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MedicsVoicesOscar Lyons | Music, Medicine, and Medical LeadershipOscar 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 Leadership. He now runs Thrum Leadership Ltd., a spinout from his DPhil research that supports real-world impact from leadership development in healthcare through evidence-based programmes and research. Oscar is Associate Editor of BMJ Leader, Assistant Director of the G...2025-05-0520 min
MedicsVoicesParker Magin | The Real GeneralistProfessor 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, University of Oxford. His main research interests are the in-consultation experiences of GP registrars; antimicrobial stewardship; medicines use and deprescribing in older patients; and dementia.2025-04-2520 min
MedicsVoicesMartin Marshall | Clinician, Academic, Public Servant, Medical Leader….shaping healthcareFrom 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 the Royal College of General Practitioners from 2019 until 2022. He was appointed as a deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health in March 2006, and in 2007 became director of c...2025-04-1826 min
MedicsVoicesBruce Arroll | GP and Clinical EpidemiologistBruce 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 randomised controlled trial of sodium restriction and exercise in treated hypertensives. In 1991, he joined the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, where he has remained. His research changed to rational prescribing of antibiotics in primary c...2025-04-1422 min
MedicsVoicesDavid Pendleton | Communication and ConsultationPendleton’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 Director of People and Organisation Development from 2001-3 at Innogy (now npower) a FTSE100 company, and an in-house consultant at Cathay Pacific Airways from 1993-5 based in Hong Kong. He co-founded the Edgecumbe Consulting Group with his wife Dr Je...2025-03-3128 min
MedicsVoicesRichard Budgett | Olympian DoctorOlympic 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 Officer at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney, Salt Lake City, Athens and Turin. He was team doctor to the Great Britain men’s rowing team from 2005 to 2008 and was Governing Body Medical Officer for the...2025-03-2326 min
MedicsVoicesMylaine Breton | Soins de Santé PrimairesChaire de Recherche du Canada sur la Gouvernance Clinique des Services de Première LigneMylaine 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 from University of Montréal in 2009, and a postdoctoral at Université de Sherbrooke and McGill University. Her current research focuses on primary health care to better understanding promising organizational innovations to improve acce...2025-03-1722 min
MedicsVoicesMercy Wanjala: Rising Star in Family MedicineDr 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...2025-03-1016 min
MedicsVoicesCharlotte Williams : Working for the Greatest GoodCharlotte 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 t...2025-03-0320 min
MedicsVoicesFern Hauck | A life commitment to Infants and RefugeesFern 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 Ac...2025-02-2424 min
MedicsVoicesCarol Herbert | Primary Care and Participatory ResearchA 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...2025-02-1726 min
MedicsVoicesPaul Little | Researching Common Illness in the CommunityPaul 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 u...2025-02-0823 min
MedicsVoicesNicki Macklin: Kindness in HealthcareNicki 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 buil...2025-02-0320 min
MedicsVoicesClaire Lenne: Medical GlobetrotterThe 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 Ca...2025-01-2717 min
MedicsVoicesGlyn Elwyn: Helping Patients Make Those Critical Healthcare DecisionsGlyn 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 2017.2025-01-2021 min
MedicsVoicesAnna Stavdal : Global Family Doctor
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...2025-01-1321 min
MedicsVoicesGraham Watt-From Glyncorrwg to the Deep EndFrom 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...2025-01-0624 min
MedicsVoicesFabian Dupont. European Family MedicineFabian 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 i...2024-12-0920 min
MedicsVoicesShrikant Peters | A Future Voice of South AfricaShrikant 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...2024-12-0226 min
MedicsVoicesMark Ebell | Communicating POEMsCurating 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, screen...2024-11-1920 min
MedicsVoicesFelicity Goodyear-SmithFelicity 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...2024-11-1719 min
MedicsVoicesEva GrunfeldA 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...2024-11-1723 min
MedicsVoicesAjit AbrahamAjit 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, h...2024-11-0818 min
MedicsVoicesJohn Brandt BrodersenJohn 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 journals2024-10-2720 min
MedicsVoicesTim Senior: Caring for OutsidersDr 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.2024-10-2122 min
MedicsVoicesChris SalisburyDoing 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 G...2024-10-1521 min
MedicsVoicesAnn C. Macaulay“… 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 membe...2024-10-1522 min
