Anita Tsang and Henry Wong
Anita Tsang Ngan Lai Yu has been a registered nurse since 1984. She obtained her Bachelor of Nursing Degree (Health Promotion and Health Education) at the University of Hong Kong in 2002. Her extensive nursing experience in various nursing fields, both in private and public sectors, including but not limited to emergency room service at the Caritas Medical Center, pediatric surgical ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital; medical ward at the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, family medicine at the Hong Kong US Consulate and private practice with family physicians and pediatricians and more recently school nursing at various International Schools. Her wealth of nursing experience also brought her into the nurse educator area.
Since 2010, she has become the part time instructor for The Hong Kong Open University, help comprising and teaching relevant nursing related curriculums. In addition to general nursing, she also has a special interest in providing first aid training to health care professionals and lay people. She is a qualified First Aid Instructor with First Aid International (U.K) since 2008, in the past years, she successfully delivered first aid course to help equip people to deal with various emergency situations pertinent to their needs. Anita is bilingual; her unique multi-faceted working experience in the nursing field enables her to leverage her nursing skills in a dynamic way. She recently completed her master degree in Nursing (Child and Adolescent Health) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Her experience in International School Nursing began in 2000 and has included working at the following school: Hong Kong International School, Chinese International School, Canadian International School of Hong Kong and the Independent School Foundation, where she is currently employed.
Henry Wong, in addition to being an accomplished editor on interpersonal relationships, he is one of the few administrators that have served in both academic and non-academic roles in a school. He has more than sixteen years of work experience in international schools based in Singapore, China, and the US. His administrative positions have included Senior Admissions and Marketing Manager, Business Administration Director and Co-head.
Henry worked in three international schools and two bilingual schools with student populations ranging from 250 to 1300. His responsibility in the international schools was to oversee and provide leadership for non-academic functions, which included the Admissions & Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Public Relations, IT Help Desk, Facilities Management, Auxiliary Services, Procurement, and Inventory departments. These schools had very culturally diverse teaching and family populations. All the schools are accredited by associations of schools and colleges (US) and the three international schools are authorized by IBO. He published a booklet titled, "Preparing Host Country Support Staff for their Roles in International Schools."
In less than two years, Henry raised the service standards of his support staff to a level that equals to best practices of great international schools. The majority of his departments and offices received more than 90% of customer satisfaction from parents and teachers. Three offices obtained a 100% customer satisfaction over three consecutive years.
Henry obtained his bachelor’s degree at Biola University, California, majoring in Organizational Leadership. After acquiring his master’s degrees in Education at Pepperdine University, and Intercultural Studies with an emphasis in International Business at Biola University, he took up an instructor position at Tianjin University of Technology in China. He taught two subjects – Intercultural Communication and International Trade. In addition, he taught Mathematics to middle school students for two years. He also received a multiple subject teaching credential with a supplementary authorization in Business Studies from the State of California.