DrAndrée Rochfort

The Gertrude Ronan Award is an honour presented by the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP), named after the late Dr. Gertrude Ronan, a respected GP known for her dedication to improving general practice and patient care, particularly for her work on bereavement and bone health. The award recognizes significant contributions to general practice, with past recipients including Dr. Nuala O'Connor (for her COVID-19 response) and Dr. Rita Doyle (for advocacy in Irish general practice). The Gertrude Ronan Foundation Award was presented to Dr Andrée Rochfort for her consistent contribution to excellent general practice and her pioneering work in setting standards in doctors’ health and patient safety. Dr Rochfort, a GP in Wexford, has been the College representative at WONCA EQuiP since 2007, a founding member of the European Association for Physician Health, a founding member of the Sustainability Working Group of the College and a founding member of the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine. She was the Director of the Health in Practice Programme at the College and was later appointed Director of Quality Improvement, among other key roles.

Member of Scientific Committee, Keynote Speaker on "Digitalisation of Clinical Practice - Benefits and Challenges for Quality of Care" co-Author of Conference Statement: https://www.qualityfamilymedicine.eu/news/view/equip-linz-conference-statement-5-take-aways

NGO registered charity held a public meeting in Wexford Riverbank Hotel

The Dr Mary J Farrell post-graduate research bursary invited applications from graduate researchers on four possible themes. I was excited that my proposal to research GP healthcare for patients who are doctors would actually satisfy all four categories of research themes for the research bursary: 1. Access to primary care (for doctors as patients) 2. Healthcare integration into medical school curriculum (for raising awareness of the need for self-care, formal healthcare and earlier identification of health issues in self and colleagues, for all future medical doctors) 3. Mental health in primary care (for prevention and treatment of doctors mental illness by GPs) 4. Health and well-being (promoting work related wellness and lifestyle medicine)

EQuiP Annual Conference hosted by Ghent University (UGent) Along with other members of EQuiP Executive Board we were members of the Scientific Committee and helped develop the programme. The Local Host Organising Committee led the administration, finances and sponsorship

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Chair of Scientific Committee and Convenor of European Conference consisting of seven topics delivered in 7 symposia where EQuiP Quality and Safety Experts from across Europe met for the first time since pandemic lockdown at the EQuiP annual spring conference, to showcase their research outputs, projects, publications and work in progress.

The Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine is an independent, evidence-based, not for profit organisation that recognises lifestyle as a leading cause of disease and therefore as an appropriate medical intervention, alongside usual medical care. We believe in open, shared decision making with patients that is respectful of all backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs. We are a North-South Ireland multidisciplinary organisation promoting lifestyle as medicine for disease prevention, management and health promotion.

2022 EQuiP Virtual Conference. I was the chair of Scientific Committee (assisted remotely by Prof Dr Vildan Mevsim and Asst Prof Dr Ozden Gokdemir of Izmir University, Turkey)

President of European Society for Q&S

Co-chair

Elected member

Winner 1986. National Essay competition for undergraduate medical students