Professor Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief of BioMed Central’s Journal of Medical Case Reports was recently appointed the next president-elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). The announcement was made at last month’s World Conference of Family Doctors in Cancun, Mexico.

Professor Kidd, Executive Dean of the Flinders University Faculty of Health Sciences and past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, will serve a three-year term as Wonca president-elect, taking over from current president Professor Richard Roberts in 2013.

Our congratulations to Professor Kidd from all at BioMed
Central; we wish him great success in his new role.