Friday, 9 May 13:30
Dr Andrée Rochfort is a family doctor and medical educator in Ireland. She is a staff member of the Irish College of GPs, as Director of Quality Improvement incorporating her roles as Director of the Doctors’ Health and Wellbeing Program, and member of the Planetary Health & Sustainability Advisory Group.
She is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Clinical Professor at University College Dublin, Department of General Practice and Forensic & Legal Medicine.
This month she completes her term as the President of the European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Medicine, EQUIP, the network for quality and safety in family medicine in WONCA Europe.
Andrée is a founding member of the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and a member of the European Lifestyle Medicine Organisation. She was in the working group that contributed to the guidance produced by the Irish Medical Council on telemedicine for doctors and telemedicine for patients.
She has a Master’s degree in medical education, and qualifications in occupational medicine, lifestyle medicine coaching, leadership and management. She is currently researching doctors’ health and wellbeing, and co-ordinating the new Special Interest Group for Doctors Health in WONCA Europe.
She is an author of articles in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and a medical book editor. Andrée is married to Michael, and they have four daughters.
EQuiP is open to both Individual and Organizational Memberships. EQuiP offers a platform to improve the knowledge base and to improve closer collaboration between GPs / Family Doctors, researchers, educators, policy makers and organisations involved in quality and safety in family medicine and primary care.
