Afleveringen
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Dr Mercy Wanjala is a graduate of the University of Nairobi School of Medicine, she holds a Master of Comprehensive General Medicine from the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, and an MBA in Healthcare Management at Strathmore University Business School. She currently works at the County Government of Embu Health Department as a Family Physician and Primary Healthcare Coordinator. She has held prominent positions, including Head of Primary Health Care, Embu County and National secretary for the Kenya Association of Family Physicians. She sits on the National technical Working Group on Primary Health Care and the Technical Group for National Cancer Strategic Information, Research, Registration and Surveillance. She served as a visiting Lecturer in Primary Health Care in Global Health at the University of Global Health Equity-School of Nursing and as part-time lecturer in Health Services Leadership at Kabarak University Department of Family Medicine. She held leadership roles in the Africa Forum for Primary Health Care, WONCA Working Party for Quality and Patient Safety, WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and Women in Global Health Kenya Chapter. In 2023 she won the Young Family Doctors Rising Star Award from the Africa Region of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and the WONCA Sydney Conference Full Scholarship.
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Charlotte Williams is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. She leads on quality improvement and innovation, transformation, strategy, digital and organisational development. She began her career on the NHS General Management Training Scheme before joining East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in 2003. She joined Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2006 before moving to the role of Assistant Director of Operations at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust. In 2010 Charlotte joined UCL Partners as Director of Integrated Cancer and Executive Director for the London Cancer Integrated Cancer System before being promoted to the role of Chief of Staff at UCL Partners in 2013.Charlotte is an Honorary Associate Professor at University of Birmingham, School of Social Policy. She is an Associate Editor of the BMJ Leader healthcare journal, and has published on the topic of patient involvement in major redesign of health services.
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Fern R. Hauck, is the Spencer P. Bass, MD Twenty-First Century Professor of Family Medicine and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Fern’s research is focused on risk factors and protective factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other causes of sleep-related sudden infant death, including pacifier use, infant sleep location including bedsharing, and infant feeding, with particular attention to racial-ethnic disparities. She serves as an advisor to numerous federal agencies and SIDS organizations to assist in SIDS and infant mortality related projects and she is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on SIDS, which develops evidence-based guidelines for safe infant sleep and prevention of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths. She founded and directs the University of Virginia International Family Medicine Clinic, which cares for several thousand refugees who resettled in Central Virginia from around the world. In addition to comprehensive primary healthcare, the IFMC team provides educational programming for residents and medical students, conducts quality improvement and research projects, and collaborates with community partners.
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A Lifetime Commitment to Social Justice and Health Care Access.
Carol Herbert is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine at Western University (London, Canada), and Professor Emerita of Family Practice at UBC (Vancouver, Canada). Past Chair of the University Board of Trustees for the American University of the Caribbean and a member of the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University.
She served as Dean, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario (1999-2010) and was Royal Canadian Legion Professor and Head of the UBC Department of Family Practice (1988-98). At UBC, she was founding Head of the Division of Behavioural Medicine and a co-founder of the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research. She is former Editor of the international journal, Patient Education and Counseling. Dr. Herbert is a UBC graduate in Honours Biochemistry and in Medicine. She was a full-service community-based family physician and clinical instructor at the REACH community health centre, a UBC teaching facility in Vancouver, from 1971 until 1982 when she joined the full-time faculty in the UBC Department of Family Practice.
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Paul Little is Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medial Sciences, a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator (emeritus), and winner of the Maurice Wood award (for Lifetime contribution to primary care research).
He led a wide range of studies in acute infections; diagnostic studies, prospective cohorts, placebo controlled trials, pragmatic trials of antibiotic prescribing strategies, and complex interventions to address antimicrobial stewardship and reduce the threat to public health of antibiotic resistance. His research has demonstrated reductions in antibiotic use in RTIs using: delayed antibiotic prescriptions; a clinical score for pharyngitis (FeverPAIN); communication skills training; C-reactive protein (CRP) point-of-care tests; and a digital intervention to support handwashing. This research has formed a key part of 9 national and 4 international guidelines, two UK 5-year AMR strategies and a successful intervention by the CMO for overprescribing GPs
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Nicki is interested in all things kindness, and in speaking, researching and writing about kindness in healthcare.
She is an occupational therapist in NewZealand with a long history of engagement with primary healthcare service design and implementation. From her lived experience she developed a particular interest in the clinical communication and in how teams work. She acts as a patient advocate on several local and international boards and foundations and is employed as an associate editor at the British Medical Journal Leader.
