Fiona is Nurse Consultant in Travel Health Medicine, responsible for national travel medicine programmes at Health Protection Scotland, the agency that oversees travel medicine there. Fiona develops policy and services in travel and international health for the Scottish Government, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, other health professionals and organisations, and the general public. Fiona has been an ISTM member since its inception and has previously served in most of the leadership roles within the Society.

Fiona qualified with a nursing degree in 1984, before specialising in Infectious Diseases, Tropical and Travel Medicine. She gained a Masters degree from the University of Glasgow in 1992, and is an Honorary Lecturer in Epidemiology within the Public Health Medicine Department there. In 2006 she was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow as a Founder Fellow within the Faculty of Travel Medicine. She sits on the College Examination Board for the Diploma in Travel Medicine and regularly teaches and examines at post-graduate level. Fiona has co-authored three textbooks in travel medicine and numerous other publications on the topic.

Fiona has travelled extensively, and worked abroad in countries such as India and Iraq on education, research and humanitarian projects. She is an active member on various national and international groups and committees, including the UK Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention (ACMP), and EuroTravNet . Fiona was actively involved in the genesis of the winning proposal for EuroTravNet , designed to build a network to support travel and tropical medicine related activities in Europe, which is funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Dr. Alan J. Magill is currently Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Washington DC in the USA. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. He has over 15 years of experience in developing new generations of vaccines, diagnostics, and anti-malarial drugs to prevent travel related infectious diseases.

Dr. Magill has had extensive international research experience in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia working extensively in the field of malaria and leishmaniasis. He lived in Lima Peru from 1996-2000 and worked in the Peruvian Amazon. He then spent 2 years as the Head, Clinical Research, of the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit of the US National Institutes of Health before being appointed Science Director at WRAIR. Current interests include developing new anti-malarial drugs, and improved, point of care diagnostics. Dr. Magill was a key leader in the research and development effort for non-microscopic, rapid diagnostic tests for malaria that lead to approval of the first such test by the US FDA in 2007.

Dr. Magill is a frequently invited speaker onn travel medicine related topics to numerous national and international meetings. He is an Attending Physician at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, an active member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene serving as CME Courses Director and President of the Clinical Group, an invited participant in numerous national and international advisory committees and workshops, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a recipient of the Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Travelers Health of the ASTM&H, Lead Editor for the 9th edition of Hunter's Tropical Medicine, and has a dual appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Magill is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, 115 abstracts, and 12 book chapters. He has been a member of the ISTM since 1992 serving as Associate Chair, Scientific Program Committee, CISTM9, 2003 - 2005 and Associate Chair, Scientific Program Committee, CISTM10, 2005 - 2007. He remains clinically active in pre and post travel settings and inpatient infectious disease service.

Dr. Shlim has served as Medical Director at the Jackson Hole Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic since 1998. Born in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Shlim received his M.D. in 1976 from Rush Medical College. He served his residency at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Shlim worked in family practice and emergency medicine from 1977 through 1983. He served three volunteer seasons at the Himalayan Rescue Association aid post at Pheriche, Nepal in 1979, 1980, and 1982 and was the Medical Director of the CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal from 1983 to 1998.

Dr. Shlim was the Course Chairman for Medicine for Adventure Travel (a travel medicine course in Jackson Hole, Wyoming) from 1993 to 2006. He served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Clinical Group of the ASTMH from 2001-2003. Dr. Shlim's ISTM roles have included serving on the scientific program committee, the exam committee, and the publications committee. He has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Travel Medicine since its inaugural issue.

Dr. Shlim has published more than 40 original articles on travel medicine issues. He is the co-author of Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance for Caregivers, which is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Catalonian. He is currently Medical Editor of the CDC's Health Information for International Travel.

Prof. Francesco Castelli, MD, FRCP (London), FFTM RCPS (Glasg) was born in Milan (Italy) on the 5th of April 1958. He is married with 2 children. Italian is his mother language and he can speak and write English and French fluently, with basic knowledge of Spanish. After having obtained the Bachelor of Science in Milan in 1976, Prof. Castelli graduated in Medicine in 1983 (full marks and honours) and obtained the Specialty Degree in Infectious Diseases (University of Pavia, 1987) and in Tropical Medicine (University of Milan, 1991).

