Workstream Leads
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Therese Zink is a professor in Family Medicine in the US who provided clinical care, taught, served in administrative rolls, and conducted research. She has worked with FFMP since 2016. From 2019-2022 she was a US Fulbright Scholar at Ah-Najah National University to assist with faculty development and expanding qualitative research skills. She has partnered with Palestinian Family Medicine faculty and their students to on a variety of qualitative research projects that have resulted in publications in international journals.
Undergraduate Family Medicine
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Ann Smalldridge is a retired GP from Manchester UK with over 30 years experience training medical students, GPs and postgraduates.
She also worked as a tutor for refugee doctors in the UK for 17 years. She has been involved with FFMP since 2016.
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Prof. Amanda Howe is a UK based family doctor and university academic, who was the inaugural Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia from 2001-2022. She held senior leadership roles in the Royal College of General Practitioners, and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), serving as the President of WONCA from 2016–2018. She was present at the founding of the Palestinian Association of Family Medicine.
Post graduate Family Medicine
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Dr. Suha Hamshari is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, and holds a Master’s degree in Medical Education from the University of Dundee. She serves as the Honorary Secretary of WONCA EMR and is the Head of the Palestinian Association of Family Medicine. She is also the Head of An-Najah Medical Clinics and the Head of the Insurance Department at An-Najah National University. In WONCA EMR she is a member of the Membership Committee and the Women Working Party. She is also a member of the International Development of Family Medicine in Palestine Committee (FFMP), the Training Committee of the Arab Board of Family Medicine, and the Scientific Committee of the Palestinian Board of Family Medicine.
Transitional Training Program (TTP)
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Dr. Jewell is a retired family medicine specialist from Bristol who held academic posts in Southampton and Bristol. He served as the editor of the British Journal of General Practice for 10 years.
Research
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Prof. Gene Feder practiced as a general practitioner in Hackney for 21 years until moving to Bristol. In his academic role at Bristol he conducts research that includes partnering with Palestinian academics at An-Najah National University to develop and evaluate health care responses to violence against women, which is funded by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute of Health Research. The work brings together researchers from Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.