MedicsVoicesGöran HenriksFrom 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 Qulturum in the County Council of Jönköping, Sweden, since 1997. Qulturum is a centre for quality, leadership and management development for the employees in the County and also for health care o...2024-10-1520 min
MedicsVoicesAndy HainesFrom 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 fundamental changes in policy, are needed to avert potential catastrophe’. Recognition by LSHTM when awarded the 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
Professor Sir Andrew Paul Haines trained in...2024-10-1519 min
MedicsVoicesDanielle MazzaProfessor 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 detection of cancer and antimicrobial stewardship. A strong proponent of evidence-based care, she has led and contributed to the development and implementation of key general practice guidelines used nationwide and provides expert advice to professional, government and policy groups nationally and around th...2024-10-1522 min
MedicsVoicesSanjiv AhluwaliaThe 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 training as a General Medical Practitioner at the Royal Free Hospital and Barnet Vocational Training Scheme in 2000. He has worked as a GP in Barnet since 1999.Sanjiv has been involved in clinical education since 2002 having started as a GP training pr...2024-10-1522 min
MedicsVoicesRuth Elwood MartinDr. 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 Education (CCPHE). In 2005, she began participatory health research with women in prison, correctional staff and academics, which is the focus of two books. , Arresting Hope and Releasing Hope (Inanna, 2014 and 2019), and several academic paper publications.
Ruth is a Clinical Professor Emerita, UBC, and...2024-10-1534 min
MedicsVoicesBruce DuncanClinician, 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 global health, why not work close to where the challenges to health arise? In so doing, together with his wife and professional partner, Maria Inês Schmidt, Bruce has championed clinical epidemiology, playing a pivot...2024-10-1524 min
MedicsVoicesEmma LaddsEmma Ladds. Athlete, Painter, Writer and Custodian of the Values of Family Medicine. “I am an academic GP partner in West Oxfordshire with a particular interest in narrative medicine and the GP-patient relationship. I also hugely enjoy teaching medical students. Outside of work I have far too many interests, which include painting, gardening, and trail running – often with my dog. My ‘place of escape’ is a wild, windswept, deserted beach in Devon in the middle of winter with miles of empty sand and crashing waves.”2024-10-1519 min
MedicsVoicesNorbert Donner-BanzhoffEvidence Based Medicine, Shared Decision Making, and the Diagnostic Process
Norbert Donner-Banzhoff was Professor at the Department of General Medicine, Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine at the University of Marburg until April 2023. He attained specialist recognition as a general practitioner in 1991 and joined the University of Marburg. In 1994 and 1995 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he undertook a master’s degree in community health.
He has a particular interest in evidence-based medicine and shared decision-making but one of his major interests is in the diagnostic process.
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MedicsVoicesJames MountfordJames Mountford’s career has spanned medicine, healthcare management, policy and education. After an early stint as an NHS doctor, James turned to management consulting – sparking an ongoing fascination with how to organise for learning across large systems, and best motivate people. As a Commonwealth Fund/Health Foundation Harkness Fellow, James studied the operations and organisation of American group practices, which provided excellent experience for subsequent Quality Director roles at UCLPartners and the Royal Free London, and as Director of National Improvement Strategy at NHS England.
James is now Health Strategy Officer for Galileo Global Education and Edit...2024-10-1522 min
MedicsVoicesSue HoldenSue Holden is Chief Executive of Aqua, an NHS improvement organisation. Starting her career as a librarian, she trained as a nurse, then as a midwife, and she has worked in the NHS for over 40 years. She became Executive Director in a Teaching Trust before becoming an Improvement Director for NHSI in 2015. She then worked 5 years with Trusts in Quality and Financial Special Measures, and from 2019 – 2022 as NHSE, National Director for Intensive Support. Sue believes in the importance of supporting individuals, organisations, and systems to improve.2024-10-1521 min
MedicsVoicesClaire LemerFrom Heartbreak and Tears – to a Stellar Career.
After graduating from Cambridge with distinction, a moment of insight as a junior doctor led to a Harkness Fellowship, a range of qualifications, and a career combining clinical work with senior leadership.
Claire Lemer is a General Paediatrician, with a special interest in organisation and system transformation. She has significant experience in medical leadership, combined with operational management skills and strategic leadership, at an organisational, regional, national and international level.
