Postgraduate teaching in the Department of Anaesthesiology

Masters and PhD students are currently working under the supervision of staff in the department. The research being conducted by postgraduate students ranges from clinical studies of the effects of drugs used during anaesthesia through to investigation of the performance of anaesthetists and the modelling of the EEG and sleep.

Currently, we have the following postgraduate students working with us, or under our joint supervision.

• Dr Daniel Chiang is looking at the genetic and epigenetic influences on pain after breast cancer surgery.
• Ms Amy Gaskell is investigating electroencephalographic markers of behavioural responsiveness during anaesthesia.
• Mr Ghazwan Jabur is looking at whether gaseous microemboli alter cerebral autoregulation during clinical cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Ms Dongni Li is investigating the characterising the effects of anaesthesia on circadian clock gene expression in Drosophila.
• Mr Xavier Vrijdag is investigating Gas narcosis in hyperbaric environments.
• Mr Matthew Payton is investigating the aspects of nasal high flow therapy in Anaesthesiology.
• Mr Luke Boyle is looking at Harnessing data to better understand surgical outcomes.

Recently completed degrees from the department include:

• PhD of Dr Alma Orts-Sebastian is investigating the effect of general anaesthesia on murine circadian rhythms.
• MD of Dr Ronald Trubuhovich is looking at The Antecedents and origins of the medical speciality of Intensive Care/Critical Care Medicine.  
• PhD of Dr Jia Zhao is investigating the pre-adult development and age-related decline of the circadian clock in Drosophila.
• MD of Dr Grant Cave is investigating establishing and augmenting the mechanism of action of intravenous lipid emulsion as an antidote.
• PhD of Dr Nicola Ludin: Can strong light rescue the phase shifting effect of general anaesthesia?
• PhD of Dr Derryn Gargiulo: Contamination of intravenous drugs in perioperative anaesthesia.
• PhD of Dr Darren Hight: The clinical and non-clinical utility of the electroencephalogram (EEG) during emergence from general anaesthesia.
• PhD Dr Michael Fredrickson: Ultrasound-Guided Continuous Brachial Plexus Block for Ambulatory Analgesia after Shoulder Surgery.
• PhD of Dr Jacqueline Hannam: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modelling to Advance Perioperative Anaesthesia and Analgesia.
• PhD of Dr Anisoara Jardim: An Investigation into Morning Light Therapy, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep-Wake Cycles in Postoperative Cardiac Patients.
• PhD of Dr Eva Winnebeck: The Effect of General Anaesthesia on the Circadian Clock of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera.
• MD of Dr Paul Baker: Improving the Quality and Safety of Airway Management and the MSc theses of Mr Lee Blackburn Aspects of Clonidine in Paediatric Anaesthesia.
• MSc of Ms Kerry De Villers: Post-Operative Sleep and Circadian Disturbances in Elective Kidney Donor Patients.
• MSc of Ms Andrea Pillay: Determining the underlying mechanism causing daily variation in the action of the neuromuscular blocker Rocuronium. 

If you are interested in conducting a research project with us please contact the department's Postgraduate Adviser Dr Guy Warman at g.warman@auckland.ac.nz or Dr James Cheeseman at j.cheeseman@auckland.ac.nz

You can view a list of our research projects at https://www.findathesis.auckland.ac.nz