Herbert DuPont currently serves as the Director, Center for Infectious Diseases and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Chief, Internal Medicine Service at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. Additionally he is a professor at The Baylor College of Medicine H. Irving Schweppe, Jr., M.D., Chair in Internal Medicine and Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine; The Mary W. Kelsey Chair of Medical Sciences, The University of Texas-Houston Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Graduate Schools of Bio medical Sciences, The University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. DuPont also is Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and President of the Kelsey Research Foundation.

Dr. DuPont has been active and held positions in numerous organizations, including the American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Epidemiological Society, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Academy of Microbiology, America College of Physicians, Association of American Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, and the International Society of Travel Medicine. He has received many awards and honors.

Dr. DuPont has served on the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and as Consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Board of Scientific Counselors, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); NIH Blue Ribbon Panel on Bioterrorism and its Implications for Biomedical Research; Medical Advisory Steering Committee of the City of Houston Medical Strike Team for Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Terrorism; and the Board of Advisors, Emory University School of Medicine, 2001-2009.

Dr. DuPont has lectured widely in the field of travel medicine, has authored or co-authored 615 medical and scientific publications, and edited or written 19 books. Reference 11 in CV was the first description of the biologic properties of Norwalk virus published in 1971 and reprinted in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in 2004 as a Centennial Classic; reference 12 describing the pathogenesis of Escherichia coli diarrhea was deemed a Science Citation Classic in 1985 as one of the 100 most cited articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Infection, and currently serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Travel Medicine.

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.

Jay S. Keystone, MD, MSc FRCPC , is a professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, a senior staff physician in the Tropical Disease Unit , Toronto General Hospital and the director of Medisys Travel and adult Immunization Clinic, Toronto.

Dr. Keystone received his medical degree from the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Cody gold medal (1964-1969). He completed his internship at Toronto General Hospital and his residency at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, as well as the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor. He later completed postgraduate work, receiving his Master's degree in clinical tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He carried out field work in subsaharan Africa and South America before returning to Toronto to become the Director of the Tropical Disease Unit at Toronto General Hospital in 1997. While on sabbatical in 1985, he was designated as an official Government of India leprosy control officer.

Dr. Keystone has received numerous honors and has held medical society positions worldwide. In 2008, he received the Ben Kean Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine for his longstanding contributions to medical education and mentorship. In the same year, he was the recipient of 5.3 million stem cells from his twin brother Ed, for the management of B cell lymphoma. He is the past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine, the clinical division of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, and the Canadian Society of International Health. He has served on editorial boards of Canadian and American journals, and he has been published in many distinguished and some not-so-distinguished international journals. Dr. Keystone is a renowned lecturer in the fields of travel and tropical medicine . He has received numerous teaching awards for his presentation skills including the Faculty of Medicine's Colin Woolf award for excellence in continuing medical education. It is worth noting that he has spoken on several different continents and has been incontinent.

His research interests are in leprosy, travelers' diarrhea, delusional parasitosis and travelers' health. Most of his field research was done in South India.

His claim to fame is being the first and last attending physician to make rounds at the Toronto General Hospital on rollerblades.

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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.

Louis Loutan, MD, MPH is the head of the Division of International and Humanitarian Medicine in the Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care at the Geneva University Hospitals in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also Associate Professor in International and Humanitarian Medicine at the University of Geneva. Dr. Loutan is a specialist in internal medicine and tropical medicine and has a Master's in Public Health.

Dr. Loutan spent five years in the Republic of Niger conducting clinical work, epidemiological surveys in nutrition and tropical medicine, and organising programs in community health for nomadic populations. He spent two years in the Department of Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston) organising training courses in international health. He has conducted research projects on leishmaniasis, and the impact of snakebites in Nepal. Dr. Loutan has served as senior consultant in tropical medicine at the Geneva University Hospitals and as Medical Director of the HUG laboratory of parasitology. He also served as technical advisor and co-director of the consortium managing SDC funded projects, continuing medical education programs in family medicine, and the Family Medicine Implementation Project in Bosnia.

Dr. Loutan has been the head of the Geneva travel medicine clinic since 1989 and has conducted research in various aspects of travel medicine including immunogenicity and tolerance of hepatitis A and B vaccines, vaccine combinations, security, and humanitarian expatriates. Since 1991 he served as head of the Unit offering various services for migrant and refugee populations in Geneva (medical screening, prevention programs, clinical care, care for survivors of violence, and interpreter services), as well as conducting research and providing training in this field.

His appointments include president of the Swiss Society of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology; president of the International Society of Travel Medicine; former board member of the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health; chair of the organising committee of the 5th international Conference on Travel Medicine (Geneva 1997); president of the HUG Committee of humanitarian and international cooperation activities; and president of the organizing committee of the Geneva Forum: towards Global Access to Health, Geneva in 2006 and 2008.

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. Prativa Pandey is currently the medical director of the CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center located in Kathmandu, Nepal and has been since 1998. CIWEC Clinic is one of the busiest travel clinics situated in a destination country and receives patients from over 75 different countries in any given year. Dr. Pandey was elected President of the International Society of Travel Medicine in 2005 and served as President till 2007. The society underwent robust membership and financial growth during her tenure as President and she served as Chair of the conference organizing committee for the Vancouver conference held in 2007.

Having been a graduate of medical college in New Delhi, India, she obtained her post graduate training in Internal Medicine from Boston, Massachusetts and was Board certified in that specialty. She returned to her home country after practicing medicine in the USA for 13 years to join Dr. David Shlim at the CIWEC Clinic in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1993. Under her leadership, the clinic got its own custom designed building and is now able to provide expanded services to travelers including inpatient care. In her practice, she combines the keen scientific knowledge she gained in the west with the compassionate caring attitude she grew up with in the east to provide the best care travelers can receive away from home. CIWEC Clinic has served as a wonderful laboratory to study illnesses in travelers and research conducted here has helped define health risk for travelers to Nepal. Dr. Pandey has been an active participant of ISTM's GeoSentinel network.

Dr. Pandey has served on the Executive Board of Society of Internal Medicine of Nepal and was the founding president of America Nepal Medical Foundation Nepal chapter. She is currently Chairperson of the Open Learning Exchange Nepal that assists school children with computerized learning and very much enjoys being part of this project. She served as a volunteer physician for 3 months at the Himalayan Rescue Association's clinic at 14000ft near Everest Base Camp and has been on the medical advisory board of this association. She has traveled extensively but enjoys trekking in Nepal the most.

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. 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.