After a period of time (1986-87) spent in Sub-Saharian Africa working for the World Health Organization in the field of diarrheal diseases and infant vaccinations, he joined the University of Brescia in 1992, first as Assistant Professor then, since 2000, as Associate Professor and finally, since 2005, as Full Professor of Infectious Diseases. Since 2000 he is also Director of the Post-Graduate School of Tropical Medicine of the University of Brescia. At the University of Brescia, Prof. Castelli acts as the Director of the Department of Mather and Child Care and Medical Bio-Technologies. Prof. Castelli is the head of the Tropical Unit at the Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, which is a member Institution of GeoSentinel.

Prof. Castelli is the President of the Italian Branch of Medicus Mundi Italy, a non-profit Non-Governmental Organization working in many humanitarian projects in South America, Africa and Asia.

As an academic physician, Prof. F. Castelli has participated in many multicentre clinical trials, mainly in the field of HIV infection and malaria infection. In many of those trials, he has played a coordinating role. He has also been appointed Study Site Coordinator in two ACTG (AIDS Clinical Trial Group) studies. He acts as the Co-Director of the TLY-Brescia GeoSentinel Site. The main fields of research of Prof. Castelli are (i) HIV infection, (ii) Tropical and Migration Medicine, (III) Travel-related and imported diseases and (iv) Congenital infectious diseases. Prof. Francesco Castelli has published more than 140 papers on international peer-reviewed international journals and contributed to over 200 international Congresses. He has also authored over 90 chapters of Books and Manuals and edited 1 Book on Infectious and Tropical Diseases.

In June of 2011, Prof. Castelli was bestowed the title of “Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”, the highest ranking honour of the Italian Republic; it is awarded for "merit acquired by the nation" in the fields of literature, the arts, economy, public service, and social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities and for long and conspicuous service in civilian and military careers.

After graduating from Harvard University with a B.A. Cum Laude and Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Chen trained in internal medicine at New England Deaconess Hospital and infectious diseases at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and recently completed a medical education fellowship at Harvard Medical School-Mount Auburn Hospital. Her overseas clinical experiences include Thailand and Peru. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School, directs the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Chen has authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. Her academic interests include dengue, malaria, immunizations, emerging infections, immigrant health, and medical education. She has served as an Associate Editor for Travel Medicine Advisor for over a decade. She serves as a councilor for the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health and as a member of the Certificate Examination Committee of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). She is a site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and for the Boston Area Travel Medicine Network. She served on the Scientific Program Committee of the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) 2008 and 2010.

Prior ISTM activities: Dr. Chen has served on the Professional Education and Training Committee and the Research Committee, directed ISTM courses on travel medicine, co-organized the Expert Opinion series, and reviewed for the Journal of Travel Medicine. She served as an Associate Chair for the Scientific Committee of CISTM 11.

Associate Professor Karin Leder is the Director of Travel Medicine and Immigrant Health Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, a large tertiary referral hospital in Australia. She is also Head of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit in the School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians, and she has a Masters of Public Health degree (Harvard University), a PhD (Monash University), and a DTMH (Gorgas).

Dr Leder's main research interests include travel health, the burden of imported infections, immigrant / refugee health, research methodology, and public health issues associated with water use. She is author of over 70 peer-reviewed papers and co-author of a number of book chapters related to travel medicine and parasitic infections. She is also the Section Editor for the Travel Medicine section for UpToDate.

Dr Leder is the GeoSentinel Site Director for Melbourne, the current Chair of the GeoSentinel Publication Committee, and a member of the ISTM Research Awards Committee. She has also been a member of the Scientific Program Committee for CISTM11 (Budapest) and CISTM 12 (Boston), as well as for the Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference in Melbourne (2008). She is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference to be held in Singapore, 2012. Dr Leder is also a regular contributor to and referee for the Journal of Travel Medicine.

Prof. Wilder-Smith is the Director of the Travellers Screening and Vaccination Clinic at the National University Hospital Singapore. Her expertise is travel medicine and international health, with a focus on vaccine preventable diseases and emerging infectious diseases. She is coordinator of global health courses and the module on communicable diseases for the MPH program at the National University Singapore. She is a Joint Associate Professor with Duke-NUS in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Program.

Her research interests are dengue, meningococcal disease, tuberculosis, SARS, and other emerging diseases. She holds a PhD in International Health from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked in various countries including China, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Switzerland, Singapore and Germany.

