WONCA Europe Newsletter
November 2022
EDITOR’S FOREWORD
We are pleased to share the November edition of our newsletter with you.
You may find out about our recent events, including the meetings our EURACT and EGPRN networks held recently. Included also is the “WONCA Europe position statement on the redefinition of fatty liver disease”. Furthermore, you may learn more about WONCA Europe Executive Board activities through our last in-person meeting summary in Brussels, where we also met with WONCA Europe Conference 2022 Committees
We are very happy to announce that fellow WONCA Europe executive Radost Asenova has been awarded "Doctor of the Year 2022" by the Bulgarian Regional Medical Association, in the category of "Overall Contribution to the Development of General Practice/Family Medicine."
This edition features two articles on Ukraine: the first is about the latest news from INTERFAMILY Clinic Uzhhorod, and the second is about a visit to Ukraine by former EURACT president Jo Buchanan.
On November 30th we will resume our regular webinars, starting with “Vaccination in adults: challenge across European countries”. We will be happy to answer any questions you may have at the end of each webinar in our Q&A sessions. Please register through our website so that you can attend our webinars and have your say.
Our 28th WONCA Europe conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from June 7th to 10th 2023. Our theme will be “Making Choices in Primary Care”, and we invite you to consider attending and contributing. The abstract submission deadline is January 10th 2023.
Please keep updated by visiting our WEB page and following us on Twitter (@WoncaEurope) and on our Facebook page
On behalf of WONCA Europe Executive Board
Thomas Frese, President-elect
Jose M Bueno, EQuiP Member at large
WONCA Europe Newsletter Editors
The WONCA Europe president’s corner
Dear colleagues,
This new edition of our newsletter reflects the intensive and diverse activities of our member organizations, networks and special interest groups. Dissemination and sharing of the information with your colleagues is crucial to increase further international visibility of our activities.
We continue with our transparency policy and share with you a short summary of our last EB meeting
Yours,
Prof Shlomo Vinker
WONCA Europe President
News
The WONCA Europe Executive Board (WE EB) met in Brussels on Monday, 24 October 2022The WONCA Europe Executive Board (WE EB) met in Brussels on Monday, 24 October 2022 for a regular live meeting. The meeting was convened for the purpose of preparations for the WONCA Europe 2023 Brussels conference. WE EB had a fruitful... |
WONCA Europe took part in annual meeting of the Association of Family Physicians of Kosovo Pristina, November 10th - 12thThe WE president elect, Prof. Thomas Frese, joined the annual meeting of the Association of Family Physicians of Kosovo that was held 10-12 November 2022 in Pristina with the theme “Avantgarden of Medical Changes in medical Practices... |
WONCA Europe took part in 5th meeting of the WHO Regional Director for Europe’s Advisory Council on Innovation for Noncommunicable Diseases:Dr. Eva Hummers represented WONCA Europe in the first in person meeting of the WHO Europe Non communicable disease (NCD) Advisory Council and the first WHO-European Public Health Association (EUPHA) joint meeting, held in November 9th ... |
A Visit to Ukraine - by Jo Buchanan EURACT Immediate Past PresidentA Visit to Ukraine I have recently visited Ukraine at the invitation of Pavlo Kolesnyk who is a GP and Associate Professor in Family Medicine in Uzghorod. I have known Pavlo for several years through EURACT the educational network of WONCA... |
WONCA Europe position statement on the redefinition of fatty liver diseaseWONCA Europe expresses its full endorsement of the new term and definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). Our position is motivated by the challenges that the term non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)... |
Latest news from INTERFAMILY Clinic Uzhhorod UkraineDear all! Only a month has passed since the Grand Opening of the INTERFAMILY Clinic but so much has happened. The most important is that the Clinic which has been created thanks to your help, exists! 1. The latest EURACT... |
95th EGPRN Meeting, 20-23 October 2022, Antwerp – Belgium Theme: Research on integrated community care: Focus on GP, patients and populationThe 95th EGPRN meeting was held live in Antwerp, Belgium from 20 to 23 October 2022. The topic of the meeting "Research on integrated community care: Focus on GP, patients and population" was linked to implementation... |
Special award of the Bulgarian Regional Medical Association in the category of “Doctor of the Year 2022” presented to Assoc. Prof. Radost Asenova, MD,Radost Asenova was awarded a special award “Doctor of the Year 2022” in the category of "Overall contribution to the development of General Practice / Family Medicine" by the Bulgarian Regional Medical... |
EURACT 30th Anniversary Celebration during its Council meeting in Krakow (Poland) 20-22 October 2022.EURACT 30th Anniversary Celebration during its Council meeting in Krakow (Poland) 20-22 October 2022. On October 20-22, 2022, a meeting of the Council of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT)... |
Upcoming Events
 Vaccination in adults: challenge across European countries. 30 November 2022, Virtual |
 EURACT Snowball #3 Symposium: "How to run large group teaching in GP/FM in the digital era" 6 December 2022, Virtual |
 The Leonardo EURACT Level 1 Course 30 March - 1 April 2023, Malta |
 2023 European Forum on Prevention and Primary Care 17-18 April 2023, Porto, Portugal |
 96th EGPRN Meeting 11-14 May 2023, Split, Croatia |
 IPCRG 7th Scientific meeting Munich, Germany, 15-16 May 2023 15-16 May 2023, Maritim Hotel, Munich, Germany. |
 28th WONCA Europe Conference 7-10 June 2023, SQUARE Convention Centre, Brussels, Belgium |
 WONCA World Conference 2023 26-29 October 2023, International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney, Australia |
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