A couple of the Presenters...

George Calombaris
At the age of 30, George Calombaris is one of Australia's top chefs. His highly influential style of cuisine has earned him many accolades and much respect from culinary aficionados in Australia and around the globe. George has always been fascinated by food. Inspired by his mother and grandmother, two brilliant cooks, George quickly learnt about food and cooking. Although born and bred in Melbourne, the centre of his early learning was his Greek heritage. With its rich and varied cuisine there was no doubt that this would later become George's trademark. George's short career has been full of exciting moments. He completed his apprenticeship at the Hotel Sofitel, where he won the Bonland National Apprentice of the Year Award in 1999. Soon after, George found himself leading a team of 11 qualified and apprentice chefs at Richmond's Fenix Restaurant. In 2003, George was selected to represent Australia at the Bocuse d'Or International Culinary Grand Prix in Lyon, France. He achieved the best ever result for an Australian representative at that time.

In 2004, the Global Food and Wine Magazine voted George as one of the Top 40 Chefs of Influence In the World and was awarded with 'Young Chef of the Year 2004'. His restaurant Reserve won 'Best New Restaurant' as well as receiving two prestigious chefs hats. In October 2006, at the age of 27, George opened his flagship restaurant The Press Club Restaurant and Bar. This began a new era for George and has cemented his place as a culinary star for his Modern Greek Cuisine – never seen before in Melbourne; where modern twists to traditional Greek cuisine has put this restaurant on the global map and has diner's wanting more. Today George has taken his traditional Greek heritage further opening his fourth and newest restaurant Hellenic Republic, a Modern Greek Taverna. At the helm of his career George has also begun writing his second cookbook 'Hellenic Republic'. It is needless to say that George is constantly pushing the boundaries and is never sitting still!

Craig James
Craig's current role is Chief Equities Economist, Commonwealth Securities, interpreting 'big picture' economic and financial trends for customers, clients and staff. This analysis is also provided to the general public through a range of media commitments. His current duties include presentations to staff and clients, commentaries on economic matters for the media, production of regular and ad hoc commentaries and topical reports of market interest. In 2002, Craig undertook a 'sea change', interpreting economic and financial trends for the Australian Financial Review. Prior to this he held Chief Economist posts at both Colonial and Commonwealth Securities. Craig has worked in banking, finance and journalism for 27 years. He holds both Bachelor and Master degrees in Commerce (Economics). Both degrees were undertaken at University of NSW. Craig is married with three children and lives in Dolans Bay in southern Sydney. His main interest outside of work is athletics and trying to keep up with his children.

Greg Duncan
Greg Duncan is a Senior Health Services Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University and also works as an independent health services consultant. He has a background in hospital, community and academic pharmacy in both Australia and the UK. Greg has been teaching a wide range of pharmacy and medical undergraduate subjects including Wound Management, Pharmaco-epidemiology, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and Public Health. Greg is very involved with the development of wound care and EBP skills for health professionals through the PSA professional development program as well as being the coinstructor in a multi-disciplinary graduate unit in EBP flexibly delivered by Monash. Greg has postgraduate qualifications in public health with particular interest in population health issues, health policy and international health. He is currently completing his doctorate in Public Health with significant funding to measure the epidemiology of chronic wounds for the whole of the Victorian community. As part of his Doctorate in Public Health, Greg has pursued studies at Harvard School of Public Health and has worked with the Western Pacific and South East Asian Pharmaceutical Forums and the WHO, developing and conducting training workshops for community pharmacists in the region.

David Jacka
Dr David Jacka is the Medical Officer for HIV and Injecting Drug Users at the World Health Organization Country Office, Vietnam. He has worked in the area of HIV since 1989 and Injecting Drug Use and Harm Reduction since 1993. Up until December 2006 he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Harm Reduction at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Senior Medical Specialist at the Adolescent Forensic Health Service, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and Senior Medical Officer at North Yarra Community Health in Fiztroy, Melbourne (the two latter posts as a pharmacotherapy prescriber and drug dependence treatment specialist). Since January 2007 he has worked with WHO as a drug treatment specialist and advisor on HIV prevention programming for IDU in Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. He has carried out many consultancies for WHO, and other International NGOs, and training for WHO and ASEAN. He has contributed to guidelines and training modules on methadone treatment for Victoria and a number of countries in the Asian Region and developed bilingual training materials for Harm Reduction, HIV Testing and Counselling and Methadone Maintenance Treatment in the two WHO Asian Regions.

Toni Riley
Toni has been a member of the Guild Victorian Branch Committee since 2001. Her interests lie in advancing the cognitive services of pharmacists and improving the relationships between doctors and pharmacists. She encourages all pharmacists to actively participate in initiatives such as HMR and the methadone program. She is also a strong advocate of improving the services and technologies available to rural pharmacies and the status of women within pharmacy. Toni is a member of the Health Economics Committee and was involved in the negotiation of the Fourth Community Pharmacy Agreement with the Federal Government where she sat on both the Fourth Agreement Consultative Committee and the Pharmacy Professional Advisory Committee. Toni was the principal negotiator of the recently finalised Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement and she will now sit on the Fifth Agreement Consultative Committee which is involved with the ongoing management of the Agreement.

Paul Naismith
Paul Naismith is the CEO of Fred Health as well as a practising pharmacist. Fred Health is Australia's largest pharmacy IT solution provider with over 3,000 pharmacies using their market leading products including Fred Dispense, Fred Office and Fred Net broadband. Paul's aspiration is to reduce dispensing errors using technology and limiting computer related risks for pharmacists and patients. He believes connected computer systems can provide better patient outcomes and his vision is that pharmacists be a key part of any large integrated health IT solution. This resulted in his collaboration to create the original Fred Dispense software in 1991 and his constant striving to improve pharmacy IT ever since. In 2009 Paul launched eRx Script Exchange which provides the first Australia wide electronic prescription service linking doctors and pharmacies. He is a member of the advisory board for the pharmacy indemnity provider PDL, a Fellow of the Australian College of Pharmacy Practice and Management and a member of the Pharmacy Guild and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and a director of the Australian Pharmaceutical Publishing Company. Paul frequently speaks at industry conferences and has been a regular contributor to pharmacy publications as well as continuing to work in his two pharmacies in Melbourne.

Kos Sclavos
Kos is the current National President of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. In 2007 Kos was selected in the Bulletin's Top 100 most influential Australians. Kos is driving pharmacy's exciting new IT agenda including ScriptMAP, MedsIndex, HygeiaRx and ScriptX and already has many successes. Previous to his national presidency Kos spent nine years as the Queensland Guild Branch President and six years as National President of the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management (now ACP). Kos continues to serve on a wide variety of industry bodies and committees and is a regular feature writer in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacy News. In 1999 Kos was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of the Year Award, as well as the PSA Bowl of Hygeia Award. In 2005 Kos was awarded the Allied Health/Education Worker of the Year by Epilepsy Australia. Kos has been a driving force behind a number of industry initiatives including the Advanced Diploma of Community Pharmacy Management, the Quality Care Pharmacy Program and now ProjectStop.