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Géraldine BRETAULT, Art Historian and Lecturer
Géraldine Bretault graduated from the École du Louvre with a specialization in Contemporary Art and Museology. An art historian, lecturer, and translator active in the cultural sector, she develops interdisciplinary lectures that build bridges between art history, architecture, dance, and literature. For more than 15 years, she has collaborated closely with Point Parole, part of the Beaux Arts & Cie group.
Join us in Cape Town for the WONCA World Conference 2027, returning to Africa for the first time in 25 years. The central theme is the role of the family doctor within the primary health care team in a rapidly changing world.
From artificial intelligence and digital health to the integration of primary care and public health, resilience of health systems, and multidisciplinary teamwork, we will explore how family medicine continues to evolve while staying rooted in its core values.
The conference offers an opportunity to share the latest research, innovations, and ideas, while building new international collaborations and professional networks.
It is also a unique chance for family doctors from across Africa and around the world to connect and engage with the global primary care community.
Cape Town — recently recognized among the world’s top cities for its outstanding quality of life, culture, and natural beauty — provides an inspiring setting for learning, exchange, and connection.
We look forward to welcoming you to Cape Town in November 2027.
Welcome to the WONCA Europe Conference 2027 in Ljubljana, where we will focus on one of the most pressing challenges in primary care: sustainability.
Across Europe, primary care systems are under increasing pressure from demographic change, workforce shortages, environmental crises, technological disruption, and shifting societal expectations.
In this context, sustainability is not optional — it is essential for ensuring resilient, equitable, and high-quality health systems for the future.
The scientific programme is structured around a clear systems-thinking framework:
from planetary health and the end of business as usual, through system-level reform in policy and financing, to the future of the healthcare workforce, the role of human-centred technology and artificial intelligence, and the evolution of the social contract between healthcare professionals and society.
This conference will bring together research, practice, education, and policy to explore sustainable pathways for primary care in Europe. We invite you to contribute your best work and engage in meaningful scientific dialogue that will shape the future of our discipline.
We look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana in 2027.
Dr. Iveta Nagyova, PhD, FABMR, is Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University (UPJS) in Kosice, Slovakia. She is also the Immediate Past President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), President of the EUPHA/EPH Conference Foundation, Honorary President of the Non-pharmacological Intervention Society (NPIS), Vice-Chair of the WHO/Europe Innovation Platform for Behavioural and Social Innovations, and the designated WHO/Europe National Focal Point for Behavioural and Cultural Insights. Previously, she served as a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health, the WHO/Europe Regional Director’s Advisory Council on Innovation for NCDs, and the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR).
She graduated in Clinical Psychology at UPJS, obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen, and completed postgraduate training at the University of Oxford through the Oxford International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme. Her work focuses on advancing biobehavioural and psychosocial innovations for the prevention and management of chronic conditions, with particular emphasis on non-pharmacological interventions, behaviour change, patient-centred integrated care, functional status, and quality of life. She is actively involved in the development and coordination of research projects, academic publishing, and the supervision of PhD students.
In addition, she is deeply committed to translating scientific evidence into practice and policy. Her work integrates evidence synthesis, co-design methodologies, innovative implementation strategies, and the scaling up of effective interventions to improve population health outcomes and healthcare systems. She has actively contributed to several high-level international policy and strategic documents, including the Ashgabat Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020, as well as the European and global WHO resolutions on Behavioural Sciences for Better Health.
Trisha Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She studied Medical, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford before training first as a diabetologist and later as an academic general practitioner. She has a doctorate in diabetes care and an MBA in Higher Education Management. Her research sits at the interface between the social sciences and medicine.
Her work seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and the humanistic aspects of medicine and healthcare while also embracing the exceptional opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering. Three key interests are the health needs and illness narratives of minority and disadvantaged groups; the introduction of technology-based innovations in healthcare; and the complex links (philosophical and empirical) between research, policy and practice. She is currently developing novel synthesis methods for complex evidence, based on hermeneutic principles and supported by AI.
