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Victoria, Australia
Subject(s) I Teach or Learning Interest Area
Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology
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Director of Education at Endeavour College of Natural Health. Interested in online learning, quality, education, technology, medicine, art, photography, music, books, culture, travel.
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Dr Vardaxis holds a PhD in Pathology from the University of Melbourne which was awarded in 1988. He has held a number of senior academic posts since then in many tertiary institutions, including the University of Melbourne, Phillip Institute of Technology and RMIT University. His career includes activities in basic biomedical science research and associations with research organisations abroad and in Australia. He is an associate researcher at the Macfarlane Burnett Centre for Medical Research and also at the Austin Research Institute. Dr Vardaxis is also dedicated to teaching, being responsible for a number of innovations in teaching since the start of his career. This passion for teaching was recognised in 1997 when he was awarded the Australian Government's inaugural Australian University Teaching Award in the field of health. Dr Vardaxis has taught at each of the tertiary schools noted above as well as the Southern School of Natural Therapies and the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Australia. He is also an author having published several undergraduate textbooks and is currently one of three editors-in-chief of Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions recently published.
