All Menzies Memorial Scholars

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JAMIE VANDENBERG
1989 Menzies Scholar in Medicine

Education
BSc (Med), University of Sydney
Cambridge – studying myocardial ischaemia and the mechanisms of pH regulation in the heart.
Oxford - studying Cellular Electrophysiology.

Current positions
Laboratory Head, Molecular Cardiology and Biophysics Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
Conjoint appointments at the University of New South Wales (Faculty of Medicine) and University of Sydney (School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences).

Career history
British Heart Foundation Basic Sciences Lectureship, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge working on the integrated regulation of electrical activity in the heart and the molecular basis of arrhythmogenesis.

Areas of Professional Interest
Molecular basis of voltage sensing in cardiac ion channels with a particular emphasis on understanding how HERG K + channels work.

Family
Wife, Margie, and children, Jono and Zoe.

April 2004

KRISTIN van ZWIETEN
2007 Menzies Scholar in Law

Kristin van Zwieten holds the degrees of BA with Distinction from the University of Western Sydney and LLB (2005) from the University of New South Wales. Kristin was ranked joint first in her graduating class of 328 and awarded the University Medal in Law.

Kristin took up her two year scholarship in October 2007 at Oxford University studying for the BCL/MPhil .

Oct 2007

DR LAKSHMI NAYANA VOOTAKURU
2010 Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University

Dr Lakshmi Nayana Vootakuru is a graduate of the University of Newcastle’s medical school.  She has worked extensively in remote and Indigenous communities around Australia and currently works in the field of Anaesthetics at Concord Hospital in NSW.

Lakshmi will study for a Master of Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

May 2010