AHA - Key Persons

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• Program Coordinator at the National Gallery of Australia

Adriane Boag is a Program Coordinator at the National Gallery of Australia with responsibility for developing and delivering access programs for youth and community groups. Adriane has a Visual Arts degree with Honours in Painting and Sculpture from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Australia. Adriane has over twenty years teaching experience in tertiary and museum visual art education. Adriane coordinates regular tours for a wide variety of specialised audiences including people living with dementia and is the facilitator of the Art and Alzheimer's' Program at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2009 support from the Department of Health & Ageing made possible the development and delivery of the Art and Alzheimer's Outreach Program. The Outreach Program's aims and objectives support sustainable regionally specific programs in galleries for people living with Dementia. A two day training workshop for arts and health professionals has been developed from the experience gained within the current Art and Alzheimer's Program at the National Gallery. Additional Special Access programs are an established feature of Learning and Access planning and programming. A focus of her Gallery work with youth is the National Gallery of Australia and National Australia Bank Summer Art Scholarship, an annual week long art immersion program for sixteen year 11 students selected from each state and territory of Australia.

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• Director of Development of Equal Arts

Alice is Director of Development of Equal Arts and has been a pioneer in the field of arts and older people for 20 years. Equal Arts is based in Gateshead in the North East of England and is one of only three arts organisations in the UK that specialises in work with older people across art forms. A small team contract a variety of professional artists to work on 12 - 14 projects each year. Alice has managed over 100 projects (raising over £3 million) in a wide variety of venues including hospitals, residential care homes, arts venues and day centres. She was consulted by the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and sits on the Board of Years Ahead, the regional Forum on Ageing, working strategically to include the arts into mainstream ageing policy. Recent projects include Knitted Lives, an exhibition of 3D knitting created by women from Newcastle which toured all over the North East was seen by over 40,000 people; Art on Prescription, a social prescribing project funded by the NHS for people experiencing the early signs of dementia; Sing for Life a project involving care staff looking at ways to support singing in residential care homes. Alice is passionate about enabling older people to have access to participatory arts programmes and in 2010 received a Winston Churchill Fellowship which enabled her to travel to Ireland and the US looking at models of good practice. She has been asked to sit on the selection panel for future Churchill Fellows in the arts and older people category and is keen to be part of the development of national and international networks of organisations working in the field.

Alison trained in theatre design before pioneering community arts and health projects in the late1980s in urban and rural settings throughout England. Alongside Mike White and Mary Robson, she was at the forefront of the drive to recognise the value of the arts and creativity in promoting individual and community health. Alison founded Pioneer Projects (Celebratory Arts) Ltd in 1996 and its flagship project, Looking Well, a community-led arts and health centre in a small rural town in North West England. She raised the funds to expand its activities and eventually move into a purpose built home - Looking Well Studios. Alongside overseeing the move from rented premises, she directed the creative work, negotiated the contracts and managed the staff team until 2009 when she stepped down from the management and fundraising role to concentrate on creative direction, her own creative work and future developments in the field. In 2008 she was awarded the Healthway International Arts and Health Fellowship which brought her to Western Australia to work with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists and health workers in the Goldfields. Alison remains passionate about community-based arts and health and continues to break new ground, through her local work at Looking Well and her regional and international contacts. The enrichment of the work through international perspectives has benefited Pioneer Projects and Looking Well, in particular the development of a new dementia programme and Alison's development of DOT, an arts based outcome-monitoring tool with international research potential.

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• Founder of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling

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• President of 371 Productions

Brad Lichtenstein, President of 371 Productions, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a keen focus on social issues. He was executive producer of "Penelope", which recently aired on public television across the United States. This film captures the work of Anne Basting, founder of TimeSlips Creative Storytelling program and is about a nursing home that performs the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. He has covered issues of economic change (As Goes Janesville), environmental conflict ("Wisconsin's Mining Standoff"), and prison reform ("Ghosts of Attica").

