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
11th Swiss International Short Course on Travelers' Health. Basel, Switzerland. February 21-25, 2005. Organized by the Swiss Tropical Institute. Comprehensive training in all aspects of travel medicine. Course intended for medical doctors, senior nursing staff and other health professionals, and also for travel industry personnel with a strong interest in travel medicine. Participants limited to 50. Language: English. Course Secretariat: Socinstrasse 57, P.O. Box CH - 4002 Basel, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 284 82 80. Fax: +41 61 284 81 06. Website: www.sti.ch.
Travel & Tropical Medicine Course ( HCTTM). Havana, Cuba. March 14- March 19, 2005. Organizer: Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri"( IPK), in collaboration with Medical Services for the Tropics (MST), Maastricht, Netherlands. "Refresher course" for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health scientists. Special education curriculum (at reduced fee) for students interested in tropical medicine. Lectures by leading specialists ( Cuban and others) and visits to hospitals, research laboratories, and community health centers. Lab training (on request) in bacteriology and parasitology. Official language: English. Medical education credits (20 hours) from Dutch accreditation authorities. Course Coordinator: Peter de Beer, MD, PO Box 1660, 6201 BR Maastricht, Netherlands. Email: mstropics@planet.nl; website: www.tropenkliniek.nl and Dr Nereyda Cantelar of IPK.
The Westchester Course: Travel Health Care Training. Hawthorne, NY (Near New York City). March 18-19, 2005. 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. Course Director: Gail Rosselot, NP, MPH COHN-S. Email: garosselot@AOL.com Tel: 914-923-7073.
Wilderness Medicine in Manitoba, (Canada): Clinical issues in Immunology and Travel Medicine. April 1 and 2, 2005. 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
Manitoba 4th Annual Travel Health Conference. April 21 & 22, 2005. 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). Lisbon. May 1-5, 2005. 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. Rijeka, Croatia. May 8-13, 2005 (Biennial). 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.
1st International Conference of the Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. London, U.K. 10 _11 November 2005. 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. Washington, DC. December 11- 15, 2005. 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. Web site: www.astmh.org
2006
North European Conference on Travel Medicine. Edinburgh. June 7-10 2006. 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
Training in Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. February 22-May 18, 2005. Course includes 300 hours of teaching, covers all aspects of tropical diseases, and fulfills didactic requirements to sit for the qualifying examination of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Includes comprehensive written and oral examinations to help prepare students for the exam. Information: Lisa Keep, MD, MPH, LTC, USA, Room A1037, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799. (301) 295-3734. lkeep@usuhs.mil
Tropical Medicine Expeditions to East Africa: 12th Kenya Expedition scheduled for February 13-25, 2005, and 10th Uganda Expedition scheduled for March 13-25, 2005. In collaboration with Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD, MSc, DTM&H, of Cologne, Germany and the Universities of Nairobi, Kenya, and Makerere, Uganda. Two-week expeditions designed for a limited number of health care professionals (doctors, public health experts, scientists, pharmacists, nurses). Participants visit hospitals and health projects in urban and rural areas. Includes individual bedside teaching, laboratory work, and lectures in epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention and control of important tropical infectious diseases. Also update on travel medicine and visit to the "Flying Doctors". 50 contact hours. Official language: English. Medical education credits applied from German accrediting authorities. Contact: Dr. Kay Schaefer, Tel/Fax: +49-221-340 49 05. E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com. Web address: www.tropmedex.com.
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
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