Dr. Wilder-Smith has published more than 85 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals. She is co-editor of Travel medicine: tales behind the science (Elsevier, 2007) and editor of the WHO International Travel and Health 2007 and 2008. She co-edited and co-authored various textbooks including the Manual of Travel Medicine & Health (Steffen/DuPont/Wilder-Smith, 2007, B.C. Decker Inc).

Dr. Wilder-Smith is Editorial Consultant to The Lancet and Technical Advisor to WHO related to international travel and health. She is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Travel Medicine, Co-Chair for the Asia Pacific Travel Medicine Conference in Melbourne 2008, and Special Advisor to GeoSentinel. She also is the President-elect of the Asia Pacific Society of Travel Medicine.

Furthermore, Prof Wilder-Smith serves as consultant to various NGOs in Asia and is the research consultant to The Leprosy Mission. Since 2001, she is the Medical Director for a Community Health Project in South India.

Secretary-Treasurer (2005-present) David O. Freedman, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and has directed the UAB Travelers Health Clinic since 1989. Still a Canadian citizen, he received his undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal and his MD from the University of Toronto. After residency and fellowship in Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases at McGill University, he completed post-doctoral training with the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID.

For the past 15 years he has been Director of the global GeoSentinel Surveillance Network which he co-founded and which currently maintains the largest database of ill travelers available. GeoSentinel is network of 50 ISTM travel/tropical medicine units on six continents that is funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is Associate Editor of the Emerging Infections Journal. Funded research projects have been completed in India, Guatemala, Ghana, Brazil, and Peru in addition to the 22 countries where GeoSentinel operates. He also directs the Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine that is given for 2 months each year in Peru. He is a co-author of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines on Travel Medicine and is co-Editor of the textbook, Travel Medicine.

Prior ISTM service: One of 287 founding members in 1991. Counselor 1999-2003. Chair, Electronic Communications Committee (1995-2005). Founder, ISTM TravelMed listserv. Chair, Scientific Program Committee for CISTM7 in Innsbruck and CISTM9 in Lisbon. Member, CTH Exam Committee 1999-2005.

Dr. Caumes is a clinician (MD) certified in Dermatology (1989) then in Infectious and tropical diseases (1993). He is Professor of Infectious and Tropical diseases, at the University "Pierre et Marie Curie" in Paris since 2001. He is vice chairman of the department of infectious diseases, at the Teaching Hospital "Pitie-Salpetriere" in Paris. Dr. Caumes is involved in teaching, taking care of patients seen at the travel disease unit or been hospitalized and performing clinical research. He lived in Nepal at the beginning of the eighties. At that time, Kathmandou valley was still a paradise and his road crossed that of David Shlim. He worked there as a "doctor for travellers" at the French Embassy in Kathmandou

Dr. Caumes' involvement in our travel medicine institution began in the pre ISTM period, after he came back from Nepal, beginning in the late eighties at the first international congress in Zurich of what will become the ISTM. He was too young to be considered as a pioneer but he was there. He is also a member of the Journal of Travel Medicine editorial board. Dr. Caumes is president of the French Society of Travel Medicine, member of the "Counseil National des Universites", editor of La Lettre de l'Infectiologue and serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique.

Dr. Caumes is noted for his research input in travel medicine. Main fields of research concern returned ill travelers, skin infections (cutaneous larva migrans, skin and soft tissue infections, leishmaniasis), imported tropical diseases (typhoid, schistosomiasis, malaria, gnathostomiasis) and sexually transmitted diseases. In his daily practice, he is also involved in the care of HIV infected patients with a focus on skin manifestations and cutaneous adverse reactions to drugs.

Professor Peter Leggat is the Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University (JCU). His expertise is travel medicine and international health, with a focus on tropical diseases and occupational health. He has coordinated the Australian Postgraduate Travel Medicine Course since 1993, as well as other programs at JCU, including the DTM&H and the MPH&TM. He is also Visiting Medical Officer for Defence in Townsville.