Trish is the author of over 500 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks. She was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001 and made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. She has also been elected to Fellowship of the UK Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics, Faculty of Public Health and Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. In 2014 she was awarded International Fellowship of the United States National Academy of Medicine for “major contributions to the study of innovation and knowledge translation and work to raise the profile of qualitative social sciences”.
Professor at the University of Montpellier
Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Associated Head of the Institut Desbrest d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Montpellier, France
Research Fellow at the Montpellier Cancer Institute, Montpellier, France
President and Founder of the Non-Pharmacological Intervention Society (NPIS), Paris, France
Associate Professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Gregory Ninot is a full professor at the University of Montpellier since 2008, specialised in the evaluation o non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) in the healthcare field. Between 1999 and 2010, he conducted clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of physical and psychosocial interventions in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, in collaboration with Montpellier University Hospital. From 2011 onwards, he continued his work in the field of supportive care in oncology at the Montpellier Cancer Institute. In 2011, he founded a collaborative academic platform on the evaluation of non-pharmacological interventions in Montpellier, which became an international scientific society in 2021: the Non-Pharmacological Intervention Society (NPIS). In 2016, he co-founded an international research network on clinical trials evaluating behavioural health interventions, the International Behavioural Trials Network. He has been an associate professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal since 2019. In 2021, he co-founded and serves as deputy director of the Desbrest Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health in Montpellier. He became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2024 for his participatory work on NPI. He is the author of 14 books and over 190 scientific publications, focusing in particular on the evaluation and implementation of NPI in various areas of health. He has supervised several PhD theses by general practitioners and encourages their involvement in research.
Dr Harini Sathanapally is a practising General Practitioner and Wellcome-funded doctoral fellow at the University of Leicester. Her research interests are in addressing health inequalities and improving the care of people living with multiple long-term conditions. Her doctoral research focuses on ethnicity-based health inequalities in people presenting with breathlessness in primary care and the impact of underlying multiple long-term conditions, using a mixed-methods approach.
Valérie Masson-Delmotte is CEA senior climate scientist at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, France), which is part of the research federation Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) where she is in charge of the Climate Society Center. Her research has been focused on past, present and future climate and water cycle change, combining paleoclimate studies, observations and modelling, and has led to more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, acknowledged by several awards (Descartes Prize 2008, Irène Joliot Curie, 2013; Martha T Muse 2015, Nature’s 10, CNRS silver medal, EGU Milankovicz medal, SCAR president medal, 2020, IUGG gold medal, 2023, BBVA frontiers of knowledge, 2024). She is a member of French Academy of Technology and Academy of Science and Doctor Honoris Causa of universities of Utrecht, KU Leuwen, Bern and the Tibetan Plateau Research Institute. She is a member of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Programme, member of the French national ethics committee, and vice-chair of the Ethique en Commun committee. She is member of the French climate change committee (Haut Conseil climat) since 2018. From 2015 to 2023, she was Co-Chair of IPCC (Intergovernemental Panel on Climate Change) for the Working Group on the physical science basis of climate change.
A cardiologist from 1980 to 2013, he served as president of the National Union of Cardiologists from 2005 to 2011 and as president of the National Professional Council of Cardiology from 2008 to 2011. He has held numerous elected positions within professional, regulatory, and union bodies. Committed since 1990 to training, quality assurance, and patient safety, he was appointed president of the HCDPC from 2016 to 2020, and has served as a member of the National Council for Periodic Certification since September 2022 as a qualified expert.
As a member of the Board of the French National Authority for Health (HAS) from 2011 to 2017, he successively chaired the Commission on Improving Clinical Practices and Patient Safety, the Commission on Care Pathways, and, on an interim basis, the CNEDIMTS, and from 2016 to 2017, the CEESP. He contributed to the consultation process for the 2016 Health Act, focusing on community-based care and the establishment of CPTSs, and subsequently served on the steering committee of the Grand Health Conference in 2016. He is a scientific advisor to HCAAM, an expert at CESREES (part of the HDH), and a member of the HDH’s CoStrat; he specializes in the evaluation of new technologies and data analysis, particularly in the areas of care pathways and prevention.
