Professor Jens Søndergaard has for the last 20 years been a part time GP and also since 2008 full professor and director of the Research Unit for General Practice, University of Southern Denmark. His research is primarily focused on improving the quality of primary healthcare, improving patients’ trajectories across the healthcare sectors, communication, frailty, development and implementation of new technology and epidemiology. He has been a member of several national and international steering boards, advisory boards, clinical guideline development workgroups, the Danish College of General Practitioners, editorial boards, as well as several national and international committees and expert boards. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 publications, hereof more than 300 publications in scientific journals and he has supervised 41 phd theses to completion. He has published papers in a range of leading international journals including JAMA, Circulation, Plos One, and Social Science and Medicine and he has been supervised 41 PhD theses to completion. He has been awarded national prestigious awards and his biography is in Kraks Blue Book (The Danish Who’s who).