Date: September 20, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG-1/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Abstract:
Julian Tudor Hart, whose 80 birthday was recently celebrated, has had more effect on primary care in the UK National Health Service than any other general practitioner in his advocacy and example of how primary care can improve public health.  Although perhaps best known for articulating the inverse care law, he also pioneered and popularized ideas and examples of anticipatory care, measurement of omission and patients as co-producers of health rather than consumers of health care.  This seminar will review this work and consider its relevance and application in different health care systems today.

Bio-sketch:
Professor Watt graduated at Aberdeen University in 1976 and, in a varied career, trained in general practice at Glyncorrwg in South Wales (where he worked with Dr Julian Tudor Hart), Ladywell Medical Centre in Edinburgh and Townhead Health Centre in Glasgow.  He is accredited jointly in general practice and public health, and has held his current post since 1994.

He has longstanding research interests in the epidemiology of health and disease in families inequalities in health and health care and the development of academic capacity in primary care.  In 2004, he gave the RCGP Pickles Lecture "General Practice and the Epidemiology of health and disease In families" (BJGP 2005;54:939-44).  He was elected as a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences In 2000.

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