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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...

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 infa...

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...

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, pl...

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 advoca...

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,...

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  collabo RATE , 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)...

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...

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...

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 (...

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 dist...

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  Essentia...

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...

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 thr...

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 tra...

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 psychosoci...

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 Australi...

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 researc...

“… 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 engage...

From Courtside to Bedside. Göran Henriks developed the knowledge and skills gained as an international level basketball coach to become a world leader in healthcare management. He is the Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation at Qulturum in Jönköping in Sweden, and a senior figure in the International Quality Forum. Göran Henriks has been Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation at The Qultu...

From Glyncorrwg to the Globe. Andy Haines worked as a GP and researcher before realising that the greatest thing he could do for human health was to reveal its critical connection to the health of our planet. In 1991, he  was one of the first people to warn that the changes expected in the world’s climate would worsen health in many ways, writing in the  BMJ  that ‘more resources, and some fundame...

Professor Danielle Mazza is an internationally distinguished general practice clinician researcher and Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University. Her research and leadership have been highly influential in reducing inequities in access and improving the quality of clinical care delivered in general practice in women’s sexual and reproductive health, preventive care, the early...

The Influence of Clinical Education on Patient Care “There remains, I believe, a culture of  – What would general practitioners know about education beyond general practice? – Helping colleagues to realize that educational principles are transferable across sectors.” Sanjiv Ahluwalia graduated from the University of London (Medical Schools of Guys and St Thomas’s) in 1994. He completed his trainin...

Dr. Ruth Elwood Martin worked as a family physician in British Columbia’s provincial correctional centres 1994 – 2011. She initiated a prison cervical cancer screening pilot in 2000, and later became co-investigator on ‘HPV-FOCAL’, an evaluation study of HPV primary screening in British Columbia. In 2005 she became the Inaugural Director of the UBC Canadian Collaboration for Prison Health and Educ...

Clinician, Researcher, Epidemiologist, and Primary Care ‘Rock Star’ in Brazil. Bruce Duncan is a physician and epidemiologist, born and trained in the U.S. Being of a contrarian mindset, he became the counterflux – while the life path of thousands of scientists was to immigrate to North America or Europe, his, in 1983, was to move to Brazil. He has always believed that if you are interested in glo...