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• Director of Arts for Health

Clive Parkinson is the Director of Arts for Health. Based at Manchester Metropolitan University, it is the longest established organisation of its sort. Clive is a passionate advocate for culture and the arts and is constantly striving to further understand the potential impact of the arts on public health, particularly in light of the ongoing global financial downturn. Responding to this crisis, he has been working with artists, health practitioners and free-thinkers to explore shared thinking and action around contemporary practice and has produced a manifesto for arts, health and wellbeing; which in turn has influenced the development of the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, National Charter. He will be chairing the National Alliance leading into Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference in Bristol June 2013. He is currently working on research around dementia and imagination, and involved in arts/health development work in Italy, France, Lithuania and Turkey. Building on his paper at the 2012 international Arts and Health Australia conference at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, he is working towards an exhibition and series of events that explore the role of culture and the arts in relation to conversations about death and dying. The exhibition '...Imagining Death', will be held in Manchester, Bogota and Vilnius in 2013. As a visual artist, he worked in a hospital for people with learning difficulties whilst undertaking a degree at Lancaster University focusing on the relationship between creativity, culture, the arts and health. Employed variously by the NHS and voluntary sector, Clive has led on mental health promotion for an NHS Trust and managed day services for people affected by schizophrenia in the Northern seaside town of Morecambe. He regularly blogs at: artsforhealthmmu.blogspot.co.uk Clive Parkinson is the Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University, the UK's longest established arts and health unit. He was project lead on the HM Treasury funded; Invest to Save: Arts in Health Project and is a passionate advocate for culture and the arts. He is working to further understand the potential impact of the arts on public health, in partnership with Arts Council England, North West and the Department of Health, Public Health Team, North West. He is currently facilitating a series of participatory workshops with those interested in the impact of the arts on wider society. Under the banner of M A N I F E S T O he is working towards a distinctly proactive approach to the arts/health agenda in relationship to the ongoing financial 'down-turn'. As a visual artist, he worked in a hospital for people with learning difficulties whilst undertaking a degree at Lancaster University focusing on the relationship between creativity, culture, the arts and health. Employed variously by the NHS and voluntary sector, Clive has led on mental health promotion for an NHS Trust and managed day services for people affected by schizophrenia in the seaside town of Morecambe.

Danny has worked for Jamie Oliver for over 9 years fulfilling various roles including working within the PR and Marketing team and was also Jamie's PA for 4 years. He is a Jamie Oliver Foundation Ambassador and has worked on various projects to support all of Jamie's Foundation activities including Jamie's Ministry of Food, Jamie's School Kitchen Garden project, Jamie's Food Revolution in the States and Fifteen.

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• Artistic Director of Bealtaine

Dominic Campbell is Artistic Director of Bealtaine, a ground-breaking celebration of creativity in older age (www.bealtaine.com). This nationwide arts festival is built through commission and collaboration; five hundred partnerships with artists, cultural organisation, libraries, health care settings, active retirement groups and individuals created 3000 individual exhibitions, workshops, concerts, performances, debates and displays in 2011. The Festival has become a means for sectors to meet in collaboration. It is having a significant affect on the cultural life of Ireland. It asks " What kind of old do I want to be and what kind of world do I want to grow older in?". Dominic is supporting the development of similar initiatives in Wales, Scotland and Germany. Self-employed he's programmed public discussions at The Abbey Theatre, explored the future of Irish Festivals with AOIFE, and encouraged articulate dissent through "Angry School" for "Home Of The Bewildered" (www.homeofthebewildered.com). He's built Carnival, directed intimate performance and high profile national celebrations including "The Day Of Welcomes" marking 2004's EU expansion with eleven simultaneous cultural festivals. From 1999 to 2004 he transformed Dublin's St Patrick's Festival. He's interested in stuff. Sometimes he makes stuff. Sometimes he tries to make stuff happen.

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• Director of Mental Health at Boynton Health Service

Dr. Gary Christenson is director of Mental Health at Boynton Health Service, adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Christenson is the current President of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Washington DC. and past co-chair of the Midwest Arts in Healthcare Network. He is a collector of miniature Japanese woodblock prints and previously served as the president of the Minneapolis Japanese print club as well as a member of the steering committee of the Asian Arts Council at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Dr. Christenson is a self-taught artist, whose paintings portray the landscapes of northern Norway.