He is the founding president of Xpéritis, a health consulting firm specializing in the evaluation of health technologies, digital solutions, e-health, and new organizational models, which was established in May 2017. A diabetic for over twenty years, he was elected vice president in charge of advocacy in September 2019 and re-elected in 2025 to the French Federation of Diabetics.
Dr. Sidorkiewicz is a French general practitioner, researcher, and professor based in Paris at Université Paris Cité. She combines patient care with teaching and research at the Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS, UMR 1153), METHODS team. Her work focuses on chronic disease management, shared-decision making, and prevention. She is also a member of the CNGE Research Division, where she contributes to the development of EBiM, an Evidence-Based AI Medicine assistant to help GPs access validated medical knowledge more quickly during consultations.
Lisa is a final year resident at The University of Luxembourg. She conducts research in digital and global health at Luxembourg Institute of Health within the Ageing, Cancer and Disparities (ACADI) team. She also led the development of the Luxembourg National Junior Doctors Association (ALMEVS), contributing to significantly improved working conditions for residents.
Jan is a family physician based in Brussels. He is the national delegate for Belgium in the European Young Family Doctors Movement Council. He has a particular interest in inclusive, patient centred care in super-diverse urban settings.
Dr. Laure GEISLER is a general practitioner and the mother of three children. She holds a university diploma in “Maternal and Child Health” and a university certificate in “Medical Information and Journalism,” and practices at a multidisciplinary clinic where her work focuses on prevention, sexual health, and mental health, particularly among young people.
In addition to her clinical work, she incorporates brief therapies (hypnosis, EMDR) into her practice, reflecting a strong interest in the psychosomatic aspect and psychological support.
A leading figure in digital public health, she founded the media platform “Le Cœur Net,” which has built a community of over 300,000 subscribers. She is the creator of the podcast LE PASSAGE, dedicated to adolescence, which regularly ranks at the top of the charts in the “Adolescence” category. Her expertise is sought after by leading institutions:
Her work in science communication was recognized with the 2023 Albert Creff Prize, awarded by the National Academy of Medicine.
For the past year, Dr. Geisler has been developing an educational ecosystem in the form of a newsletter dedicated to families with teenagers. In it, she has put together a comprehensive digital toolkit designed for parents, youth mentors, and healthcare professionals, which can be directly integrated into hospitals, community health centers (MSPs), and CPTSs. Each newsletter offers actionable scientific resources, including supporting materials and prevention guides that can be downloaded or screenshotted (practical tips, hygiene routines, independence checklists, decoding guides, self-monitoring tools, and parent-teen agreements).
Based on scientific evidence, these resources are designed to support local public health initiatives and coordinated care. The goal is to translate public health recommendations into concrete, practical prevention strategies, thereby promoting greater patient autonomy.
Dr. Pierre de Bremond d’Ars is a university-trained general practitioner working at a municipal health center in Malakoff, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
Active throughout his studies in student associations and unions (Anemf, Isnar-IMG, REAGJIR) and later in professional organizations (USPCS, Collège de la Médecine Générale), he is just as comfortable at a protest, sign in hand, as he is in a meeting at a ministerial office.
He is one of the founding members and currently chairs the No Fakemed Collective, an organization dedicated to combating misinformation in the health sector. The decision to remove homeopathy from public health insurance coverage is partly their fault.
Prof.em. Jan De Maeseneer, MD, PhD, (Hon)FRCGP, is a family physician and worked in the interprofessional team of the Community Health Centre in Ledeberg – Ghent (Belgium) from 1978-2017.
He was Head of Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University from 1991-2017.
He chaired European Forum for Primary Care from 2005-2017 ( www.euprimarycare.org ).
From 1997-2018, he coordinated the Primafamed Network , that supports the family medicine training In 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
He chaired the Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health, advising the European Commission (2013-2022). Actually he is the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Health Care – Ghent University since 2010.
