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.

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. She is responsible for national travel medicine programmes at Health Protection Scotland, the agency that oversees travel medicine in Scotland. 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).

Frank v. Sonnenburg, M.D., MPH, is currently the Deputy Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the University of Munich and Head of the Section of International Medicine and Public Health.

Prof. v. Sonnenburg is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and specialized in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. He worked extensively in developing countries on a variety of infectious diseases projects and in public health in general. Prof. v. Sonnenburg spent much time working in the Philippines, Tanzania and Jamaica. He also had the opportunity to work with the late Dr. Jonathan Mann for several years in Geneva in his Global Programme on AIDS.

Although Prof. v. Sonnenburg continued to participate in international studies, he has focused his energies more recently closer to home - being available to the 2 teenage sons, mentoring students, improving the travel clinic, and spending time on ISTM initiatives such as the meetings, the secretary/treasury and GeoSentinel. He has served as the secretary treasurer of the ISTM and was the chair of the CISTM7 in Innsbruck, Austria.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

Karl Neumann is a pediatrician, travel medicine practitioner, and journalist. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Medical College of Comell University and Clinical Associate Attending Pediatrician at New York Presbyterian Hospital / Cornell Medical Center. He is editor of the newsletter of the International Society of Travel Medicine and serves on their executive board, an editor of the International Child Health Newsletter of the Amencan Academy of Pediatrics and former newsletter editor of the Wilderness Medical Society. He has written chapters on pediatric travel medicine for textbooks, hundreds of articles for major newspapers, and edited and published a popular newsletter. He lectures frequently to physicians around the world on the medical aspects of travel and outdoor recreational activities.

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.

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.

Michele Barry, MD, FACP is the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine at Stanford. She also serves as the health consultant for the Ford Foundation overseas programs. As Director of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Award program, she has sent over 1000 physicians overseas to underserved areas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low resource settings. As a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, she led an educational initiative in tropical medicine and travelers health which culminated in diploma courses in tropical medicine both in the U.S. and overseas, as well as a U.S. certification exam. Dr. Barry is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science and is past-Chair of the Interest Group on Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the IOM. She has been listed in Best Doctors in America and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities involved in Global Health (CUGH).

Areas of scholarly interest include global health workforce, clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, problems of underserved populations and globalization's impact upon health in the developing world.

Dr. Ericsson graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1970. He did his medicine residency at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and served two years in the US Air Force. He did his fellowship in infectious diseases with Herbert L. DuPont at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, where he remained on the faculty to this day. Dr. Ericsson has heavy clinical infectious diseases consultative and teaching duties. He has received several awards for his teaching and is presently the Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at University of Texas Medical School at Houston. In addition, he is director of the University of Texas Travel Medicine Clinic. He is also currently involved in hospital infection control and antibiotic restriction programs. His research interests include travelers' diarrhea and travel medicine. He has journeyed each summer to Guadalajara Mexico to conduct clinical trials in travelers' diarrhea since 1975.

Dr. Ericsson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Ericsson is a manuscript reviewer for more than 10 journals; founding editor of the Journal of Travel Medicine; and past Editor of the Travel Medicine Section, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000-2009.

A member since the Atlanta meeting, Dr. Ericsson served on the ITSM Scientific Planning Committee for the ISTM meetings in Paris, France. He also was a member of the ISTM Long Range Planning, the Examinations and the Publications Committees and was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Travel Medicine. Dr. Ericsson served as President of ISTM from 1999 through 2001.

Bradley A. Connor, M.D. has been an active member of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) since its founding in 1991. He has served since 1994 as Chair of the Travel Industry and Public Education Committee. Under his leadership, this Committee has furthered the agenda of raising public awareness of travel medicine as well as forging links with the travel industry. Specific Committee activities have included the North American Charter for Travel Health Consensus Conference, held in 1996, which laid the groundwork for minimum standards for the travel industry with respect to health advice. The Committee compiled and published the first worldwide directory of ISTM Travel Clinics in 1996. Under his direction, the Coalition for Healthy Travel, a not for profit ISTM initiative, was begun in 1997. With industry partners, the Coalition for Healthy Travel has embarked on a travel medicine awareness campaign through media outreach.

Dr Connor served as Chair of the 8th Conference of the ISTM (CISTM8) held in New York in May, 2003. In May 2003 Dr. Connor assumed the role of President of the ISTM, a position he held until 2005.

