CISTM19
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Welcome to CISTM19: Expanding the Horizons of Travel Medicine
Join us 11-15 May 2025 in New Orleans where you’ll have the chance to connect with global travel health experts, discover the latest research and hear timely clinical updates. CISTM19 is accredited for 23.75 hours of CME by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
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ISTM President
Gerard Flaherty, Ireland
Scientific Program Chair
Eric Caumes, France
Local Organizing Chair
Susan McLellan, United States
Scientific Program and Schedule
Pre-Conference Workshops
Sunday, 11 May 2025
- Travel medicine careers
- Conducting research and getting published
- Expedition and wilderness medicine
- Military travel
- Nurse Professional Group
- Pharmacist Professional Group
Plenary Sessions
Monday, 12 May 2025
Rendez-vous with novel technologies: digital and mobile health in travelers
- E-health in travel medicine: The example of the WHO International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis – Remko Schats (Netherlands)
- Reassessment of travelers’ morbidity through m-Health based surveys – Andrea Farnham (Switzerland)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Chacun à son gout: harmonizing travel medicine practice worldwide
- Differences in travel vaccine practice across the oceans – Lin Chen (USA)
- International harmonization of malaria chemoprophylaxis – Christoph Hatz (Switzerland)
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
De rigueur: reflections on vaccine decision-making
- Empowering travelers and clinicians with decision support tools – Sarah McGuinness (Australia)
- Quantifying risks and benefits of vaccines – Luis Furuya-Kanamori (Australia)
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Bon voyage: tracing epic journeys across continents
- Back from the Tuichi (Amazonia) – Eli Schwartz (Israel)
- The boy who never gave up (Africa) – Emmanuel Taban (South Africa)
Symposia
Monday, 12 May 2025
Calling the shots: vaccines against arthropod-borne viruses
- Dengue – Annelies Wilder-Smith (Switzerland)
- Chikungunya – Susan Hills (USA)
- Tick Borne encephalitis – Tomas Jelinek (Germany)
Man in the mirror: promoting responsible international travel
- Carbon footprint – Ken Frohling (USA)
- Impact of air pollution – Wasin Matsee (Thailand)
- AMR and One Health – Kayoko Shioda (USA)
Out of the shadows: perspectives on traveler mental health
- Migrants and mental health – Andrea Tortelli (France)
- Expatriation and repatriation – Irene Lai (Australia)
- Impact of mental health screening – Maureen MacConnell (USA)
Wander woman: travel health issues in females
- UTI and STI – Sophie Schneitler (Germany)
- Sexual violence and contraception – Maeve Eogan (Ireland)
- Pregnancy and breast feeding – Marta González Sanz (Spain)
From the Mississippi to the high seas: issues in cruise ship medicine
- Students aboard cruise ships – Jeffery Goad (USA)
- GI illnesses and CDC vessels sanitation program – Luis Rodriguez (USA)
- Respiratory illnesses and public health measures – Grant Tarling (USA)
Human Trafficking
- Children – Nina Carrenza (Canada)
- Women – Bandara Pattanaik (Thailand)
- Personal experience of a survivor – Patient (Canada)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Forever young: protecting the pediatric traveler
- Newborn and infants – Susan Kuhn (Canada)
- Migrating children – Stefan Hagmann (USA)
- Vaccine controversies – Mike Starr (Australia)
To boldly go…exploring the motivations for dark tourism
- The humanity of dark tourism – Marc Shaw (New Zealand)
- Title TBD – John Lennon (UK)
- Title TBD – Nitasha Sharma (USA)
Extra baggage: preparing the traveler with medical comorbidities
- Mental health – Thomas Valk (USA)
- Older travelers – Jenny Visser (New Zealand)
- Immunosuppressed travelers – Camille Kotton (USA)
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
CDC Yellow Book 2026
- Overview of Yellow Book 2026 – Eric Halsey (USA)
- Yellow fever – Kevin O’Laughlin (USA)
- Special pathogens – Mary Choi (USA)
A gut feeling: prevention and sequelae of travelers’ diarrhea
- Post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome -Bradley Connor (USA)
- Challenges to the gut microbiome – Herbert DuPont (USA)
- Vaccine prevention (typhoid, cholera, shigella, hepatitis A) – Jan Fehr (Switzerland)
The kiss of death: an update on Chagas disease
- Transmission, screening, and prevention outside endemic countries – Davidson Hamer (USA)
- Reactivation in immunocompromised patients – Susana Lloveras (Argentina)
- Management – Clara Crespillo (Spain)
