Western Australian Medical Students' Society - WAMSS

As the WAMSS 2025 committee signs off, we want to thank our student members, student volunteers (from academic tutors, through to subcommittee members), sponsors, and staff for your trust and support throughout the year. It has been a privilege to serve the UWA medical student community alongside such a dedicated team.

We would also like to congratulate the following award winners for 2025:

🔬 Pre-Clinical Tutor of the Year: Dr Sebastian Amos

🤰Clinical Tutors of the Year: Suzanne Rosenberg and Jen Cumpsty

🎾 Sportsperson of the Year: Elliot Foy and Ellie Anderson

🏅Joel Carson Memorial Award for Service to WAMSS: Graduates Andrew Chang, Shev Dias, Thilini Dissabandara, Iley Johnson, Munaaf Khan, Shane Lim, Rebecca Liu, Duli Jayalath, Alexandra Truong, Anna Youn

🏆 Terry Ivan Quickenden Award for WAMSS Person of the Year: Jonathan Tushingham

🔖 Honorary Life Membership: Andrew Chang

To our current students enjoy the summer break and see you in the new year. We would like to wish the incoming committee every success for 2026 ❤️

WAMSS Committee 2026- Congratulations to the following successful nominees:

⭐️ Internals Portfolio: ⭐️
- MD4 Rep: Marie Molina and Taddea Leong
- MD3 Rep: Elliott Yap and Hanna Wibbeke-Khoo
- MD2 Rep: Huda Zaidi and Xavier Rajagopalan
- Electives and Exchanges Officer: Malav Dave (MD4)

🤝 Externals Portfolio: 🤝
- Website and IT Officer: Mahika Jain (MD2)
- AMSA Rep: Kahan Bhatt (MD2)
- Marketing Officers: Mevindee Withanage (MD2) and Chelsi Brewer (MD2)
- Undergraduate Communications Officer: Kaining Wang (MD2)
- Interhealth Chairs: Adi Barua (MD2) and Jay Sharma (MD4)

📚 Academics Portfolio: 📚
- SHMRC Convenors: Brian K*m (MD3) and Myxuan Huynh (MD3)
- Student Grand Rounds Officers: Jasper Jackson (MD4), Selena Tan (MD4), Sineng Jiang (MD4)
- Academic Events Coordinators: Laura Tatti (MD4), Ish*ta Kanodia (MD4), Sofia Shamkina (MD4)

🎉 Social Portfolio: 🎉
- Red Party Coordinators: Ananyna Sharma (MD3) and Prachee Ghantala (MD3)
- Sports Representatives: Karmanya Agarwal (MD2), Xia Wang (MD2), Ryker Scott (MD2), and Declan Barrett (MD2)
- Social Representatives: Monica Takahashi (MD3) and Sara Bozzo (MD3)

🧸 Welfare Portfolio: 🧸
- Volunteering Officer: Ananyna Sharma (MD3)
- Q***r Chairs: Leah Hart (MD4) and Pixel Wayfinder (MD2)
- Mental Health Chairs: Prachee Ghantala (MD3) and Jude Kamalddin (MD3)
- Mature Chairs: Alexander Oakley (MD3) and Sally Halmarick (MD2)
- International Officer: Malav Dave (MD4)
- Access Officer: Drav Surendran (MD2)
- Teddy Bear Hospital Coordinators: Michelle Dang (MD3) and Julia Aguinot (MD3)
- Indigenous Co-Chairs: Kirana Lockyer (MD4) and Michael O’Shea (MD3)

- Foundation Chair: Sean Morgan (MD2)

We can’t wait to see what you achieve in your roles next year ✨❤️

‼️EXEC ELECTION RESULTS‼️

After a long morning of counting votes, the results are in!

🥳 Congratulations to the following individuals who have been elected by the masses as WAMSS’s incoming 2026 Executive Committee:

👑 President: Prisha Goel
💡 VP Internal: Wini Taylor-Williams
🤝 VP External: Reeva Khandelwal
📚 VP Academic: Nandana Binu
🧸 VP Welfare: Esperance Zhang
🎉 VP Social: Kaitlyn Tjahyadi
✍🏼 Secretary: Stella Morgan
💸 Treasurer: Edward Truong

To all the other nominees - it was a very very close election with only a handful of votes separating the first and second place candidates after preferential reallocation for some positions. We would still love to have you on WAMSS in 2026 and strongly encourage you all to reapply for a position within the general committee ☺️

⏰ General Committee nominations close this Friday, 26th September.

➡️ Click here for the Election Guidebook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t-x4LZju46UKAeTmP6PRHl1gEABmKCGg/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawM-T49leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIOHZjc3FqYmNma3dyTlV1AR6vKj7CUAC5I45TVXcXehz315zH2fTzgP2nzu5t71yCYsC4nDKbs-Ye1Nkn2A_aem_fBnY81YCh4V4koBlLpkzyQ

✨ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE VOTING STARTS TOMORROW ✨

Before you make your informed vote this weekend (12am Saturday 20th Sept - 11.59pm Sunday 21st Sept) - check out your executive nominees:

👑 President 👑
- Kevin Uong (MD3)
- Monica Takahashi (MD3)
- Prisha Goel (MD4)

💡 VP Internal 💡
- Wini Taylor-Williams (MD4)
- Laura Tatti (MD4)
- Tanya Gambhir (MD4)

📚 VP Academic 📚
- Nandana Binu (MD4)
- Kevin Uong (MD3)
- Tanya Gambhir (MD3)

🧸 VP Welfare 🧸
- Esperance Zhang (MD3)
- Hayley Caratti (MD3)
- Ish*ta Kanodia (MD4)

💸 Treasurer 💸
- Matthew Hayes (MD2)
- Daniel Loh (MD2)
- Edward Truong (MD2)

Congratulations on the following candidates who were elected unopposed:
- 🤝 VP External: Reeva Khandelwal (MD3)
- 🎉 VP Social: Kaitlyn Tjahyadi (MD3)
- ✍🏼 Secretary: Stella Morgan (MD2)

Read about their policies here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HLIHDqv7pzc940ndkMc6T_9-MUV7ZyCx/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawM5xp5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFxRkdBWklyWXY1VWFjRHo4AR7wPq66ZOSY-VD_FdoTeX5SeWf2SIbVaq4EY9OjW8CKKZRXkkeHsaaZmTDs2Q_aem_diFsw5sjVuRHh3Fn4XdO_g