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Professional Profile
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Les Stimpson |
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| Position: |
Senior Forensic
Accountant |
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| Qualifications: |
B.Com. (Accounting)
With Merit, UNSW 1970
MBA, UNSW 1974 |
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| Affiliations: |
Admitted as Associate
of CPA Australia in 1973
Advanced to Fellow of CPA Australia in 1977
Associate Fellow, Australian Institute of Management |
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| Skills: |
Functioned as CFO
and/or Financial Controller and/or Secretary to Board of Directors in
several positions.
Activities of Daily Living Costings.
Life Care Plans.
Economic Assessments.
Superannuation valuations. |
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| Experience: |
- 1963-1979 Various positions in several medium to large corporations
gaining a wide range of experiences in all facets of accounting work.
- 1979-1985 Finance Director in a major division of a multi-national
corporation.
- 1985-2000 Business Manager and Secretary to the Board of a major
private school in Sydney.
- 2000-2006 Director and secretary for family business, culminating in
its sale to a multi-national corporation. A further year consulting to
the purchaser of this business.
- In addition to responsibility for finance and accounting matters a
number of these positions involved either responsibility for, or close
liaison with, human resource matters.
- Due diligence investigations for purchase of small/medium size
businesses.
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Professional Profile
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Diane Prattley
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| Position: |
Senior Occupational Therapist, Sydney
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Qualifications: |
DipOT, DipOH&S Management, AAOT
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Affiliations: |
Accredited Member OT Australia
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Skills: |
Vocational rehabilitation assessments
Medico legal assessments and reports including court appearances
Functional Capacity Evaluations
Ergonomic/Workplace assessments
OH&S Safety Audits
Development of Rehab Policy
Home assessments
Educational and training program for injury prevention
Presentation of papers to seminars and conferences
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Experience: |
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32 years experience as an Occupational Therapist;
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Accepted as Expert Witness for 1990 Court case in Tasmania Supreme Court, setting legal precedent
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Work in a variety of healthcare faculties in rural and metropolitan areas;
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Worked specifically with children with cerebral palsy;
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Worked specifically in Geriatric Assessment;
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Worked specifically in Child Development and Family Dynamics;
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Examiner for School of Occupational Therapy, Lincoln Institute for Health Sciences
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Assessment and treatment of adults and children with physical disabilities;
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Worked Australia wide and New Zealand preparing Vocational Assessments or clients on Income Protection Policies and Total and Permanent Disability policies.
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Professional
Interests: |
Occupational
Health and Safety issues in the workplace especially related to farming and mining;
Office Ergonomics;
Treatment and management of hand injuries;
Professional development and training of OT students;
Pain Management;
Workplace change and restructuring.
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Professional Profile
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| Name: |
Margaret Leitch |
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| Positons: |
Senior Occupational Therapist |
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| Qualifications: |
B App Sc (OT), Lincoln Institute of Health Science
Grad Dip Rehab Studies, Lincoln Institute of Health Science |
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| Affiliations: |
Australian Association of Occupational Therapists
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia |
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| Skills: |
Vocational Assessments
Activity of Daily Living Assessments
Life Care Plans
Loss of Dependence Assessments |
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| Experience: |
- Over 18 years experience working in occupational rehabilitation and injury prevention in Victoria under the WorkCover and Comcare systems;
- In excess of 1000 worksite assessments conducted in transport, manufacturing, finance, law and retail workplaces in both regional and metropolitan areas; Conducted and documented activity of daily living assessments including the need for home help, home modifications, assistive equipment and adaptive techniques;
- Conducted vocational assessments for both 104 week assessments and vocational redirection;
- Conducted training in office ergonomics, manual handling, pain management and stress management to Victorian workplaces;
- Advised injured workers regarding their responsibilities and rights under the WorkCover system; and
- Liaised with employers, agents, treating health practitioners and unions to facilitate return to work plans for injured workers.
