Sven Streit

An Academic Family Doctor Embedded in Practice. Sven Streit is a Swiss general practitioner in a rural community (Konolfingen) and Professor in Primary Care at the University of Bern. He co-leads the Master’s program and conducts research into interprofessional primary care. Prof Streit is past-president of the Swiss Organisation of Young GPs (JHaS, www.jhas.ch) and served as chair of the European Organisation of Young GPs (VdGM,www.vdgm.eu) and chairs the committee to promote general internal medicine of SGAIM (www.sgaim.ch). He trained in epidemiology (MSc) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (www.lshtm.ac.uk) and at Leiden University (PhD) (www.universiteitleiden.nl) in the Netherlands. He is a member of the European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN, www.egprn.org).