Professor Jan De Maeseneer (born 1952) is a Belgian family physician and head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University.
He was born (1952) in Ghent. In 1977, he graduated as a medical doctor at Ghent University and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg (Ghent)(www.wgcbotermarkt.be). In 1981, he started working as a part-time assistant at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. In 1989 he obtained a PhD. with the thesis The functioning of 94 GP trainers at the State University of Ghent: an explorative research. Since 1991, he is the head of the Department. His research at the university focuses on Education, Health Promotion, Health inequity, Health Services Research and Global Health. He published more than 100 articles in scientific journals.
Since 1996 he is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of General Practice, of the Wonca International Classification Committee (WICC), which produced the International Classification of Primary Care, and of the Research Committee of the World Organization of Family Doctors.
Since 2009, he is the Vice-Dean for Strategic Planning of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University, where he is also Chairman of the Educational Committee for the undergraduate medical curriculum. Since 2005, he is Chairman of the European Forum for Primary Care . Since 2007, he is the Secretary-General of the Network: Towards Unity for Health . Since 2010, he is the Director of the International Centre for Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, designated by the World Health Organisation as a "WHO-Collaborating Centre on Primary health Care" .