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Professor Meredith Makeham is the Associate Dean for Community and Primary Health Care with the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney. She is responsible for their Community and Primary Health Care strategy, which recognises the better use of digital health technology as a key pillar of Primary Health Care reform.

Meredith’s academic interests include Patient Safety in Primary Care and Aged Care, and she was previously awarded the Health Informatics Society of Australia’s Don Walker Effectiveness Award for her research into medication discrepancies between residential aged care facilities and general practice digital health systems. She is a general practitioner in Sydney and former recipient of the College Medal of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She has held numerous advisory roles for government, including the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, and was formerly the Chief Medical Adviser for the Australian Digital Health Agency. She has a strong interest in applications of Australia’s national digital health infrastructure, including My Health Record and other systems that promote better connected care and empowering people with access to their own health information.

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Mandy has eight years experience in adult education. She has designed, delivered and assessed nationally recognised training in different industries and on a range of subjects. Mandy is currently working as a Project Lead- Performance & Networks within the Talent and Organisational Development at the Department of Justice. Mandy holds a Bachelor of Business “Business Management”, a Master in Interpreting and Translation and a Diploma in Training and Assessment. She is currently working towards a Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.

Mandy is an accredited NAATI Arabic interpreter and translator and has worked as an interpreter for more than ten years. She is currently a contracted translator with Western Sydney Local Health District- Translation Service.

Over the past 14 years Mandy taught the Arabic language in a community language school (2 years) and privately to adults as well as primary and high school students.

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Bianka Malecka has been teaching Polish at The Polish School of Sydney in Randwick and at Saturday School of Community Languages since 2006. Bianka holds an MA (Hons) in English from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland where she worked as a lecturer in American Literature and ESL from 1998 – 2004. She was a fellow of Fulbright Institute in Louisiana State University, USA and Salzburg Seminar in Austria. She has published critical articles on American literature in European books and journals.

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Akash is an entrepreneur with a passion for helping businesses drive revenue through cost effective Internet and Social Marketing strategies.

A Google Qualified Advertising Professional, Akash holds an Executive MBA from UTS, Sydney, and Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering.

Akash is regularly invited to speak on a range of Internet Marketing, E-Commerce, Web Enablement and Google advertising related topics. He also lectures on New Media Marketing and Project Management. Attendees to his sessions have highly rated his knowledge and speaking style and have repeatedly attended his sessions on different topics.

He has helped hundreds of small to medium businesses achieve success in their online ventures by creating outstanding websites and implementing Internet Marketing, Google AdWords and Google Analytics strategies.

Akash has extensive experience in digital marketing, web enablement, and project management, having previously worked with Reuters (the world’s largest news and financial information company) in Switzerland. As a Global Product Business Owner for Reuters, Akash managed product development, strategy, marketing and commercial aspects of a US$50 million revenue stream.

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Danish is an experienced professional with 20 years of experience in training, consulting, finance, project management and engineering. He has worked in organisations including Siemens, Shell, Nexacu etc. in Australia, Germany and the Middle East. He started teaching in 2012 and has trained professionals from various industries and organisations on Microsoft applications. They include the Department of Education, Australian Border Force, Sydney Water, Wesfarmers, Allianz, Rabobank, Diageo, Clorox, ABC, SBS, Seven, BBC, Hilton and Uniting.

Danish specialises in custom course development based on specific client needs. His decades of diverse experience across various industries help him incorporate relatable practical examples in his course development and delivery. He is passionate about equipping professionals with modern tools to do their work more efficiently and effortlessly. His qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, Master of Business Administration, Microsoft Certification and Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification.

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Louise Maloney has been a milliner for 3 years and has completed a Certificate II and III in Millinery from TAFE NSW. She is currently employed in a prominent Sydney millinery salon that specialises in fashion and bridal millinery.

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Benjamin Mangold. Tutor of CCE

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Phil Mannocchio has taught Business Studies, Economics, Geography, Legal Studies and Commerce at high schools for 14 years, and is currently the Coordinator of Social Science at Moriah College. He has been invited by the NSW Board of Studies to be part of the Consultative Team for the new Business Studies to be introduced in 2011 and was part of the Consultative Team for the current Stage 5 Commerce Syllabus in 2004. Phil was also the Business Studies convenor for the Association of Independent Schools from 2001 – 2005. Phil has been a lecturer for ‘EdAssist’ & ‘The School for Excellence’ Winter & Summer School Programmes at Sydney University to Yr 12 Business Studies students. He has been an HSC Business Studies marker for 9 years and a member of the Advice Line for 7 years. In 2009, Phil become a Director for the Economics & Business Educators Association of NSW, writing articles for their journal and assisting in organising professional development for Economics, Business Studies and Commerce teachers. In addition to this wealth of experience in teaching, Phil has owned and run a café allowing practical experience to aid his motivation of students in the classroom when teaching Economics, Business Studies and Commerce.

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Born and raised in Lebanon, Claudine completed her HSC in philosophy and obtained a Bachelor in Social Work and Honours degree in Counselling. Having made the decision to move to Sydney provided Claudine the opportunity to grow and develop both her personal and professional life. Claudine has completed many local teaching programs to reinforce her teaching skills. She has taught Arabic in different schools: Canberra Language School, St Joseph’s Arabic School/Croydon, as well as running private tutoring classes in French and Arabic languages. She joined the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies team and the Centre for Continuing Education at Sydney University in 2009.

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Marina Mao. Tutor of CCE