Registrar Research Prize

The Registrar Research Prize (awarded at the GPET Convention) provides funding for a registrar to attend a conference in Australia or overseas to present their research.

This year, the winner of the Registrar Research Prize is Dr Lachlan McIver from Tropical Medical Training for his research project: "Epidemiology at the extremes: an examination of the factors that affect health outcomes in very remote communities in Australia". The project's co-authors are Dr Stephen Petterson and Mr Sean Finnegan.

Lachlan was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Australian Primary Health Care Research (at the Australian National University) and the Robert Graham Centre for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington DC. Lachlan also had the assistance of the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Health Service (Qld), Tropical Medical Training and ACRRM.

Lachlan delivered this paper as an oral presentation at the National Rural Health Conference in Perth and was a guest lecturer at the Australian National University in March 2011.

His abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation at the North American Primary Care Research Group Conference (NAPCRG) in Banff, Alberta in November 2011. This is the premier conference for primary health care research in the USA and Canada, and includes presenters from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Lachlan is currently working for the World Health Organization in the South Pacific.

Registrar Research Prize Information Guide 2011