Wonca Europe Podcasts

Welcome to the recording of the webinar "Prevention in the elderly: what should we know, especially on vaccinations?". The presenter is Dr Tom Axelrod and the webinar is hosted by Dr Ferdinando Petrazzuoli. This webinar was recorded on 27 July 2023.

Welcome to the recording of the webinar "From Vaccination Hesitancy to Health - Bridging the Gap". The presenter is Professor Dorit Nitzan and the webinar is hosted by Dr Ferdinando Petrazzuoli. This webinar was recorded on 24 July 2023.

Welcome to the recording of the webinar "Herpes zoster (shingles) - Why should we make the effort to prevent it, and how?". The presenter is Dr. David Shasha and the webinar is hosted by Dr Ferdinando Petrazzuoli. This webinar was recorded on 20 December 2022.

Welcome to the recording of the webinar "Vaccination in adults: challenge across European countries.". The presenter is Dr. Gindrovel Dumitra and the webinar is hosted by Dr Ferdinando Petrazzuoli. This webinar was recorded on 30 November 2022.

WONCA Europe organizes a special talk session called WETalk. This  time we are talking with our previous guest Dr. Pavlo Kolesnyk and  following up the medical situation in Ukraine.

Dr. Pavlo Kolesnyk is a well known WONCA Europe member, actively  working Family Doctor from Ukraine. With the start of the crises he has  been actively working on supporting the influx of refugees into his  region. At the same time continuing the education of his trainees.  During this WETalk he will give an update on the medical situation in  Ukraine.

WONCA Europe organizes a special talk session called WETalk. This time especially on the needs of the doctors in Ukraine. A live session with a well known member, an actively working Family Doctor who shortly and directly describe the current medical condition in Ukraine and talk  about their needs for those interested members of our MOs and our  partner organizations. 

This is a good opportunity for Ukrainian Family Doctors to be in touch  directly with you and vice versa. Our respected colleague Pavlo who has  worked with many of you as his country representative  will talk on the  needs like equipment, supply and technical support, also may provide the  reliable addresses to be reached by our members willing to send medical  aid.  

This recording is from 15 March 2022

Wonca Europe introduces "WE Talk". A short talk-show-like programme where a person of interest is interviewed.

Our fifth guest on WE Talk is Dr Sankha Randenikumara. Sankha is a young family doctor from Sri Lanka and the Chair of the Spice Route Movement (Wonca Young Doctors’ Movement of South Asia). He is a candidate to become a Wonca World Executive Committee Young Doctors’ Representative. 

Josep Villaseca is the host of this session which was recorded on 17 November 2021.

WONCA Europe introduces "WE Talk", a short talk-show-like programme where a person of interest is interviewed. Dr Mehmet Ungan will be the host of the show.

Our fourth guest is Dr. Pratyush Kumar. He is a young rural family doctor from Bihar, India. He is passionate about rural health and chairs rural health group of South Asia Wonca Rural South Asia (WoRSA), Secretary - Rural WONCA, Advisory board member - The Network-TUFH and WONCA executive member. During residency he was awarded best DNB doctor award which was first for a family medicine resident.

He founded WoRSA in 2016 during the final year of residency, organised the world rural health conference-2018 and it's Delhi declaration was endorsed by WHO and got elected the same year as WONCA executive member at large. He also participated in the WHO conference on primary healthcare which gave the Astana Declaration.

He is the founder of project HAPPY-G (Health Advice and Promotion, disease Prevention among Youth Geriatrics), Rural Health success stories, PCR forum (primary care research).

He is now a candidate to become a member-at-large of WONCA World.

This session was recorded on 15 November 2021.

Wonca Europe introduces "WE Talk". A short talk-show-like programme where a person of interest is interviewed. Dr Mehmet Ungan will be the host of the show.

Our third guest is Dr Maria Pilar Astier Peña. She is a Spanish Family and Community Medicine Specialist and a Preventive Medicine and Public Health Specialist from Spain. She belongs to Sem FYC (Spanish Society for Family and Community Medicine) and is the chair of the patient safety working party of Sem FYC. She works as a frontline family doctor in a primary health centre in Zaragoza (Spain). She is an associated professor at the Medical School, University of Zaragoza since 2005.

She is now applying to become a member at large of Wonca, with a special interest in the position of WHO liaison.

This session was recorded on 9 November 2021.

WONCA Europe introduces "WE Talk", a short talk-show-like programme  where a person of interest is interviewed. Dr Mehmet Ungan will be the  host of the show.

Our second guest is Dr Viviana Martinez - Bianchi. Viviana  Martinez-Bianchi is Associate Professor, and Director for Health Equity  in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke  University in North Carolina, US. She is a Member-at-large of the WONCA  World Executive and WONCA-WHO-Liaison since 2016, and Chair of the  Organizational Equity Committee. Viviana has represented WONCA to WHO  and the United Nations starting with the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs  in 2011. She is now one of the candidates for WONCA World President.

This session was recorded on 2 November 2021.