40th Primary care update: Addressing the learning needs of 21st century general practice

Ross Upshur BA (Hons.), MA, MD, MSc, MCFP, FRCPC, FCAHS is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Associate Director of the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health.  At the University of Toronto, he is a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, affiliate member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Member of the Centre for Environment and Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is a Staff Physician at Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Sinai Health. In 2015, he was named one of the Top 20 Pioneers in Family Medicine Research in Canada by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and was a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair from 2005-2015. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.  His research interests span bioethics, epistemology, research methods and clinical and population health and he has published extensively on these topics in the peer-reviewed literature.

Kenny Gibson is the National Head of Safeguarding for the NHS, overseeing several portfolios including tackling abuse, exploitation, radicalisation and violence. He leads nationally on Contextual Safeguarding; Trauma Informed Care; Prevent in the NHS and Child Protection Information System. 

Having begun his NHS career as a laundry assistant in 1980 at a mental health unit, Kenny was encouraged to become a nursing assistant and then trained as a nurse and then a midwife. 

Kenny has held various operational, management and strategic posts in both community and public health but always with nursing at the heart of these roles.  

Prior to becoming the Head of Safeguarding for NHS England, Kenny was the Head of Public Health Commissioning for London. 

Kenny is passionate about connecting with and listening to patients, carers and health practitioners in order to improve services and experiences within the NHS, as well as to empower people about their own well-being. 

Joe Papanikitas is a Consultant MSK Radiologist at Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust. He specialises in interventional treatments of sports, rheumatological and spinal oncological musculoskeletal conditions.

Dr Helen Salisbury is a General Practitioner in Oxford. She is a GP trainer and previously led the communication skills course for medical students in Oxford. Currently, she leavens her clinical work with teaching and writing, with weekly columns in the British Medical Journal and Take a Break Magazine.