The Lyn Clearihan Award for the Best Paper has recently been
awarded to the authors of the following article inAsia Pacific Family
Medicine:

Care for
chronic illness in Australian general practice – focus groups of chronic
说ease self-help groups over 10 years: implications for chronic care systems
reformsCarmel M Martin,
Chris Peterson,Rowena RobinsonandJoachim P Sturmberg

The award, which
aims to raise the standard of primary care research, was presented at the recentWONCAAsia Pacific regional conference in
June. Research articles published inAsia
Pacific Family Medicinewere considered for the award with the winner being
decided by a panel of experts made up ofProf Bee-HorngLue, Prof John Campbell Murdoch of and Dr
Somjit Prueksaritanond.

Lyn Clearihan
recently stepped down as co-Editor-in-Chief ofAsia Pacific Family Medicine
having been instrumental in the founding of the journal. The award in her name will be presented at
future WONCA Asia Pacific regional conferences, with the next being in Cebu, the
Philippines in February 2011.

Asia Pacific Family Medicineaims to provide a forum
for the dissemination of high quality regional research and enhance the
standards of family medicine by focusing on best practice. The journal is the official journal of the
Asia Pacific Region of WONCA and is currently invitingsubmissionsfor a
thematic series on‘The expanding role of family medicine in medical
education’.