Prof Chris van Weel – Professor of General Practice and head of the Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University, Nijmegen 1985 – 2012.

Areas of expertise
Public Health And Health Services
Primary Health Care
Preventive Medicine

Research interests
Morbidity in the primary care community, multi-morbidity, long-term outcome of primary care, primary care research capacity building.
Experience

– General Practitioner, Rotterdam, Ommoord Health Centre 1973 – 1985.
– MD Leiden University, 1973
– PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam, October 7, 1981
– President World Organization of Family Doctors, Wonca, 2007 – 2010
– Officer Order of Oranje-Nassau, 2007
– Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2003
– Honorary Fellow Royal College of General Practitioners, UK, 1991
– Honorary Fellow Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australia, 2007
– Maurice Wood Award, North American Primary Care Research Group, 2008
– Member Executive Global Alliance of Chronic Lung Diseases, GOLD 2004 – 2010
– Member International Editorial Advisory Board Lancet, 1996 – 2006.

John Øvretveit – Director of research at the Karolinska Institutet Academic Medical Center LIME/MMC unit

That implementation and resources are the keys to improvement is what John says he has learned from his 35-years as a healthcare clinician, improver and researcher. He is director of research at the Karolinska Institutet Academic Medical Center LIME/MMC unit in Sweden, and Professor of Health Implementation Improvement and Evaluation. John’s work is based on the belief that organisation and management can bring out the best as well as the worst in people, and that the right implementation and organisation design is critical for effective healthcare. Much of his work uses different social sciences to explain and predict events and processes in health care and clinical practice. He was awarded the 2014 Avedis Donabedian International Quality Award for his work on quality economics.
John is a Norwegian-Brit with expertise in the fields of health service quality, health management, organisation, evaluation, inter-professional cooperation and health reforms. Formally professor of health management and policy at the Nordic School of Public Health and Bergen University Medical Scholl, he has undertaken health evaluation and development projects in a number of African countries, Yemen, Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Baltic countries and the USA.