ISTM Travel Industry and Public Education Committee (TIPEC)
Charter
- Responsibile for creating proactive programs for making the travel industry and individual travelers more aware of travel health
- Develop and propose initiatives to increase awareness of travel health issues, travel medicine and the ISTM among the travel industry and the public
- Identify and develop contacts within the press, such that the ISTM is viewed as an expert source of information and is reached to for comment on traveler's related health issues as they emerge
- Develop and maintain relationships with health professionals within the travel industry as a source of potential increased membership and influence of the ISTM
Chairperson - Dr. Trish Batchelor, Medical Director the Travel Doctor New Zealand, Project Manager International Porter Protection Group Machermo Rescue Post, Nepal.
Co-chair - Dr. Gary Podolsky, Skylark Medical Clinic, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Members
- Carolyn Driver - Independent Travel Health Specialist Nurse - Manchester, UK
- Laura Radke MD - Corporate Medical Director, Passport Health and Medical Director of Occupational Health, Synergy Health - Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Gary Fujimoto MD, Medical Director, Travel Medicine Clinic, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Adjunct Ass Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
- John Knowles, MD - Alamo, California, US
- Elaine Rosenblatt NP, Internal Medicine Clinic, Madison WI, US
- Dominique Tessier, Medical Director Medisys Canada.
- Valerie Padd RN, Intentional Steps Inc, Hoover AL, US
- Laurie Bank, Nurse Practitioner, Director of Hillcrest International Travel Health Services of Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, US
- June Hitchcock RN (MSc Trav Med), Infection Control Specialist Advisor, Lambeth, London UK and Lecturer in Travel Health
- Francine Olmstead MD, Medical Director, NM Travel Health, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Carmelo Licitra, Director Travel Health, Orlando FL, US
- Leonard Marcus VMD, MD, Travelers Health and Immunization Services, Newton, Massachusetts, US
Future Plans
- Develop relations with the newly formed World Travel Agents Association Alliance
- Initiate contact with the travel writers association
- Interact with the ISTM web editor to make portions of the ISTM web site "friendlier" to the traveling public
- Prepare materials for use by ISTM members that could be disseminated locally and made understandable to non-medical personnel
