Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors comprises the President, four Vice-Presidents and the Treasurer. If not a member of the Board of Directors, the Past President of the Standing Committee sits on the Board in an advisory capacity.

The Board of Directors 2025-2027 was elected by our General Assembly on 9 November 2024, with Dr Ole Johan Bakke elected CPME President. It took office on 1 January 2025.

Board of Directors 2025-2027

Dr Ole Johan Bakke

PRESIDENT (Norwegian Medical Association)

Dr Ole Johan Bakke was born in 1961 and graduated from University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine in 1988. He holds two specialties; one in Public Health and one in General Medicine. He has worked as a general practitioner and a public health officer since 1990.

Dr Bakke was elected member of the board of the Norwegian Medical Association in 2015. In addition, he has several other assignments in the Norwegian Medical Association. He chairs the committee for the Norwegian Medical Association’s fund for specialist education and is member of the board of the Norwegian Association of Public Health Officers. Furthermore, he has extensive experiences as a board member of various hospitals and other health organisations.

Dr Bakke is married and has three children. He lives on a farm 70 kilometres south-west of Oslo. He spends his time off either outdoors in the countryside or at a very quiet spot in the Telemark mountains.

Dr Andreas Botzlar

VICE PRESIDENT (German Medical Association)

Dr Andreas Botzlar, a specialist in surgery, has been a member of the Executive Board of the German Medical Association (GMA) since May 2023. He is Co-Chair of the GMA’s Committee for International Affairs and a member of the GMA’s Standing Committees on Specialty Training and Continuing Medical Education. Furthermore, he holds the position of Vice-Chair of the Marburger Bund – the German trade union which represents the professional and political interests of physicians employed in Germany and medical students. Closer to home, he serves as 1st Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Bavarian State Chamber of Physicians and as Chair of the Bavarian branch of the Marburger Bund.

Dr Botzlar is committed to international cooperation and frequently participates in meetings of the World Medical Association as a member of the German delegation and the Symposium of the Central and Eastern European Chambers of Physicians (ZEVA). For years, he was also heavily involved in the work of the European Junior Doctors (EJD), assuming the role of Secretary General of the EJD’s permanent working group from 2009 to 2011.

From 1988 to 1995, Dr Botzlar pursued his medical studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, subsequently completing his practical year and physician residency at the same institution. In 2010, he commenced his career as a surgical specialist at the BG Unfallklinik Murnau, later advancing to the role of senior physician at the clinic.

Dr Botzlar is married and has three children.

Dr Jacqueline Rossant-Lumbroso

VICE PRESIDENT (French Medical Council)

Dr Jacqueline Rossant-Lumbroso is a French general practitioner as well as a sports and aviation doctor. Her medical training was coupled with a course in computer science, statistics and epidemiology. She is actively involved in the continuing education of physicians and has written several popular medical publications and is co-author of two medical encyclopedias.

Dr Rossant-Lumbroso is serving her second term as CPME Vice President, having served on the Board since 2022. She also serves as Vice President of the French Medical Council.

Dr Péter Álmos

VICE PRESIDENT (Hungarian Medical Chamber)

Dr. Péter Álmos was born in 1980. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Szeged in 2005 and obtained his board certification in psychiatry in 2010, later adding a specialization in rehabilitation. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry in Szeged, where he teaches resident doctors, medical and dental students and actively mentors future researchers.

He holds a PhD and university habilitation, with previous research on the genetic background of mental disorders. He pursued postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Rome and the University Hospital of Würzburg.

Dr. Álmos’ current research focuses on the neurocognitive aspects of addiction and suicide, with a particular focus on self-harm, burnout, and moral injury among physicians.

Since 2015, Dr. Álmos has been actively involved in healthcare advocacy. Initially, he co-founded a civil group to combat corruption in the healthcare system alongside his colleagues. Later, through the Hungarian Medical Chamber, they achieved significant improvements in transparency and financial security for physicians.

Dr. Álmos has held leadership roles within the Hungarian Medical Chamber, serving as Vice President since 2019 and President since 2023. In his leadership roles, he has consistently worked to advance the interests of Hungarian physicians and improve the healthcare system.

Dr Kitty Mohan

VICE PRESIDENT (British Medical Association)

Kitty Mohan is a Consultant in Communicable Disease Control based in London and Oxford. She qualified from Guy's King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in 2004, completed Public Health training in London in March 2018 and was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology from King’s College London in 2016.

She is the Chair of the International Committee at the British Medical Association (BMA). From 2018-2020, Kitty was President of the European Junior Doctor Association (EJD). She is a member of the BMA UK Council, has previously been Director of the BMA, and was joint lead negotiator for junior doctor contract negotiations whilst Co-chair of the BMA UK Junior Doctors Committee between 2013 and 2015. Kitty was made a Fellow of the BMA in 2017. 

Prof. Dr Ray Walley

TREASURER (Irish Medical Organisation)

Professor Dr Raymond Walley is a former President of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) (2015-2016) and Chair of the IMO GP Committee (2012-2015). He is Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the IMO. He is a member of the IMO GP sub-committee. 

Prof. Walley has been Head of the IMO Delegation to CPME since 2016 and served as CPME First Vice President from 2019 to 2024. Professor Walley is also head of delegation and a member of the Irish Delegation to UEMO (European Union of General Practitioners). 

Professor Walley is a full-time General Practitioner and GP Trainer based in Dublin. He is a Clinical Professor of General Practice  in the Dept. of Medicine at University College Dublin.

Dr Walley graduated in medicine at University College Dublin in 1987 and trained as a GP at the NHS East Sussex Vocational Training Scheme in the UK. Dr Walley worked as a fund holding General Practitioner in a multi-partner purpose built Primary Care Centre in East Sussex, NHS. Dr Walley was a founding member of Brightdoc, a Brighton GP out-of-hours service in 1996. He is also Development Co-ordinator and founding Chairperson of D-DOC North Dublin CO-OP out-of-hours service 2004 – 2006. 

Professor Walley is a member of the Medisec GP Professional Medical indemnity insurance advisory panel. 

Dr Christiaan Keijzer

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT (Royal Dutch Medical Association)


Dr Christiaan Keijzer completed his successful three-year term at the end of 2024 and continues to support the Board of Directors as Immediate Past President.

Dr Keijzer was born in 1969. He graduated from the Radboud University Faculty of Medicine (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) in 1997. He completed his specialization in anesthesiology at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam in 2004. He received his PhD degree in 2007 with a thesis on “Interaction of inhalational anesthetics and carbon dioxide absorbents” from the VU University in Amsterdam.

He worked as consultant anesthesiologist after his specialisation in Amsterdam at the VU University Medical Center and Academic Medical Center and the Netherlands Cancer Institute from 2004 until 2014. He currently works as consultant anesthesiologist and resident training director for anesthesiology at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen.

In 2024, the Royal Dutch Medical Association (RDMA) awarded Dr Keijzer with the silver medal of great merit for his exceptional services to Dutch medicine and the medical federation. Dr Keijzer served as RDMA financial director and vice-chairman from June 2014, completing his last board term in 2023. He also served as first Vice President of the European Federation of Salaried Doctors (FEMS).

He is a member of the regional medical disciplinary boards and arbiter at the arbitration board in the Netherlands.

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