She has worked with many different organisations to help them understand how to build their capacity for kindness at all levels of their workforces and systems and does not tolerate the perception of kindness as a soft or discretionary skill in healthcare. Nicki has recently submitted her PhD at the University of Auckland’s Medical School.
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The most exciting medical job in the world…. With her medical degree in one pocket and her passport in another, Claire has travelled the world, climbing volcanoes, diving in the Caribbean, and crossing the Antarctic ice, chasing her dreams Claire is an emergency doctor who has been practising since 2015, mainly on Reunion Island. She has unique experience, from medical evacuations in the Pacific, to oil clinics in Africa, and medicine about the scientific expedition ship Marion Dufresne. In her first book entitled Docteur Globetrotter, she shared her adventures combining emergency medicine and travel. Published 2022, it describes emergencies in the Caribbean, medicine aboard the expedition ship, and in an isolated Amazonian rain forest. Her second book, Tour du Monde en blouse blanche, Docteur Globetrotter 2 brings us to three other healthcare destinations.
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Glyn Elwyn is a clinician, and researcher at The Dartmouth Institute leading an international interdisciplinary team studying shared decision making into clinical settings, which include collaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making, and Observer OPTION-5, for use on recorded data.
Glyn was previously Professor of Primary Care at the Swansea Medical School (2002–2005) before being appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University where in collaboration with Professor Adrian Edwards, he led the Decision Laboratory. In a lifetime committed to shared decision making and evidence based medicine, he also developed Option Grids™ patient decision aids, licensed to EBSCO in 2017.
He holds chair appointments at the Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands; UniSante University in Lausanne, Switzerland; Cochrane Institute for Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University; and at University College London.
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Dr. Anna Stavdal has held leadership roles within family medicine organizations in Norwegian, Nordic, European, and global family medicine organizations. She is a Past President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). She is a Family Doctor based in Oslo, Norway, where she has been providing compassionate care to patients since 1989. In addition to her clinical practice, she holds the position of Associate Professor at Oslo University, where she actively contributes to the education and training of future healthcare professionals. With primary areas of interest in health systems and the core values of family medicine, she is a passionate advocate for family medicine and primary care and she actively engages in public debates, sharing her expertise through columns and speaking engagements. She is an Honorary Fellow of The College of General Practice in Sri Lanka, and holds a an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Oulo, Finland.
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From the highlands of Scotland to the Welsh Valleys...bringing the core values of family medicine to the world.
Professor Graham Watt was the Norie Miller Professor of General Practice in Glasgow University from 1994-2016 and Head of the Department/Section of General Practice from 1994-2009. He is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.
After graduating from the University of Aberdeen in 1976, he trained in epidemiology and general practice, and worked with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in South Wales.He completed vocational training at Townhead Health Centre in Glasgow and in the following decade, he established the Glasgow WHO MONICA Project Centre, then worked in the Scottish Chief Scientist Office and as a senior lecturer in public health at Glasgow University.His research interest in health and disease in families began at Glyncorrwg and continued with the Ladywell Blood Pressure Study in Edinburgh and the MIDSPAN Family Study in the west of Scotland. He coordinated and led the Deep End Project from 2009-2016, based on the 100 most deprived general practice populations in Scotland, and remains closely involved.
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Fabian Dupont is the embodiment of the international family doctor. Recently appointed professor, he has travelled and studied around the world, gained the highest academic qualifications, and is an expert in multimedia communication.
Fabian studied medicine from 2009 to 2017 in Munich, Namur (BE), Lausanne (CH), Madrid (ESP), Bristol (UK), Florida (USA), East & South Africa and Wellington (NZ). He completed his master's studies in Medical Education and Curriculum Management (MHPE) in Maastricht, Netherlands. In 2019, he won the WONCA VDGM Research Award for his teaching. He has also received the GMA Prize for Innovation in Medical Education. He is active in many German and International organisations. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the Max Weber Program, and the Elite Network of Bavaria (Elitenetzwerk Bayern)
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Shrikant Maurice Peters is a medical doctor from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. As a Council member of the South African College of Public Health Medicine, he is responsible for advancing the professionalization of medical management, both in South Africa and throughout the wider continent. He completed his junior years of internship, community service and medical officer time in primary and district hospital rotations in the major metropolitan cities of Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town. After developing a keen interest in health systems management and strategic planning, he completed residency training and qualified as a Public Health Physician in 2019. He has previously been Medical Manager of Peri-Operative Care, Critical Care and Transplant Services at Groote Schuur Hospital, and is now Chief Clinical Information Officer at the facility. As an honorary lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
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Curating Evidence for the Primary Care Clinician
Mark Ebell recently retired as Professor from the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia and is currently Professor of Family Medicine at Michigan State University.
