SAPC Prize (AAAPC)

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Dr. Leanne Hall is a physiotherapist who currently works as Senior Research Officer at James Cook University's School of Medicine and Dentistry. With a PhD in neuroscience and over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, she has made significant contributions to the fields of medicine and allied health. Her research focuses on spinal and pelvic floor rehabilitation, as well as antibiotic stewardship

Dr Clare Heal is Professor (Promotional Chair) and Academic Lead of the Department of General Practice at James Cook University School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is based at the Rural Clinical School in Mackay, Queensland. Clare has several diverse research interests, including the management of skin infections in primary care. She has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles, including high impact publications in the BMJ and the Cochrane Library. She continues to be active in clinical and academic general practice. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Oxford Primary Care Leadership program. From 2022-2023 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and completed a Masters in Epidemiology at Harvard University.

Presentation title: Navigating risk in general practice: unveiling clinical prediction rules for surgical site infection after minor surgery

SAPC Prize (SAPC)

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Jonathan joined the University of Glasgow’s MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit as a Research Fellow in Public Health Equity in September 2022, as part of their Systems Science programme.

He holds a BSc (Hons) in Medical Sciences (2011, University of Edinburgh), a Master’s in Public Health (2013, Imperial College London), and a PhD in Medicine (2016, ‘Multimorbidity and integrated care’, University of Manchester, UoM).

From 2016-19 he worked on a large European Horizon2020 project, SELFIE (Sustainable intEgrated care modeLs for multi-morbidity: delivery, FInancing and performancE). From 2019-22 he held an MRC Skills Development Fellowship in Health Economics at UoM, ‘Health economic skills for advancing health policy: capturing effects of prevention and intervention beyond traditional health services’.

Jonathan's research focuses on comparison, evaluation, and recommendations for (complex adaptive) systems. He also has an interest in complex patient groups, particularly multimorbidity.

Presentation title: An academic primary care research agenda for multimorbidity: a Delphi consensus study

EPIC Research Unit Award for Early Career Researcher Best Paper

Jessica is a respiratory physiotherapist, with clinical and research experience in both Australia and the United Kingdom. She has been working in the area of chronic respiratory disease for the past 8 years, with an interest in equitable access to pulmonary rehabilitation. She has a Master of Public Health, completing an internship at the World Health Organisation in Geneva during the degree. She has worked as a research physiotherapist in the Harefield Respiratory Research Group in the UK for 3 years, being an investigator on National Institute of Health Research portfolio studies and Urgent Public Health-badged studies. During this time, she was awarded a National Institute of Health Research Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship. Since 2021, she has worked part-time as a research assistant at the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District in a role working to build allied health research capacity. In 2022, she was awarded the Lung Foundation Australia/ Better Breathing Foundation PhD Scholarship in Chronic Lung Disease and commenced her PhD at The University of Sydney, investigating whether pulmonary rehabilitation can be implemented in primary care. She has 32 peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work at major international respiratory conferences.

Presentation title: Effectiveness of an education program to train primary care physiotherapists and exercise physiologists in the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation

North American Primary Care Research Group Prize (AAAPC)

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University of Melbourne

Professor Lena Sanci (MBBS, PhD, FRACGP, Dip. RANZCOG) Is the Chair of General Practice and Head of Department of General Practice and Primary Care at The University of Melbourne. She has expertise in the co-design of interventions, implementation, and evaluation, clinical trials and cohort studies in primary care and online settings. Her specific research interests are about improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people through primary care and educational or workplace settings. She was a collaborator with Professors Harriet Hiscock (MCRI) and Raghu Lingam (UNSW) in the Strengthening Care for Children trial. She Co-Chairs the Primary Care Committee of the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health and She chairs the Victorian Research and Education Network (VicREN) of over 600 general practices with a commitment to advance the discipline of primary care through research and teaching the next generation of health professionals. Professor Sanci is the co-lead of the APPRISE network Long Covid Initiative and the first Chief GP Advisor to the Victorian Department of Health and medical advisor to the Victorian Doctors in Secondary Schools Program. She has experience in technological innovations for decision support and to improve adolescent health care. She works clinically at Sexual Health Victoria in Melbourne.

Presentation title: Impact of an integrated General Practitioner (GP) - pediatrician model of care on referrals and GP care: a randomised trial

North American Primary Care Research Group Prize (NAPCRG)

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Prof Hazel Everitt

University of Southampton, UK

Prof Hazel Everitt is GP and a Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton, UK. She is Head of the Primary Care Research Centre in Southampton and is Deputy Academic Capacity Development Lead for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) School of Primary Care Research (SPCR). She has undertaken clinical GP work in the same GP practice for over 24 years.

Her research interests include supporting patients to self-manage their conditions, improving communication in healthcare consultations, developing internet based support tools and improving the translation of research evidence into clinical practice