woncaaprjpca2019/The 10th Annual Conference of the Japan Primary Care Association

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Keynote Speech

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[K2] Keynote Speech 2
Doctors of the Future

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)

[K2] Doctors of the Future

David Haslam (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, United Kingdom)


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David Haslam is Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. He is also past-President and past Chairman of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, past-President of the British Medical Association, a former vice-chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, and Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was a GP in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, for over 35 years and has been an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, and National Clinical Adviser to both the Care Quality Commission and the Healthcare Commission. He is also a Director of the State Health Services Organisation in Cyprus.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

He has written 13 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, and well over two thousand articles for the medical and lay press. In 2014 he was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the United Kingdom. He was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care, knighted in 2018 for services to NHS Leadership, and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Birmingham University and the University of East Anglia.

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