Dr Mallika Prem Senthil
Senior Lecturer
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
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.
2014 - 2018 PhD, Flinders University
2009 Diploma in Postgraduate Teaching & Learning, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
1997 - 2000, Master of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Madras Medical College, India
1990 - 1996 MBBS, Madras Medical College, India
Grants
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
2022, 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 ($22,460). R Chakraborty, M Prem Senthil, Schilling T, Bahmani H, Reynolds C.
2021 - Cross - College Research Funding Award - Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for childhood glaucoma ($ 9,970) - M Prem Senthil (Lead Investigator), E Souzeau, L Knight, J Craig
2020 – Azura Clinical Trial on dry eye disease - A Multicentre, Vehicle-controlled, Randomized Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacodynamics of AZR-MD-001 in Patients with Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD) ($10,000) – P Constable, M Prem Senthil, J Lim, L Loh
Scholarships
2014 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship, International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award
2014 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship, Australian Postgraduate Award
2017 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship, The Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
Awards
2019 Flinders University - Best Early Career Researcher Paper ‘Identification and evaluation of items for vitreoretinal diseases quality of life item banks’
2018 Flinders University - Early Career Researcher Publication Award for the publication 'Developing an item bank to measure the coping strategies of people with hereditary retinal diseases'
2017 Flinders University - Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award for the publication ‘Seeing through their eyes: lived experiences of people with retinitis pigmentosa’
2016 Flinders University - Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award for the publication ‘Assessment of patient-reported outcomes in retinal diseases: a systematic review’
2011 University Malaysia Sarawak - Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Service Academic Award
2008 and 2010 Rotary Club of Kuching - Vocational Service Award for the contribution in the rural blindness prevention program
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Topic Coordinator for OPTO8002 (Ophthalmology) & OPTO8001 (Knowledge of Health and Illness for Optometrist 2) topics
- Providng teching support for OPTO8002 (Ophthalmology), OPTO8001 (KHIO 2), OPTO3001 (KHIO 1), OPTO8006 (Optometry 3), OPTO8004 (Optometry 1) and MMED 3940 (Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics), OPTO3003 (Clinical Skills for Optometrists 3), OPTO8007 (Clinical Placements 1) and OPTO8009 (Clinical Placements 3)
- Supervising 3 PhD students and 4 Optometry Master students research projects
Ophthalmology
Optometry
Basic Medical Sciences
HDR Best poster award - SEP 2020
International Associate of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologist (RANZCO)
Member of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Member of Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)
Member of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS)
Member of Asia Pacific Ocular Imaging Society (APOIS)
Member of Malaysian Medical Council (MMC)
Member of Tamil Nadu Medical Council
Reviewer - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, International Journal of Ophthalmology, Clinical Ophthalmology, Quality of Life Research, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Malaysian Journal of Family Physicians, Malaysian Medical Journal, PLOS One, BMC Ophthalmology
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-5594
Contibutions to Atlas of Ophthalmology (endorsed by International Council of Ophthalmology)
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