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Rotary District 9450 (Western Australia) will conduct a Group Study Exchange (GSE) with Rotary District 5330 (Southern California) from 5th May - 9th June 2007.

The team from Rotary District 9450 will consist of one team leader and four team members:

Rebecca Moore (Team Leader)

Rebecca is an Assistant Governor in Rotary and past president of Western Endeavour Rotary Club. She has been a member for 5 years, on GSE District Committee for 4 years and was a Rotary Youth Exchange Student to the USA in 1989. She works in local government managing community services and libraries with a staff of 130+ and a budget of $7 million. Rebecca is looking forward to being team leader but also to see how various organisations develop and deliver organisational development programs and performance management systems at the organisational level as well as at the staff management level.

Jill Benn

Jill is the Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at the University of Western Australia managing library services and staff for the Faculty of Arts. Jill holds a Bachelor of Communications (Media Studies - Honours) and a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies.

Jill is looking forward to experiencing life and work in Southern California. She is particularly interested in how libraries in the United States are utilising new Web 2.0 technologies and managing staff development and performance.

Clare McMurtrie

Clare is the acting Marketing Manager for the Department of Environment and Conservation. Her work involves the development and implementation of integrated marketing and communication strategies, advertisement coordination, event management and sponsorship management. She is also a volunteer wish-granter with the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Clare can’t wait to find out what Southern California has install for her but is particularly interested in marketing and advertising campaigns for community education and safety as well as volunteer wish-granting programs.

Suzanne Spitz

Suzanne is a Senior Project Officer with the WA Country Health Service (WACHS), one of the largest (geographically) health services in the world. Her work portfolio includes the implementation of workforce and clinical initiatives for allied health and nursing professionals in rural and remote Western Australia. Suzanne holds a Bachelor of Speech & Hearing and is currently completing a Masters of Leadership and Management. The GSE exchange will provide Suzanne the opportunity to investigate strategies utilised in the USA to address the global health workforce shortage. Suzanne is particularly looking forward to experiencing life in the States and seeking the fantastic sites of Southern California.

Jeffrey Williams

Jeffrey is a Nursing Coordinator/Assistant Director of Nursing in a 510 bed, not for profit Catholic private hospital. He is responsible for the management of a 300 staff pool of casual nurses and patient care assistants, management of the after hours services at the hospital which includes bed management and staffing, site emergency management as well as a member of the hospital nursing executive. Whilst in the US Jeff would like to better understand the issues around nursing recruitment, retention, magnet hospitals, hospital emergency preparedness issues in similar for profit and not for profit healthcare institutions in the US.