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A classical chamber music concert featuring musicians from the Irish and European Doctors Orchestra in the Boathouse on Heir Island Pier. It includes interviews with Dr Dave Thomson (Oboe), Dr Conor Molony (Violin), and Dr Xanthe Cross (Cello) who discuss what music means to them in their personal and professional lives. The concert is the highlight of week long musical retreat where a group of do...

Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, and adjunct Professor of General Practice in the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney. Nick has been a GP for more than 30 years and continues to work part-time in clinical practice.  His research interests are on prevention and management of chronic diseases with a focus on respiratory illness....

Professor Dr Airton Stein has dedicated more than two decades to advancing evidence-based guidelines and improving health quality on a global scale. Airton Tetelbom Stein Graduated in Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1981), Family Physician at Rio Grande do Sul Health Secretariat, Master Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1989), Master’s...

Glenn Colquhoun is a GP, poet, and children's writer. His first collection  The art of walking upright  won the Jessie Mackay best first book of poetry award at the 2000 Montana book awards.  Playing God , his third collection, won the poetry section of the same awards in 2003 as well as the reader's choice award that year. He was awarded the Prize in modern letters in 2004 and a Fulbright...

Hamish Wilson is a GP and nearly retired Associate Professor at Otago Medical School, Dunedin, NZ.  From 1996, he taught in the Diploma/Masters programme for GPs, leading the the ‘nature’ or philosophy paper. From 2008, he introduced undergraduate medical students to community-based, experiential learning and reflective practice. He is a qualified Balint Group leader and co-leads the reflective es...

Robert F Woollard is Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive national and international experience in the fields of medical education, social accountability of medical schools, ecosystem approaches to health, and sustainable development. In this he has or is holding leadership roles in the  CFPC, CMA, AFMC, AMEE,  and  The Network TUFH . He is...

General Practitioner, clinical trialist, and listener, interpreter and teller of stories. A GP by background, Chris Butler is Professor of Primary Care, Director of the University of Oxford Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit, and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Oxford. His training and experience span the University of Cape Town, Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (Mdantsane), McMas...

Tim Stokes is the Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice at the Department of Primary Care, Otago School of Medicine, based at the Dunedin campus, New Zealand. He is an academic general practitioner with a particular interest in health care delivery and implementation research, using a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. His particular interests are in rural health services and...

David Loxterkamp’s work as a family physician was the subject of a 1998 Life Magazine photoessay, “What makes a good doctor?” , an NBC Nightline documentary in 2000, and the 2015 PBS documentary “Rx: The Quiet Revolution” by award-winning film-maker David Grubin. David Loxterkamp, M.D. is a family physician who has made his home in Belfast, Maine for the last 41 years, along with his wife, Lindsay...

Jim Dickinson is a Family Physician and Professor at the Department of Family Medicien at the University of Calgary. After medical training from Queensland University, Australia, he trained in Family Medicine at McMaster University, Canada, then a Kellogg Fellowship at McGill University in Canada. He returned to Australia and wrote his PhD on Preventive Activities in General Practice, while workin...

Professor Richard Baker, Emeritus Professor, and First Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester, 2003 – 2010.  He was Director of the NIHR CLAHRC for LNR, 2008 - 2013.Richard is an academic general practitioner with continuing research interests in the effect of primary health care on population mortality. He was a general practitioner first in Cheltenham 1977 to 19...

Professor Ngaire Kerse is the Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well and a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She is a practicing GP at the Auckland City Mission. Since 2010 she has been co-principal investigator of a longitudinal study – Life and Living in Advanced Age: a Cohort Study in New Zealand (LiLACs NZ). She was listed in the New Year’s Honours a...

I’m Emilie Couchman, and today I am talking with Professor George Freeman, an academic GP in Southampton for 20 years, then Imperial College London, and part-time in a West London practice until 2010. Now retired from clinical practice, George continues to engage in academic work that aligns with continuity and generalism; in his mind, the two key cornerstones of general practice. “Back in Southam...

Liz Darlinson is a Consultant Nurse and the CEO of Mesothelioma UK, a national charity dedicated to supporting people living with, or supporting those with, mesothelioma and advancing research in this field. In 2004, Liz founded Mesothelioma UK. Mesothelioma UK | Supporting people with this asbestos cancer. She was appointed MBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and became Deputy Lieutenant fo...

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE is Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is Professorial Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant with the UK Health Security Agency and Public Health Scotland. Aziz was previously Chair of Primary Care Research and...

Professor Philip Evans FRCGP is an academic GP and was for 31 years a GP partner in St Leonard’s Practice, Exeter. He has a long-standing research interest in relational continuity of care in general practice, as well as prediabetes/ type 2 diabetes and more recently primary care genomics. He is currently National Associate Director of Health and Care Research in the NIHR Research Delivery Network...

Andrew is a GP, educator, and an academic in Oxford.  He has been the Deputy Editor of the British Journal of General Practice since 2022.  He co-edited the BMA medical book award-winning Handbook of Primary Care Ethics (CRC press) and BMA Highly Commended Marketization, Health and Ethics (Routledge) in 2018, and has written undergraduate text books on clinical skills, child health as well as ethi...

Minna Johansson is a general practitioner working clinically at Herrestads healthcare centre a healthcare centre in Uddevalla, a small town on the Swedish west coast. She is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare. She is the lead investigator of the Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, focused on finding novel ways to make healthcare more...

MaryAnn Ferreux is the Chief Medical Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a Non-Executive Director for Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust. She has 20 years clinical experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and population health. She has held Board level roles as a medical leader in...

Louise Dubras, Professor Emeritus, led the creation of a new GP focused Graduate Entry Medical School, at Ulster University. She joined Ulster University as Foundation Dean of the new medical school in 2018, developed the curriculum, put together the educational team, and the first cohort of medical students graduated in 2025. During this time she continued to work as a general practitioner one da...

Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a distinguished family physician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She serves as an Associate Professor and the Director for Community Engagement at Duke University’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In October 2023, she was elected President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and assumed the preside...

Dr. Christopher Labos is a cardiologist, a course lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University and an affiliate member of the Department of Global and Public Health. He is a columnist with the Montreal Gazette and Medscape, featured on the Sunday Morning House Call on CJAD radio, and has a regular TV segment with CTV Montreal and CBC Mornin...

Professor Erwin Loh MBBS, LBB(Hons), MBA, MHSM, PhD, FRACMA, FACLM, FAICD is President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. He was most recently National Director of Medical Services for Calvary Health Care. He was previously Group Chief Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Health Australia, Chief Medical Officer at Goulburn Valley Health and Chief Medical Officer of Monash Heal...

Carolyn Chew-Graham is a General Practitioner and Professor of General Practice Research at Keele University. Her areas of interest and expertise include the primary care (including in prisons) management of people with mental health problems, multiple health conditions and unexplained symptoms, and the mental health and wellbeing of clinicians. Patient and Public Involvement is key to all her res...

Jeannie Haggerty is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine of McGill University in Montreal and first holder the McGill Research Chair in Family and Community Medicine Research, based at St. Mary’s Hospital Centre. Trained in Epidemiology & Biostatistics, she is a health services researcher whose domain of research is the factors related to continuity, accessibility and quality of pr...