From the WONCA Editor: Interviews with three WONCA leaders

December, 2012

I hope you are enjoying exploring the new WONCA website. My best wishes for the festive season to all WONCA colleagues. In 2013, the website will continue to grow to better serve your needs but to end 2012, I present recent interviews with three WONCA leaders. For me, it was rewarding and fun doing these interviews so I hope they provide some interesting reading for those with some time to spare in the next month.

Dr Karen Flegg
WONCA Editor




Dr Garth Manning

Dr Garth Manning, new WONCA CEO, tells out about his new staff, Nongluck and Sumalee, and first impressions of WONCA. Find out the most interesting things he has discovered about WONCA - including what's on the new website.





Dr David Game

Dr David Game, President of WONCA from 1983-86 reflects on the past. The WONCA Editor writes "It was a priviledge and a joy to spend some time with an elder of WONCA, whose memory of days past seems unfaded by the years." Dr Game reflects on hosting Queen Elizabeth ll at the WONCA London conference in 1986.



Prof Job Metsemakers

Prof Job FM Metsemakers, secretary of WONCA Europe for the last five years, is interviewed about himself and life as a family doctor in the Netherlands.
The WONCA Editor asking why WONCA colleagues might be interested in Job’s story. Job’s reply was: “After all, I am just an ordinary guy”. But most WONCA colleagues are not ordinary, so we leave it to the reader to decide.


Entrevista con el profesor Job FM Metsemakers en español