In 2004, he received the WONCA-World “Five star Doctor Award of Excellence in health Care”. In 2019, he was elected as an International member of the National Academy of Medicine (Washington, USA).
Dr Karolina Griffiths is an academic general practitioner practising in an underserved urban area in Montpellier, South of France. She is a lecturer and GP trainer at the Department of General Medicine (DUMG), University of Montpellier.
Her work is rooted in using data to improve clinical practice, from her doctoral research on deferred antibiotic prescribing and health literacy to her work empowering patients facing health inequities to access better healthcare and address the social determinants of health.
She is actively involved in national and international primary care research networks and is committed to bridging the gap between research evidence and the realities of frontline primary care.
She is equally at home in a research network meeting and a podcast studio, and is passionate about making primary care research accessible, relevant and alive.
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Dr. Alexandre Gouveia is a primary care physician trained in Family Medicine (Portugal) and General Internal Medicine (Switzerland). After completing his undergraduate and initial postgraduate training in Portugal, he worked for five years in a Family Health Unit in Viana do Castelo, Northern Portugal. During this period, he was a guest lecturer in Community Health at the School of Health Sciences of the University of Minho (Braga), a member of the Executive Board of the Portuguese Association of General Practice and Family Medicine (APMGF), and the Portuguese delegate to EQuiP (WONCA).
In 2014, he moved to Switzerland to pursue a career in academic primary care. After obtaining his specialist title in General Internal Medicine in 2019, he completed a doctoral degree at the University of Lausanne, with a focus on potentially avoidable hospitalizations and ambulatory care–sensitive conditions.
Currently, Alexandre Gouveia is Deputy Physician at Unisanté (Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne) and Head of the Policlinique de médecine générale, a primary care unit with approximately 60 residents and chief residents undergoing training in General Internal Medicine. His current research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on physicians’ tolerance for diagnostic uncertainty in postgraduate training. In addition to his clinical, teaching, and research work, he is Vice-Director of the Postgraduate Medical Training School of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne and has been enrolled in the Master of Medical Sciences in Medical Education program at Harvard Medical School.
He is also the Swiss delegate to the WONCA Europe Council, representing the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SSGIM), and an expert for the WHO Emergency Ready Primary Health Care initiative. He has authored more than 50 articles and is the first author of the 4th edition of COMPAS, a French-language textbook of clinical guidelines for ambulatory primary care, published in 2026.
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Professor Dr. Péter Torzsa is Head of the Department of Family Medicine at Semmelweis University. Trained at this university, he completed clinical internships in Scotland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Board-certified in family and occupational medicine, as well as in hypertension and diabetology, he obtained his PhD in 2009 on the epidemiology of sleep apnoea in general practice.
His research focuses in particular on screening for sleep apnoea and depression, the links between affective temperament and metabolic diseases, vaccine effectiveness, the health of general practitioners, burnout prevention, and medical professionalism. He has supervised numerous students and doctoral candidates and has received several scientific distinctions, including the 2025 WONCA Five-Star Doctor Award.
Active in several scientific societies, he is the national representative of the European General Practice Research Network and president of CSAKOSZ. He also holds leadership roles in the Hungarian Psychiatric Society, the Hungarian Society of Hypertension, the Hungarian Society of Sleep Diagnostics and Therapy, and the Hungarian Diabetes Association.
Author of more than 180 scientific articles and hundreds of presentations, he has accumulated over 1,100 citations (h-index 21). Married and the father of four children, he spends his free time gardening, photography, cultural activities, and hiking with his family.
Dr. Peter Kowatsch is the President of the Austrian Society for General and Family Medicine (ÖGAM). He works as a general practitioner at the Primary Care Centre in St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee. Dr. Kowatsch is a lecturer at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg. He co-developed the training and mentoring concept for medical trainees in local practice settings. His professional focus includes prevention across all four levels, health promotion, and strengthening the role of general practitioners within patient care pathways.
