Gazmend Bojaj,
> Dr.sc.med.Gazmend(English/German/Albanian)
> Kosovo/ Germany - Family medicine Specialist/ Ph.D
> KOSOVO
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> Gazmend Bojaj is a family physician from Kosovo, a member of the International Section of AMFK(Associtation Family phisicians in Kosovo and Community Medicine) and member of the Executive of the WONCA Special Interest Group on Family Violence (SIGFV). He was very active in the executive of the Vasco da Gama Movement for young doctors as well as EURIPA until last October’s conference in Istanbul where she stepped down from both positions.
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> What work do you do currently?
> I am working in Kosovo as Director in Principal family medicine center in a very exciting project managed by the BMJ to translate their resource BMJ Best Practice into Albanian as a fantastic point of care tool for health care professionals. At the same time I am part of the team of the WHO collaborative centre of the Institute of Public Health in integrated health services based on primary health care.
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> Meanwhile I am finished my project on family medicine to apply for a Post doc position. I am learning German in order to be able to work as a GP in Germany and I am staying involved in the International Section of EQuiP, where I am carrying out several projects linked to WONCA networks.
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> What other interesting activities that you have been involved in and in particular your activities in WONCA?
> I am a dreamer, I love to think that anything is possible. And for sure it is, if you can build a team that believe in the idea and then you fight together for it.
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> Enthusiasm and passion can move the world. It doesn’t matter if it is a local project, the important thing is to help make the change for better health care.
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> I am very multifaceted and I like to diversify myself in different projects. I love networking: this energy of the team, craving to learn from each other, knowing more colleagues with the same interest but different points of view that enrich any proposal. So, I have been taking part in several things at the same time, jumping from making audits in hospitals, to teaching leadership, or to work as a manager on an pharmaceutical company, like I did four year in Pristina.
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> During my specialisation as a family doctor, I had the good fortune to be very involved in AMFK at a national and international level. I discovered WONCA at the very beginning of it, in 2009, but I wish I could have known more during my university studies, where primary care at that time was completely missing.
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> As I had the opportunity, I was very involved with VDGM, the European junior doctors’ movement, leading the Beyond Europe group (BE). I worked very closely with EURIPA (the rural group), where I met lots of incredible rural doctors including the impressive Tanja Pekez. I discovered the amazing WONCA Working Party on Women and Family Medicine (WWPWFM). It was a fantastic experience to be part of the executive of EURIPA and VDGM and fight for new ideas, innovate, promote the exchanges , engage more colleagues and provide them the forum and the necessary support to develop projects.
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> Being part of EQuiP changed my life!
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> The pinnacle of achievements was the creation of the Meeting Forum of the EQuiP in Prague, in 2016, thanks to the passion and perseverance of the EQuiP past president and my great friend Ulrik Kirk, the support of the incredible Kosovo team, AMFK, and WONCA Europe. It was an event created to provide continuity and meet more regularly, building a stronger network linked to the senior groups of WONCA, innovating in the structure of the meeting, where students, patients and any type of healthcare professional are welcome to brainstorm and work together, with very low registration fees (no more than 100 euros) to make possible that anyone to be there.
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> During these last three years but one of the most exciting things I have been involved in has been the creation of the WONCA SIG on Family Medicine . I got involved in Prague at the Wonca 2013 meeting and thanks to the astonishing women of WONCA, I came back to Europe with the idea to start working in AMFK with it.
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> Learning from these great professionals my life was a new influence to change direction, focusing my interest in family violence, participating as well in a Leonardo Project “A health sector toolkit for implementing learning from violence against women trainings”, thanks to Genc Burazeri my beloved mentor for Health in integrated health services based on primary health care.