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• Pediatrician

Dr. Gerri Frager is a Canadian pediatrician and has been the Medical Director of the Pediatric Palliative Care Service at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the past 16 years. Gerri is a Professor at Dalhousie University and the Director of the Medical Humanities-HEALS program at Dalhousie, which seeks to enhance Healing & Learning through the Arts & Life-Skills. Gerri worked as a nurse for 9 years before pursuing her medical degree at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Following a year of Internal Medicine in Montreal and her Pediatric Residency in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Gerri worked as a consultant pediatrician in Newfoundland, Canada including doing fly-in clinics to coastal out-ports. Gerri explored various models of palliative care delivery through a year-long traveling fellowship covering the US, the UK, and Canada; then followed with a 21/4 year fellowship with the Pain Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York city, USA. Dr. Frager is a Faculty Scholar Alumnus with the Open Society Institute's Project Death in America, which is committed to the goal of improving care at the end-of-life. Gerri is the author of a web-based resource and numerous publications relating to her 2 primary focuses: Pediatric Palliative Care & integration of the arts and humanities into clinical care, education, and research. Her particular areas of interest include communication and the use of novel arts-based modalities to enhance communication. Her other focus relates to physician wellness and self-care. She has been gratified by the tremendous response to a play she commissioned, Ed's Story: The Dragon Chronicles, which has been incorporated as innovative teaching tool in Dalhousie University's Medical School and further afield. Dr. Frager enjoys presenting at regional, national and international conferences.

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• CEO, Regional Arts NSW

Elizabeth Rogers, CEO, Regional Arts NSW since 2006, has been a longtime champion of arts and health and creative ageing. Since that time she has developed and implemented a new strategic direction for the organisation focusing on its role as a peak body and service agency for arts and cultural development across rural and regional areas of the state. She works closely with the state wide network of 14 regional arts boards and acts as an advocate for the network with the state and federal governments. Elizabeth travels extensively throughout the state giving support to the regional development officers and gaining first hand information about many of the challenges facing regional communities as well as seeing the great arts and cultural projects produced in the regions. Elizabeth has a very broad base of arts management and arts marketing experience gained in over 20 years work in the field in both metropolitan and regional areas. She moved to Regional Arts NSW from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she was Manager, Marketing & Communications for two years. In that time she developed and implemented key marketing and communications strategies. Previously, she was the Director of Canberra Arts Marketing for six and a half years. This was a unique role where she represented a large diversity of arts organisations making up Australia's leading arts marketing consortium. Elizabeth has worked as an arts marketer, arts manager, publicist, festival director and presenter, as an employee as well as freelance, for a wide diversity of performing arts organisations since the early eighties.

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• Arts & Creativity Programme Manager - Age Cymru

Emma is responsible for Age Cymru's arts and creative programmes, namely the Gwanwyn Festival and cARTrefu.

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• Architect and Director of AJA
• Architect and Director, Architects Johannsen Associates ( AJA ), Sydney

Guy Luscombe is an award winning architect and Director of AJA. For the last twelve years he has been focussing on and has a particular interest in how design can improve the built environment for an increasingly aged society. He has designed a multitude of projects for older people at all levels of care, written extensively on design and ageing and is a regular speaker at conferences on the subject. He was the principal author of "Creating Caring Communities", the design guide for a major aged care provider and co-editor of the book, "Beyond Beige: Improving architecture for older people and people with disabilities". In 2014 he was awarded a Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship to study innovative buildings for the aged in Europe.

Jane Davidson trained in both music and contemporary dance, studying in UK and Canada for her bachelor and masters degrees. She completed a PhD in Music Psychology from City University, London. She has worked as an opera singer and director, a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and a music lecturer. Her first academic position was at City University, London, before moving to University of Sheffield, UK where she worked for thirteen years, helping to establish the largest concentration of research activity in music psychology in UK. She also supervised some 30 PhD students to completion, and was editor of the prestigious journal Psychology of Music (1997-2001). She was also Vice-President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (2003-2006) and is the President of the Musicological Society of Australia (2010 and 2011). She joined the staff at The University of Western Australia in 2006 as the inaugural Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music. Her roles have included Research and Postgraduate Coordinator, Vocal Studies Coordinator and Director of the Callaway Centre. She currently manages six funded research projects ranging from work on collections (specifically the ethnomusicologist John Blacking's personal and research papers) to practical work such as developing a program to use music for health and wellbeing impact. Jane Davidson has published over 100 scholarly outputs and has expertise in musical skills and development, musical emotion and expression, music and wellbeing, body movement and singing. In creative practice, she continues to direct for the operatic stage. Since 2002 she has collaborated with world-leading baroque musician Andrew Lawrence-King on a range of historically informed opera projects. She is now fulfilling major projects on performance and emotion in her role as Performance Program Leader of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions that runs from 2011 to 2017.

