The PRISM founding team

Koki Kato, MD, MFM, MPH, is a family physician and director of Madoka Family Clinic in Fukuoka, Japan. He also serves as a programme lead for the Hokkaido Centre for Family Medicine Fellowship Programme and as a mentor in the WONCA NCD Fellowship 2026.

His professional interests include medical generalism, home-based palliative care, narrative practice, and the education and mentorship of early-career family physicians. He is particularly interested in how clinicians develop practical wisdom and navigate uncertainty in primary care.

His research and educational work have been recognised through national and international awards, including first place in the WONCA Asia Pacific Policy Pitch Contest (2026), the Best Paper Award 2021 from the Journal of General and Family Medicine, and the Young Investigator Award from the Japan Primary Care Association (2020).
 

X: @kokikatokk

Anna Beug has been a GP in Dublin’s south inner city for 25 years. She is a clinical senior lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. She is an assistant scheme director on the North Dublin City GP training scheme 

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Anna is from Cork and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. She has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Ireland for over two decades. Her main areas of interest are child and adolescent mental health, persistent pain and communication skills. She regularly gives talks and workshops to GP’s and has been involved in the development of teaching materials for the national GP training curriculum. She has hosted a community mental health fellowship helping recently qualified GP’s to develop a special interest in mental health in primary care. Her research and writing focus on mental health and communication in primary care.

 

More recently Anna has become involved in Narrative Based Practice and is currently interim chair of ANPH (Association of Narrative Practice for health - UK). In 2025 she joined the faculty on the master’s program in applied narrative medicine at Fondazione ISTUD in Milan.

Myriam Dell'Olio is a Lecturer in Primary Care at Hull York Medical School. She leads research on the knowledge work of person-centred care and is currently directing work on community health and engagement in primary care research.

 

Myriam's interests include medical epistemology, person-centred primary care, and qualitative methodologies. Her current work centres on health services research, with a focus on the primary care workforce and training, alongside conceptual and applied research on the knowledge work involved in managing complex chronic conditions.

 

Throughout her career, she has received awards including the Qualitative Research Prize from the European Society of Person-Centred Healthcare, and high commendation for her presentation on person-centred care from Hull York Medical School.

 

X: @myriam.dellolio

Keiichiro Narumoto is Associate Professor at Hamamatsu University  School of Medicine and a family physician with a strong focus on women's health in family medicine.

 

His research efforts focus on uncovering the critical role of family physicians in women's health. In addition, Dr. Narumoto is spearheading the development of a web-based cancer risk assessment system tailored to the field of primary care clinical genetics.

 

His passion extends to multiple aspects of his profession, encompassing clinical care including obstetrics, medical education, and ongoing research. His efforts are aimed at recognizing and enhancing the expertise and role of primary care physicians within the healthcare system in Japan.

Joanne Reeve is an expert in generalist redesign of primary healthcare. Her career has been spent reclaiming the knowledge work of modern healthcare practice. Now profoundly deaf, she is a retired GP and Professor Emerita of primary care research.

 

Her book Medical Generalism, Now!, is now available as a Japanese translation.

 

Joanne's work on education in generalist practice has been recognised with award nominations and wins, notably Winner of the Best Knowledge Exchange Partnership prize for the Catalyst programme at the University of Hull's inaugural Knowledge Exchange Awards (2022); and finalist for Workforce Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Awards 2024

 

X: @joannelreeve

Junichiro Miyachi is a Designated Associate Professor in the Department of Education for Community-Oriented Medicine at the Graduate School of Medicine of Nagoya University. Trained in both medical science and medical anthropology, his work explores the intersection of medical education, the social sciences, and family medicine. His research focuses on behavioural and social sciences in medical education, professional identity formation, and how learners develop the knowledge, values, and practical wisdom needed for contemporary clinical practice.

 

Drawing on perspectives from medical anthropology, Dr. Miyachi is particularly interested in understanding how healthcare professionals learn within clinical communities and adapt to the complexities of patient care, with the goal of advancing medical education and community-oriented healthcare.

Richard Boczko is an accomplished researcher with over a decade of experience spanning commercial insight, academic psychology and applied health research. His work is centred on understanding the cognitive and behavioural processes that shape attitudes, decision-making and human behaviour.

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He began his career in commercial research, developing expertise in qualitative and quantitative methodologies to investigate behaviours, motivations, attitudes, and decision-making. Working across international and multidisciplinary environments, he completed a PhD in Psychology, examining attitudes towards transgression through the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

 

Following his PhD, Richard pursued an academic research career. At the University of Hull, Richard is leading the University's contribution to ENHANCE, a multi-million-pound NIHR-funded programme led by University College London (UCL), developing partnerships between academic researchers, clinicians and GP practices.

 

Working at the interface between commercial, academic and health research settings, Richard combines methodological expertise with a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, translating complex research into insights that inform decision-making and improve health outcomes.