He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Newcastle, the Queensland University of Technology and the University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Leggat has also served as a temporary advisor and as a short term consultant in travel medicine to the World Health Organization. He is also a consultant to several other groups, including the Defence Health Service and the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia. His current board appointments include the Australian Travel Health Advisory Group, the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM), the World Safety Organization (WSO), JCU Council, and St John Ambulance Australia. He was WSO Director-General from 1997-99 and ACTM President from 1996-98, 2002-04 and 2006-08. He was also an ISTM Councillor from 2003-2005.

His research interests include aspects of travelers' health and safety, malaria, some of the Neglected Tropical Diseases, disaster medical assistance teams, aeromedical retrieval, and various occupational diseases.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Professor Leggat has published nearly 400 scientific papers in national and international peer reviewed journals. He has edited or co-edited more than 20 monographs. He is lead editor of "Primer of Travel Medicine" (ACTM, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005)" and also co-edited "Tourism in Turbulent Times" with Professor Jeff Wilks (Elsevier 2006). Professor Leggat holds senior editorial appointments with several journals, including "Journal of Travel Medicine" (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), "Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease" (Editorial Advisor), "Industrial Health" (Editor), "Annals of the ACTM" (Executive Editor), and "Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health" (Consulting Editor). He has also presented more than 250 papers at National and International scientific meetings and regularly lectures on travel medicine in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

He has won numerous awards, including most recently the Thomson Reuter's Blake Dawson Inside OHS Professional of the Year, the WSO International Award and the Surgeon General John White Medal, all in 2008.

Dr. Nothdurft is an Associate Professor and Clinical Consultant at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the University of Munich, Germany where he also serves as the Director of the University Travel Clinic. Dr. Nothdurft is certified as a specialist for tropical medicine, and received his Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London, England.

In addition to his experience as practitioner and professor, Dr. Nothdurft also served as Medical Coordinator for the relief operations for Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees in Indonesia and Thailand on behalf of the International Red Cross. His main focus has been in research, teaching and clinical practice in the field of infectious diseases and tropical medicine with an emphasis on travel-related illnesses. Dr. Nothdurft has been the principal investigator in several studies on the safety and immunogenicity of vaccines against hepatitis A, hepatitis B and Japanese encephalitis as well as in the epidemiology of malaria and hepatitis E in travellers.

Dr. Nothdurft has published more than 100 scientific publications and has made over 150 presentations in national and international conferences in the field of epidemiology, control, prophylaxis and therapy of infectious and tropical diseases mainly in travellers. He has had both long and short term assignments as consultant mainly for the International Red Cross and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Somalia and Namibia. Since 1984 Dr. Nothdurft has been a permanent medical advisor to the German Red Cross in international and relief matters.

In addition to being an active member and officer in many national and international organizations, Dr. Nothdurft has a long history helping to develop ISTM International Congresses. He was a member of the scientific committee and as Secretary-General for the CISTM5 in Geneva, chaired the scientific committee for the CISTM8 in New York, co-chaired the scientific Committee for CISTM9 in Lisbon, and was the Organizing Chair for the CISTM11 in Budapest.

Ken is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College (Sociology) and received his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. He trained in Internal Medicine (Cambridge Hospital), Pediatrics (Children's Hospital Medical Center - Boston) and Family Practice (Harvard Family Health Care Program).

After two years in the National Health Service Corps in inner-city Rochester, NY, he moved to Storrs, Connecticut in 1976 where he founded and developed a Family Practice group which has grown to five physicians, a Nurse Practitioner and 2 Physician Assistants. It was in this setting that he began advising travelers, mostly University of Connecticut faculty and students and led him to develop in 1982 the first computer-based tool for advising international travelers, The Immunization Alert^TM international health database.

Recognizing the need for more formal training in tropical diseases, Ken studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (DTM&H) in 1989 as the George C. Griffith Traveling Scholar of the American College of Physicians and Jeffrey Richardson Fellow of Harvard. From 1997 to 2002 he collaborated with Shoreland, Inc. to further develop on-line and disk-based information services for travel health professionals. He has written a variety of books and articles on traveler's health and has lectured widely on this topic.

Ken has been involved in state and local public health activities as the Director of Health for the Town of Mansfield, Connecticut and currently the Medical Advisor to the Eastern Highlands Health District; School Physician for the town of Mansfield; and founder and President of the Connecticut Safety Belt Coalition, instrumental in developing Connecticut's Safety Belt use law in the mid 1980's.

He has been a member of the ISTM since its inception, member of the Examination and Certification Committee since 2004 and Chair since 2008.

