Message from the Editor

Hi ISTM Member:

As the new editor/webmaster for ISTM, I would like to thank all of you who have contributed to this issue and want to invite those who have not to participate in our upcoming newsletter/website postings. It will take very little of your time and effort to get involved.

We want the ISTM newsletter/website to be lively, timely, and informative, the forum of communication for the worldwide travel medicine community. Please comment on the contents of this issue/posting. And please send us news items that you would like to share with your colleagues. Here are some ideas:

• Comments on articles in the literature about your area of expertise. Several paragraphs are sufficient.
• Newspaper clipping and articles from your local medical publications of interest to the world travel medicine community.
• Announcement of meetings dealing with travel medicine and related subjects.
• Notes from your lectures.
• Short articles written by you.
• Other information of interest to our members.

Several members whose native language is other than English have said that they would contribute if their written English was better. Please do not worry about that. Travel medicine is what we are all interested in, not language skills. In fact, we are always impressed how well our non-native English speakers communicate in English. We can help you with language problems in writing - we often do that for our English speaking members, too.

The deadline for the next newsletter/website posting is February 15th. We would like to have some submissions by that date – but that is not essential. If that date is too soon for you we will use your material in future issues.

To start, we will have six issues a year. To reach me, see the masthead.

I hope to hear from many of you.

Best wishes,

Karl Neumann, MD
Editor/Webmaster