NCGP2022


Keynote Speakers

Niek de Wit

Professor & GP, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands

Keynote lecture: The future general practitioner: from solo player to conductor of the ’primary care orchestra’

Niek de Wit has been working as a general practitioner for more than 25 years. He is professor in General Practice at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Division chair of the Julius Center of Health Sciences and Primary Care. His research focus is on health care innovation, gastrointestinal disease and oncology in primary care.

Christopher Dowrick

Professor & GP, University of Liverpool, UK

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Keynote lecture: Mental health problems – a core challenge in general practice?

Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care in the University of Liverpool, a GP, and Chair of the WONCA working party for mental health. His research portfolio covers common mental health problems in primary care. He has published six books and over 250 research papers.

Linn O. Getz

Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway


Keynote lecture: On the edge - jumping off and flying high

Linn O. Getz is an MD and professor at the Dept. of Public Health and Nursing at NTNU, Norway, where she leads the local GP Research Unit. She has been devoted to general practice ideology since the 1990s. She invites us to re-think terms such as evidence-based, bio-psycho-social and holistic and argues that the GP community can learn a lot, both about the human condition and the role of the GP, from the basic natural sciences, complexity theory and narrative traditions.

Trish Greenhalgh

Professor & GP, University of Oxford, UK

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Keynote lecture: How new technologies could be used to reduce inequalities (but usually aren’t).

Trisha Greenhalgh is an internationally recognised academic in primary health care and trained as a GP. She leads a programme of research at the interface between social sciences and medicine. Her research seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and humanistic aspects of medicine while also embracing the unparalleled opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering.

Steinar Hunskår

Professor & GP, University of Bergen, Norway

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Keynote lecture: Education for future generations of GPs – what are the challenges?

Steinar Hunskår has been an educator and researcher in general practice for many years. His textbook is used in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia. As a researcher, he has published several hundred papers, in basic science, epidemiology and clinical topics. Recently, primary care emergency medicine has been his main interest.

Alexandra Brandt R. Jønsson

Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Keynote lecture: The Usual Suspects: Patients' perceptions of health inequity in general practice

Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson is a social anthropologist working within the fields of medicine, public health and social sciences. Her research is focused on the patient experiences of aging and multimorbidity with a particular focus on severe mental illnesses. She is also doing research in health inequality and inequity and overdiagnosis.

Hans Christian Kjeldsen

PhD & GP, Editor in Chief Lægehåndboken, Denmark

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Keynote lecture: When 1 + 1 equals more than 2 - primary care teams to meet future demands

Hans Christian Kjeldsen is running a GP Clinic in rural Denmark with focus on delegating tasks, and he is Editor-in-Chief for “Lægehåndbogen”. He is also researcher at the Section for General Practice University of Aarhus, where he passed his PhD in 2005. He was head of the University GP Clinic Aarhus 2010-2015. In 2018 he was awarded the innovation price “The golden lancet”.

Tuomas Koskela

Associate Professor & GP, University of Tampere, Finland

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Keynote lecture: On the edge – landing in the digital future

Tuomas Koskela is Associate Professor of General Practice at the Tampere University in Finland. His research interest is focused on eHealth and digital applications in Primary Care. He has been EGPRN national for Finland representative since 2010. He is also the chair of the guideline development group of Finnish Multimorbidity Current Care Guideline.

Bente Prytz Mjølstad

Associate Professor & GP, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Keynote lecture: Continuity of care as a core value in general practice; rock solid or on the edge of the cliff?

Bente Prytz Mjølstad is a GP and completed her PhD "Knowing patients as persons” in 2015. She is passionate about teaching medical students and doing research related to various aspects of general practice at the GP Research Unit in Trondheim. Her research is focused on the doctor-patient relationship and impact of adverse life stories. She is also doing research in palliative care, obesity, guidelines, over-treatment.

Deborah Swinglehurst

Professor & GP, Queen Mary University, London, UK

Keynote lecture: The technological reshaping of general practice – hype and reality

Deborah Swinglehurst is Professor of Primary Care at Queen Mary University of London and a GP in Suffolk, UK. Her research explores the role of social interaction, relationships and working practices in primary health care settings and she is particularly interested in ethnographic and narrative methods. Her research portfolio includes a focus on technologies-in-practice and medicines optimisation. 


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