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Leora Ross

Leora holds a degree in Pharmacy, a Graduate Diploma in Education, a Certificate in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics.

She worked as a pharmacist before undertaking some voluntary work in the community while raising her three children and then spent 16 years teaching English to overseas students and migrants at the Institute of Languages UNSW. She also lectured on the teacher training program.

Leora joined the Montefiore Board in 2013, and uses her skills on the Quality Safety and Risk committee and sits as an observer on the Clinical Advisory Committee.

She also regularly participates in conducting the Montefiore Staff Holocaust Awareness Program by taking the staff through the Sydney Jewish Museum as a volunteer guide.

Leora’s mother was a resident at Montefiore for four years.