Claire is currently Chief of Strategy and Innovation at Birmingham Women’s and Child...2024-10-1519 min
MedicsVoicesMary FavierAdvocate, Campaigner, and Champion of Women’s Health and Social Justice
Dr Mary Favier MICGP FRCGP is a GP partner and trainer in a four-doctor practice in Cork, Ireland. She has been president of the Irish College of General Practitioners and a member of the Covid-19 National public health emergency team (Nphet). She has served two four-year terms on the board of the Medical Protection Society, the world’s largest medical indemnity organisation. As a founder of Doctors for Choice she is a long-time advocate for reproductive justice and campaigned successfully to change Ireland’s constitutional prohibition on abo...2024-10-1520 min
MedicsVoicesPedro Delgado“Quality improvement is not just a method to improve health care. Improvement is a trait of every human being.”
Pedro Delgado has led the key senior relationships, design and implementation of large-scale health system improvement efforts and networks globally. He coaches senior leaders and teams, and lectures extensively worldwide on large-scale change, patient safety, and quality improvement.
Pedro is Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, overseeing IHI’s work in Europe and over the years, also in Latin America and Australasia.
His has been a driving force is IHI’s global efforts fo...2024-10-1424 min
MedicsVoicesScott MurrayThe Trajectories of Death, Dying, and Palliative Care
Scott Murray brought death to the forefront of the primary care conversation- what patients wish to know and how we can make it better
Scott Murray MBE, FRSEd is Emeritus Professor of Primary Palliative Care at the University of Edinburgh. He founded a research and teaching unit within the department of General Practice at Edinburgh University so that people with life-threatening illnesses might access personalised supportive care from diagnosis of any progressive illness – probably the first such in the world. He has published widely in the BMJ, Lanc...2024-10-1420 min
MedicsVoicesClaire LemerFrom Heartbreak and Tears – to a Stellar Career.
After graduating from Cambridge with distinction, a moment of insight as a junior doctor led to a Harkness Fellowship, a range of qualifications, and a career combining clinical work with senior leadership.
Claire Lemer is a General Paediatrician, with a special interest in organisation and system transformation. She has significant experience in medical leadership, combined with operational management skills and strategic leadership, at an organisational, regional, national and international level.
Claire is currently Chief of Strategy and Innovation at Birmingham Women’s and Child...2024-10-1419 minMedicsVoicesKurt C. StangeFamily Doctor, Researcher, and Former Editor of Annals of Family Medicine
A rural family doctor led astray, an accidental academic, a reluctant editor, he became a garlanded leader of the profession.
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD is a family and public health physician. At Case Western Reserve University he is a member of the Center for Community Health Integration (CHI Center), which conducts collaborative Research & Development for Community Health and Integrated, Personalized Care. He is a Distinguished University Professor, and is the Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, Populati...2024-10-1422 min
MedicsVoicesCharlotte Blease“The Healthcare Gadfly”The term Gadfly comes from Socrates, in the defence of his life. Its about asking difficult questions, challenging the status quo, testing perceived wisdom.
Dr Charlotte Blease is a philosopher and interdisciplinary health researcher. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and Research Affiliate at Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Prior to this she was based at Harvard Medical School for five years and has held academic posts in Europe and the UK.
She has a diverse publication portfolio...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesJack WestfallFrom the High Plains to the Bright Lights…… and back.
Listening to the community- the farmers and ranchers, schoolteachers and students. “This isn’t just about me as a researcher and what I want, it’s what the community wants.”
Jack Westfall is a family doctor and researcher. He completed his MD and MPH at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, an internship in hospital medicine in Wichita, Kansas, and his Family Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Rose Family Medicine Program. He spent most of his career at the University of Colorado, while practi...2024-10-1421 min
MedicsVoicesSven StreitAn Academic Family Doctor Embedded in Practice. Sven Streit is a Swiss general practitioner in a rural community (Konolfingen) and Professor in Primary Care at the University of Bern.
He co-leads the Master’s program and conducts research into interprofessional primary care. Prof Streit is past-president of the Swiss Organisation of Young GPs (JHaS, www.jhas.ch) and served as chair of the European Organisation of Young GPs (VdGM,www.vdgm.eu) and chairs the committee to promote general internal medicine of SGAIM (www.sgaim.ch). He trained in epidemiology (MSc) at the London School of Hygiene and...2024-10-1415 min
MedicsVoicesWendy V. Norman“A Woman of Impact” A champion of women’s health who changed the landscape of sexual and reproductive health policy
Wendy V. Norman, MD, CCFP, FCFP, DTM&H, MHSc, is a Professor in the Department of Family Practice, and an associate member in both the School of Population and Public Health, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the LSHTM, in London, UK. She completed a MHSc (UBC), a diploma in Trop...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesRachael MosesRachael Moses is a Consultant Respiratory Physiotherapist, National Clinical Advisor (Respiratory) and Head Clinical Leadership Development at NHS England.
