Dr Mallika Prem Senthil

Senior Lecturer

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

place Sturt West (W201)
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Mallika is an Ophthalmologist with extensive clinical, teaching and research experience in both tertiary education and health sectors. Her doctoral degree involved development and validation of third generation PROMs for retinal diseases. Prior to her doctoral degree, she was employed at the Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak as a Senior Lecturer as well as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Sarawak General Hospital. Throughout the 9 years in Malaysia, she achieved numerous academic and professional service excellence awards. She also embarked on various clinical and academic research projects. Between 2000 and 2004, she worked as a Consultant Ophthalmologist in India. Dr Mallika is a highly motivated researcher and a passionate educator, and her main research focus is on ocular diseases, PROMs, quality of life, Rasch analysis, Ocular imaging, artificial intelligence.

Qualifications

2018   PhD, Flinders University

2009   Diploma in Postgraduate Teaching & Learning, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia

2000   Master of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Madras Medical College, India

1996   MBBS, Madras Medical College, India

Honours, awards and grants

Grants

2024 - Nthalmic Pty Ltd: Clinical trial: Prospective, multisite, cross-over pilot trial to assess the short-term efficacy of novel myopia management spectacle films and contact lenses ($22,000). R Chakraborty, M Prem Senthil

2023 - Dopavision GmbH – The effects of the time of day of blue light stimulation of the optic nerve head on choroidal thickness changes in children with myopia ($22,460). R Chakraborty, M Prem Senthil, Schilling T, Bahmani H, Reynolds C.

2022 - Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant - Role of OCTA as a biomarker in peripheral arterial disease (24,429). M Prem Senthil (Lead investigator), R Chakraborty, C Delaney

2021 - Cross-College Research Funding Award - Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for childhood glaucoma ($ 10,000) - M Prem Senthil (Lead Investigator), E Souzeau, L Knight, J Craig

2018 - Flinders University ECR Establishment Award - Classifying infective keratitis using an artificial neural network ($10,000) - M Prem Senthil (Lead Investigator), R Casson, O Siggs

Scholarships

2014  International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) Award

2014  Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)

2017  The Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship

Awards

2019  Flinders University, ECR Best Paper Award

2018  Flinders University, ECR Best Paper Award

2017  Flinders University, Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award

2016  Flinders University - Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award

2011  University Malaysia Sarawak - Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Service Academic Award

2010  Rotary Club of Kuching - Vocational Service Award for the contribution to the Rural Blindness Prevention Program

2008  Rotary Club of Kuching - Vocational Service Award for the contribution to the Rural Eye Health Campaign

Key responsibilities
  • Student Experience Coordinator for Optometry
  • Topic Coordinator for OPTO8001, OPTO8003 and OPTO8006 topics
  • CNHS HDR Contact officer
  • HDR Supervisor
Teaching interests

Ophthalmology

Optometry

Basic Medical Sciences

Topic coordinator
OPTO8002 Ophthalmology
OPTO8001 Knowledge of Health and Illness for Optometrist 2
Topic lecturer
OPTO3003 Clinical Skills for Optometrists 1
OPTO8007 Clinical Placements 1
OPTO8009 Clinical Placements 3
OPTO8004 Optometry 1
OPTO8006 Optometry 3
OPTO3001 Knowledge of Health and Illness for Optometrist 1
OPTO8002 Ophthalmology
OPTO8001 Knowledge of Health and Illness for Optometrist 2
MMED3940 Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Supervisory interests
Eye diseases
Item bank and computer adaptive testing system
Ophthalmology, patient-reported outcomes
Quality of life
Rasch analysis
Higher degree by research supervision
Current
Associate supervisor: Optometry (1), Ophthalmology (1), Medicine (1)
Completion
Associate supervisor: Ophthalmology (2)
Higher degree by research student achievements
Lynne Loh

HDR Best poster award - SEP 2020

Further information

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-5594

Contibutions to Atlas of Ophthalmology (endorsed by International Council of Ophthalmology)