Previous ESSA Medal Winners
2020 Winner: Dr Amy Harding – 'LIFTMOR-M: Lifting Intervention For Training Muscle and Osteoporosis Rehabilitation for Men' (Griffith University)
2019 Winner: Dr Meegan Walker – ‘Blood flow during passive leg movement: impact of vascular disease and nitrate supplements’ (University of the Sunshine Coast)
2018 Winner: Dr Jack Hickey – 'Hamstring strain injury: objective assessment tools and exercise-specific progression criteria during pain-threshold rehabilitation' (Australian Catholic University)
2017 Winner: Dr Caroline Robertson – 'The brain and exercise: neurophysiological correlates of tolerance, regulation and termination' (Charles Sturt University)
2016 Winner: Dr Joyce Ramos – ‘Different volumes of high-intensity interval training in individuals with metabolic syndrome: how low can you go?’ (University of Queensland)
2015 Winner: Dr Robert Stanton – ‘Developing an understanding of exercise in the inpatient mental health setting’ (University of Canberra)
2014 Winner: Dr Rossana Nogueira – ‘Exercising opportunities to prevent chronic disease: The CAPO Kids trial' (Griffith University)
2013 Winner: Dr Angela Spence – ‘Comparative impacts of endurance and resistance exercise on the cardiovascular system in humans: A prospective randomised 6th-month intervention' (The University of Western Australia)
2012 Winner: Dr Belinda Parmenter – 'The use of high intensity progressive resistance training for patients with intermittent claudication from peripheral arterial disease' (University of Sydney)
2011 Winner: Dr Julien Periard – 'Physiological mechanisms limiting prolonged exercise performance in the heat' (University of Sydney)
2010 Winner: Dr Simon van Rosendal – 'Measuring and Optimising Rehydration' (University of Queensland)
2008 Winner: Dr Jay Ebert – 'Orthopaedic surgery, biomechanics and post-operative exercise rehabilitation' (The University of Western Australia)
2007 Winner: Dr Daniel Galvao -' Resistance Exercise in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer' (Edith Cowan University)
2006 Winner: Dr Stephen Bird – 'Influence of nutritive interventions on biochemical signals and markers of myofibrillar protein degradation following acute and chronic resistance exercise in untrained men' (Charles Sturt University)