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Professional
Interests: |
Injury management programs;
Injury prevention;
Stress management;
Occupational overuse syndrome. |
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Professional Profile
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| Name: |
Ross Girdler |
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| Positons: |
Rehabilitation Consultant, Victoria, NSW, ACT |
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| Qualifications: |
Master of Rehabilitation Counselling
Graduate Diploma in Psychology |
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| Affiliations: |
Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors |
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| Skills: |
Vocational Assessments |
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| Experience: |
- Almost 10 years in occupational rehabilitation with over five years producing vocational assessments for litigation purposes
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Professional
Interests: |
Raising the standard of vocational assessments to a truly professional level commensurate with the fundamental importance of a realistic evaluation of residual work capacity after injury. |
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Professional Profile
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| Name: |
Katrina Henderson |
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| Positons: |
Manager, Victoria
Senior Occupational Therapist |
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| Qualifications: |
Bachelor of Applied
Science (Occupational Therapy) |
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| Affiliations: |
Australian Association
of Occupational Therapists (Victoria)
Approved Occupational Rehabilitation Provider with the Victorian WorkCover
Authority
Approved Provider of Occupational Therapy services with the Victorian
WorkCover Authority, Transport Accident Commission and Department of
Veterans Affairs |
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| Skills: |
Vocational Assessments
ADL Assessments
Life Care Plans
Workplace Assessments / Job Task Analysis
Manual Handling Risk Assessments and Training |
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| Experience: |
- 13 years experience as an Occupational Therapist with over 10 years
experience in occupational rehabilitation.
- Over 5 years experience as a private practice Occupational Therapist
- Lecturer and Fieldwork Supervisor with the Occupational Science and
Therapy course at Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, Geelong
- Conducting and documenting workplace assessments in a wide range of
industries eg. mail processing, law enforcement, manufacturing, meat
industry, transport in both rural and metropolitan areas.
- Liaising with employers, insurance agents, treating health practitioners
and unions to facilitate return to work plans for injured workers
- Conducting and documenting activity of daily living assessments including
the need for home help, home modifications, assistive equipment or adaptive
techniques.
- Conducting training in manual handling and office ergonomics
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Professional
Interests: |
Job task analysis
Quantifying the physical, psychological and social demands of work
Injury prevention and management
Undergraduate education for Occupational Therapy students in
non-conventional areas of professional practice |
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Professional Profile
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| Name: |
Ian Davy |
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| Positons: |
Senior Forensic Accountant, NSW |
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| Qualifications: |
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - 1972
Associate of Australian Society of Accountants (now CPA Australia) - 1973 |
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| Experience: |
Over 30 years experience as a commercial accountant in positions ranging from Accountant with small and medium enterprises to Financial Controller with listed Public Companies
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Professional Profile
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| Name: |
Karol Petrovska |
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| Positons: |
Senior Occupational
Therapist |
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| Qualifications: |
B App Sc (OT),
University of Sydney |
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| Skills: |
Activity of Daily
Living Assessments
Life Care Plans
Loss of Dependence Assessments
Paediatric Assessments |
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| Experience: |
- Eleven years experience as a clinical Occupational Therapist.
- In community health settings, including paediatric clients, with mild to
severe physical disabilities and/or mild to severe learning
difficulties-ages 0-18 years of age, geriatric assessments teams, acquired
brain injury and general medical and surgical adult clients.
- In acute hospital settings in general medical and surgical, orthopaedics,
paediatrics, neurology, cardiac related diagnoses and postoperative
treatment of hand surgery clients.
- In rehabilitation settings in orthopaedics, neurology, general medical and
surgical, maternity, palliative care, acquired brain injury and aged care.
- Conducted activities of daily living, home environment and community
assessments and made subsequent recommendations for equipment, home
modifications and rehabilitation needs.
- Conducted needs assessments for clients residing in metropolitan as well
as rural and remote areas.
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Professional
Interests: |
Paediatrics
Neurological Rehabilitation
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
Hand therapy |
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