His current research interests include both clinical and basic science explorations of babesia, Lyme borreliosis and other tick-borne infections, and the host immune response to tick bite.

Phyllis Kozarsky, MD, is an expert travel health consultant for CDC's Travelers Health and Animal Importation team, whose focus is to promote travelers' health and to prevent introduction of diseases related to animal importation to the U.S. She is an editor of CDC's Health Information for the International Traveler, also known as the "Yellow Book."

Dr. Kozarsky began her CDC career in 2001. She is also medical co-director at TravelWell, an Emory Healthcare affiliated program aimed at providing pre-and post-traveler health services to international travelers, and at Grady Memorial Hospital's Immigrant and Refugee clinic. Current research efforts have primarily focused on issues in clinical tropical medicine and travelers' health, including the epidemiology of travel related infections.

She received her bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She went to Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles, and is a member many professional organizations, including the International Society of Travel Medicine and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Her current research efforts have primarily focused on issues in clinical tropical medicine and travelers' health. This includes the epidemiology of travel-related infections, as it relates to the more than 50,000 patients in the GeoSentinel worldwide database.

Robert Steffen, Emeritus Professor, is currently concentrating on research projects at the University of Zurich Centre for Travel Medicine, where until 2008 he was the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Communicable Diseases in the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and Director of a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Traveller's Health. Further, he is Adjunct Professor in the Epidemiology and Disease Prevention Division of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, TX and Honorary Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Steffen began systematically investigating illness and accidents in travellers in 1975. He organised the First International Conference on Travel Medicine in Zurich 1988 and became a co-founder and President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Travel Medicine and has published more than 350 papers, book chapters, monographs - mainly in the field of travel health. For 12 years each, Dr. Steffen presided over the Swiss Influenza Pandemic Planning Committee and the Expert Committee for Travel Medicine; he was Vice-President of the Federal Commission on Vaccination and of the Swiss Bioterrorism Committee.

Dr. Steffen has held a number of critical roles in ISTM since its inception. He has served as President-Elect, President and Past-President, as well as chairing the Exam and Liaison Committees.

Dr. Mary-Louise Scully is the Director of the Travel and Tropical Medicine Center of the Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to her clinical practice of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, she is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) subspecialty board exam committee for the Infectious Disease Subspecialty Exam. She is also an Associate Editor for the journal Travel Medicine Advisor and a peer reviewer for the Journal of Travel Medicine.

Dr. Scully received a B.A. from Smith College and her medical degree from Rush Medical College in Illinois. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Disease Fellowship at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital. For 11 years she was a member of the Clinical Faculty at Yale University School of Medicine and an attending physician at the Yale International Health and Travel Clinic.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chad Relief Foundation and Direct Relief International, non-profit organizations based in Santa Barbara. She recently has traveled twice to southern Chad as part of this volunteer work. In 2007 Dr. Scully traveled and served as expedition team physician for Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society filming of the PBS documentary Return to the Amazon.

She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband Ralph Zitnik, M.D. and has two adult children Robert and Kate Zitnik.

A/Prof Torresi is an infectious diseases physician at the Austin hospital, Heidelberg Victoria, Australia and Associate Professor of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and has a PhD in Microbiology. He is head of the Travel Medicine at the Austin hospital and the current manager of the Austin Centre for Infection Research. He is the co-director for the Melbourne GeoSentinel Surveillance network site. He has directed numerous clinical and basic research projects and clinical trials in infectious diseases and travel medicine.

Dr Torresi is head of the Hepatitis and Virology Molecular Biology Research laboratory, Austin hospital, University of Melbourne and is responsible for several projects in hepatitis B and C pathogenesis and immunology and influenza research. He is a founding committee member of the Viral Hepatitis SIG of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases.

Dr Torresi is the author of over 120 publications including original papers, reviews and book chapters and books and peer reviewed conference proceedings. He is the co-author in several books and book chapters on the topic of travel medicine.

Dr Torresi has been a member of ISTM since 1997 and has served on several scientific committees including those of CISTM8, CISTM9 and was associate chair CISTM10, Chair of the 4th Regional ISTM, (APICTM 2008), Co-chair, 7th Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference, 2010 and current member of the v2V Dengue Vaccine initiative steering committee. He is a frequently invited speaker to national and international conferences on topics of travel medicine and hepatitis.

