Dr. Hung The Nguyen, Judith Miralles, Natalie Irish and Marcello D'Amico (clockwise from top left).

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A multitalented visual and performing artist, Marcello has extensive experience in acting and directing. He brings with him an energy and charisma that is not lost on those that he interacts with during training sessions. His enthusiasm and talent for acting making for entertaining yet real life role play scenarios.

Marcello works with Judith Miralles & Associates as an actor and is involved in the design and delivery of role plays used during cross cultural training sessions.

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Wayne has more than 20 years experience in the General, Correctional and Mental Health fields. He has worked in both Clinical and Disability areas as a Clinician and a Manager. Amongst other things he has developed and coordinated programs, services and education around service provision to clients from Non English Speaking Backgrounds. Wayne is involved in JM&A’s cross cultural training sessions where he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and diversity to his role.

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Working in the public Health system for over five years Natalie has first hand knowledge of the experience that overseas trained doctors and nurses encounter in their new environment. Natalie's clinical experience along with her nurse educator background is important to the success of training sessions. This results in the creation of real life examples, making exercises relevant to participants taking part and ensuring lessons can be learnt and applied in their own professional lives.

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B.Ec (Hons), M.Ec. Monash University

Ric Lombardo has over 25 years experience as an academic in statistics and economics related disciplines. His most recent publications include:

Lombardo R. 1998. Property Data Analysis - A Primer,
a publication of the Property Studies Education Unit, Department of Marketing Logistics and Property, RMIT;

Flaherty J., Lombardo R.W. et al. 1999 A Spreadsheet Approach to Business Quantitative Methods.

He brings specialist expertise in quantitative methodologies as well as highly recognised and much sought after skills as an editor.

Ric has a Bachelor in Economics with Honours and a Masters in Economics from Monash University.

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Dr. Hung The Nguyen has an interest in cross-cultural medical practice and Indigenous health. With five years experience in remote Indigenous health in the top end and desert Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory, he has worked as a general practitioner in an Aboriginal Community Control Health Service. Hung has been teaching international medical graduates as a medical tutor in a bridging course and continues his interest in this area with us in preparing doctors for work in the Australian Medical System. He was senior lecturer in the field of general practice at Monash University; now director of medical and cultural education, Northern Territory General Practice Education (NTGPE) and based in Darwin.

Hung works with Judith Miralles & Associates as a facilitator and is responsible for the training of international medical graduates.

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MBBS (Hons), FRACGP

Dr. Thanh Nguyen is a general practitioner currently working in Bundoora and Diamond Creek with an interest in cross cultural medicine. He had previously worked in community health in Collingwood.

He was previously the Victorian Exam Panel Chair for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and is currently a QA Examiner for the college. He is an Australian Medical Council examiner and a GP Supervisor at Diamond Creek and has a strong interest in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
 
Thanh has worked with JMA since 2007 as a medical facilitator for the IMG cross cultural sessions.

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MBBS, FRACGP and Grad Cert Health Professional Education

Dr. Christos Papachristos has an interest in cross-cultural medicine having worked as a general practitioner for seventeen years in Coburg and Clifton Hill areas with a high proportion of ageing and immigrant patients.

He has been working in medical education for eight years, teaching undergraduates as a senior lecturer at Melbourne University and postgraduates in the General Practice Training Program at both Melbourne and Monash Universities.

Christos works with Judith Miralles & Associates as facilitator, writes clinical scenarios and appears as the narrator in JM&A's IMG training video.

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