Calendar: Travel Medicine Conferences, Courses, and Educational Travel
(Note: This calendar is a service for the travel medicine community. The listings come from reputable individuals within the community but are not checked or necessarily endorsed by ISTM.)
Conferences
Wilderness Medicine in Manitoba, (Canada): Clinical issues in Immunology and Travel Medicine. April 1-2. Focus on practical issues in counselling travelers: immunization of health care workers, TB detection, drug interactions, altitude, cruising, emerging zoonoses, third world dentistry, skin cancer, and psychiatric issues. Faculty: nurses, medical specialists, entomologist, veterinarian and pharmacologist. Eclectic topics and review of basics. Course for those new to travel medicine or studying for travel medicine or tropical medicine program. Website: www.skylarkmedicalclinic.com for complete program. Contact: Gary Podolsky MD at 204 453 9107.
London School of Hygiene &Tropical Health: Short Course in Travel Medicine. April 4-8. London. Fundamentals of travel medicine for physicians and nurses: operating a travel clinic, access to information, vaccines, fitness to travel; travel-related diseases, legal aspects, deep vein thrombosis, preparing long term travelers, and other topics. Information: Registry, 50 Bedford, Sq. London WC1B 3DP UK. Email: shortcourses@lshtm.ac.uk Internet: www.lshtm.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7299 4648 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7323 0638.
9th Annual Travel Health Conference of Alberta Association of Travel Health Professionals. May 27-28. Banff, Alberta, Canada. Expert speakers will discuss long term travelers, flying after diving, vector borne disease, STI risks and many other topics. Contact: Sandy Phillips at sandy.phillips@calgaryhealthregion.ca Tel: (403) 934-3454.
XVIth International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria. September 11-15. Marseilles, France. Overview of recent advances in understanding and management of tropical diseases and of challenges ahead. Information: J.M. Milleliri Tel : 04 91 15 01 44 Fax: 04 61 15 01 46 E-mail: imtssa.asmt@wanadoo.fr.
Manitoba 4th Annual Travel Health Conference. April 21-22. Winnipeg, Canada. Forum for health professionals to exchange travel medicine information. Speakers are national and international experts including three members of the National Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel. Information: Jill Evison, WRHA, 490 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A OX7. Telephone: 204-940-2081. Email: jevison@wrha.mb.ca.
9th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM). May 1-5. Lisbon.. Biennial meeting of the International Society of Travel Medicine brings together international experts for the largest and most important conference in travel and migration medicine. Intended for health care professionals, the travel media and travel industry, and manufactures of travel health-related products. Contact: Frank von Sonnenburg, Section on International Health, Georgenstrasse 5, D-80799 Munich, Germany. Tel. +49 89 2180 3830. Fax: +49 89 33 60 38. Email: istm_europe@csl.com. Website: www.istm.org.
8th International Symposium on Maritime Health. May 8-13. Rijeka, Croatia. Organized by International Maritime Health Association and local organizers, with support from WHO, IMO, ILO and ITF. For health professionals, educators, and legislators. Faculty of international experts. Conference held aboard cruise ship originating in Venice, sailing along Adriatic coast, and visiting the cities of Rijeka and Dubrovnik. Official language: English. Contact: 8th ISMH Secretariat, RI-AK, Verdieva 6, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia. Tel: +385 51 312-312; Fax: +385 51 312-333; e-mail: secr-ismh8@ri-ak-tours.hr; web address: www.ismh8.com.
The Westchester Course: Travel Health Care Training. Hawthorne, NY (Near New York City). June 9-11. Unique learning experience for nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants. Prepares participants to deliver quality care and prepare for the ISTM Certificate of Knowledge examination. 18.0 contact hours. Will include latebreakers from ISTM Lisbon meeting. Director: Gail Rosselot, NP, MPH COHN-S. Email: garosselot@AOL.com.
1st International Conference of the Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. November 10-11. London, U.K. Organized by Elsevier Publishing in association with Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease Journal. Conference will bring together leading experts for a comprehensive and topical programme focusing on the latest research and policy in travel medicine and infectious disease. Website: www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com Secretariat:Sophie Peters, Conference Secretariat, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 843643 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 843958 Email: s.peters@elsevier.com.
54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. December 11- 15. Washington, DC. Details about registration and abstract submission will be posted in early 2005. Contact: ASTMH, 60 Revere Drive, Suite 500 Northbrook, Illinois 60062. Tel: (847) 480-9592; Fax: (847) 480-9282. E-mail: astmh@astmh.org. Website: www.astmh.org.