Dr. Mark H. Ebell is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Medical School, Family Medicine Residency, and School of Public Health. He is Editor-in-Chief of Essential Evidence Plus and Deputy Editor of the journal American Family Physician. He is author of over 600 peer-reviewed articles and is author or editor of eight books, with a focus on evidence-based practice, screening, respiratory infections, and clinical decision-making. Dr. Ebell served on the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2012 to 2015, and in 2019 was a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. In 2024 won the STFM Curtis Hames Award for lifetime achievement in research.
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Felicity Goodyear-Smith is a New Zealand general practitioner and professor of primary health care at the University of Auckland. She has had a rich and wide-ranging career in clinical and forensic medical practice, research, teaching, leadership roles as chair of the international committee of NAPCRG and of the WONCA Working Party on Research, and founding editor of the Journal of Primary Health Care. She is a keen writer of academic papers and books. Felicity is currently on the steering committee with Drs Anna Stavdal and Johann Sigurdsson on the WONCA global core values project. She is an avid swimmer, kayaker, hiker and gardener, and is still enjoying an active academic career.
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A remarkable journey. Eva carried her lived experience in an immigrant family through a medical career in clinical epidemiology, exploring Chinese medicine, cancer care, multifaceted health promotion, and now helping a new wave of Canadian immigrants.
Dr. Eva Grunfeld completed medical school at McMaster University, a doctorate in epidemiology at Oxford University, and a diploma in acupuncture through the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. A professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Her research focused on the role of family physicians in the care of cancer patients. She led two major research programs: CanIMPACT, to improve the coordination of cancer care; and the BETTER Program, which has developed and tested an approach to improve the prevention of and screening for cancer and other chronic diseases in family practice.
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Ajit Abraham, whose family hails from Kerala, India, was born in Kumasi, Ghana, schooled in Manchester, and trained as a doctor and general surgeon in Pune, India. Since 2005, he has been a Consultant General, Trauma, and HPB Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS, with related laparoscopic and robotic expertise.
Ajit trained in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery and liver transplantation in London, mainly at the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal London Hospital. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London and the Barts Health Trust Immediate Past Trust Dean. Since August 2022, he has been the Barts Health Group Executive Director for Inclusion and Equity on the Trust Board.
His other areas of interest are clinical leadership, quality improvement, patient safety, and inclusion and equity. He was a Health Foundation QI Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Harvard from 2011-12, and he has an MA in Medical Ethics & Law from Keele University, UK, 2004. Ajit is married to Natalie and has three children: Kasper (17), Anjolie (14) and Bodhi (7).
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John Brandt Brodersen is a General Practitioner and Professor, at the Center for Research & Education in General Medicine, University of Copenhagen and in Region Zealand. He is also a visiting professor at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. His research and teaching is focused on evidence-based medicine, prevention and risk, with a particular focus on over-diagnosis and psychosocial consequences of false-positive responses in medical screening.
He has published widely in Danish, Nordic and international scientific journals
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Dr Tim Senior is a GP who works in Aboriginal Community Control in South West Sydney. He teaches and works in policy and advocacy relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and writes on general practice and health equity. He recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship visiting various Deep End GP groups in England, Ireland and Scotland, hoping to bring these ideas back to Australia.
Dr Tim Senior lives and works on land traditionally owned by the Dharawal people. He acknowledges the traditional owners, and notes that sovereignty has never been ceded.
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Doing Family Medicine Better
An academic career focused on improving patient care, exploring structures and systems, and understanding the interplay of multiple illnesses.
Chris Salisbury is Emeritus Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Bristol. He describes himself as having had three overlapping careers: as a full time GP for more than 10 years, then as an academic doing research and teaching alongside general practice, and finally as a leader and manager. His academic work has focused on how to ‘do family practice better’ and the impact of new models of care, including changes in GP out-of-hours arrangements, NHS walk-in centres, Advanced Access, GPs with Special Interests, the expansion in clinical roles in general practice, continuity of care, digital care and remote consultations, and improving the management of patients with multiple long-term conditions
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“… the decisions you make now will affect the future. However old or however long you live, you’ll never know seven generations of your own family.”
Ann C. Macaulay graduated from St Andrews University, Scotland, is Professor Emerita, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Canada, was a family physician in the Mohawk community of Kahnawá:ke, Quebec, and a participatory/community engaged researcher promoting healthy lifestyles through the 30 year old Kahnawá:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Program www.ksdpp.org. She founded Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM) to engage with researchers, decision makers, health professionals, patients, and communities. She is a member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, USA and is now happily mainly retired to a small village with family, book clubs, a writing group, walking, stencilling, and gardening.
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