Rachael is a clinician who is passionate about the empowerment of patients, professionals and peers and raising awareness regarding equity, diversity and inclusion, making sure their voice is heard and showcasing the huge value of multi-professional working. She has experience working in the military, education, charity and third sector and has spent 22 years working in the NHS.
Rachael was proud to be the first non-medic British Thoracic Society President (2021-2022) and fortunate to sit on several...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesGordon GuyattThe man behind “Evidence Based Medicine”…and so much more. A world leader in clinical epidemiology who changed the way we read and interpret the medical literature. But, who began on a completely different career path…
Gordon Guyatt is a McMaster University Distinguished Professor. His work, focused on Evidence-based Medicine, has resulted in over 1,500 peer-reviewed publications cited over 205,000 times that have made him one of the world’s most cited researchers. He has played a key role in the development and evolution of the GRADE approach to systematic reviews and guidelines2024-10-1421 min
MedicsVoicesRebecca RobinsonAthlete, Academic, and Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine. Rebecca Robinson is a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine with a special interest in exercise in cancer care, frailty, and female athlete health.
Rebecca has a portfolio career that includes clinical time at Marylebone Health (CHHP), professional sport, and the NHS
She graduated from Newcastle University, and trained in both hospital medicine and Sport and Exercise Medicine. Her research includes work on the impact of physical activity on chronic illness, clinical research in oncology to address barriers and opportunities to integrate exercise prescription into medical c...2024-10-1408 min
MedicsVoicesJane GunnFrom Small Rural Primary School to Dean of Australia’s Top Medical School.
A trailblazer. Professor Jane Gunn AO was the first person to be awarded a PhD in general practice at the University of Melbourne, was inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research where she is also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Professor Jane Gunn AO is a distinguished academic general practitioner and inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research at The University of Melbourne where she is also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Jane grew up...2024-10-1421 min
MedicsVoicesMargaret McCartneyQuestioning Medicine, Health, and Patient Care
Doctor, Writer, Researcher, Investigative Journalist, and Guardian of Truth and Honesty in Clinical Practice.
Margaret McCartney is a GP in Glasgow and a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. She is a freelance writer, columnist for the BMJ, broadcasts for Radio 4’s Inside Health, writes regularly for The Guardian and is a sought after media commentator. She has written three books, The Patient Paradox, Living with Dying, and The State of Medicine. She is a strong advocate of evidence based medicine and has written on risk, screening, pr...2024-10-1416 min
MedicsVoicesCindy HaqDr. Cynthia (Cindy) Haq is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine. She has practiced as a family physician, teacher, and champion for health equity in the US, Pakistan, Uganda, and Ethiopia for more than 40 years. She treasures time with family, friends, and in nature.
Cindy Haq was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine with a lifetime commitment to primary health care, community health and family medicine. She has developed programs in Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, with the World Health Organization, and with governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Previously at t...2024-10-1420 min
MedicsVoicesPaul GlasziouPaul Glasziou FRACGP, PhD is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University.
His applied clinical research is recognised throughout the world, answering questions that change the way we make decisions in medicine. He was a part-time General Practitioner for many years.
Paul was Professor and Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University from 2003-2010. His key interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice. His research has influenced numerous guidelines and clinical policies and practice (cardiovascular disease management, screening, clinical monitoring, and antibiotics stewardship...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesBob KlaberBob Klaber is a consultant general paediatrician and director of strategy, research and innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Along with an incredible group of friends from across the globe he leads the conversation for kindness. You can find more information here: https://kindnessinhealthcare.world/
Bob trained as an educationalist alongside his postgraduate paediatric training in London and has a strong interest in individual and systems learning, quality improvement, digital innovation, behavioural insights work, leadership development and kindness. He has completed a mixed methods MD researching leadership approaches in healthcare.