Dr. Zrinka Huđek Leskovar is a specialist in family medicine with a strong professional focus on the development and advancement of primary health care. Since October 2024, she has served as President of KoHOM (Coordination of Croatian Family Medicine), the national professional organization representing family physicians in Croatia. As an active member of KoHOM since its founding, she has been consistently engaged in professional advocacy, with particular emphasis on strengthening the position of family medicine and protecting the rights and professional standards of family physicians within the health care system.
Torgeir Hoff Skavøy has worked as a general practitioner at Bønes Legesenter in Bergen, Norway, since 2006 and is a specialist in family medicine. He is Chair of the Norwegian Association of General Practitioners (NFA). His work focuses on health policy, social inequalities in health, and the digital transformation of primary care, addressing both its opportunities and limitations. He is particularly committed to developing a sustainable healthcare system and strengthening primary care as the cornerstone of effective, equitable, and person-centred health services.
Dr Dragan Gjorgjievski, MD, PhD is a family medicine specialist and Doctor of Medical Sciences based in Skopje, North Macedonia. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University and has been practicing in primary health care since 2014.
He became a specialist in family medicine in 2018 and obtained his PhD in 2021 with a doctoral thesis focused on evaluating different smoking cessation models. His clinical work is dedicated to comprehensive patient care, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term follow-up.
Dr Gjorgjievski is actively involved in national and international research, particularly in the fields of smoking cessation, respiratory diseases, dementia, and COVID-19 management in primary care. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications and conference presentations across Europe.
He currently serves as President of the Association of Family Medicine of North Macedonia and Vice President of UEMO, contributing to the advancement of family medicine at both national and European levels.
Dr. Dumitra is a primary care physician in Family Medicine based in Sadova, Dolj County, Romania. He serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova.
Dr. Dumitra is highly active in national and international medical organizations. He is the Vice President of the Romanian National Society of Family Medicine (SNMF) and the Secretary General of the Romanian College of Physicians (CMR). Internationally, he serves in the past as the Secretary General of the European Union of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (UEMO).
He is also the coordinator of the SNMF’s Vaccinology Working Group and a member of several European networks, including EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association) and EURACT (European Academy of Teachers in General Practice). His professional interests focus on family medicine, vaccinology, rural medicine, and medical education.
Dr. Gabunia MD, MPH is a certified Family Physician in Georgia and works as a consultant at National Family Medicine Training Center. She is a founder and a board member of the Georgia Family Medicine Association. Dr. Gabunia has spent the last 18 years in senior-level management positions leading and supporting public health initiatives, including TB, Malaria, HIV, Primary Health Care, health financing, governance, and human resources.
In 2019-2024 Tamar Gabunia worked as the First Deputy Minister at the Ministry for IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs. In parallel in 2022-2024 Dr Gabunia was an acting director for the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health in Georgia.
Habib Jerbi, a general practitioner for 40 years, has dedicated his career to family medicine in Tunisia. A former member of the Tunisian Society of Family Medicine, he also served as Secretary General of the Tunisian Union of Independent Physicians and as a member of the Medical Council of the Central Region. He is currently President of the Tunisian Society of General and Family Medicine (STMGF).
Born in Oran 06/28/1969 widower with three children
Education:
Baccalaureate 1987
Doctorate in medicine October 1993
Interuniversity diploma in pedagogy and communication University of Nantes 2007
Certificate of complementary studies from the faculty of Monastir Tunisia 2017
Experience:
Professional:
Emergency physician in public hospitals 1994 -1999
Physician in my own private health establishment since 1999 until now
Associative:
Founder of the association of asthmatics of the wilaya of Mostaganem 1996
President of the association of general practitioners of Mostaganem 2003-2009
President and founder of the Algerian society of general medicine 2011-2017
President of the Association of General Practitioners of Mostaganem 2020-2025
And currently Secretary General of the Algerian Society of General Medicine 2023-2025
President of of the Algerian Society of General Medicine 2025-2027
Dr. Kateřina Javorská graduated from Charles University, Prague, in 2003 and obtained her specialty certification in General Practice in 2007. She worked from 2008 to 2009 as a GP in Essex, United Kingdom, and has since practiced as a GP for adults in the rural area of Nové Město nad Metují, Eastern Bohemia.
