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Walking with the Weary- caring for people at the end of life’s journey Rajagopal lived a “decades-long palliative care journey, walking with people suffering from life limiting illnesses, and lessons learned on how to befriend life until the very end, with compassionate care on one’s side.” Dr Rajagopal is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Policy and Training on Access to Pain Relie...

President Elect of NAPCRG, a senior researcher in primary care at Radboud University who has addressed some of the most difficult research topics in contemporary family medicine. Tim builds on the legacy of Chris Van Weel and Frans Huygen. Tim olde Hartman is a general practitioner in the academic general practice Oosterhout (Nijmegen) and senior researcher at the Department of Primary Care Medici...

Sadly, Joanne Roberts (b 1951, MD, University of Minnesota 1985; MHA, University of Washington 2015) died 19 June 2024 from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome. Richard Smith, who first introduced me to Joanne has published her obituary. A short version appears in the BMJ, this is a link to the complete  ⁠obituary⁠ . Joanne Roberts had a remarkable career;  an internist, a palliative care do...

Mumta Hargovan is a South African medical doctor, currently completing a masters in Public Health (specialisation in health systems and policy) at the University of Cape Town. She is a Knowledge Partner at Douglas Knowledge Partners, a strategic knowledge consultancy focused on magnifying the impact of ideas on the world. “I am passionate about working at the intersection of social justice, public...

Casting a Cold Eye, on Life on Death. Doctor, thinker, entrepreneur, activist, chief executive, but probably best known to an entire cohort of doctors as the editor to the BMJ. A man who inspired a generation. “Richard Smith is primarily known for what he is not: he is not the editor of the BMJ, but he once was; and he is not Arthur Smith, the stand up comedian and “grumpy old man” but his brother...

Victor M. Montori is a world recognized expert in evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and minimally disruptive medicine, an endocrinologist, health services researcher, and care activist. He is the Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic.  Dr. Montori is the author of more than 750 peer-reviewed publications and is among the most cited researchers in clinic...

From Alaska to Oregon-Champion of Community Oriented Primary Care. LJ’s practice, Dunes Family Health Care on the Oregon coast, was one of the 13 model rural practices funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Rural Practice Project in 1977.  In 1993 he joined the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University.  In 2002, LJ was selected to start a practice-based researc...

Andrea Williamson is a Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health combining teaching, research and clinical practice. Her career focus is on caring for those less fortunate. Andrea teaches and trains about the social determinants of health,  inclusion health  and trauma informed care. She leads on research about  “missingness” in healthcare  and is involved in wider research to improve car...

Après avoir terminé ses études de médecine à Lausanne en 1998, le professeur Nicolas Senn réalise sa formation post-graduée en médecine interne générale et commence à travailler à la Policlinique médicale universitaire de Lausanne (PMU) en 2002. Depuis janvier 2019, à la création d’Unisanté, il est nommé médecin-chef et prend la direction du Département médecine de famille. Professor Nicolas Senn,...

Matthew Harris is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses in the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and Theme Lead for Innovation and Evaluation in the NIHR Northwest London Applied Research Collaborative, UK. Matthew has lived and worked in Brazil as a family doctor, in Ethiopia wor...

Ming-Ka Chan 陳明嘉 (she/her) is a Chinese settler who immigrated to Turtle Island (known as Canada) at the age of six and is grateful to be on Treaty 1 Territory/homeland of the Métis Nation (known as Winnipeg). She has been a Pediatrics Clinician Educator at the University of Manitoba since 1999. Her focus is within the intersection of healthcare leadership education and social justice; she beli...

Jan Frich is a Norwegian medical doctor who graduated from University of Oslo and trained as a Neurologist with a special interest in neurogenetic conditions such as Huntingtons disease and neuromuscular diseases. In August 2023 he became the CEO of Diakonhjemmet Hospital, a non-profit general deaconess hospital in Oslo. Dr. Frich holds a Master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from Brunel Univers...

