Professor Sir Lewis D Ritchie  OBE FRSE MD James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice University of Aberdeen

see in addition: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/l.d.ritchie

Please note my additional interests; Family Medicine/Primary Care, Public Health, Vaccination.

Please not that I am not familiar with either the written or spoken Turkish language

Preferred affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Short Bio – Prof. Shlomo Vinker MD MHA,
• An active family physician in an urban clinic.
• Full Professor in Family Medicine, associate Dean, and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
• Published about 300 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals most of them are cited in PubMed.
• WONCA EUROPE Executive Board - Member at large(2016-2019), President Elect(2019-2021), President(2021-)
• EGPRN - Executive board member (2015-2022), and educational committee chair (2018-2022).
• IAFP (Israeli Association of Family Physicians) – Chairman (2009-2018), treasurer (2018-2024). As chairman I led a change in the residency program, shifting most of the residency time outside the hospital wards to family medicine and ambulatory setting. Under my leadership, IAFP founded a plan for research grants for family doctors, which gave along the years hundreds of thousands of dollars. I launched an open Wiki website with high-quality medical information, now having around 6,900 articles, and millions of annual entries.
• Leumit Health Services - Chief Medical Officer (2015-) of a nationwide healthcare organization serving about 730,000 members.
• Established a research institute in Leumit in 2018 to enhance research capacity in family medicine and primary care. We published more than 30 COVID-19-related publications. One of them “Low plasma 25(OH) vitamin D level is associated with increased risk of COVID-19 infection: an Israeli population-based study” has been cited 558 times since its publication.