PhD candidate and general practioner in training

Jane Randall-Smith read Natural Sciences at Girton College, University of Cambridge followed by an MSc in Food Science at the University of Leeds. Jane went on to work as a Food Scientist for a major food retailer, in central government and in the European Commission as a scientific expert. Following relocation to Mid Wales Jane became technical director of a legal and technical consultancy to the food industry. Subsequently, after a career break, she had a complete change of direction and was involved in the establishment and subsequent management of the Institute of Rural Health, an academic centre of excellence in rural health and wellbeing. In 2013 Jane was appointed the first Chief Officer of newly established Healthwatch Shropshire, the local consumer champion for health and social care in Shropshire and part of an England wide network. Jane was involved in the establishment of EURIPA in 1997 and remains its Executive Secretary. Jane is a member of the Rural Forum of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and was recently awarded Honorary Fellowship of the RCGP.

Dr. Aneesa Abdul Rashid MBBch BAO (NUI) Dr.Fam.Med (UKM) She is currently affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She is currently providing services as a family medicine specialist in the Family Medicine Specialist Clinic, Hospital Pengajar UPM (HPUPM), and a Medical Lecturer in UPM. She has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented works at national and international conferences. Dr. Aneesa Abdul Rashid was recently awarded second runner-up for the Young Investigator Award in the Malaysian Society of Hypertension (MSH) annual scientific conference. She is an active member of professional bodies namely the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), the Family Medicine Specialist Association (FMSA), the Malaysian Hypertension Society (MSH), and the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (IMAM). Dr. Aneesa Abdul Rashid’s research interests include Family medicine, medical education, doctors’ health, and wellbeing, and non-communicable diseases specifically hypertension.

A general practitioner since 2009, Dr Marie-Catherine Reboul has been an associate lecturer in the Department of General Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier-Nîmes since 2016, where she is in charge of the "Simulation Unit". She is also actively involved in the Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health Pole and has created courses on taking care of yourself for young physicians in general medicine. Her teaching and research work focuses on teaching by simulation (simulated consultation, course around the announcement of bad news in general medicine), the design of websites for physicians and patients, tele-medicine and tele-consultation. On the care side, it is the bearer of a project to create a multi-professional health centre in Perpignan, which will be a reception centre for young physicians and will integrate learning by simulation into the structure itself.

Since I was a child, I dreamed of following in my father's footsteps and becoming a Family Doctor. This dream has been growing until today, and at 24 years old, I realize that this dream is getting closer to becoming real. I was born and grew up by the sea in Mindelo, a village belonging to Vila do Conde, Oporto. I spend my free time going to the beach with my friends or getting to know new places and landscapes. I am currently living in Oporto, and I am in the last year of the medical course at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto. Prevention and Women's Health are two areas that, throughout my academic career, have awakened a particular interest and that I intend to invest and deepen in the future.

Born and raised in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Cold is cool and knowing at least 10 types of rain is worth it. As the educational pathway finished my degree in Medicine in 2012 but during this year, I did participate in the IFMSA internship in Malta and Bulgaria and did a full academic year in Naples, Italy. In 2013 I moved to Barcelona to do my Family and Community specialization, I finished in 2017, and nowadays I am working in an Emergency Primary Care health center open 24/7 and doing what I love most and I just finished my Master's Degree at Critical Patient and emergency medicine. In 2013 I participated in the 1st Vasco de Gama Forum in Barcelona and became bewitched by the International Young doctors’ movement and in 2018 I became the Spanish VdGm Delegate. My love for Wonca Meetings begins in 2015, and since then they are a staple in my life. Since them being part of the coordination group is a whole-time role and I meet some amazing individuals during this time. I love to read ( academical and non-academical….so romance and sci-fi are my faves), listening to music ( pop, Latin, gospel, and R&B), TV series ( sci-fi, medical drama) cooking ( I just try everything and mixed it), baking ( during stressful times). And I am the proud mother of a 2 years old amazing, intelligent and conscious girl, and partner of an amazing man and family medicine doctor.

Esther Ribes Murillo is a Hospital Pharmacist who develops her work in the Primary Care setting. Nowadays, she leads the Primary Care Pharmacy Unit in Lleida (Spain), whose main aim is to promote the rational use of drugs in the community. Nowadays, she is focused in three pharmacotherapy fields: the appropriate use of antibiotics by her participation in the territorial Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, the reduction in overtreated and undertreated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and the improvement in prescription quality and safe medication use in nursing home residents. She belongs to two different research groups, Research Group of Primary Care Therapies (GRETAP) and Translational Research Group on Infectious Diseases of Lleida (TRIDLE). She has been awarded with different prizes for her works in antibiotics and COPD treatment and she has received a grant from the Primary Care Spanish Pharmacists Society (SEFAP) for the “Program to improve diagnosis and inhaled therapy in COPD patients” in which she is principal investigator.

As a GP I worked for years in Belgium and abroad. I am also researcher assistant at the Department of General Practice of Université Libre de Bruxelles since 2017 and PhD Candidate in Medical Sciences since 2019. My main research topics are substance use disorders and vulnerable people.

Mark is currently the Clinical Champion for Continuity of Care at the RCGP and has been a general practitioner and GP Trainer in an eight partner practice near Southampton since 1991. He is the Primary Care Adviser for the Wessex Clinical Research Network Executive. Mark has been a GP appraiser and mentor since the start of GP appraisals. He has a website to help GPs and appraisers with consultation skills and education about primary care, which is at www.docrick.co.uk . He runs a primary care information retrieval site the DocRick Know How index ™ on the national Fourteen Fish site. He previously worked as a senior educator for twenty five years in various roles from Course Organiser to Associate Dean for Medical Education in Health Education England. Mark was the founding co-director for Chandlers Ford Primary Care Network in Hampshire. His mixed methods PhD about feedback on quality of medical education led into the GMC National Training survey, and to his role as a visiting Professor at Winchester University. He holds dual qualification FRCP FRCGP having worked in Portsmouth, East London, and Australia in both secondary and primary healthcare.

Matthew Ridd is a GP and Reader at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol. His main research interests are: continuity of patient care and patient-clinician relationships; and the diagnosis and treatment of skin and allergy problems commonly seen in primary care, in particular childhood eczema.

Chris Rietmeijer is a general practitionist and a curriculum director at the GP training center of the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc. He is currently doing a PhD on direct observation of residents in the GP training practice.

Dr Rigas is the Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Obesity Management Specific Interest network, and has particular focus on obesity’s multi–generational effects. She is Senior Bariatric Medical Practitioner at St George Private Hospital where she is also involved with anti–obesity therapy research projects in collaboration with other institutions such as the Garvan Institute and the University of Sydney. Her medical degree is from the University of New South Wales, where she is now a Conjoint Lecturer. Dr Rigas is committed to ongoing education in obesity management for medical students, health professionals (particularly GPs and their primary care teams), as well as the general community. She does advisory work and teaching for the Australian Ministry of Health and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and is part of the Obesity Collective, which is advocating for shared responsibility for both the prevention and treatment of obesity.