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 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.

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 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 GP out-of-hours arrangements, NHS walk-in centres, Advanced Access, GPs with Special Interests, the expansion in clinical roles in general practice, continuity of care, digital care and remote consultations, and improving the management of patients with multiple long-term conditions

“… 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 member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, USA and is now happily mainly retired to a small village with family, book clubs, a writing group, walking, stencilling, and gardening.  

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 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 on a regional and national level. Göran has nearly forty years’ experience of management in the Swedish Health Care system. He is a senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is the chair of the Strategic Committee of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

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 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 general (family) practice with Dr Julian Tudor Hartin Glyncorrwg, Wales. He was a consultant in epidemiology in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit between 1980 and 1987 and Professor of Primary Health Care at University College London from 1987 to 2000. He was Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) for nearly 10 years until October 2010 and continues to work at LSHTM as Professor of Public Health and Primary Care. He has also worked internationally, including in Nepal, Jamaica and the USA. He has been Chair of the UK Medical Research Council Global Health Group and a member of the MRC Strategy Board and of many other national and international committees. For full details see Wikipedia

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 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 the world.

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 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 programme director and most recently has been the Regional Postgraduate Dean for London. His educational work has consisted of managing postgraduate medical training programmes, workforce, and educational transformation with service providers, and developing interprofessional education. His research explores the relationship between clinical education and patient care/outcomes.

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 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 is also a member of two national advocacy groups – the Campaign for the Abolition of Solitary Confinement and the Canadian Coalition for Children of Incarcerated Parents.

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 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 pivotal role in establishing a solid foundation for evidence-based medical practice in his adopted country. Together, Maria Inês and Bruce co-founded a master´s and doctoral program in Epidemiology and mentored many leaders of the next generation of Brazilian investigators, produced five editions of what has been for 30 years Brazil´s leading primary care textbook, and influenced patient care and policy decisions through their publications on diabetes and related non-communicable diseases.

Emma 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.”