ABOUT CPME - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CPME Executive Committee

An Executive Committee is constituted within the Board. It comprises the President, the Vice-Presidents and the Treasurer.
The President Elect of the Standing Committee sits on the Executive Committee for the first year with an advisory capacity.

The members of the Executive Committee for 2010-2011 are:

Dr. Konstanty RADZIWILL - PRESIDENT (Poland)

Dr Konstanty Radziwill was born in 1958 in Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated from Medical University in Warsaw, Poland in 1983.

Since 1984 he has been working as a primary care physician in Warsaw. From 1983 till 1991 he worked also in emergency and occupational medicine; since 2005 he has been a lecturer in the Family Medicine Department of the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1996 he set up his private practice in family medicine in Warsaw.

He is a family medicine specialist. He finished his Postgraduate Faculty of Bioethics in the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University of Warsaw and Postgraduate Faculty of Health Care Economics in Warsaw University.

He is a member of College of Family Physicians in Poland and Polish Society of Family Medicine.

Since 1993 he has been active in the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, of which he was the president from 2001 to the beginning of 2010 (he now is a vice-president). During his mandate, he made it a priority to work on medical ethics, medical CPD, health care system reform in Poland, implementation of the acquis communautaire in Poland when entering to the EU.

He was a chairman of the Ethics and professional codes subcommittee of the CPME for 2004 and 2005 and CPME vice-president for 2008 and 2009.

He is a happy father of four daughters and four sons and a grandfather of two granddaughters.

Dr. Frank Ulrich MONTGOMERY - VICE PRESIDENT (Germany)

Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery was born in 1952. He graduated from Hamburg University in 1979 after medical studies in Hamburg and Sydney.

He is working as a consultant in Radiology at the University Hospital in Hamburg.

Montgomery chaired the "Marburger Bund" (www.marburger-bund.de), the professional organisation of the hospital-based, employed physicians of Germany from 1989 - 2007. Under his leadership this organisation made tremendous progress in representing hospital doctors. Over 100.000 of the 145.000 hospital doctors of Germany are now members of the Marburger Bund. He is very involved in working-time matters and in negotiating wages and salaries. The success of the recent strike-actions in Germany (2005 + 2006) and the improvement of doctors wages are largely attributed to him.

Montgomery was also on the board of the Bundesärztekammer for almost sixteen years. From 1987 to 1994 he served as a board member. From 1994 until 2002 he was elected President of the Hamburger Ärztekammer, an office which he regained in 2006. In 2007 he was elected Vice-President of the Bundesärztekammer.

Elected CPME vice-president for 2008-2009 and re-elected for 2010-2011

His main political interests are health-care financing and structural questions of the organisations of health-care. He is also very engaged in all ethical matters related to the medical profession.

As a Father of two children he and his wife most enjoy relaxing in their summer-house on the Swedish west-coast.

Dr. Roland LEMYE - VICE PRESIDENT (Belgium)

Roland LEMYE, born in Gosselies on 25 November 1946, graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1971. He has been established as a general practitioner since 1971. He also is a professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles

He is the president of the Belgian Association of Medical Unions in charge of international affairs for the term 2007-2010.

He was the Chairman of the subcommittee of Ethics and Professional Codes of the Standing Committee of European Doctors in 1998-1999 and in 2000-2001.

He furthermore holds the position of Adviser to the Committee of Ethics of the World Medical Association and is the Chairman of MED MEDICA

He was elected CPME Treasurer for 2006-2007 and re-elected for 2008-2009

Dr. Milan KUBEK - VICE PRESIDENT (Czech Republic)

Dr. Milan Kubek was born in Prague in 1968 where also graduated from the I. Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in 1992.

From 1992 to 2004, he was working in the hospital in Prague Vysočany first as a junior doctor at the department of internal medicine and after that as an independent consultant for angiology.

Since 2004 he has been running his private practice.

In 1995, Dr. Kubek was one of the founders of independent medical trade union.

