New Executive, Committees and chairs of WPs & SIGs 2018-2020
Our recent world Council meeting sees changes in the membership and leadership of many WONCA committees. Below you will find members lists for the new Executive (pictured above) and the Statutory Committees, as well as the Chairs of Working Parties (WPs) and conveners of Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
Executive Committee
President - Dr Donald K T Li (Hong Kong, China)
President elect - Dr Anna Stavdal (Norway)
Immediate Past President - Prof Amanda Howe (UK)
Executive Member-at-Large & Honorary Treasurer -Prof Val Wass (UK)
Executive Member-at-Large & WHO liaison - Dr Viviana Martinez-Bianchi (USA)
Executive Member-at-Large - Dr Pratyush Kumar (India)
Regional President WONCA Africa - Prof Shabir Moosa (South Africa)
Regional President WONCA Asia Pacific - Prof Meng-Chih Lee (Chinese Taipei)
Regional President WONCA East Mediterranean - Prof Jinan Usta (Lebanon)
Regional President WONCA Europe - Prof Mehmet Ungan (Turkey)
Regional President WONCA Iberoamericana-CIMF - Adj/Prof Jacqueline Ponzo (Uruguay)
Regional President WONCA North America - Prof Marvin Reid (Jamaica)
Regional President WONCA South Asia - Dr Raman Kumar (India)
Young Doctor Representative - Dr Ana Nunes Barata (Portugal)
Statutory Committees
Nominating and Awards Committee
Chair: Dr Anna Stavdal - Norway
Members:
Rob Dijkstra - Netherlands
Steve Tsai - Chinese Taipei
Ruth Wilson - Canada
Preethi Wijegoonewardene - Sri Lanka
Finance Committee
Chair: Prof Val Wass - (UK)
Members:
Francine Lemire – Canada
Job Metsemakers - Netherlands
All Regional Honorary Treasurers are ex-officio members
Membership Committee
Chair: Prof Marvin Reid - Jamaica
Members:
Oraib Alsmadi - Jordan
Jose Miguel Bueno – Spain
Pramendra Gupta - Nepal
Tesshu Kusaba - Japan
Henry Lawson - Ghana
Ruth Wilson - Canada
Bylaws and Regulations Committee
Chair: Prof Shabir Moosa - South Africa
Members:
Karen Flegg - Australia
Ana Nunes Barata - Portugal
Dora Bernal - Colombia
Richard Roberts - USA
Organizational Equity Committee
Chair: Dr Viviana Martinez Bianchi - USA
Members:
Kate Anteyi - Nigeria
Tin Myo Han - Myanmar
Julien Artigny - France
Thomas Meono Martin - Costa Rica
Kim Yu - USA
Bikash Gauchan - Nepal
Lucy Candib - USA
Working Party chairs
Education – Prof Val Wass (UK)
eHealth – to be confirmed
Environment – Dr Enrique Barros (Brazil)
Ethics – Dr Issam Shaarani (Lebanon)
Indigenous and Minority Groups’ Health Issues – Dr Tane Taylor (New Zealand)
Mental Health – Prof Chris Dowrick (UK)
Quality and Safety in FM – Dr Maria-Pilar Astier-Peña (Spain)
Research - Prof Felicity Goodyear-Smith (New Zealand)
Rural Practice – Dr John Wynn-Jones (UK)
WICC – Prof Thomas Kuehlein (Germany)
Women and Family Medicine – Dr Aileen Espina (Philippines)
Special Interest Groups conveners
Ageing and Health - Prof Dimity Pond (Australia)
Cancer and Palliative Care - Dr Alan Barnard (South Africa)
Complexities in Health – Dr Carmel Martin (Australia)
Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine - Prof Rich Withnall (UK)
Emergency Medicine -Dr Victor Ng (Canada)
Family Violence – Prof Kelsey Hegarty (Australia) and Dr Hagit Dascal- Weichhender (Israel)
Genetics - Prof Imran Rafi (UK)
Health Equity - Dr Kim Yu (USA)
Migrant Care – Dr Guus Busser (The Netherlands)
Non-Communicable Diseases – Prof Domingo Orozco-Beltran (Spain)
Point-Of-Care Testing - to be confirmed
Quaternary Prevention and Overmedicalisation - Dr Miguel Pizzanelli (Uruguay)
Workers Health - Prof Ezequiel Lopez (Argentina)