MedicsVoices – Details, episodes & analysis

Minna Johansson is a general practitioner working clinically at Herrestads healthcare centre a healthcare centre in Uddevalla, a small town on the Swedish west coast. She is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare.She is the lead investigator of the Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, focused on finding novel ways to make healthcare more sustainable for patients, clinicians, health systems, societies, and for our planet. Minna feels just as passionate about her clinical work as she does about her research. “My goal is to contribute to a more sustainable healthcare through research inspired by the problems me and my patients face in clinical practice.”Her PhD in 2018 was titled "Evaluating benefits and harms of screening - the streetlight effect?". Her research interests include methodological aspects of evaluating benefits and harms of screening when up-to-date data from randomized trials is lacking, informed choice/shared decision making, overdiagnosis/medicalization and how values and context can be integrated in evidence-based medicine.

MaryAnn Ferreux is the Chief Medical Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a Non-Executive Director for Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust.She has 20 years clinical experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and population health. She has held Board level roles as a medical leader in both primary and secondary care and is passionate about using digital and innovation to improve the patient experience for underserved communities, deliver better integration, and ensure equitable access to care. She is a thought leader for health equity in innovation and is leading on several projects to explore gender and racial bias in AI, debias policymaking and increase women in leadership for digital and technology. She has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of the social determinants of health. She is leading several initiatives to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine and is a Trustee and Chair of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) EDI Committee.

Professor Igor Švab. First Head of the Department of Family Medicine and current Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. He graduated in 1981, Masters in 1988, and PhD in 1991 at the University of Ljubljana. President of the European Association of Family Physicians WONCA Europe 2004-2010.  He is coordinator of national and international research projects and World Bank projects in the field of family medicine. Editor-in-chief of the Slovenian Journal of Public Health, Editor of the European Journal of General Practice,  Member of Slovenian and Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences, honorary member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK) and recipient of the title of WONCA World Fellow. He published more than 100 scientific and professional articles in MEDLINE.

Hilliard (‘Hill’) Jason is one of the most influential innovators in medical education.  With his wife, Jane Westberg  PhD, Hill has co-authored seven academic books on aspects of teaching and learning in the health professions, and has co-authored and hosted more than 60 widely distributed video programs on medical education in the health professions.Since the mid-1950s “Hill” has spent his career seeking ways to help enhance and humanize medical education and practice in the health professions. He is the first person known to have pursued medical and educational doctorates simultaneously. He designed and conducted the two largest, multi-institutional studies of medical teaching ever done. Since 1990 Hill has been Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Jason has presented keynote addresses, offered workshops and/or been a consultant on aspects of education in the health professions in 42 countries

Chercheuse, médecin de famille, professeure à la Faculté de médecine de l’Université Laval. Reconnue dans la recherche sur la prise de décision partagée et l’application des connaissances.

Initially trained as an architect, France Légaré is a family doctor in Québec city. She completed a master’s degree in community health and a PhD in population health. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation at Université Laval. In 2020, she received the Dr. Léo-Paul Landry Service medal of the Canadian Medical Association and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada President’s Award for national leadership in academic medicine. In 2022, she was named a Knight to the National Order of Quebec in recognition of her work in patient engagement in health care decisions.

Grant Russell is Professor of Primary Care Research and Director of the Southern Academic Primary Care Research Unit (SAPCRU) within the Department of General Practice at Monash University.

After working as a GP in Perth, he first undertook research at the University of Western Ontario and later at the University of Ottawa, where he was greatly influenced by Professors Moira Stewart and Bill Hogg, before taking up his current post at Monash University.

He is a world renowned academic whose work is focused on patient centred care and on understanding and measuring the impact of primary care on patients, clinicians and general practices. He has undertaken many senior leadership roles in academic and educational organisations.

Dr. Alan Katz is a family physician and health services researcher whose  interests focus on the delivery of primary care, including quality of care indicators, knowledge translation and disease prevention. Dr. Katz has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on grant funding totaling more than $20 million. He served as director of the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy for 8 years and is completing a term as president of the Canadian Association of Health Policy and Research in May 2023.

Sibyl Anthierens, associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, UAntwerpen is a passionate teacher of qualitative research methodologies to the wider community of healthcare researchers. A social scientist, she has been working in the field of infectious diseases in European primary care for over a decade. She explores strategic opportunities to deliver cross-cutting social science research across clinical and epidemiological work in infectious diseases research 

Raquel Braga discusses the challenges and opportunities in Portuguese Medicine. She is a Family Physician at the Health Center (CS) of Senhora da Hora in Porto, Portugal.

She was previously Clinical Director for the Primary Health Care area of ULS Matosinhos, a role she held until 2013. Since 2017 she has been Assistant Professor at ICBAS / UP-Institute for the Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar / Porto University. She has a particular interest in evidence based medicine and was previously editor, and later director of the Portuguese Journal of General and Family Medicine

John Frey is a thought leader in US Family Medicine and ‘Faculty Whisperer’. He is an Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin who engaged in many jobs over a 50-year teaching career. He loves books, coffee with colleagues, having wonderful trips with wife Cathy, grandchildren and friends. He was a liberal arts major in college and snuck into medicine because he was born a year before the post war baby boom officially began. He is also a very good garden weeder. A full life, no regrets