National Representatives

Australia
Sarah J White
National Representative

Australia
Conor Gilligan
National Representative – Deputy

Austria
Marlene Sator
National Representative
Marlene Sator, PhD, linguist with a special focus on healthcare communication, professional communication trainer and psychotherapist in training under supervision.
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Belgium
Lode Verreyen
Chair of the Advisory Committee &
Chair of the Networking Committee
Lode was trained as physiotherapist and works as such in a large multidisciplinary private practice in Antwerp.
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Belgium
Annelies Decloedt
National Representative – Deputy
After graduation as an equine veterinarian in 2008, I completed a PhD at Ghent University in the field of equine cardiology, with a focus on new techniques for echocardiography.
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Belgium
Catherine Delguste
National Representative – Deputy
Catherine graduated as a veterinarian from the University of Liege in 1999. She first worked as a field vet in France for one year, before coming back to the University as an assistant.
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Denmark
Birgitte Tørring
National Representative
Birgitte Tørring is an Educational Consultant at The Post Graduate Education Department (act2learn) at University College of Northern Denmark.
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Denmark
Gitte Thybo Pihl
National Representative – Deputy
I am a lecturer at the Bachelor of Nursing Programme and affiliated to the research department at University College Lillebaelt.
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Germany
Eva Bitzer
National Representative

Germany
Andrea Gaisser
National Representative – Deputy

Iceland
Brynja Ingadottir
National Representative

India
Shishta Nadda Basu
National Representative

Iraq
Abdulsalam Sultan
National Representative
EXPERIENTIAL Teaching and LEARNING Facilitator: Sultan has introduced experiential learning into Iraqi medical teaching environment.
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Ireland
Eva Doherty
National Representative
Designing and teaching a Human Factors curriculum to hospital doctors. Designing and evaluating OSCEs. Teaching and measuring Emotional Intelligence to health professionals.
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Ireland
Marie Morris
National Representative – Deputy
Designing and teaching a Human Factors curriculum to hospital doctors. Designing and evaluating OSCEs. Teaching and measuring Emotional Intelligence to health professionals.
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Israel
Michael Kaffman
National Representative

Israel
Orit Karnieli-Miller
National Representative – Deputy

Italy
Emanuela Mazza
National Representative
Mother of four children, with a degree in Literature, Emanuela Mazza is a professor in Medical-Patient Communication at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and for many other Continuing Education in Medicine programs for Health Professional
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Italy
Pierluigi Politi
National Representative – Deputy

Japan
Chiaki Mishima
National Representative

New Zealand
Maria Stubbe
National Representative

Norway
Julia Menichetti
National Representative

Norway
Vibeke Sundling
National Representative – Deputy

Poland
Magdalena Horodeńska
National Representative

Portugal
Margarida Figueiredo-Braga
National Representative
Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, completed a Ph.D. at FMUP in 2009 I have worked as a psychiatrist in S Marcos Hospital of Braga and presently in private practice, and I have been certified as Psychotherapist and Psychotherapist Supervisor in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy since 2000.
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Portugal
Maria Grazia Rossi
National Representative – Deputy

Qatar
Alan Weber
National Representative
Dr. Alan S. Weber, PhD, has taught literature and the Medical Humanities–including the history, philosophy and sociology of medicine, narrative medicine, communications in healthcare, and Islamic Medical Ethics–through writing intensive courses at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar for the past fourteen years.
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Romania
Corina Barbaros
National Representative

Russia
Anna Serkina
National Representative

South Africa
Beverley Bolton
National Representative

Spain
Jesus Gonzalez Lama
National Representative

Spain
Corina Barbaros
National Representative

Sweden
Gunnar Marden
National Representative

Switzerland
Nicola Diviani
National Representative

Switzerland
Noelle Junod Perron
National Representative – Deputy

The Netherlands
Marianne Brouwers
National Representative

The Netherlands
Liesbeth Van Vliet
National Representative – Deputy

Turkey
Jacob Chizzo
National Representative

UK
Andy Ward
National Representative

UK
Aengus Kelly
National Representative – Deputy

USA
Carma Bylund
National Representative