Davidson Hamer is the current Chair of the ISTM Research and Awards Committee. He is a Professor of International Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Dr. Hamer is currently serving as Director of Research and Evaluation at the Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development in Lusaka, Zambia. Dr. Hamer serves as the Director of the Travel Clinic and is a member of the Section of Infectious Diseases at Boston Medical Center. He is a board-certified specialist in infectious diseases, with a particular interest in tropical infectious diseases, who has twenty years of field research experience in micronutrients, malaria, HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, and diarrheal diseases. During the last decade he has supervised and provided technical support to more than 50 studies in developing countries that evaluated interventions for the improving neonatal survival, treatment and prevention of malaria, HIV/AIDS, micronutrient deficiencies, diarrheal disease, and pneumonia. He currently has active projects in Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ecuador. Major current projects include the Boston Area Travel Medicine Network (BATMN), a large neonatal survival study, community-based interventions to reduce neonatal and under 5 child morbidity from common diseases, the role of specific micronutrients in reducing the burden of disease due to malaria in pregnancy, and an evaluation of the impact of zinc as an adjunct to the treatment of severe pneumonia in children.

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Jeffery A. Goad is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the USC School of Pharmacy in 1994 and Masters of Public Health from the USC Keck School of Medicine in 2003. He completed a residency in pediatric pharmacy practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and holds the Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Goad established and currently directs the USC International Travel Clinics and the USC International Travel Clinic Technical Assistance Service. In 2008, he became the Co-Director of the Los Angeles/USC GeoSentinel surveillance program for traveler related illness. He coordinates the community pharmacy clerkship and classroom electives and teaches immunizations, epidemiology, and parasitology. He is currently a national faculty and trainer for the American Pharmacists Association Pharmacy Based Immunization Training Program. Dr. Goad is also the director of the USC Community Pharmacy Practice Residency program and has implemented numerous community based patient care programs. He has presented at over 150 pharmacy and medical conferences and published more than 30 articles and book chapters. Dr. Goad is currently the California Pharmacists Association President.

Garth Brink is a family physician in private practice in Durban, South Africa. His interests, aside from family medicine, include aviation and travel medicine. He was the President of the South African Society of Travel Medicine from 2004 to 2008 and is currently the Project Manager.

Elizabeth D. Barnett is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a member of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston Medical Center. She is the Director of the International Clinic which houses the Refugee Health Assessment Program, travel medicine services for children and their families, and consultations for topical medicine and international adoption.

Dr. Barnett Chairs the annual ISTM North American Travel Medicine and Review Course and is a GeoSentinel Site Director. She is a councilor of the Clinical Group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. With Patricia F. Walker, MD, she is co-editor of the textbook Immigrant Medicine.

A member of the International Society of Travel Medicine since 1994, Phil Fischer currently leads the new ISTM Pediatrics Interest Group. He did undergraduate and medical school studies at the University of California, Irvine, and a pediatric residency at the University of Utah. He received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1985 and then practiced, taught, and studied pediatrics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then "Zaire") through 1991. A US-based academic general pediatrician since 1992, Phil continues to travel around the world to teach and study pediatrics. He is Professor of Pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and works in Mayo Clinic's Tropical and Travel Medicine Clinic. His research focuses both on malaria and on nutritional deficiencies. He writes regularly about pediatric travel medicine. Phil and his wife, Juli, live in Rochester, Minnesota. Three of their five children were born in Africa; they have each had traveler's diarrhea, and most have had malaria.

Dr. Valk is a US Board Certified psychiatrist with 27 years of experience dealing with the screening, overseas support and repatriation issues associated with expatriation of families. He began this work with the US Department of State as a Foreign Service Psychiatrist posted both in Washington, DC and for four years in Cairo, Egypt, then as President of VEI, Incorporated, a behavioral management consultation firm in Marshall, VA. During his career, Dr. Valk has published numerous articles and book chapters on the issues of expatriation, and is in process now of writing the chapter on Psychiatric Disorders of Travel for the 3rd edition of Keystone’s et al Travel Medicine text.

Dr. Valk received his Medical Degree at George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA in 1974 and completed his psychiatric training at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA in 1978, to include 18 months of internal medicine training. He achieved his MPH in 1994 from the George Washington University School of Medicine.