Jan De Maeseneer

Who is Jan De Maeseneer?

Professor Jan De Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician and Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University.

In 1977, De Maeseneer graduated as medical doctor at Ghent University and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg. In 1981, he started working as a part-time assistant at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. In 1989 he obtained a PhD. with the thesis The functioning of 94 GP trainers at the State University of Ghent: an explorative research. Since 1991, he is the head of the Department. His research at the university focuses on Education, Health Promotion, Health inequity, Health Services Research and Global Health. He published more than 100 articles in scientific journals.

Since 1996 he is a member of the Wonca International Classification Committee, which produced the International Classification of Primary Care, and of the Research Committee of the World Organization of Family Doctors..

Since 1997, he started an international cooperation "Primafamed-network for the development of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Africa.