Are You Registered for CISTM9 in Lisbon May 1-5, 2005?

We are especially pleased to have confirmed as the opening plenary a session on the most important and timely travel health issue of 2005, the revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR). This is the first revision of the IHR since 1973 and we are honored to have confirmed a keynote address by Dr. Max Hardimann from the World Health Organization, who is leading the effort for this revision. He will address CISTM9 just two weeks before he presents the final 2005 IHR to the World Health Assembly for a final approval vote.

The other two important speakers at the opening plenary session are:

• Martin Cetron, Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC, Atlanta, USA, who will speak on the many new perspectives and approaches to international quarantine procedures that have emanated from recent events such as SARS, and
• Robert Steffen, Past-President of ISTM, from the University of Zurich, who will address what the new IHR actually mean for the practicing clinician.