All Menzies Memorial Scholars

DR GREGORY KEANE
2010 Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University

Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Newcastle, a Bachelor of Medical Science from University of Sydney and is a Fellow of the RANZCP.
Consultant Psychiatrist at the Peninsula Health Service, Salvation Army Health Service and Alfred Health in Victoria. 

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

May 2010

PROFESSOR ANDREW KENYON
1996 Menzies Scholar in Law

Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne and Master of Laws from University College, London and is admitted to practise law in Victoria.

Current positions

Professor of Law and a Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law in the Melbourne Law School.

Areas of Professional Interest

Research in comparative media and communications law, including defamation, privacy, copyright, journalism and media policy. As well as legal doctrine, this research examines social and cultural aspects of law.

Editor of the international refereed journal, the Media & Arts Law Review, a Network Participant in the Australian Research Council Cultural Research Network, and past president of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand.

April 2009

DR MATTHEW KIERNAN
1999 Menzies Scholar in Medicine

Education
1990 : MB, BS (Hons), University of Sydney
1997 : PhD, University of New South Wales
1997 : FRACP

Other awards and achievements
2003 Australian Physicians Independent Committee Neuroscience Award.
2002 Leonard Cox Award for Neuroscience Research, Australian Association of Neurologists.
2002 Clinical Investigatorship, Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation.
2002 Clinical Research Award, Ramaciotti Foundation.
1999-2002 CJ Martin/RG Menzies Travelling Fellowship, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (top applicant in Australia).
1998 JJ Billings Overseas Travelling Fellowship, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
1998 Australian Association of Neurologists Overseas Training Position, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
1996 The Young Investigator Award, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Association of Neurologists.
1995 Royal Australasian College of Physicians NSW State Committee Advanced Trainees Award for Best Research.
1995 National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
1994 Faculty of Medicine Scholarship, University of New South Wales.
1994 Whitmont Fellowship, Australian Brain Foundation.

Visiting Lectureship:
1997 Travelling Fellowship of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, Florence, Italy.

Current position/s
Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales.
Senior Scientist, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.
Consultant Neurologist, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals.
Consultant, Sleep Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital.

Career history/highlights
1999-2001 CJ Martin/RG Menzies (NH & MRC) Postdoctoral Travelling Fellow, Sobell Department, Institute of Neurology, and Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.
1998-1999 Specialist Registrar in Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.
1998 Staff Specialist Neurologist, The Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals.

Publications
Over 50 peer-reviewed articles, invited editorials, reviews and 8 book chapters.

Professional/Other affiliations
Honorary Secretary-elect 2004, Australian Association of Neurologists.
Life member of the Medical Society and the Medical Graduates Association, University of Sydney.
Board Member of the Australian Brain Foundation (NSW).

Areas of Professional Interest
Research into the pathophysiology of neurological disease; specific clinical interest in neurodegenerative processes (motor neurone disease and the development of the Australian Motor Neurone Disease Registry), hereditary nerve and muscle disease and spinal cord injury.

April 2004

PATRICK KY
2008 Menzies Scholar in Law

Patrick Ky holds the degrees of LLB (H1) and the Supreme Court Prize and BSc from Monash University and was placed 1/368 in his graduating class.

Patrick completed the one year BCL at Oxford University.

Oct 2009