In 2015 Bob set up a...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesAustin O CarrollDr Austin O Carroll is an inner-city GP in Dublin since 1997. The focus of his career has been improving access for communities affected by marginalization or deprivation to quality primary healthcare.
He completed a Doctorate in ethnographic research into the health service usage behaviours of homeless people. He was a co-founding member of Northdoc. He received the Fiona Bradley Award; the Time & Tide Award for his work with migrants; the Healthcare professional of the Year Award 2015 and was awarded an Honorary membership of the RCPI the Doolin Award 2019; and Gertrude Ronan Award 2019. He was awarded the 5 Star...2024-10-1420 min
MedicsVoicesAine CarrollÁine Carroll is Professor of Healthcare Integration and Improvement at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at the National Rehabilitation University Hospital in Dublin. She is Chair of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) and Co-Director of IFICIreland.
Prior to this, she was National Director of the Clinical Strategy and Programmes Division in the Health Services Executive in Ireland. During her tenure, Professor Carroll established the Integrated Care Programmes to promote coordinated care and teamwork across services and specialties, ensuring that care is provided effectively and seamlessly to patients as they move t...2024-10-1420 minMedicsVoicesArch G. (Chip) MainousArch G. Mainous III, PhD, is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine and Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy at the University of Florida
Chip is an internationally-recognized leader in primary care research, with more than 450 peer reviewed publications. His work has been cited more than 30,000 times with an H index of 85. He has received the Distinguished Research Mentor award and the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research from the North American Primary Care Research Group. He has also...2024-10-1419 min
MedicsVoicesRajagopalWalking 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 Relief at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences (TIPS) and the founder-chairman of “Pallium India”, a charitable trust. His initiative led to the development of a Government policy on Palliative Care in the s...2024-10-1418 min
MedicsVoicesTim olde HartmanPresident 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 Medicine of the Radboudumc. He received his PhD in medicine on his research into ‘persistent medically unexplained symptoms in primary care’. He contributed to the multidisciplinary guideline, GP guideline and care standard on Persistent Somatic Symp...2024-10-1319 min
MedicsVoicesJoanne RobertsSadly, 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 doctor, senior hospital administrator, editor at the BMJ, editor of BMJ USA. It’s been a successful academic and medical career, but it’s been a life with a difference.
Three careers, two genders, and one terminal dia...2024-10-1321 min
MedicsVoicesMumta HargovanMumta 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 health and communications to amplify evidence-based social impact. I have a decade of experience in healthcare, research, and consulting.
My background has given me a combination of academic and practical skills in working in...2024-10-1318 min
MedicsVoicesRichard SmithCasting 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. Smith graduated in medicine from Edinburgh Medical School and did junior house jobs in Scotland and New Zealand.
In 197...2024-10-1320 min
MedicsVoicesVictor M. MontoriVictor 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 clinical medicine and in social science. He works in Rochester, Minnesota, at Mayo Clinic’s KER Unit, to advance person-centered care for patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. He is the author of the book Why We Revolt...2024-10-1319 minMedicsVoicesLyle (LJ) FagnanFrom 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 research network at OHSU, the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN). In 2005 Dr. Fagnan was named “Family Doctor of the Year” by the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians. He has been an investigator on 50 ORPRN studies with a principal in...2024-10-1319 min
MedicsVoicesAndrea WilliamsonAndrea 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 care for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
Deputy Director of the GP teaching team at Glasgow Undergraduate Medical School, she set up and runs the BSc intercalated degree specialist course “Global Health Primary Care”.
She is a f...2024-10-1317 minMedicsVoicesNicolas SennAprès 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, qualified in medicine in Lausanne in 1998 and trained both in family medicine and epidemiology. From 2005 to 2009, he worked in Papua New Guinea for the University of Melbourne (Australia) on a research project on the preventi...2024-10-1215 minMedicsVoicesMatthew HarrisMatthew 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 working for the WHO in immunization programmes, and in Mozambique as an HIV Technical Advisor, and served for two years as a Global Health Policy advisor to the UK government.
In 2014 he was awarded a C...2024-10-1217 minMedicsVoicesMing-Ka Chan 陳明嘉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 believes that work in these areas will help all to thrive.
