Meetings Calendar
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.
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Conferences
2012
Tropical and Parasitic Diseases – A Review of Clinical and Laboratory Approaches to Tropical, Travel, 27-30th May 2012, Montreal, Canada The J. D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Disease has provided training to generations of doctors and nurses providing clinical care to travelers and indigenous populations around the world for over 30 years. As part of that training the Centre holds a biannual conference which focuses on linking laboratory diagnostics and research to the clinical treatment of patients. Laboratory course May 27, 2012: Laboratory workshop overview of blood borne and intestinal parasites and hands on teaching for medical laboratory technologists, microbiologists, clinicians, nurses, and other medical personnel interested in tropical and travel medicine. Clinical Medicine Review – May 28-30th 2012: Conference for Tropical and Travel Health Professionals – Doctors, residents, nurses, pharmacists and medical laboratory technologists other medical personnel interested in tropical and travel medicine. These presentations cover the latest health issues and treatments for travelers and indigenous populations including presentations of the latest research and diagnostics in tropical and parasitic diseases as well as preventative medicine for travelers.
For full Registration & program details see www.medicine.mcgill.ca/tropmed or contact the Course Coordinator Ms. Maxine West by email at max.west@mail.mcgill.ca or by phone at 514-934-1934 ext 43873.
Alberta Association of Travel Health Professionals Annual Symposium and General Meeting, June 1 & 2, 2012, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This conference is intended for all those who practice or are interested in the discipline of Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases; in particular travel medicine health care practitioners, medical practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and students who practice travel medicine. The two-day conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency, Calgary Alberta. The Travel Health Symposium offers a variety of sessions by Travel Medicine & Infectious Diseases experts. Highlighted topics include malaria, the pregnant traveler, immunocompromised travelers, travelers with chronic health issues, travel related infectious diseases, providing health care abroad and Public Health Agency of Canada travel medicine initiatives. For further details on the conference, registration and agenda items, please view the following: www.aathp.com or email Lisa Amyotte at lisa.amyotte@albertahealthservices.ca.
4TH NORTHERN EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TRAVEL MEDICINE, JUNE 6-8, 2012, DUBLIN, IRELAND. The 4th Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine will take place at the Burlington Hotel, Conference Centre, Dublin. The programme will include all aspects of the rapidly evolving discipline of travel medicine, from the basics such as vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and travellers' diarrhoea to the challenges of migration and occupational medicine in a globalised world. A unique opportunity is also provided to take part in a variety of diverse and interesting OSKE sessions. Travel medicine practitioners give pre-travel advice as well as seeing returning travellers with unfamiliar and challenging illness or tropical diseases - prevention, diagnosis and treatment of these travel related topics will be covered in depth. Finally the conference is a forum to establish standards for training and education in travel medicine, present peer reviewed research and meet fellow professionals. The conference is recognised for continuing professional development. Credits given. For further information, please contact Marina Finn at nectm4@abbey.ie or: www.nectm.com.
Travel Health Africa – The Past, Present and Future. 13 – 16 September 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Mandela Square, Johannesburg. Africa is not only a popular tourist destination but also attracts new business from abroad, resulting in a large migrant work force and expatriate community. The South African Society of Travel Medicine, at its biennial Congress will explore the issues of travel into Africa, looking at the past experiences and what travellers and the expatriate community might expect in the future. The presentations will also encompass the pregnant traveller, the young child, the traveller with HIV as well as provide information on the latest local research into travel and thromboembolic disease. A post-Congress “Medifari” has been arranged at the Kruger National Park, which will enable travel health practitioners to experience the Kruger Park first hand, learning about the hazards of travel into the Park. For programme and registration details, visit www.sastm.org.za. It will be an unrivalled opportunity to learn more about the wonderful continent of Africa. The Congress is ISTM accredited.
IDWEEK 2012, OCTOBER 17-21, 2012, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA. A Joint Meeting of IDSA, SHEA, HIVMA, and PIDS. IDWeek 2012 is an exciting new venture. With the theme -Advancing Science, Improving Care- IDWeek will feature the latest science and bench-to-bedside approaches in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiology of infectious diseases, including HIV, across the lifespan. For more information visit www.idweek.org or email info@idweek.org
2013
CISTM13 – 13th ISTM Congress, May 19-23, 2013, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Since 1991 ISTM has presented an International Congresses every other year in Europe or North America. ISTM International Congresses share the advances in the science and art of travel medicine while allowing those new to the field an introduction to this exciting medical discipline.
Courses/Educational Travel
2012
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Intensive Update Course, October 15-16, 2012, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA USA - ASTMH has developed this course as an update in the essential components of tropical medicine and travelers' health. This two-day meeting is designed for physicians and for all other health care providers working in tropical medicine or travelers' health. Speakers are internationally recognized authorities in the field. For more information, contact Buffy Finn, Member Services Administrator at bfinn@astmh.org or visit the web site at www.astmh.org.
Online Education
2012
ISTM New Online Learning Curriculum To expand the reach of the ISTM educational events, it has established a distance learning program capturing individual sessions from the Travel Medicine and Review Course as well as from the 12th International Conference of the ISTM and have made them available through the internet. Topics are relevant to all travel medicine practitioners, with both introductory and more advanced content. Offering both video with synchronized slides, and audio with synchronized slides, individual sessions range from 30 minutes to four hours. For more information click here.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA/CDC GLOBAL HEALTH COURSE. Enrollment is open for all seven online modules of the Global Health Course. The University of Minnesota's Global Health Course is one of 17 accredited global health courses in the world, and the only course co-sponsored by the CDC. It includes training presented by more than 170 faculty experts in an effort to help medical trainees, practicing physicians, public health professionals, and other health care providers provide the highest quality of care to their patients in the United Sates or abroad. The overall goal of the course is to reduce health disparities in the Global Village. Participants may register for any or all of the subject-specific, stand-alone modules and take them in any order, over multiple years. To fulfill the entire course, all seven online modules plus any two of the in-person course modules must be completed. Completion of the entire course curriculum meets the ASTMH requirements to sit for the examination that leads to a Certificate in Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health (CTropMed®). For more information, please visit the Online Global Health Course web site or the In-Person Global Health Course web site or contact Dr. William Stauffer or Debbie Luedtke.
The Travel Health 101TM Provider Course . The course gives the health care provider starting out in the field basic and practical travel health care information. Attendees receive 2 months' access to the course material (PowerPoint slides with narration), and will be able to print out handouts to save. They also have the option of contacting the author (Lynne Bunnell, RN with over 25 years of travel health experience) if they have questions while taking the course or reviewing the case studies. After returning the evaluation and post-test, attendees will receive a 5 CME certificate. For more information, go to www.travelhealth101.com.