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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).