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• Chief Executive of Independent Age
• Chief Executive, Independent Age UK Co - Founder Campaign to End Loneliness UK and Chair, the Baring Foundation, London, UK

Janet Morrison is Chief Executive of Independent Age - a national advice, befriending and advocacy organisation in the UK for older people in need - which campaigns on issues affecting independence in old age, including health and social care, benefits and isolation and loneliness. As such, Janet is also a founder and management group member of the Campaign to End Loneliness - a coalition of over 1,000 organisations - which has led the way in raising awareness of loneliness in old age and promoting what works to address it. Janet is also Chairman of the Baring Foundation, the principal philanthropic funding body for creative ageing initiatives in the UK. Janet is a member of their Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Committee and the Arts Committee - which is currently funding an arts and older people program, focussing on the role of arts practice in preventive and care home settings. Janet was previously Deputy Chief Executive of NESTA - the National Endowment for Science Technology, which has pioneered creativity and innovation in the UK. Prior to NESTA, Janet was senior adviser on UK Policy at the BBC between 1997 and 1999 and before that worked for seven years at NCVO - the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, where she was Director of Policy and Research. Janet was a keynote presenter at the 6th annual international arts and health conference - The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing - at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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• Julie Priest, Place Facilitator, Port Macquarie - Hastings Council NSW

Julie is a Place Facilitator at Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, working with residents to activate their community. Creator of the "I've got Uke, babe" project and winner of the Local Government NSW 2012 Creative Ageing Award for Granny Graffiti (yarn bombing), and initiator of an intergenerational "Complaints Choir". Former Senior Program Manager at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the largest festival in the southern hemisphere, Julie has spent 12 years in Adelaide including as Event Manager at Adelaide City Council. She previously volunteered overseas for two years in aid and humanitarian work including building water wells in the Kalahari. Known as a "grants whisperer" she's acquired over $1million of grants for Port Macquarie-Hastings Council including funding to build all inclusive playgrounds and wheelchair accessible fishing platforms. Julie teamed with Margret Meagher, Director of The Australian Centre for Arts and Health, to develop the inaugural Celebrate Creative Ageing Festival in Port Macquarie for Seniors Week 2015 and wrangled Local Government NSW and State Government funding for the Festival. She is the Chair of the Port Macquarie Dementia Friendly Steering Committee and aims for this coastal municipality to be the first dementia friendly town in Australia. Julie is a teacher of the Council staff "Ukes of Hazzard" group and is a member of the Port Macquarie Ukestra.

The final session of the conference is presented by Urban Theatre Projects and hosted by 81-year-old June Hickey from UTP's "Talk Show". June is testament to just how creative you can be in your 80s. With a wry sense of humour, June will facilitate a conversation with four of our guest speakers. Bio June Hickey (1935) has lived in Minto for 31 years. She is a keen gardener and loves bush walking. She has a Jack Russell terrier called Harry who keeps her on her toes and two kids Kathryn and Richard. June became an emerging artist at 75, when she met performance maker Rosie Dennis and performed in her first show, "Driven To New Pastures" for Sydney Festival in 2011. "Talk Show" is her third collaboration with Rosie, following "Life As We Know It" in 2013, and the first in which she has taken a principal role.

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• Architect

Kristen Whittle is an architect and urban designer. Educated at Manchester University in England, Kristen completed postgraduate studies at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. Following graduation he won the internationally recognised Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1996 and tutored architecture at the University of North London. He then went on to work with Herzog & De Meuron in Basel Switzerland, leading the design of the Laban Dance Centre which went on to win the RIBA's Stirling Prize. He also played a significant role in the interior development of the Tate Modern in London. With Bates Smart, Kristen has worked with the Victorian Government on their new plans for Federation Square East and has recently designed a new visitor centre for the internationally renowned Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne. Kristen has also been the lead designer for the design of the new Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He has also led the architectural design for the new Dandenong Emergency and Mental Health facilities opened 2011.