She is a founding member of Mladí praktici (Young Czech GPs) and a core member of the Czech GP Society, a member of EURIPA and represents the Czech Republic on WONCA’s International Advisory Board. She serves as a GP trainer and a postgraduate student in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové.
Her professional interests include rural medicine, preventive cardiology, and medical education.
Juan A. López-Rodríguez, MD, PhD, is a Family and Community Medicine specialist and Associate Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). He serves as International Officer of semFYC (Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine) and collaborates with WONCA Europe and WHO projects on primary care, mental health, and health systems strengthening. His academic and research work focuses on innovation, clinical communication, and the integration of digital and AI tools into primary care practice.
Troels Mengel-Jørgensen is a general practitioner in Vodskov, Northern Jutland, Denmark. Since 2022, he has been board member of Danish College of General Practitioners (DSAM), being spokesman for research and international relations. His passion is the use of point-of-care ultrasound in general practice. He has been associated to the ultrasound group at Center for General Medicine (CAMAAU) at Aalborg University, since the center started 10 years ago. He is also co-founder and board member of Danish General Medicine Ultrasound Society (DAUS) and co-founder and Chair elect for the newly started European Family Medicine Ultrasound Society (EFMUS)
Alessandro Mereu is an Italian General Practitioner in Tuscany, active in clinical practice, medical education, and primary care innovation. Member of EURACT, EFPC and of the EMA’s PRAC Committee, he trains GP residents and contributes to strategic development, digital transformation, and guideline implementation within AICP and European primary care networks.
Dr. Kateřina Javorská graduated from Charles University, Prague, in 2003 and obtained her specialty certification in General Practice in 2007. She worked from 2008 to 2009 as a GP in Essex, United Kingdom, and has since practiced as a GP for adults in the rural area of Nové Město nad Metují, Eastern Bohemia.
She is a founding member of Mladí praktici (Young Czech GPs) and a core member of the Czech GP Society, a member of EURIPA and represents the Czech Republic on WONCA’s International Advisory Board. She serves as a GP trainer and a postgraduate student in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové.
Her professional interests include rural medicine, preventive cardiology, and medical education.
lDr Thomas Patel-Campbell is Vice Chair (Finance and Member Value) for the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK. He is the lead officer for RCGP’s international work, as well as leading on membership, finances, estates and digital, and sits on the RCGP Trustee Board.
He is the RCGP’s representative to WONCA World and European councils, and attends UEMO meetings by invitation of the British Medical Association.
A GP partner working in an at-scale practice which provides care to 95,000 patients, in addition to his clinical responsibilities he is also the practice’s Director of Clinical Operations. He has interests in health inequalities, leadership, respiratory medicine, and digital transformation.
| Current Positions | Director (W3 Professor) & Head Physician Department of General Practice and Primary careUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
| Education | |
| 1993-1999 | Study of human medicine (MD), Marburg, Wien, Paris |
| Qualifications | |
| 2000
2004 2008 |
Dissertation in human medicine (Dr. med.)
Certified primary care physician (Facharzt für Allgemeinmedizin) Habilitation in General Practice and Primary Care (Priv.-Doz.) |
| Professional Positions | |
| 2004-2009 200920102006-2018 2010-2018 Since 2011 2015-2020 2019-2025 |
Senior physician, Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Göttingen, Germany
W-2 endowed professorship for Health Services Research and its Methods, Institute of Social Medicine, University of Lübeck Head of the Institute of Social Medicine, University of Lübeck Guideline coordinator of the German College of General Practitioners (DEGAM) Vice president of the German College of General Practitioners (DEGAM) W-3 endowed professorship Department of General Practice and Primary care Chief-editor Hamburger Ärzteblatt President German of the College of General Practitioners (DEGAM) |
| Research Interests | |
| Since 1996 | development and implementation of guidelines and quality indicators; health services and clinical research in an ambulatory setting; chronic diseases and multimorbidity |
| Selected Awards | |
| 2009 | Dr. Lothar-Beyer-Preis German College of General Practitioners (DEGAM) |
| Third Party Funding | |
| Received grants from the following Funding Bodies | German Research Foundation (DFG), German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Hamburg (KVH), Institute for Quality and Efficiency of Health Care(IQWIG), German College of General Practitioners (DEGAM) |
Aleksander Stepanović, MD, PhD, is a specialist in general medicine, with a particular focus on pain management and palliative care. He is the director of the Škofja Loka Health Centre, where he works as a family physician. He is also partially employed at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, in the Department of Family Medicine.
