AUDGPI ICGP Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

Professor Maria van den Muijsenbergh, General Practitioner; Chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC); member of the Dutch health Council, the quality council of the Dutch National Healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme.

Prof. Dr. Maria van den Muijsenbergh was a general practitioner for 40 years and professor in Health disparities and person centred integrated primary care at the department of Primary and Community care at Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands.  She is also the chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC). As such she is involved in interprofessional research, teaching and policy activities that focus on strengthening primary care and on the possible contribution of Primary Care in reducing existing socio-economic and ethnic health disparities, so how primary care best can be tailored to the needs of socially vulnerable patients, like migrants or persons with limited health literacy. To achieve equity, a strong person centred, population oriented integrated affordable primary care is required, involving interprofessional collaboration between healthcare, social care, public health and civil society.

She is member of several health policy organisations as the Dutch health Council and the quality council of the Dutch National healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme. 

Eoin Warner, Naturalist and wildlife documentary presenter will speak about ‘The Natural World - Healing the Disconnect’

Naturalist Eoin Warner is a wildlife documentary presenter in both the Irish and English languages and has presented some of Ireland’s foremost nature documentaries in recent years. In 2017 he was awarded two national media prizes for his work on “Éire Fhiáin”. He has co-presented on the English language documentary “A wild Irish Year” and recently completed an internationally broadcast three-hour series titled “Ireland’s Wild Islands”. Eoin is currently working on a natural history documentary on the Burren.

Eoin grew up by the Atlantic Ocean outside Bantry in West Cork and now lives in Galway. He is an avid free-diver and loves nothing more than to be in, on or under the sea. Eoin has travelled extensively to explore our wildest places from Botswana to Antarctica and has a keen sense of our ecological responsibilities.

Dr Sharon Lambert, School of Applied Psychology, UCC, will speak about 'Social Inclusion in Service, Research and Teaching'

Dr Sharon Lambert is a senior lecturer who joined the teaching staff in the School of Applied Psychology UCC following a number of years working within community based settings that provided supports to socially excluded groups. Sharon’s research interests revolve primarily around the impact of psychological trauma on development, its link with homelessness, substance dependence and mental health, and consequent considerations for service design and delivery. Sharon has particular academic and applied expertise with trauma aware, trauma sensitive and trauma informed service design projects. Sharon regularly provides guidance to national and international organisations on designing and delivering trauma aware services, policies and practices.

Dr Sean Owens, GP in practice in Co. Louth, will participate on the Planetary Health Panel

Dr Sean Owens is a full-time GP in practice in Co. Louth. Sean has an interest in lifestyle medicine, sustainable diets and planetary health. Hailing from County Down, Sean initially studied pharmacy at Queens University Belfast before electing to study graduate entry medicine in UCD Dublin, 2010-2014. Sean is a member of the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine and Irish Doctors for the Environment. He also chairs the ICGP Sustainability and Planetary Health working group, who published the Glas toolkit for making primary care more sustainable on Earth Day 2023. In 2024 he was invited to chair the Irish Climate and Health Alliance.

Dr Andrée Rochfort, MICGP, Assistant Professor Clinical Medicine, UCD, will participate on the Planetary Health Panel

Dr Andrée Rochfort is a GP based in County Wexford and is Director of Quality Improvement and the Doctors Health Program with ICGP. She is President of EQuiP, the European Society for Quality & Safety in General Practice/Family Medicine www.qualityfamilymedicine.eu, which is a Network organisation of WONCA Europe. She is a Board member of the European Lifestyle Medicine organisation, www.elmo.org. She has a master’s degree in medical education and qualifications in occupational medicine, lifestyle medicine and is working towards MD by research on doctors’ health and healthcare with UCD. She has published articles and book chapters and is an experienced international speaker with keynotes, symposia, workshops, and lectures in Europe and beyond.