2026 Otago Medical School Research Society Committee
President
Dr Emily Gray (School of Physiotherapy)
Vice-President
Dr Benedict Seo (Faculty of Dentistry)
Secretary
Dr Natasha Flack (Department of Anatomy)
Treasurer
Dr. Jack Dummer (Department of Medicine)
Meeting Secretary
Dr Holly Perry (Department of Pathology)
Convenor Review Panel
Dr Adam Middleton (Department of Biochemistry)
Other committee members
- Dr Lara Vlietstra (School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences)
- Dr Zoe Ashley (Department of Surgical Sciences): support for meeting secretary
- Dr Daniel Pletzer (Department of Microbiology and Immunology)
- Dr Francesc March de Ribot (Department of Medicine)
- Dr Ewan Kennedy (School of Physiotherapy)
- Dr Shakila Rizwan (School of Pharmacy)
- Dr Jithendra Ratnayake (Faculty of Dentistry)
- Dr Jon Cornwall (Centre for Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School)
- Postgraduate representative: Andy Stewart (Department of Anatomy)
Immediate Past President
Professor Shyamal Das (School of Pharmacy)
Review Panel
- Dr Michael Garelja (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
- Dr Nicholas Fleming (Department of Pathology)
- Dr Erwin Lamping (Faculty of Dentistry)
- Dr Erin Penno (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine)
- Dr Safina Gadeock (Department of Microbiology and Immunology)
- Dr Kobus Du Plooy (Department of Psychological Medicine)
- Dr Indranil Basak (Department of Biochemistry)
- Dr Shubhra Sinha (Department of Physiology)