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• Assistant

Laurel Humble is Assistant Educator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is currently responsible for the Education Department's new initiative to increase the participation of older adults in the Museum, called "Prime Time". Prior to working on "Prime Time", Laurel managed The MoMA Alzheimer's Project. In that role she oversaw outreach efforts for museum and care professionals working with individuals with Alzheimer's disease, conducted professional development workshops and conference presentations, and developed online training resources. Laurel is co-author of the award- winning publication Meet Me: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia and continues to regularly teach MoMA's programs for individuals with dementia and their care-partners at the Museum. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in art history and is currently pursuing an M.A. in urban education from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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• Acting Strategy Manager, Social and Community, Local Government NSW

Margaret is currently Acting Strategy Manager, Social and Community with Local Government NSW. Local Government NSW (LGNSW) is the peak industry association that represents the interests of all 152 NSW general purpose councils, 12 special purpose councils and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

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• Director of the Creative Dementia Arts Network

Maria is committed to enabling people with dementia and their families to live positive and fulfilling lives throughout the duration of the illness. She trained and worked in social work and management before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Oxford Brookes University and later Head of the Degree programme in Social Work. Returning to the university after a sabbatical when she swapped her academic post with a senior practitioner in a community mental health team for older people, Maria was instrumental in setting up the Oxford Dementia Centre as a partnership between Oxford Brookes and Anchor Trust a leading UK care provider for older people. The ODC was one of the first of what became a national network of Dementia Services Development Centres that offered information, training, consultancy and research services to health and social services. Maria worked extensively with local councils, health trusts, voluntary organisations and the commercial sector on improving the quality of dementia care through organisational change and practice development before moving into specialist roles advising large care providers on raising standards of dementia care in care homes, often through using non pharmacological approaches. Maria is now Director of the Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN) a hub for everyone interested in using creative arts to promote the health and well being for people with dementia. She is currently working with intergenerational groups of young people and older people with dementia, researching and developing new commissioning models for creative arts and evaluating creative arts projects. Maria is a founder member of Wisdem (www.wisdem.org) a global resource for people with dementia, families, professionals and care staff. She also supports the work of AGE UK Oxfordshire with whom she is working on a Baring funded project to develop a website for Participatory Arts and Older People. Maria is a member of the British Society of Gerontology and a member of the editorial advisory group of the Journal of Dementia Care, the UK's leading journal in the field that has recently been launched in Australia with Professor Richard Fleming of Wollongong University as its editor

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• Senior Research Fellow in Arts and Health at the Centre for Medical Humanities

Mike White is a Senior Research Fellow in Arts and Health at the Centre for Medical Humanities and St. Chad's College, University of Durham, UK. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford, but ran away from an early career in academia to explore pioneering arts initiatives in social justice. He has been involved in arts in health work since 1988 when he set up the first arts in primary care project in the UK at Brierley Hill. His work for the Centre for Medical Humanities has included nurturing arts in health projects in schools and communities, workforce development programmes in creativity in healthcare, project-based evaluations, and audits and literature reviews of arts in health for Government agencies. He is currently developing the arts in health component of an inter-disciplinary 5-year research programme in medical humanities, funded by major grant from the Wellcome Trust, which explores the question "what makes for human flourishing?" In 2005, Mike was awarded a fellowship of the UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts to research community-based arts in health and build national/international links in this field. A resulting book Arts Development in Community Health: a social tonic was published by Radcliffe in 2009, and in June this year Mike convened the first international ‘critical mass' meeting to set up ongoing exchanges of research and practice. Mike was previously at Gateshead Council where he developed many arts in health and arts for older people projects, as well as public art commissions such as the landmark Angel of the North by Antony Gormley. He has also worked as Development Director of the influential celebratory theatre company Welfare State International, and a long time ago he was a founder member of WOMAD, the international music festival agency. He has many published articles and has lectured widely on arts in health at universities and conferences in the UK, several EC countries, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Canada and USA. This year's AHA conference marks Mike's seventh visit to Australia in five years, so he now considers himself a part-time Australian.

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• Founder of FOOLS for HEALTH
• Professor of Drama

Bernie Warren Ph.D., is a Professor of Drama in Education and Community at the University of Windsor. Prior to his current position he taught drama and dance in schools in the UK and Ireland and held positions teaching courses in acting, movement & voice, developmental drama and drama therapy at various Universities and colleges around the world. In addition to his training and expertise in the performing arts and psychology, Dr. Warren has studied Eastern healing and Martial Arts for nearly 40 years, ten years of which were as an indoor student of a direct lineage Chinese master. He continues to teach Qigong and Tai Chi to a wide variety of groups including the Windsor-Essex Cardiac-Rehab Program and The Hospice of Windsor. He is an internationally respected researcher and teacher on the role of the arts in healthcare and education and the author of numerous books and articles including Using the Creative Arts in Therapy and Healthcare and, with Caroline Simonds, The Clown Doctor Chronicles. In 2001 he was the recipient of the University of Windsor's Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching and in 2009 the recipient of the University of Windsor's Outstanding Faculty Research Award (Established Scholars/Researchers). He has been included in Canadian Who's Who since 1994. In addition to his University position Bernie is also the Founder of FOOLS FOR HEALTH and regularly works in hospitals and healthcare facilities as Dr. Haven't-a-Clue.

