MedicsVoices

Domhnall MacAuley

MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health

  1. Bob Woollard | Social Accountability

    3 MAY

    Bob Woollard | Social Accountability

    Robert F Woollard is Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive national and international experience in the fields of medical education, social accountability of medical schools, ecosystem approaches to health, and sustainable development. In this he has or is holding leadership roles in the CFPC, CMA, AFMC, AMEE, and The Network TUFH. He is actively involved in Nepal with a national medical school, school of public health and a nursing school founded on the principles of social accountability established through his initial feasibility study. He Chairs the International Advisory Board (IAB) for the newly established University of Nepal (Dec. 2024) a new public liberal arts university. His work in East Africa and Asia is centered on matters of social accountability, primary care, rural health and accreditation systems. Dr. Woollard co-chairs the Global Consensus on Social Accountability for Medical Schools (GCSA) and does extensive work in this area with many international bodies. He was a lead organizer for the World Summit on Social Accountability that led to the Tunis Declaration  and recently chaired the Scientific Committee for TUFH2022 the annual conference  of this network devoted to social justice and health, leading to the declaration https://thenetworktufh.org/tufh-2022- declaration/ He has engaged in a range of grant supported work including the establishment of CoPEH-Canada and the five year ECHO project on watershed scale integration of environmental, community and health. As an Associate Director of the Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) he provided central leadership in the development of a Canadian national strategy for addressing educational and service needs for surgical and obstetrical services in rural Canada in particular Aboriginal service access for birthing. And, has worked in many areas to reduce racism in BC’s health system. Above all he is a husband, father, and grandfather.

    25 min
  2. 24 APR

    Chris Butler | Clinical trialist, and listener, interpreter and teller of stories.

    General Practitioner, clinical trialist, and listener, interpreter and teller of stories.A GP by background, Chris Butler is Professor of Primary Care, Director of the University of Oxford Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit, and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Oxford.His training and experience span the University of Cape Town, Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (Mdantsane), McMaster University, the University of Wales College of Medicine, and the University of Toronto—bringing a global, clinical practice-embedded perspective to the design and delivery of clinical trials.He has led the design and delivery of more than 30 randomised trials, including the 10-country PRUDENCE point-of-care diagnostics trial and the 8-country ECRAID-Prime adaptive platform trial—providing practical insights into designing, governing, and delivering studies across diverse health systems.Chris has helped pioneer pragmatic, “democratised” trial methods, exemplified by the UK National Urgent Public Health trials PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC. Together, these trials randomised over 40,000 participants and evaluated nine treatments for COVID-19, generating transferable lessons on adaptive design, rapid recruitment, research equity, and evidence generation at scale.He is currently co-leading the EU-funded ECRAID-Prime adaptive platform trial in acute respiratory infections across eight European countries, as well as the SHIELD-1 trial evaluating peginterferon lambda-1a for viral infections.

    28 min
  3. David Loxterkamp | The Good Doctor Portraits

    12 APR

    David Loxterkamp | The Good Doctor Portraits

    David Loxterkamp’s work as a family physician was the subject of a 1998 Life Magazine photoessay, “What makes a good doctor?” , an NBC Nightline documentary in 2000, and the 2015 PBS documentary “Rx: The Quiet Revolution” by award-winning film-maker David Grubin.David Loxterkamp, M.D. is a family physician who has made his home in Belfast, Maine for the last 41 years, along with his wife, Lindsay. They have two children, Clare and John, who live nearby. His stories and essays have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, and the Annals of Family Medicine. He has authored A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University of New England Press, 1997) and What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care (University of Michigan Press, 2013), and has contributed to several anthologies, including including A Life in Medicine, edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa (The New Press, 2002) and The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader, edited by Therese Zink (Kent State University Press, 2010).David grew up in rural Iowa, attended Creighton University and The University of Iowa College of Medicine, completed his family medicine residency in York, PA ((1982), earned an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (1984) and a fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1994). He is is co-founder of Seaport Community Health Center and its Recovery Program. interests include running, choral music, local history, architecture, and potato farming.

    1 min

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MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health