Clinician, Activist, and Thought Leader who Challenged Accepted Obstetric CareFamily Physician, Pediatrician, Neonatologist, Maternity Care Researcher, Maternity, Primary Care and Organizational Consultant“Refusing to serve as an officer in the US Army Medical Corps during the Viet Nam War, he fled to Canada in 1967 with his wife Bonnie. He became a family practitioner, pediatrician, advocate, professor, and researcher at McGill and the University of British Columbia. Michael Klein has played a vital role in placing maternity care at the heart of family medicine. Motivated by concerns over the harmful effects of certain then widespread medical interventions, he pushed for the adoption of family-friendly birth practices, the re-introduction of midwifery, the promotion of doulas in birth and the elimination of routine intrusive interventions such as episiotomy. An influential mentor to many, his approaches are now widely adopted in maternity care.” Citation for the Order of Canada 2016.
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David Haslam | A Passion for Honesty, Communication, Patient Centeredness
Sir David Haslam was a GP in Cambridgeshire for 36 years and is a past Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), past-President and past Chairman of Council of the RCGP, past-President of the BMA, and former Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.He is currently chair of the charity “Young Lives vs Cancer”, Non-Executive Chair of Itecho Health, and an Associate with Kaleidoscope Health and Care. He has written 14 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, and has been invited as keynote speaker to Conferences in 33 different countries. Every year for over ten years he was listed by the HSJ as one of the most influential people in the NHS and was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the UK. David was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care, and knighted in 2018 for services to NHS Leadership.
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Emma Challans-Rasool | Culture and Transformation
“My passion is to help each other realise social impact through citizen, organisation and system movements.” Emma Challans-Rasool is Director of Horizons and Founder and Chair of @Proud2bOps a National Network of Operational Managers and Leaders. As a Director in Horizons, Emma leads at national level and is proud to have built a strong professional presence and credibility across health and care and supporting business sectors. Proud2bOps is a multi-award winning network, leading and supporting under represented professionals; Ops, Managers and Administrative Professionals. She is an entrepreneurial leader, continually striving to bring innovative solutions to improve people lives. As an experienced board level director and systems leader within the health and care sector she is a values driven leader centred around people, continually striving for innovation and improvement that enhances patient, colleague and customer experience. Her career includes senior positions with portfolios of organisational development, culture, operational management, quality improvement and large scale movements. She has experience both in the public and private sector, in both commercial and public facing businesses. With extensive non-executive director experience in citizen facing organisations, organisational effectiveness and continuous Improvement is at the heart of everything. She is a qualified coach & mentor committed to enhancing people’s performance and satisfaction. A very family orientated person and she values time with my friends and family, loves the outdoors, being creative, and enjoys fun holidays and adventures.
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Deborah Cohen | The Communication Doctor
“Shedding light on the work that people do not often see and therefore take for granted.” Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Implementation scientist and an expert in qualitative and mixed methods research. My research examines the interpersonal and organizational aspects of health care delivery with a particular focus on primary and behavioral health care. I enjoy examining and understanding how to address the challenges that emerge when implementing innovations and quality improvements in primary care practices, and my research highlights the often-invisible work and value of primary care clinical teams. One of my current projects is to study the staffing configurations of advanced primary care practices (professionals, roles, functions) in the United States (U.S.). I am honored to be a National Academy Medicine member, and I currently serve on the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee for Primary Care, which is an advisory committee to the federal government on primary care. For fun, I mom, a wife, a Portland Timbers fan, a foodie, and dog-lover who endeavours to be a decent recreational tennis player.
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Martin Roland | Promoting Quality, Measuring Outcomes
Leading Academic GP and Health Service ResearcherInaugural RAND Chair of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge where he founded and directed the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe.(2009-2016)Martin Roland trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree and his doctorate. Following vocational training for general practice in Cambridge, he worked in London and Cambridge before moving to the Chair of General Practice in the University of Manchester in 1992. In 1994, he established and subsequently became Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. Between 2006 and 2009, he was also Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, a collaboration between the five leading departments of primary care in England. Clinically active throughout his career, his main research interests were in developing methods of measuring quality and evaluating interventions to improve care using both quantitative and qualitative methods. With over 350 publications, his h-index is 80. Professor Roland was appointed CBE for services to medicine in 2003.
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