Makoto Kaneko is an academic family physician in Japan. He is a Chair and Professor in the Department of General Medicine at Kitasato University School of Medicine in Japan. He also continues his clinical practice as a family physician and clinician educator in a clinic in socially deprived area as a locum.

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His research interests are rural health, health care utilization and patient experience in primary care. He completed his PhD course in clinical epidemiology in Japan. His thesis was the study about health care utilization and gatekeeping function by primary care physician. He was also a director of Practice Based Research Network in remote islands in Okinawa. Dr. Kaneko is very interested in rural health care in other countries, research with international colleagues and academic career as a family practitioner.

 

He is a husband and a father of three children. His hobby is going outside with his children such as going camping.

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X: @makoto_knk

 

ResearchGate:

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Andrea Hilton is a pharmacist who has previously worked in primary care and in community pharmacy.

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Andrea completed her PhD in 2006 while working on the MRC-funded RESPECT trial, entitled Development and Validation of a UK Medication Appropriateness Index. The trial involved recruiting over 20 general practices, over 60 community pharmacists, and over 700 patients, with community pharmacists providing pharmaceutical care in liaison with general practitioners; the primary outcome measure was change in medication appropriateness. Andrea has held a full-time academic post, currently as a Reader, since 2016.

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Andrea’s primary care expertise was supporting prescribing in general practice both as a practice based pharmacist and at a Trust level where Andrea reviewed prescribing of “specials” and shared care drugs. Andrea also developed local training for GP receptionists (now known as  care navigators).

 

Andrea’s teaching is still focussed on the health care workforce and advanced practice. Her research is focussed on applied health and prescribing. Completed and current research projects include: how medication reviews improved the pharmacology treatment of behaviours in dementia that challenge in  care home residents; scoping study exploring the role of community pharmacists in medication managements in people with dementia; an exploratory study how pharmacists can facilitate shared decision making; identifying and managing sleep problems for people with dementia in primary care; research to understand how independent prescribing in community pharmacy works in practice.

Akira Naito is a child and family psychiatrist, clinician-educator, and academic intermediary bridging British systemic practice and Japanese clinical humanism. Guided by the principles of advanced medical generalism, he reframes medicine from a series of manualised transactions into a shared journey of "Clinical Craftsmanship," Co-creating contextualised meaning to expand Collective Wellbeing (See "Care for Your Professional Self" for details).

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His background bridges the mind-body continuum, starting in Psychosomatic medicine in Japan till 2000 and progressing to a PhD in Psychoneuroimmunology from Imperial College London (2006). Clinically retrained in the UK, he has practised within the NHS since 2016, balancing narrative practice with medical jurisprudence.

 

An accredited Conversations Inviting Change (CIC) Trainer, Akira views the clinical encounter as an act of intersubjective resonance and "Communicative musicality" where Epistemic Reciprocity operates. He acts as a "wayfarer" walking entangled landscapes alongside people in contact (See also the anthropology of Wayfaring, "Life is a Line").

 

Ultimately, Akira believes safeguarding professional Wellbeing builds a secure base (Ibasho) that empowers individuals to navigate biographical disruptions, transforming the clinical/educational encounters into a collaborative space for human "Becoming" and "Collective healing" where co-created narratives flow.

Kathryn Harvey is the Applied Primary Care Research Administrator within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Hull.

 

She provides administrative and public involvement support across a range of primary care research projects, including studies exploring the role of homecare workers in end-of-life care, prostate cancer stigma and barriers affecting Black men, factors influencing research participation among diverse communities, and dementia-related research.

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A key focus across her career is the inclusion of lived experience perspectives. Kathryn works closely with patient and public contributors throughout the research process, helping to ensure that public involvement is embedded at every stage.

 

She also coordinates training, networking, and engagement opportunities to support public contributors in developing their research knowledge and connecting with researchers seeking public involvement in their studies.

Molly Megson is a health researcher specialising in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), health equity, and epistemic justice.

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Based at the Academy of Primary Care at Hull York Medical School, Molly’s research heavily explores relational epistemic justice, examining how interpersonal clinical dynamics can either silence or empower marginalised patient groups.

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For generalist practitioners - who frequently manage complex, chronic, or undifferentiated multi-system conditions-Molly’s research offers critical frameworks. By analysing how knowledge is co-constructed during a consultation, Molly’s work provides generalists with tools to turn the clinical dynamic into a collaborative partnership.

 

Ultimately, Molly’s work enables general practice networks to transition from "tick-box" patient involvement toward authentic, co-produced care.

 

X: @mollymegson

Shogo Kawada is a Family Medicine Specialist and Faculty at Kameda Family Clinic Tateyama, Japan. He holds an MA in Psychology from Sophia University and an MD from Kagoshima University, and trained at Okinawa Chubu Hospital before completing family medicine training at Kameda.

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His professional interests include family medicine, preventive care, clinical psychology, and narrative practice. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, traveling, photography, and exploring local cafes.