Jamiu Busari is a consultant Paediatrician and Dean, HOH Academy at the Horacio Oduber Hospital, on the Caribbean island of Aruba. He has worked and studied around the world and brings an insightful and challenging perspective to clinical practice and medical leadership. He is a fervent advocate for diversity, social accountability, and social responsibility and his achievements have been recognis...

Artist, Doctor, President. Dr Karen Flegg is a general practitioner, medical educator and President of WONCA, the World Organisation of Family Doctors. She also attended Art School. Karen has practiced mostly in rural and very remote areas and is an Associate Professor in the Rural Clinical School, of the Australian National University.  She has a strong interest in Aboriginal Health, women’s heal...

Brian McAvoy's career was about breaking down barriers in international General Practice. It was a ground breaking career that brought new ideas and concepts into teaching family medicine across continents but always guided by the principles of personal and continuing patient relationship. Brian McAvoy has been a practising clinician for nearly 50 years,working as a general practitioner, addiction...

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH is Senior Vice President of Research and Policy for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) leading all ABFM research functions and related activities. Andrew was previously Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine in Washington, DC. He has a stellar academic career with extensive publications. He helped create many primary care polic...

Professor Roger Strasser is a leader in the global reform of health professional education who has inspired innovative change in medical schools in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Professor Roger Strasser was professor of rural health and head of Monash University’s School of Rural Health in Australia before becoming founding dean and CEO of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) from...

Hilliard (‘Hill’) Jason is one of the most influential innovators in medical education.  With his wife, Jane Westberg  PhD, Hill has co-authored seven academic books on aspects of teaching and learning in the health professions, and has co-authored and hosted more than 60 widely distributed video programs on medical education in the health professions. Since the mid-1950s “Hill” has spent his care...

Chercheuse, médecin de famille, professeure à la Faculté de médecine de l’Université Laval. Reconnue dans la recherche sur la prise de décision partagée et l’application des connaissances. Initially trained as an architect, France Légaré is a family doctor in Québec city. She completed a master’s degree in community health and a PhD in population health. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Shared...

Grant Russell is Professor of Primary Care Research and Director of the Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit (SAPCRU) within the Department of General Practice at Monash University. After working as a GP in Perth, he first undertook research at the University of Western Ontario and later at the University of Ottawa, where he was greatly influenced by Professors Moira Stewart and Bill Hogg,...

Dr. Alan Katz is a family physician and health services researcher whose  interests focus on the delivery of primary care, including quality of care indicators, knowledge translation and disease prevention. Dr. Katz has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on grant funding totaling more than $20 million. He served as director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy for 8 years and i...

Sibyl Anthierens, associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, UAntwerpen is a passionate teacher of qualitative research methodologies to the wider community of healthcare researchers. A social scientist, she has been working in the field of infectious diseases in European primary care for over a decade. She explores strategic opportunities to deliver cross-cutt...

Raquel Braga discusses the challenges and opportunities in Portuguese Medicine. She is a Family Physician at the Health Center (CS) of Senhora da Hora in Porto, Portugal. She was previously Clinical Director for the Primary Health Care area of ULS Matosinhos, a role she held until 2013. Since 2017 she has been Assistant Professor at ICBAS / UP-Institute for the Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar / P...

John Frey is a thought leader in US Family Medicine and ‘Faculty Whisperer’. He is an Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin who engaged in many jobs over a 50-year teaching career. He loves books, coffee with colleagues, having wonderful trips with wife Cathy, grandchildren and friends. He was a liberal arts major in college and snuck into medici...

Evert Verhagen is a world leader in sport and exercise medicine research.  A movement scientist and epidemiologist, he is a professor at the Amsterdam UMC Department of Public and Occupational Health and the Amsterdam Movement Science Research Institute. He leads the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports which is one of a very select group of International Olympic Committee Resear...