Keynote Speech
WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Keynote Speech
Fri. May 17, 2019 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room 1 (1F Main Hall)
Organizer:Ryuki Kassai(Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan)
Chair: Amanda Howe(Norwich Medical School, Univeristy of East Anglia, UK), Ryuki Kassai(Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan)
Amanda Howe
Amanda Howe is a practising family doctor, an academic professor, and a national and international leader in family medicine. Since 2001, she has been Professor of Primary Care at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, where she was part of the founding team for a new medical programme. She has particular expertise in the teaching and learning of professionalism and patient safety; in the models and effectiveness of involving family medicine in community based medical education; and in resilience and doctors’ well-being. She also has clinical research interests in primary care mental health, the contribution of patients to health care, and in early interventions for risk factors. She served from 2009 – 2015 as an Officer of the Royal College of General Practitioners, previously chairing their research committee and the U.K. Society for Academic Primary Care. She is Immediate Past President of the World Organization of Family Doctors, having served as President from 2016-2018.
Ryuki Kassai
Dr Kassai is a founding Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Primary Care Association and acts as Senior Advisor of its International Committee. He graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, and completed a residency training in family medicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1996 he founded the Hokkaido Centre for Family Medicine (HCFM) and started the first formal family medicine training program in Japan. After having made the HCFM a successful model of Japanese residency program, Dr Kassai moved to Fukushima to found the first medical school department of community-based family medicine in Japan at Fukushima Medical University in 2006. He is a Vice Chair of the Organizing Committee, and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of WONCA APR 2019 Kyoto.
○David Haslam (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, United Kingdom)
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