2006
North European Conference on Travel Medicine. June 7-10 2006. Edinburgh. A collaborative conference organised by the International Society of Travel Medicine and the travel medicine societies and organisations of Northern Europe. Website: www.nectm.com. Information: In Conference Ltd., 10B Broughton Lane, Edinburgh EH1 3LY, Scotland, UK. Tel: +44 131 556 9245. Fax: +44 131 556 9638. E-mail: NECTM@in-conference.org.uk.
Courses/Educational Travel
World Wide Learning: Two-week Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine: Moshi,Tanzania, March and October 2005. Manaus, Brazil, May and November 2005. Kolkata, India, April and November, 2005. Also, Tropical Dermato-Venereology and Leprosy, Moshi, Tanzania, Novemeber, 2005. Organized by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Berlin. Hospital- and community-based courses include participation in outpatient clinics and ward-rounds in medical, paediatric, ophthalmological, dermato-venerological and gynaecological departments; laboratory practice; tutorials, lectures, community project visits. Knowledge of spoken English required. Written examination with certificate in Clinical Tropical Medicine for successful candidates. German CME credits and recognition awards available. Information: Dr. Ute Schwarz, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, +49 30 30116 794 / +49 30 85074 630. Email: ute.schwarz@charite.de.
Clinical Priorities in Tropical Countries. June 13 - July 1, 2005. 3-week course at Ilala District Hospital, Dar es Salaam and St. Francis Designated District Hospital, Ifakara/Tanzania. Organizer: Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel. Course coordinator: Christoph Hatz, MD, in collaboration with medical centers in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Purpose: training medical professionals working at district level in developing countries. Course includes ward rounds, group work on case studies, laboratory experience, design of diagnostic and curative working tools for specific situations, and teaching health staff. One week reserved for technical and practical issues managing HIV/AIDS patients. Certificate available for participants who score well on exams. Mastery of English necessary. Information: Swiss Tropical Institute, Course-Secretariat, P.O. Box CH - 4002 Basel/Switzerland Telephone +41 61 284 82 80 Fax +41 61 284 81 06 E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch CHF 1500.
The Gorgas Advanced Course. Lima, Peru. August 15-26, 2005. 2 weeks of bedside clinical experience on 36-bed tropical disease unit. Sponsor: Gorgas Memorial Institute. Site: Tropical Medicine Institute (IMT), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Course provides experienced clinicians hands-on exposure to large numbers of patients in a short period of time. Educational Format (in English): 1) Monday-Friday of 2 consecutive weeks; 2) 5 participants & 1 senior sub-specialty trained faculty per clinical group; 3) 3 hours/day seeing inpatients and 3 hours/day seeing outpatients; 4) Case conferences/CPC every day; 5) Parasitology laboratory review session; 6) One formal lecture/day; 7) Weekend excursion: Verruga Bridge, inter-Andean valleys endemic for bartonella and leishmania; ascent to 4,800m. Peru has an unusually wide spectrum of tropical diseases (full listing on the website). IMT is major tropical disease referral center. 80 CME hours. Course Directors: Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo (IMT) <egh@upch.edu.pe>, Dr. David O. Freedman, (Gorgas/UAB). World Wide Web: www.gorgas.org Click on GORGAS ADVANCED COURSE. Telephone: +1 205 934 1630 Fax: 205 934 5600 E-mail: egh@upch.edu.pe
2nd Desert/Wilderness Medicine Expedition to Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. November 11-19, 2005. Collaboration of Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD, MSc, DTM&H, Cologne, Germany and University of Nairobi. For maximum of 9 health care professionals. Learn about heat related illnesses, snake bites, wilderness trauma and ethnobotany while exploring cradle of mankind. By private air and boat charter. Visit Koobi Fora, one of the most famous palaeoanthropological sites. 30 contact hours. Language: English. Medical education credits applied from German accrediting authorities. Contact: Dr. Schaefer. E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com Website: www.tropmedex.com.
2006
12th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Uganda. February 12-24, 2006. 14th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Kenya. March 12-24, 2006. Collaboration of Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD, MSc, DTM&H, Cologne, Germany, University of Nairobi and Joint Clinical Research Center in Kampala, Uganda. Visit hospitals and health projects in rural and urban areas. Bedside teaching (5 hours/day inpatients rounds). Laboratory manuals and lectures in epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and control of important tropical infectious diseases. Update on travel medicine. Visit "Flying Doctors." Fifty contact hours. Language: English. Medical education credits applied from German accrediting authorities. Contact: Dr. Kay Schaefer, E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com Website: www.tropmedex.com.