Current roles include Co-Director, Office of Leadership Education, at Rady Faculty Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Pediatrics Lead, Equity, Diversity, Inclusi...2024-10-1215 minMedicsVoicesJan FrichJan 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 University London and is Master in Health Administration from University of Oslo. From 2018 until 2022 he was Chief Medical Officer of a regional health authority responsible for specialist health services for a population of 3.1 million people in Norway. Dr. Frich is...2024-10-1215 min
MedicsVoicesJamiu BusariJamiu 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 recognised in many clinical and educational awards2024-10-1210 minMedicsVoicesKaren FleggArtist, 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 health and has been actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate specialty training for general practice for over 20 years.
She is President of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, taking office in October 2023 and...2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesBrian McAvoyBrian 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 medicine specialist and academic. He has worked with marginalised patients in urban, inner city, rural and remote practices in New Zealand, Australia, the UK andCanada. He was Foundation Professor of General Practice in Auckland Medical School, Head o...2024-10-1218 minMedicsVoicesAndrew BazemoreAndrew 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 policy evidence initiatives including the Starfield Summit series. He has served on multiple national leadership, board, and committees including Family Medicine for America’s Health, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), Society of Teachers of Family Medi...2024-10-1219 min
MedicsVoicesRoger StrasserProfessor 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 2002 to 2019. This was the first Canadian medical school established with an explicit social accountability mandate to improve the health of the people and communities of the region it serves. It has become a template for...2024-10-1219 min
MedicsVoicesHilliard (‘Hill’) JasonHilliard (‘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 career seeking ways to help enhance and humanize medical education and practice in the health professions. He is the first person known to have pursued medical and educational doctorates simultaneously. He designed and conducted the two largest, multi-institutional studies of...2024-10-1215 min
MedicsVoicesFrance LégaréChercheuse, 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 Decision Making and Knowledge Translation at Université Laval. In 2020, she received the Dr. Léo-Paul Landry Service medal of the Canadian Medical Association and the Association of Faculties of Me...2024-10-1217 min
MedicsVoicesGrant RussellGrant 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, before taking up his current post at Monash University.
He is a world renowned academic whose work is focused on patient centred care and on understanding and measuring the impact of...2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesAlan KatzDr. 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 is completing a term as president of the Canadian Association of Health Policy and Research in May 2023.
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MedicsVoicesSibyl AnthierensSibyl 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-cutting social science research across clinical and epidemiological work in infectious diseases research 2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesRaquel BragaRaquel 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 / Porto University. She has a particular interest in evidence based medicine and was previously editor, and later director of the Portuguese Journal of General and Family Medicine2024-10-1210 min
MedicsVoicesJohn FreyJohn 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 medicine because he was born a year before the post war baby boom officially began. He is also a very good garden weeder. A full life, no regrets2024-10-1215 min
MedicsVoicesEvert VerhagenEvert 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 Research Centres for the Prevention of Injury and Illness. He is also Editor in Chief of BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine.
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MedicsVoicesRichard TauntRich Taunt is part of Kaleidoscope Health and Care, a social enterprise working with others to build a future which is kind, connected and joyful. Rich is also the Lead-non executive and Chair of the Board at Here, a Sussex-based social enterprise provider of health services working to create exceptional care, for everyone.
Rich has spent his career working in health and care, including at the Department of Health, HM Treasury, the Care Quality Commission, and the Health Foundation. He started working life sweeping hair and serving tea-cakes (not normally at the same time).
Rich i...2024-10-1215 min
MedicsVoicesHelen BevanHelen once had one of the most intriguing job titles – “Chief Transformation Officer”. After 30 years as an internal change agent in the National Health Service in England she still works for the NHS for part of her time but otherwise she works with a lot of different organizations and systems supporting large-scale change. Most of her work is still in the UK but she also works with healthcare systems in many other interesting places.2024-10-1214 min
MedicsVoicesDominique AllwoodDr Dominique Allwood is Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners and Director of Public Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.A Consultant in Public Health Medicine by background, she has worked widely across healthcare in leadership, management and advisory roles for provider and commissioner organisations, academic institutions, national bodies, management consultancy, charities and think tanks.
She provides leadership and expertise on a range of areas including environmental sustainability, clinical engagement, quality improvement, improving equity and population health, anchor institutions and learning health systems.
She holds an MPH, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public He...2024-10-1219 min
MedicsVoicesAmanda GoodallAmanda Goodall is Professor of Leadership at Bayes Business School, at City, University of London. She studies leadership in healthcare and the qualities of the best leaders.
