WONCA Fellowship

Past recipients

The Fellowship of WONCA is WONCA's most prestigious award. It is awarded to individuals who have rendered outstanding service to the WONCA organization. It is awarded every three years at meetings of the WONCA World Council, but only if a suitably qualified candidate is identified.

2023 Fellowship recipients

WONCA fellowships were awarded to: 

• Mohammad Husni Jamal (Malaysia)
• Shyamalee Samaranayaka (Sri Lanka)
• Marie Therese Andrades (Pakistan)
• Basharat Ali (Pakistan)
• Donald Li (Hong Kong, China)
• Alan Abelsohn (Canada)
• Enrique Barros (Brazil)
• Val Wass (UK)
• Shabir Moosa (South Africa)
• Jacqueline Ponzo (Uruguay)
• Marvin Reid (Jamaica)
• Raman Kumar (India)

2021 Fellowship recipients

WONCA fellowships were awarded to: 

• Dr Sundara Arulrhaj (India) 2021
• Dr Patrick Chege Kariuki (Kenya) 2021
• Professor Felicity Anne Goodyear-Smith (New Zealand) 2021
• Professor Gboyega Adebola  Ogunbanjo (Nigeria) 2021
• Dr Riaz Qureshi (Pakistan) 2021
• Professor George Samuel Fehrsen (South Africa) 2021
• Dr Joseph David Scott-Jones (New Zealand) 2021
• Dr Kees van Boven (Netherlands) 2021

2020 Fellowship recipients

WONCA fellowships were awarded to: 

• Dr Oraib Alsmadi (Jordan) 2020
• Professor Kanu Bala (Bangladesh) 2020
• Professor Amanda Barnard (Australia) 2020
• Dr Barbara Jean Doty (United States) 2020
• Professor Chris Dowrick (United Kingdom) 2020
• Professor Karen Flegg (Australia) 2020
• Dr Douglas  Henley (United States) 2020
• Professor Amanda Howe (United Kingdom) 2020
• Professor Meng Chih Lee (Taiwan) 2020
• Dr Garth Manning (United Kingdom) 2020
• Professor Inez Padula (Brazil) 2020
• Dr Waris Qidwai (Pakistan) 2020
• Dr K Sri Ranjan (Sri Lanka) 2020
• Dr Ruth Wilson (Canada) 2020
• Dr John Wynn Jones (United Kingdom) 2020

2018 Fellowship recipients

• Professor Nurul Islam (Bangladesh) 2018
• Professor Ian Douglas Couper (South Africa) 2018
• Dr James Rourke (Canada) 2018
• Dr Roar Maagaard (Denmark) 2018
• Dr Sonia Roache-Barker (Trinidad and Tobago) 2018
• A/Professor Bohumil Seifert Czech Republic) 2018
• Dr James C. Puffer (USA) 2018
• Professor Marian Shanty Antoinette Perera (Sri Lanka) 2018
• Professor Michael R Kidd (Australia) 2018
• Professor Nandani de Silva (Sri Lanka) 2018
• Dr Mohammed Ibrahim Tarawneh (Jordan) 2018
• Professor Pratap Narayan Prasad (Nepal) 2018

Past recipients of the WONCA Fellowship

• Dr Prakash Chand Bhatla, India, 1976
• Donald I Rice CM MD, Canada, 1980
• Professor Bent Guttorm Bentsen, Norway, 1989
• Dr David A Game AO KSJ, Australia, 1989
• Professor Max R Polliack, Israel, 1989
• Dr Jack Froom, USA, 1992
• Dr Lotte Newman CBE, United Kingdom, 1995
• Dr M K Rajakumar, Malaysia, 1995
• Giora Almagor MD, Israel, 1995
• Dr Douglas G Garvie OBE, United Kingdom, 1998
• A/Professor Goh Lee Gan, Singapore, 1998
• Donald W Rae OC MD, Canada 1998
• Professor Wesley E Fabb, Australia, 2001
• Professor Vincent Hunt, USA, 2004
• Professor Roger Strasser, Australia/Canada, 2004
• Professor Charles Bridges-Webb, Australia, 2004
• Professor Richard Grol, Netherlands, 2004
• Dr Giorgio Visentin, Italy, 2004
• Dr Michael Boland, Ireland, 2007
• Professor Henk Lamberts, Netherlands, 2007
• Professor Zorayda Leopando, Philippines, 2007
• Professor John Murtagh, Australia 2007
• Dr Luis Pisco, Portugal, 2007
• Professor Maurice Wood, USA, 2007
• Professor Igor Švab, Slovenia, 2010
• Professor Cheryl Levitt, Canada, 2010
• Prof John Beasley, USA, 2013
• Dr Javier Dominguez del Olmo, Mexico, 2013
• Dr Alfred Loh, Singapore, 2013
• Dr Tony Mathie, UK, 2013
• Prof Bruce Sparks, South Africa, 2013
• Prof Barbara Starfield, USA, 2013 (posthumous)
• Dr Arno Timmermans, The Netherlands, 2013
• Prof Chris van Weel, The Netherlands, 2013
• Dr Iona Heath - UK, 2016
• Prof Bob Higgins - USA, 2016
• Prof Gabby Ivbijaro - UK, 2016
• Prof Janko Kersnik - Slovenia (posthumous), 2016
  
• Prof Nabil Kurashi - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2016
• Dr Francine Lemire - Canad, 2016
• Prof Christos Lionis - Greece, 2016
• Prof Job Metsemakers - Netherlands, 2016
• Dr Dan Ostergaard - USA, 2016
• Dr Ramnik Parekh - India, 2016
  
• Dr Marc Rivo - USA, 2016
• Prof Richard Roberts - USA, 2016
• Dr Goran Sjonell - Sweden, 2016
• Dr Preethi Wijegoonewardene - Sri Lanka, 2016
• Professor Nurul Islam (Bangladesh) 2018
• Professor Ian Douglas Couper (South Africa) 2018
• Dr James Rourke (Canada) 2018
• Dr Roar Maagaard (Denmark) 2018
• Dr Sonia Roache-Barker (Jamaica) 2018
• A/Professor Bohumil Seifert Czech Republic) 2018
• Dr James C. Puffer (USA) 2018
• Professor Marian Shanty Antoinette Perera (Sri Lanka) 2018
• Professor Michael R Kidd (Australia) 2018
• Professor Nandani de Silva (Sri Lanka) 2018
• Dr Mohammed Ibrahim Tarawneh (Jordan) 2018
• Professor Pratap Narayan Prasad (Nepal) 2018

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