Keynote speakers
Fiona Godlee
Fiona Godlee
Fiona Godlee has been editor in chief of the BMJ since 2005. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Since joining the BMJ in 1990 she has written on a broad range of issues, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organisation, the ethics of academic publication, and the problems of editorial peer review. In 1994 she spent a year at Harvard University as a Harkness Fellow, evaluating efforts to bridge the gap between medical research and practice. On returning to the UK, she led the development of BMJ Clinical Evidence, which evaluates the best available evidence on the benefits and harms of treatments and is now provided worldwide to over a million clinicians in 9 languages. In 2000 she moved to Current Science Group to establish the open access online publisher BioMed Central as editorial director for medicine. In 2003 she returned to the BMJ Group to head up its new Knowledge division. She has served as president of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.
Roger Kneebone
Roger Kneebone
Reader in Surgical Education, Imperial College London.
Roger Kneebone trained as a general surgeon and then as a general practitioner. In 2003 he joined Imperial College London, where his research focuses on simulation and the contextualisation of clinical learning. He has developed innovative approaches to learning and assessing clinical procedures, using hybrid combinations of models and simulated patients. He is currently developing lightweight, portable yet realistic surgical environments for training and assessment. Roger directs Imperial’s Masters in Education (M Ed) in Surgical Education.
Paul Booton
Paul Booton
Director of Primary Care Education at Imperial College London.
He trained initially as a physician before moving into academic General Practice at UMDS. He moved to King’s where he set up the first experiment teaching general medicine in general practice. As Undergraduate Dean he led the development of the King’s New Curriculum and the merger of the Kings and Guy’s & St Thomas curriculum. He developed the final year of the new course designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate study and the needs of new graduates. As Director of Primary Care Education at Imperial he has rejuvenated the teaching programmes and is working to integrate them more closely into the undergraduate curriculum. He is head of the Year 5 exam board.
Professor Jan De Maeseneer
Professor Jan De Maeseneer
Jan De Maeseneer graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1977 at Ghent University (Belgium). Since 1978, he has been working part-time as a family physician in the community health centre Botermarkt in Ledeberg. Since 1991, he chairs the department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. Since October 2008 he is the vice-dean for strategic planning at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
His research activities focus on epidemiology of general practice, functioning of GPs, prescription behaviour, medical decision making, medical education, health systems research, equity in health care, telematics in health care, health outcome and health and poverty.
Professor De Maeseneer is chairman of the European Forum for Primary Care (www.euprimarycare.org). He is promoter of the Primafamed-network (www.primafamed.ugent.be) and Secretary General of the Network "Towards Unity for Health" (www.the-networktufh.org).
In 1990-91, he was adviser on primary health care to the federal Minister of Health. Since 1997, he has been a member of the Flemish Health Council. He is currently the chairman of the Flemish Strategic Advisory Council for Welfare, Family and Health.
Professor J. De Maeseneer was a member of the Knowledge Network "Health System" of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Renewal of Primary Health Care of WHO. Since October 2010 he is leading the International Centre for Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, a WHO Collaborating Centre on Primary Health Care.