This episode was recorded in collaboration with BMJLeader
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MedicsVoicesTara KiranTara Kiran is the Fidani Chair of Improvement and Innovation at the University of Toronto. She is a leading academic who writes, broadcasts, and promotes family medicine. 2024-10-1214 min
MedicsVoicesLuciano DuroLuciano Duro is Professor and coordinator of the medical school at Univates (Universidade do Vale do Taquari), Rio Grande do Sul. There have been huge developments in medical education in Brazil creating major challenges against a backgroundof social and political change.2024-10-1209 min
MedicsVoicesCampbell MurdochProfessor John Campbell Murdoch, was the Founding Head of The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia. Known throughout the world as Campbell Murdoch, he is the doyen of rural medicine. His career has taken him around the globe from Scotland to New Zealand, via the UAE, Malaysia and Australia2024-10-1219 min
MedicsVoicesGordon CaldwellDr Gordon Caldwell’s is a physician with an interest in quality improvement. He published a photo that highlighted the paperwork needed to admit a patient with diabetes to hospital..and became a twitter sensation. But, Gordon has many other interests, including active safety management and the human side of medicine.2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesSavita RaniSavita Rani is a doctor, artist and poet. 2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesMartin DawesProfessor Martin Dawes has had a groundbreaking academic career in primary care on both sides of the Atlantic, starting in Oxford, moving to Montreal and now in Vancouver.
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MedicsVoicesMarie MurphyProfessor Marie Murphy is one of the world leaders in research on physical activity. Her research on walking underpins much of our public health guidance. 2024-10-1212 min
MedicsVoicesNiall DowneyNiall Downey is a cardiothoracic surgeon and transatlantic commercial airline pilot. He qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1993, and undertook subspecialty training in cardiothoracic surgery. He now flies transatlantic passenger planes for AerLingus. He combines his medical and aviation experience by teaching safety management. 2024-10-1213 min
MedicsVoicesPat HarroldPat Harrold is a GP, writer, broadcaster, and musician. We talked about his life in the media, the future of rural practice, and how to do …dermatology on the radio. 2024-10-1209 min
MedicsVoicesJan De MaeseneerJan De Maeseneer is one of the world’s leading Academics in Primary Care…
“Born in 1952, I was part of the ‘Baby Boomers’. There were six children and we lived in a small house. But, most important, our parents decided that after four years in the local neighbourhood school, we could go to the college to the city, and finally to university. It’s only thanks to subsidies, financial support for children to go to university, that we six children had the opportunity to study.”2024-10-1217 min
MMOA Podcast - Physical Therapy | Fitness | GeriatricsSHORTS: Can You Get Out of Your Chair Unaided? by Domhnall MacAuleyDomhnall MacAuley - Can you get out of your chair unaided? -------------------- If you like what you hear, consider Joining the Senior Rehab Project to get access to: Monthly Mastermind Meetup Newsletter Private FB Group *For links & the other podcasts in the Senior Rehab Project, go to http://SeniorRehabProject.com2016-07-2105 min
CMAJ PodcastsResident hours, RUDAS tool, follow-up for chest pain, jaundice, nocturia, tattoos, cannabis & moreSend us a textHighlights from the March 17th issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. John Fletcher, editor-in-chief, and Dr. Domhnall MacAuley, associate editor. In this issue: how different duty schedules affect day-time sleepiness of residents, using the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) cognitive assessment tool for multicultural populations, who gets appropriate follow-up after visiting an emergency department for chest pain, how to manage neonatal jaundice, frequent night-time urination, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and more. Full table of contents: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/187/5.tocTo request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caJoin us...2015-03-1118 min
CMAJ PodcastsNocturnal leg cramps, safety of quinine, EMR data, myiasis, turkey wattle, #JeSuisCharlie & moreSend us a textHighlights from the March 3rd issue of CMAJ, presented by Dr. Kirsten Patrick, deputy editor, and Dr. Domhnall MacAuley, associate editor. In this issue: seasonal variation of nocturnal leg cramps, concerns over the use of quinine to treat leg cramps, quality indicators of pharmacotherapy, dangers of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole co-prescribed with spironolactone, IV immunoglobulin as therapy, human myiasis in Canada, use of primary care EMR data for research, and more. Full issue table of contents: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/187/4.tocTo request a transcript of this podcast, contact cmajgroup@cmaj.caJoin us as we...2015-02-2017 min