Postgraduate

MSc and Postgraduate Diploma/ Certificate in International Primary Health Care

Staff Profiles

Dr Anita Berlin, MBBS MRGP MA
Dr Anita Berlin is a part time general practitioner and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education. She has more than 10 years of experience in medical education and has a Masters degree in Higher and Professional Education from the Institute of Education, London.She spent 9 years at Imperial College London, where she contributed to a three-fold increase in general practice undergraduate teaching and recruited practitioner teachers. She held various posts including Joint Director of Education (in the department of General Practice) and was awarded a Fellowship of Imperial College in recognition of her contribution to undergraduate education. She was joint founder of the International Course in General Practice between UCL and Imperial, and facilitated all eleven courses, which hosted nearly 200 participants from more than 40 countries. She has worked extensively with Spanish general practitioners since 1989 and has acted as a consultant in Poland, Brazil, Uzbekistan and Argentina.

Dr Petra Boynton, BA PhD
Dr Petra Boynton has a background in social psychology. Her PhD in applied human psychology focussed on research methods used to evaluate the impact of the media on health related decision-making. Petra has lectured at a number of UK universities, specialising in research methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative). Her research has covered topics including women involved in street prostitution, intermediate care for older people, gender and heart disease, and sexual functioning in general practice patients. She is currently writing a book on research issues in community settings.

Dr Will Coppola, MA DRCOG MRCGP
Dr Will Coppola is a part time general practitioner and Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care. He is Technical Director of this MSc programme. He has a strong interest in computing and health informatics, and is involved in a number of ongoing research projects based at UCL to develop and evaluate innovative technologies for health care and web-based education.

Prof Trisha Greenhalgh, OBE MA MD FRCP FRCGP ILTM

Trisha Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Health Care at UCL and a part-time general practitioner in north London. She gained a first degree in social sciences from Clare College, Cambridge and completed her undergraduate medical studies at Oxford University. She spent 7 years in hospital medicine before entering academic general practice, and has worked at UCL since 1990. Her main research interests are the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based practice and the design and delivery of culturally appropriate diabetes services for minority ethnic groups.

Professor Greenhalgh was awarded the Order of the British Empire from Her Majesty the Queen in 2000 for services to medicine. Her other distinctions include the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Research Paper of the Year Award in 1998 for her work on participatory research with the London Bangladeshi community, the 2000 Baxter Award for the best publication on health care management from theEuropean Healthcare Management Association, and the French 2001 Prix du Livre Medicale et Pharmaceutique (best medical or pharmaceutical textbook).

She has published over 90 peer-reviewed academic papers and 7 books in the fields of health services research, evidence-based health care, narrative in health care, research methodology, and the academic foundations of primary health care. Her book ‘How to Read a Paper: the Basics of Evidence Based Medicine’ has sold over 60000 copies worldwide and been
translated into 9 languages.

Ms Jill Russell, BSc(Econ) MSc ILTM
Jill Russell is a Non-Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, with a background in social policy and an MSc in information technology. She has extensive research experience in health and social policy, specialising in the evaluation of policy innovations with a particular focus on the user’s perspective. As a Visiting Research Fellow to the King’s Fund, she advised the Fund on the development of its Community Oriented Primary Care Programme and, more recently, on the evaluation of case studies in public health development throughout the UK. She has published around 25 peer-reviewed publications in the field of health services development, and is developing a new research interest in evaluation and quality assurance in open and distance learning.

Dr Peter Toon, BSc MSc MRCGP DPMSA ILTM
Dr Peter Toon is a general practitioner and Senior Lecturer in Primary Care. He has an academic background in psychology and philosophy, in which fields he has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. He has extensive experience in planning, delivering and evaluating medical education at undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education levels. He had a key role in the widely acclaimed London Initiative Zone Educational programme, an ambitious and broad-ranging initiative to address the professional development needs and motivation of doctors working in the most deprived areas of London.

He has been the Royal College of General Practitioners St Petersburg Fellow since 1992, founding a partnership between the RCGP and the Medical Academy of St Petersburg, Russia that continues today. He has considerable experience in developing primary care services and educational programmes in countries where primary care services are being developed, including Russia, Latvia, Macedonia, Croatia, Kazakstan and Uzbekestan.

Dr Geoff Wong, MA MRCGP ILTM
Dr Geoff Wong is a part time general practitioner and Clinical Lecturer in Medical Education. He has wide experience of curriculum development and organisation for both undergraduate and postgraduate clinical courses, and undertakes research in medical education. He has a particular interest in developing methods to ascertain and address the unique needs and learning styles of individual students on online courses, and is currently leading a research study on this topic.