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Gastroenterological Association (AGA).

For her services to medicine, tertiary education and Indian community, Dr Apte has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OANI).

"It is a recognition, of not just my work bur m y whole team, particularly my snpervi:mrs

Professors Jeremy Wilson and Ron Pi.rola, who encouraged and allowed me d1e freedom ro explore different areas,"

Dr Apte told Inditm Link.

"More impommtly, iris also very bwnblingas I often wonder if ] have done enough to deserve this".

Dr Apte is particularly grateful to her husband Vivek for being her bedrock of support and to her Tushar for coping with bavingsucli a busy mum.

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For significant service to engineering, and as a role model

' surveillance systems and video analytics, Kanga is also on the board of Sydney Water and has held many prestigious positions in her long and illustrious caree r

She has fearured in the Top JOO Engineers in Australia as well as the Top 100 Women of Influence in Australia.

''If you ace able co w01:k in the area you love, it will never be just a job, you will discover that it will be endlessly satisfying and you will make a contribution chat is beyond your greatest dreams," Kanga tokl fodiatl U11k.

"1 never set out to change die world. 1 had smne clear goals and just faced each problem as lit] came along, The cumulative impact, looking back, has been amazing," she said.

A member of the Engineers Australia Council since 2007, in 2012 Kanga was Chair of the Lmovation Taskforce charged with promoting further advances in enginee ring. She was also Chair of the National Comm.itteefor Women in Engineering in 2008 and 2009.

Mo re d1an d1ree decades after immigrating to Australia, in 2013 Marlene Kanga became National Presidenr of Engineers f\ustralia, the peak advocacy body and professional membership forum for engineers. "Although 1 am goal oriented, becoming President of Engineers Australia was not one of my goals," Kanga admitted.

'M y aim in contributing to the iostimtion was to give back to d1e profession and to Australia. I was later encouraged by my peers in engineering to srand for election because d1ey tboughtl would do a good job".

Today Marlene Kanga i s a board member of Innovation Australia as well as Chair of the R&D Incentives Committee, spearheading cliange and advising the government on new initiativ es.

Due to her stams as an exceptional role model and for her services to engineering, Kanga wa,5 appointed a l\-lember of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List

"This award is a great ~xample of the openness and generosity