From 1999 – 2006 he was the president of the Medical Trade Union (LOK). The LOK has organized many strikes and protest actions aiming at improvement of working conditions of the physicians in the Czech Republic.

In 2004 - 2009 Dr. Kubek held an office of the FEMS vice-president.

In January 2006 Dr. Kubek became the President of the Czech Medical Chamber.

Dr. Kubek became a vice-president of CPME for the 2010 – 2011 term. His goal is above all to preserve CPME as a unifying organization of all physicians, which will in close cooperation with other European Medical Organizations defend their interests at the European level and towards the EU institutions and at the same time support its members at the national level.

Dr. Kubek lives in Prague and is a content husband and a happy father of three daughters.

Dr Jörg Pruckner - VICE PRESIDENT (Austria)

Hans-Jörg Pruckner was born in Graz, Styria in 1951, where he also graduated from Medical University in 1980. In 1984, he established as a general practitioner under contract with all sick funds in Lannach, Austria.

From 1990 on he has been active in the Medical Chamber of Styria where he became member of the board in 1994. From 1999 to 2007 he was elected chairman of the federal body of self-employed doctors of the Austrian Medical Chamber. In this capacity he was also strongly involved in the process of the introduction of the e-card in Austria. E-health and the introduction of Electronic Patient Records in Austria are still topics Dr. Pruckner is very much involved in.

Since 2007 Dr. Pruckner acts as deputy chairman of the federal body of self-employed doctors of the Austrian Medical Chamber. Besides his involvement in CPME Dr. Pruckner is President of the EANA since 2007, and he is also an Austrian delegate to UEMO.

Dr. Katrin FJELSTED - TREASURER (Iceland)

She completed her general practice training in 1979 (United Kingdom) after a receiving her Medical Degree from the University of Iceland in 1973.

She has been a family Physician at Efstaleiti Health Center since 1980 and was the medical director from 1980 to 1982 and again from 1997 to 2003. She was the assistant at Reykjavík City Medical Officer 1979-1980. Medical director since 2005.

Her political, social and civic activities are as follows: Member of Reykjavík City Council 1982-1994, member of the executive committee 1986-1994, Chairman of the Icelandic College of Family Physicians 1995-1999, Member of Board of the Icelandic Medical Association 1997-1999, Head of the Icelandic delegation to CPME since 2000, Elected internal auditor for the CPME in April 2001, re-elected 2003, elected CPME Vice President for 2006-2007 and re-elected for 2008-2009, Member of Althingi for the Reykjavík constituency 1999-2003, Deputy parliamentarian since 2003, Member of the Standing Committee on Judicial and Ecclesiastical Affairs 1999-2003, Member of the Standing Committee on Health and Social Security 1999-2003, Member of the Standing Committee on the Environment 1999-2003, Substitute member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs 1999-2003

Vice-Chairman of the Icelandic Delegation to the Western European Union Assembly 1999- 2003, Substitute member of the Icelandic EFTA-delegation since 1999-2003, Member of the Icelandic parliamentary delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 and 2000, Member of the Icelandic delegation to the U.N. conference on sustainable development in Johannesburg S-Africa in 2002.

She was also a book critic for the Morgunbladid daily newspaper for many years and has translated (with Dr.V.Egilsson) the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer in 1980.

Dr. Michael Wilks - IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT ( United-Kingdom)

Michael Wilks worked as a family doctor in the UK from 1977 to 1992. He then specialised in clinical forensic medicine, and works as a forensic physician in London.

He has been a member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) since 1994, and chaired the committee for nine years until September 2006.

His other work for the BMA includes a three-year term as chairman of the BMA’s policy-making forum, the Representative Body, and the creation of a new BMA service for the support of doctors with health problems

Dr. Wilks is a trustee of the Sick Doctors Trust, which supports doctors with addictive disease, and chairs the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt), which is the leading provider of abstinence-based treatment for addiction in UK prisons.

He has been a member of the UK delegation to the CPME since 2002, and chaired its ethics committee until December 2007.

Dr. Wilks was the CPME President for 2008 and 2009.