He is president of the Association of Family Physicians within the Slovenian Medical Association, a quality supervisor for the family medicine specialisation at the Medical Chamber of Slovenia and a member of the Expert Council for Family Medicine at the Slovenian Ministry of Health.
He regularly lectures at national and international conferences of family physicians and has published numerous articles as author or co-author in reputable domestic and international medical journals.
Andreas Stomby is the president of the Swedish Association of General Practice. He works as a General Practitioner in Region Jönköping county and is also Associate Professor in General Practice at Linköping University, Sweden. He supervises several PhD students and is the principal investigator of several research projects on type 2-diabetes and digital health care, cardiovascular disease prevention in primary care and deimplementation of low-value care.
Dr. Edward Zammit is a Principal General Practitioner in Malta’s Primary Health Care Department and serves as Immediate Past President, Vice President, and Education Secretary of the Malta College of Family Doctors. A dedicated leader in medical education and assessment, he has strengthened national training and examination standards through strategic collaborations with the RCGP and WONCA Europe. Dr. Zammit has championed educational innovation and quality improvement initiatives that have transformed family medicine training in Malta. He continues to mentor the next generation of family doctors and remains committed to advancing primary care excellence across diverse communities.
Dr. Guzin Zeren Ozturk is a Professor of Family Medicine and the Chief of the Education Clinic at the Department of Family Medicine, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, where she oversees the training of 64 residents. She has been serving as the President of the Turkish Association of Family Physicians (TAHUD) since 2024. Her research interests focus on vaccine smoking cessation and preventive medicine.
Dorien Zwart, M.D., Ph.D, is a practicing family doctor and professor of General Practice/Family Medicine and head of Department of General Practice & Nursing at University Medical Center MC Utrecht in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on quality and safety of innovation in general practice. Dorien is the current president of the EQuiP network and was president of the host organizing committee of the WONCA Europe 2021 conference in Amsterdam.
Dr. Aurore Girard, a general practitioner and president of the Scientific Society of General Medicine (SSMG), practiced in an underserved urban area of Brussels before continuing her practice for two years in Brittany, and then returning to Brussels. Her varied career fosters a demanding and human vision of general medicine, focused on continuity, accessibility, and adapting to patients’ needs. She advocates for the essential role of primary care within the health system and for the importance of rigorous continuing education. Committed to the development of primary care research, she works to strengthen the scientific foundations of the discipline and to support physicians in an increasingly complex practice.
Dr Mchich Alami Fatima-Zohra is a Moroccan General practitioner. She studied in the faculty of medicine of Rabat (Morocco). She has worked as a private physician since 1993. In 1994, she earned her diploma in ultrasonography. In 2003, she co-founded MG MAROC, a non-profit organization for general practitioners in Morocco. She was elected president of MG MAROC in 2010 through which many training sessions for Moroccan doctors were organized. She earned a diploma in pedagogy in 2011.
She is member of WONCA EMR Council since 2015, member of the Research Commission of the College of Health Sciences International University of Rabat-UIR-Morocco and Member of the Board of Directors of the Moroccan Society of Medical Sciences (SMSM)
She co-founded the general practice society for the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) in 2014 , the Arab Society of General Medicine in 2022 and the Pan-African Federation of Family Medicine in 2023.
Throughout her career, she participated in multiple international conferences and events as a speaker and organizer. She also wrote many research articles about general practice.
