Past PRG students


​PhD
  • Belinda Thewes, Fertility- and menopause-related information needs of younger women with breast cancer, 2006, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Nadine Kasparian, Psychosocial aspects of hereditary melanoma, 2006, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Claire Wakefield, A randomised trial of a decision aid for genetic testing for cancer susceptibility, 2007, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Michelle Peate, Development and evaluation of a fertility decision aid for young women with breast cancer, 2009, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Elvira Zilliacus, An evaluation of telehealth cancer genetic counselling, 2010, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Alex Wilde, Psychosocial impact of advances in genetic research in psychiatry and implications for health care, 2010, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Janan Karatas, Psychological impact of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, 2010, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Mona Taouk, Development of a psychometric tool to assess adolescent depression, 2013, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Mona Saleh, Beliefs about kinship and hereditary cancer in Arabic-Australians, 2014, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Holly Peay, Psychosocial implications of hereditary muscular dystrophies, 2015, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Victoria Sublette. Improving treatment decision-making for people living with Hepatitis C, 2016. PRG Supervisor: Sian Smith
  • Sundresan Naiker. Familial Risk and Colorectal Cancer Screening in General Practice

 Doctorates in Clinical Psychology
  • Kerry Tiller, A randomised trial of a decision aid for women at risk for ovarian cancer, 2003, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Shab Mireskandari, A study of partners of women at high risk for developing breast cancer, 2004, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser

 Masters in Clinical Psychology
  • Jody Junk-Gibson, A content analysis of prenatal counselling of women with high-risk screening results, 2001, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Helen Gunn, An evaluation of support groups for younger women with breast cancer, 2003, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser

 Masters of Genetic Counselling
  • Ruth Cowan, A needs analysis of men at increased risk for prostate cancer, 2006, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Stephanie Burcher, Survey of oncology health professionals regarding their experiences with providing treatment-focused genetic testing for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, 2011, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Alexandra Fleming, Health professional attitudes to direct to consumer genetic testing, 2011, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Amanda Willis. How do prospective parents prefer to receive information about prenatal screening and diagnostic testing? 2013. PRG Supervisors: Bettina Meiser, Sian Smith.
  • Carol Ann Verrenkamp. Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for Down syndrome: Exploring pregnant women and partner’s views and interest in a low literacy population, 2015. PRG Supervisor: Sian Smith.
  • Radhika Ragkumar, Psychosocial aspects of genetic counselling in Tamil clients, 2014, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Yanni Chen, Exploring clinician attitudes about using aspirin for risk reduction in people with Lynch Syndrome, 2015, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Morgan Rice, Evaluation of evidenced-based resources to facilitate decision-making about risk-reducing medication for breast cancer risk, 2016, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Cassandra McDonald. Evaluation of evidence-based consumer resources to facilitate decision making about risk reducing medication for bowel cancer risk. PRG Supervisors: Bettina  Meiser, Rajneesh Kaur

Masters by Research
  • Ingrid Sinnerbrink, Follow up of children detected prenatally with chromosomal changes of uncertain significance, 2011, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
Honours
  • Bronwyn Calford, The content and process of telehealth cancer genetic counselling, 2010, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser

 Independent Learning Projects
  • Paboda Ratnayake, Information dissemination preferences of families at high risk for breast cancer, 2009, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Si Si Zhou, Attitudes of health professionals towards predictive genetic testing of healthy people for susceptibility for depression risk, 2011
  • Justin Chau, High School Sun Protection Study, 2011, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Lilian Zou, Exploring beliefs about hereditary depression amongst Chinese-Australians, 2012, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Mimi Zu, Exploring beliefs about hereditary depression amongst Anglo- Australians, 2012, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Amy Zhu. Exploring radiation therapists’ awareness of health literacy among people treated for cancer, 2012. PRG Supervisor: Sian Smith.
  • Ben Storey, Attitudes and information needs regarding next generation sequencing of cancer patients attending hereditary cancer clinic, 2012, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Michelle Wong, Development of low literacy decision aid for women considering prenatal screening, 2013, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser
  • Antonia Cai. Development and pilot testing of a low literacy decision aid to help couples make informed decisions about prenatal screening for Down syndrome, 2015. PRG Supervisor: Sian Smith.
  • Roger Liang. Advanced cancer patients’ attitudes towards, and experiences with, screening for somatic mutations in tumours: a qualitative study, 2015. PRG Supervisors: Rajneesh Kaur, Bettina Meiser, Sian Smith
  • Pierre Hemming. Oncologists' evaluations of a telephone genetic counselling service for women with ovarian cancer considering genetic testing. PRG Supervisors: Rajneesh Kaur, Bettina Meiser

International Practicum exchange students/research fellows
  • Kirsten Douma, Attitudes of non-genetics professionals to treatment focused genetic testing, 2013, PRG supervisor: Bettina Meiser 
  • Lena Schnitzler. Analyzing medical jargon used by radiation therapists in first day treatment talks with radiotherapy patients, 2015. PRG Supervisor: Sian Smith.