Catherine Thorp-Cramb Prize in Doctors' Mental Health

Established in 2017 in loving memory of UQ alum Dr Catherine Thorp-Cramb, this prize is intended to reduce stigma and increase community awareness and action in the area of doctors’ mental health, burnout, depression, anxiety, and suicide.

The prize is funded by gifts from family, friends, and colleagues of Catherine, and is awarded annually to the 3rd or 4th year Doctor of Medicine student who submits the best essay on the topic of Doctors’ Mental Health.

Recipients

2024: Luke Waldie

Navigating the Storm | The threat of burnout and our role in stopping it: a medical student’s perspective (PDF, 142.8 KB)

2023: Rosie Crimmins

Our doctors are dying (PDF, 162.1 KB)

2022: Jack Graham

Suicide in the Medical Profession: an upstream approach (PDF, 185 KB)

2021: Ryan Atkins

Roadblocks to recovery (Essay not available)

2020: Daniel Brimm

Learning to Swim: Burnout in Physicians and Strategies for Its Prevention (PDF, 364.3 KB)

2019: David Arroyo

Hospital-Acquired Depression: A Troubling Phenomena (PDF, 446.6 KB)

2018: Brian Wu

Doctor’s mental health crisis: what can we do about it? (PDF, 241.4 KB)

2017: Kim Grace

Doctors’ Mental Health (Essay not available)