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The Lyn Clearihan Award for the Best Paper has recently been awarded to the authors of the following article in Asia Pacific Family Medicine:
Care for chronic illness in Australian general practice – focus groups of chronic disease self-help groups over 10 years: implications for chronic care systems reforms Carmel M Martin, Chris Peterson, Rowena Robinson and Joachim P Sturmberg
The award, which aims to raise the standard of primary care research, was presented at the recent WONCA Asia Pacific regional conference in June. Research articles published in Asia Pacific Family Medicine were considered for the award with the winner being decided by a panel of experts made up of Prof Bee-Horng Lue, Prof John Campbell Murdoch of and Dr Somjit Prueksaritanond.
Lyn Clearihan recently stepped down as co-Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Family Medicine having been instrumental in the founding of the journal. The award in her name will be presented at future WONCA Asia Pacific regional conferences, with the next being in Cebu, the Philippines in February 2011.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine aims to provide a forum
for the dissemination of high quality regional research and enhance the
standards of family medicine by focusing on best practice. The journal is the official journal of the
Asia Pacific Region of WONCA and is currently inviting submissions for a
thematic series on 'The expanding role of family medicine in medical
education’.
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