Dr Jean-Baptiste Kern is a general practitioner currently serving as a resident in general internal medicine at the Hôpital intercantonal de la Broye in Vaud, Switzerland. He manages inpatient care, emergencies, intermediate care and pre-hospital settings with a mobile emergency unit in a semi-rural area. Dr Kern is a member of EURIPA, JhAS and SSMIG. As a former independent rural general practitioner and senior registrar in France, he has expertise in family medicine, rural primary care, medical education and health policy.
Prof. Zaim Jatić, MD, PhD, is a family physician and researcher focusing on public health, chronic disease management, and patient-centered care, with experience in primary care teaching, research, and international collaborations.
Dr Andrée Rochfort is a GP with over 30 years of clinical experience. In the Irish College of GPs, she is Director of Quality Improvement, centered on supporting GP workforce health and wellbeing, and is active in GP education for Sustainable Healthcare, Planetary Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Andrée is Assistant Clinical Professor at University College Dublin, teaching medical students and on postgraduate courses. She was a member of the Executive Board of WONCA Europe 2013-2016, the Executive Board of EQuiP, www.qualityfamilymedicine.eu, and was EQuiP President 2022-2025. Andrée is a co-author of the European Definition of GP/FM 2023 and was co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the WONCA Europe Conference Dublin 2024. She is the national representative of the Irish College of GPs to EQuiP Council, WONCA Council, and chairs the new WONCA Europe SIG on Doctors Health & Wellbeing.
Sarah Cumps is a general practitioner based in Brussels, invited lecturer at UCLouvain, and Vice-President of the College of General Medicine. Winner of the General Practitioner Award, she combines clinical work, teaching, and advocacy for a more equitable and human-centered medicine.
Sarah Cumps est médecin généraliste à Bruxelles, maître de conférence invitée à l’UCLouvain et vice-présidente du Collège de Médecine Générale. Lauréate du Prix du Généraliste, elle allie pratique clinique, enseignement et engagement pour une médecine plus équitable et humaine.
Pr Catherine Laporte is general practitioner in a primary care center with 18 health professionals, in the center of France. She is professor in the faculty of medicine and director of the department of Family medicine in the University of Clermont-Ferrand. His theme of interest in care as well as in research and teaching : patients with mental disorders or substance use disorders. She is member of president of the French academic college of teaching general practitioners.
Laetitia Labonne has twenty years of experience in institutional communication, event management, and association governance. After thirteen years at the consulting and lobbying firm M&M Conseil – Boury & Associés, where she headed the communication and events department and oversaw the organization of over a hundred parliamentary conferences, she joined the Collège de la Médecine Générale in 2014. As Operations Director, Laetitia Labonne supports the Federation’s governing bodies, oversees external communication alongside elected officials (including the annual congress, newsletters, and activity report), and manages administrative, financial, and partnership-related matters.
Dr. Chloé Delacour is a family doctor based in Strasbourg,France and a former university lecturer in the Departement of Family Medecine at Strasbourg University. She is the past French representative in EURACT council.
Dr Mihai-Sorin Iacob is a senior family physician and pediatric specialist based in Timișoara. A certified trainer in family medicine and expert in point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS), he is a PhD candidate in internal medicine and holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication. President of EUVEKUS/EADUS (Vienna), he promotes diagnostic innovation in primary care across Europe. In Romania, he coordinates the national ultrasound group in family medicine and serves on the Ministry of Health’s Family Medicine Specialties Commission. A long-standing WONCA Europe member, he is active in several networks (EURACT, EGPRN, EQUIP, EURIPA) and co-leads the development of the European Core Ultrasound Curriculum for frontline physicians.
Dr. Agathe Scemama, MD, General Practitioner Dr. Agathe Scemama has been practicing private medicine since 2006 and has supervised medical interns since 2014. She currently serves on the board of the Collège de la Médecine Générale (2023–2025), the organizing committee of the CMGF (2024–2026), and the board of MG Form (2025–2027).