
- 2018 | Natharnia Young
- 2018 | Jerome Melon
UGSA Excellence in Women’s Health
Medical professionals interested in women’s continence and pain management.