Dr. Connor is a gastroenterologist with clinical faculty appointments at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Rockefeller University and serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Founder and Medical Director of Travel Health Services, New York City's first private Travel Medicine Clinic, he is also the Director of the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, a facility devoted to teaching and research in travel and tropical medicine. Dr. Connor's main research interests include chronic diarrhea in returned travelers, emerging gastrointestinal pathogens, viral hepatitis and enteric parasitic diseases. He was part of the Kathmandu, Nepal team that first described the clinical illness associated with Cyclospora and has investigated the pathogenesis, clinical illness, epidemiology, and treatment of Cyclospora infections. In 1997 he received the Clinical Research Award from the International Society of Travel Medicine for his work on travelers diarrhea in Vietnam.

Dr. Connor has authored numerous publications and has lectured widely in the field of travel medicine. He is an editor of the recently published textbook Travel Medicine. Co-director of "Medicine for Adventure Travel," a one-week travel medicine conference held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming since 1993, Dr. Connor serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Travel Medicine, and has been involved in development of the Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Medicine.

Dr. Anne McCarthy is the current Chair of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Research Committee. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital. She is actively involved in the development of prevention and treatment strategies for malaria and recommendations for travel related, vaccine preventable and emerging infectious diseases. Dr. McCarthy is the National Coordinator of the Canadian Malaria Network in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada's Travel Medicine Program and chairs the malaria subcommittee of the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel. As well, she is the Director of the Action Global Health Network in Ottawa, Canada and the Director of the Office of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.

Dr. McCarthy's educational interests include undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching in infectious disease, travel medicine, tropical medicine and global health. Clinically, she is the Director of the Tropical Medicine and International Health Clinic at the General Campus, and also does clinical infectious diseases with an emphasis on infections in the intensive care unit, transplant patients, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. Her research interests include infections in compromised hosts, implementation of vaccine delivery programs within a healthcare setting, studies on antimalarial drugs - including tolerability and interactions with concurrent medication (such as antiretroviral drugs for HIV), vaccine efficacy, and compliance with travel medicine recommendations.

Jane trained as a nurse at St. George's Hospital, London in 1973. Post registration she undertook additional training courses in neurosurgical and=2 0neuromedical nursing, then midwifery, leading to a career as a medical ward sister in a hospital. She became interested in travel medicine in 1990 on commencing work in the primary care sector and in 1995 was one of the inaugural students to undertake a Masters degree in Travel Medicine at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1998. Since then she has continued to work part time in a primary care practice running a travel clinic. The main part of her time is spent independently having set up her own training business in 2002. She teaches Practice Nurses, some Pharmacists and General Practitioners and writes educational articles for publication in the nursing press.

Outside her own training days, she undertakes a number of invited lectures and is an Honorary Lecturer at the Academic Unit of Travel Medicine, University College Medical School, London. She was Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Travel Health Forum from 2000 - 2006. During her tenure she was lead author on a competency document, published in May 2007 which she presented at CISTM 10 in Vancouver. This document entitled "Competencies: an integrated career and competency framework for nurses in travel health medicine" was received with acclaim and has been considered to have helped improve standards of practice in the UK. In 2006 she was admitted as a Founder Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FFTM) and elected onto the Board as Secretary of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM). Within FTM she is also an active member of the Education and Professional Development Committee and Chair of the Membership Services Committee. She is currently writing the second edition of "The Atlas of Travel Medicine and Health" co authored with Lorna Boyne.

Her international relationship with travel medicine began in 1995 when she joined the ISTM. She has served on three committees and been an invited speaker at a number of conferences of the ISTM. Having been involved in the Practice and Nursing Issues Committee since 2004, she was voted in as Chair of the group in May 2008 and continues as Chair of the Nurse Professional Group in 2009.

Larry Goodyer is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Head of the School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University. He worked as a clinical pharmacist through much of the 1980s and early 90s and until 2003 was head of the pharmacy practice group at King's College London. His principal interest is within the field of travel medicine, in which he is keen to promote the role of pharmacists. He has lectured and taught widely on Travel Medicine to both Health professionals and the public and has been invited to address both National and International Conferences on the subject, as well as appearances on television and radio broadcasts. Related research interests include methods for bite avoidance and medical supplies for overseas travel. He is a member of the British Travel Health Association executive committee. More broadly in his capacity as a Professor of Pharmacy Practice he has been involved in research and teaching on a wide range of issues related to the Profession of Pharmacy. These include new roles for pharmacists such as prescribing and medicines management.

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.