Learn more about the keynote speakers at the Nordic Congress of General Practice.
Ásthildur Árnadóttir
Ásthildur’s Bio
General practitioner and postdoctoral researcher at the Research Unit for General Practice, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on sustainability in healthcare and general practice.
Contributor to the policy paper on sustainability in general practice for the Danish College of General Practitioners.
Active member of Grøn Praksis in Denmark, working to strengthen awareness of the connection between planetary health and human health.
Margaret McCartney
Margaret’s Bio
Margaret McCartney is a General Practitioner in Scotland and senior lecturer at the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews. She is Director of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare and is a regular contributor to the lay media on issues relating to evidence based medicine.
Niels
Kjær
Niels’s Bio
General practitioner and clinical professor at the Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark. Specialist in family medicine with a master’s degree in health professional education from Maastricht University and a PhD in developing medical expertise from the University of Southern Denmark.
Before entering general practice, he worked for ten years at hospitals in Denmark and Sweden and served as district medical officer in Greenland.
His research spans medical education, e-health, and rheumatology, and he has developed numerous educational concepts for medical training.
Nynke
Scherpbier
Nynke’s Bio
Professor in General Practice, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands. Head of the Department of Primary and Long-term Care (general practice, elderly care and midwifery science). Special interest in interprofessional and primary secondary care collaboration. PhD on the management of chronic kidney disease; chairing the Dutch GP-guideline revision on chronic kidney disease and co-chair of the multidisciplinary guideline revision. Vice-chair of the authorization committee of Dutch GP-guidelines. Chair of the GP living lab in the North-Eastern region of the Netherlands. Involved in various national committees related to GP-specialty training and GP-education for medical students.
Silja
Kosola
Silja’s Bio
Dr Silja Kosola is a specialist in general practice and holds special competence for adolescent medicine. She is the first adjunct professor of adolescent medicine (docent) in the Nordic countries. Silja works as the research director at the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County and has previously worked as a school physician for a decade. Her research covers many aspects of adolescent health and medicine, including transition of care and associations of social media on wellbeing.
Stefan
Hjörleifsson
Stefan’s Bio
General practitioner in Bergen since 2001, currently practising at Alrek Legesenter. Associate professor of family medicine at the University of Bergen since 2008.
Chair of Choosing Wisely Norway (2019–2025), the Norwegian Medical Association’s initiative to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and currently a member of its steering group.
Co-lead of the project Sustainability in General Practice together with Professor Linn Okkenhaug Getz, an innovation project within the Norwegian College of General Practice that promotes sustainability in healthcare by strengthening the role of GPs as coordinators of resource-conscious care and by raising public awareness of the harms of medical overuse.
Chair of the Committee on Sustainability and Value-Based Care established by the Nordic Federation of General Practice in 2024.
Fanny
Nilsson
Fanny’s Bio
Fanny Nilsson is a resident in internal medicine in a small general hospital outside Stockholm. In 2025 she published the widely read and recognised book Åk till akuten – hur mycket sjukvård har vi råd med? (Go to the ER – how much health care can we afford?), which is a journalistic report from health care systems across Europe.
She is a board member of The Swedish Society of Medicine and a frequent columnist in Sweden’s biggest newspaper (Aftonbladet).
Victor
M. Montori
Victor’s Bio
Victor M. Montori, MD (photo) is the Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic.
An endocrinologist, health services researcher, and care activist, Dr. Montori is the author of over 800 peer-reviewed publications. He is also the 2024-2025 Human Rights and Technology Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a recognized expert in evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and minimally disruptive medicine.
He works in Rochester, Minnesota, at Mayo Clinic’s KER Unit, to advance person-centered care for patients with diabetes and other chronic conditions. As a care activist, he authored the book Why We Revolt, and is leading a movement, a Patient Revolution, for Careful and Kind Care for all.
Jan
Semenza
Jan’s Bio
Jan C. Semenza is an environmental epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in climate change and health research. He led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) response to the 1995 Chicago heat wave, where more than 700 people died, and his work laid the foundation for heat–health action plans and early warning systems.
As Head of the Scientific Assessment Section at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), he led work on infectious diseases and climate change and developed climate-based early warning systems. He has published extensively on climate-driven vector-, water-, and foodborne diseases.
He is a lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, a co-author of the Lancet Countdown reports, and leads the European Lancet Countdown adaptation working group. He is currently affiliated with Umeå University, Sweden, and Heidelberg University, Germany.
CONGRESS SECRETARIAT
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract
Call for abstracts opens: September 2025
Extended submission deadline: December 18, 2025
Notification: February 12, 2026
Registration
Early bird deadline: February 25, 2026
Registration closes: May 15, 2026