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• Professor and Assistant

As Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) for the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology, Brad has worked as a teacher and researcher for over thirty years pursuing his fascination with the aesthetics and forms of contemporary performance and pedagogy. Formerly a drama teacher and consultant in Queensland secondary schools, Brad is well-known as an author (Dramawise) and as a workshop leader and speaker, regularly presenting throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. Brad maintains his practice as a drama educator in university and corporate settings. He has received a number of teaching awards in recognition of his role as a consultant to business and community groups engaged in experiential learning and he continues to conduct management and leadership programs with the Queensland Government, the Royal Brisbane and Woman's Hospital and the Australian Defence Materials Organisation. Brad's current research investigates practice-led methodologies for the arts and evaluation strategies to assess the impact of experiential learning techniques in corporate and community settings. He is currently leading a research project in Papua New Guinea developing applied performance programs for HIV and AIDS education. In 2008 he co-authored the Occasional Paper The arts and Australia's national innovation system 1994-2008 for the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). Brad has served as President of Contact Youth Theatre, in the 1990's was Chair of the GRUNT Youth Space in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane and in 2008 was Chair of SPARK, the National Young Artists Mentoring Program managed by Youth Arts Queensland. Brad is a community interest representative on the Australia Council for the Arts where he chairs the Community Partnerships Committee which manages a range of funding programs for community cultural development activities. Community Partnerships also includes Arts in Education, Arts-Health and Artist in Residence programs for Australian schools and communities.

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• Producer, Unlocked, Red Room Company, Sydney

Rob Osborne's professional background includes teaching English in the secondary education sector, and Media, Communications and Digital Media Production in the tertiary sector. During his 13 years of full time employment with Corrective Services NSW, he was the Manager of the Audiovisual Production Unit. In this capacity, he was involved in a range of educational projects, with a particular focus on the use of media technologies in expanding educational provision within the prison system. He was instrumental in developing and introducing the "Unlocked" poetry project and is a passionate believer in poetry's transformational potential. Since leaving a full time role in Corrective Services, Rob has undertaken PhD studies in the area of creative work in prison education.

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• First Assistant Secretary

Sally Basser is First Assistant Secretary, Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is responsible for cultural policy, arts and cultural funding programs and relationships with arts statutory bodies and companies. Sally has extensive experience in public policy, service delivery and organisational change in a range of areas including arts and culture, sport, children's services, child support, child protection and mental health. She has also worked as a ministerial adviser. Sally has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Canberra and a Bachelor of Social Work (First Class Honours) from the University of New South Wales. Sally also attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art for two years in the late 1970s.

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• Senior Architect at Anshen Allen

Sharon Woodworth is a senior architect at Anshen+Allen, the largest international firm dedicated solely to healthcare, education and research. In this role she has contributed to projects worldwide from the United Kingdom to the Philippines. The evolution of Sharon's career into architecture exposed her to the study of fine arts with a focus on serigraph printing and sculpture; it was Melinda Hunt, Maya Lin's Yale sculpture instructor, who encouraged her to pursue architecture. Her success in healthcare architecture has been strengthened by two diverse, prior professions, nursing and journalism. The former career in nursing increased her awareness of true healing environments with a focus on evidence-based design. The latter career in journalism exposed her to the value of a well-told story. With over six million square feet of healthcare facility planning and design experience, she has a wide-range of knowledge of hospital operations and continuum of care issues from pediatrics to senior living. This knowledge allows her to speak the client's language, and equally important, translate these needs to the architectural team. As a team leader, these skills are resources that benefit the project as a whole from design conception through construction. Sharon believes that her role is to translate ideas into form for the client and the team so that ultimately the patient benefits. Her aptitude for artistic quality, with a skill for writing, combined with the rigor of science allows Ms. Woodworth to successfully achieve designs that not only meet her clients' goals but also allows her to ‘tell the story' so that others may gain from this success. Sharon is a noted speaker at healthcare and architectural conferences; previous speaking engagements include: American Organization of Nurse Executives, American Institute of Architects, and the Center for Health Design.