WONCA News

June, 2012

For the third time, the Lyn Clearihan Award for the best research paper published in the journal in the preceding twelve months has been awarded. This year the winner is Dr Mora Claramita.

June, 2012

A recently published PhD dissertation from Icelandic general practitioner Hálfdán Pétursson may provide some answers to the long time conflict between general practitioners and cardiovascular specialists, on risk factor thresholds for primary cardiovascular prevention.

June, 2012

The Junior Researcher Award aims to promote a generation of junior GP/FM doctors who include research skills with patient care as a life time career. This award honours outstanding research proposals from trainees or junior GPs/ family physicians with up to five years working experience after graduation.

June, 2012

Professor Michael Kidd, WONCA President Elect and chair of the Nominating and Awards Committee has made the call to WONCA Member Organizations to make nominations for the various WONCA awards to be presented at the world conference, being held in Prague, in 2013. The awards are: • WONCA Fellowship • WONCA Honorary Direct Life membership • WONCA Foundation Award and • WONCA 5 Star Doctor Award

June, 2012

WONCA Europe is proud to announce Dr Miguel Román, of Spain as the winner of the WONCA Europe Award of Excellence in Health Care: The 5-Star Doctor 2012.

June, 2012

WONCA Asia Pacific region council has announced the final list of bursary recipients who will have been aided to attend the region conference in Jeju, in May.

June, 2012

The International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) 6th world conference, was held in Edinburgh, April 2012. The conference attracted over 1000 delegates from 40 countries.

June, 2012

A summary of WONCA's Working Party on Research activities in the past year.

June, 2012

The meeting, held May 7 and 8, brought together members of the CARMEN (Set of Actions for the Multisectoral Reduction of Non-communicable Diseases) network to discuss how to transform the declaration signed at last year's United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases into policies, programs, and concrete actions.

June, 2012

Expertos de la región acuerdan acciones ultisectoriales para combatir enfermedades no transmisibles