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Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque is the Chief Executive of the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, and the Deputy Secretary, Clinical Innovation and Research at the NSW Ministry of Health.   Jean-Frédéric is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications and his seminal research on health...

William (Bill) Ventres, MD, MA is a family physician and medical educator. He spent more than 25 years as a community-based family doctor working in both ambulatory and hospital settings, focusing on the care of underserved and minority populations in safety-net clinics and correctional health settings. He taught medical students throughout his clinical career and was a community-based academic un...

Professor Igor Švab. First Head of the Department of Family Medicine and current Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. He graduated in 1981, Masters in 1988, and PhD in 1991 at the University of Ljubljana. President of the European Association of Family Physicians WONCA Europe 2004-2010.  He is coordinator of national and international research projects and World Bank projects in t...

Suzanne Strasberg is a Canadian primary care clinician with extensive experience in national medical leadership and board governance. Dr Suzanne Strasberg was chair of board of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and previously served as board chair for MD Financial Holdings Inc. a post she held for four years, has served as a board member with the CMA, and as board chair, board director and pr...

Richard Hobbs is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor (without portfolio) at the University of Oxford, where he holds the inaugural PCRT Mercian Chair in Primary Care (2022-)  Previously the inaugural Nuffield Professor of Primary Care (2011-22) at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (2011-2024), he remains Director of the Oxford Institute of Digital Health (2020-) and is Lead for Global Part...

Professor Emeritus Trinity College Dublin, Tom O’Dowd was appointed Professor of General Practice in 1993 and continues as a practising GP in West Tallaght, Dublin. After general practice vocational training in Ireland, Tom joined the University of Wales College of Medicine (1980 – 86) as a lecturer and subsequently the University of Nottingham (1986 – 1993 as a senior lecturer. He has been involv...

Prof Liz Sturgiss is a clinical general practitioner and primary care researcher in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, Queensland. Liz leads an emerging research program on complex and chronic disease management in primary care that focuses on the translation of guidelines into real-world practice and the implementation of innovative interventions. Her research is base...

Florian Stigler is GP and researcher with a passion for making Evidence-Based Family Medicine exciting and easy to understand. He trained in Styria/Austria with postgraduate studies in the UK in Manchester (MPH) and London (DrPH). He works as a GP with focus on preventive medicine. He has a passion for new projects and created “Golden Nuggets of Family Medicine” – newsletter for busy GPs to provid...

Dr Nagina Khan is a  Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent.  Her work champions lived experience, patient involvement, and socially impactful research, and she is actively involved in editorial roles with  BMJ Leader ,  BMJ Mental Health , and other journals to help bring diverse voices into academic publishing. Dr. Nagina Khan, PhD is a Seni...

Dr John Gillies is an Edinburgh graduate who has worked in Malawi and as a general practitioner in rural Scotland, latterly in Selkirk for 16 years. He has been an undergraduate tutor, a GP educational supervisor and a training programme director with NHS Education Scotland. He was Chair of the Royal College of GPs in Scotland from 2010 to 2014 and deputy director of the Scottish School of Primary...

Clinician, Activist, and Thought Leader who Challenged Accepted Obstetric Care Family Physician, Pediatrician, Neonatologist, Maternity Care Researcher, Maternity, Primary Care and Organizational Consultant “Refusing to serve as an officer in the US Army Medical Corps during the Viet Nam War, he fled to Canada in 1967 with his wife Bonnie. He became a family practitioner, pediatrician, advocate, p...

Sir David Haslam was a GP in Cambridgeshire for 36 years and is a past Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), past-President and past Chairman of Council of the RCGP, past-President of the BMA, and former Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is currently chair of the charity “Young Lives vs Cancer”, Non-Executive Chair of Itecho Hea...

“My passion is to help each other realise social impact through citizen, organisation and system movements.” Emma Challans-Rasool is Director of Horizons and Founder and Chair of @Proud2bOps a National Network of Operational Managers and Leaders. As a Director in Horizons, Emma leads at national level and is proud to have built a strong professional presence and credibility across health and care...

“Shedding light on the work that people do not often see and therefore take for granted.” Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Implementation scientist and an expert in qualitative and mixed methods research. My research examines the interpersonal and organizational aspects of health care del...

Leading Academic GP and Health Service Researcher Inaugural RAND Chair of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge where he founded and directed the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe.(2009-2016) Martin Roland trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a first cla...

“The educator never left”…Teacher, Mentor, Family Doctor and Researcher. Dr. David Rábago is the Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. David began professional life as a middle- and high-school teacher in Milwaukee and Chicago. After a nine-year teaching career, he transitioned to academic medicine. He has taught cl...

On an Academic Journey from the Azores to Lake Léman Alexandre Gouveia has a particular interest in quality and patient safety, in postgraduate teaching, and in clinical research within the Department of Ambulatory Care at Unisanté (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Alexandre was appointed senior physician in 2021 and took on the responsibility of the Polyclinic of General Practice. In 2022, h...

Oscar Lyons is a researcher, educator and doctor who specialises in healthcare leadership development. Oscar worked as a doctor in Hauora Tairāwhiti and Counties Manukau (Aotearoa NZ) before completing his DPhil in “Evaluating Medical Leadership Development Programmes” at Oxford University. After his DPhil Oscar was the first Programme Director for the Oxford University MSc in Global Healthcare Le...

Professor Parker Magin is Senior Academic Advisor, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners GP Training Research Unit, Newcastle, Australia; Conjoint Professor, the University of Newcastle; and Adjunct Professor, the University of New South Wales. He has been an NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Scholar 2003-2006; and 2007-cohort member, International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme,...

From clinician to academic, from public service to leadership, forever shaping change. Martin Marshall is the Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL and a non-executive director of the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust. Martin was a GP for over 30 years, initially as a GP partner in Devon and more recently in Newham in East London and was Chair of th...

Bruce Arroll graduated in New Zealand, trained in Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and completed a  Masters in Clinical Epidemiology in Vancouver, before returning to NewZealand. At McMaster, he was so impressed with clinical epidemiology, which later became an evidence-based practice, that he began a PhD in Epidemiology when he returned to NZ late in 1987, conducting a...

Pendleton’s Rules, Primary Colours, and Bringing Joy to WorkDavid Pendleton is a psychologist, organisation and management development consultant, author and professor. He completed a DPhil at Oxford on Doctor-Patient Communication in General Practice, was Stuart Fellow at the RCGP, consultant to their membership exam and was a Trustee of the College for 6 years. In the corporate field, he was Dir...

Olympic Gold Medalist, and World Leader in Sports Medicine  Dr Richard Budgett was the Medical and Scientific Director of the IOC from October 2012 to December 2024. Before that he was Chief Medical Officer for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games from 2007 to 2012. Richard was Director of Medical Services for the British Olympic Association from 1994 to 2007 and Team GB Chief Medical Offi...

Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur la Gouvernance Clinique des Services de Première Ligne Mylaine Breton holds a Canadian Research Chair in clinical governance on primary health care. She is based at the Department of Social Science and Medicine at University of Sherbrooke. She trained as an occupational therapist, followed be an MBA at Université Laval, a doctorate in Health Service Management fro...

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 h...