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Every breath you take: an update on acute respiratory infections in travelers
- Epidemiology in travelers – Marco Goeijenbier (Netherlands)
- Novel diagnostic tools – Loukas Kakoullis (USA)
- Prevention through vaccines – Robert Steffen (Switzerland)
Simply the best: a review of the top 15 Papers in Travel Medicine (2023-2025)
- Epidemiology and risks – Karin Leder (Australia)
- Vaccinations – Yen-Giang Bui (Canada)
- Imported diseases – Camilla Rothe (Germany)
Workshops
Monday, 12 May 2025
Out of Africa: repatriation clinical scenarios
- Experience from remote African sites – Albie de Frey (South Africa)
- Repatriation of deceased travelers’ remains – Mavis Mataranyika (Zimbabwe)
Into the wild: a workshop in wilderness medicine
- Water treatment in the wild – Howard Baker (USA)
- High altitude illness – Buddha Basnyat (Nepal)
Mad dogs: rabies pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis
- Decision-making process – Patrick Soentjens (Belgium)
- Immunological background – Leo Visser (Netherlands)
Skin Deep: clinical case discussion in dermatology
- Infections and infestations – Michael Libman (Canada)
- Non-communicable diseases – Scott Norton (USA)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Navigating Pre-Travel Health Challenges
- Rebecca Acosta (USA) Title TBD
- Tara Lombardo (Canada) Title TBD
Fever pitch: the fundamentals of malaria prevention
- All you need to know about mosquito bite prevention – Patricia Schlagenhauf (Switzerland)
- Chemoprophylaxis – Maria Mileno (USA)
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
No time to lose: advising travelers with limited time and resources
- Travelers with limited resources – Elizabeth Barnett (USA)
- Last minute travelers – Gail Rosselot (USA)
Patients without borders: the five W’s of medical tourism
- Who, Where, Why – Christophe Rapp (France)
- What and When – Androula Pavli (Greece)
Controversies in Travel Medicine
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Stemming the flow: evidence-based traveler’s diarrhea management
- The case for not providing travelers with empiric antibiotics to treat TD – Anu Kantele (Finland)
- The case for empiric self-treatment of TD – David Shlim (USA)
Panel Discussion
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Bon appétit! Street food: demon or foe?
- Street food in Asia – Phimphan Pisutsan (Thailand)
- Street food in Latin America – Nelson Ivan Agudelo Higuita (Mexico)
- Street food in Sub-Saharan Africa – Charles Tarimo (Tanzania)
- Street food in the Mediterranean area – Olivier Aoun (France)
Wednesday 14 May 2025
A la carte: addressing vaccine hesitancy in diverse groups of travelers
- Vaccine hesitancy In VFR travelers – Oula Itani (France)
- Vaccine hesitancy in occupational medicine – Dipti Patel (UK)
- Vaccine hesitancy in humanitarian aid workers – Getahun Welda Lemma (Kenya)
Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities
CISTM19 is the premier gathering of approximately 1,100+ travel medicine specialists and practitioners to learn about the latest field developments, new and innovative technologies, products, and services and to contribute to the evolving field of travel medicine.
Held every other year, this is the only opportunity for a concentrated in-person engagement before mid-2027. Access the Prospectus to learn about exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities.
Questions? Please send an email to [email protected].
Organization
The ISTM greatly appreciates the contributions of time and expertise provided by the following people to the 19th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine.
CISTM19: Expanding the Horizons of Travel Medicine
Scientific Program Committee
| Chair: | Eric Caumes, France |
| Co-Chair: | Colleen Lau, Australia |
| Associate Chairs: | Kristina Angelo, United States of America Miguel Cabada, United States of America and Peru Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Thailand |
| SPC Committee Members: | Alfonso Rodriguez Morales, Colombia Androula Pavli, Greece Bhawana Amatya, Nepal Carsten Schade-Larsen, Denmark Candance McAlester, United States Charles Tarimo, Tanzania Claire Wong, New Zealand David Hamer, United States Deborah Mills, Australia Derek Evans, United Kingdom Eric Halsey, United States Eyal Leshem, Israel Francesca Norman, Spain Jan Fehr, Switzerland Jasper Chan, Hong Kong Karin Leder, Australia Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Australia Made Wijaya, Indonesia Marc Shaw, New Zealand Martin Haditsch, Austria Melinda Tanabe, United States Naomi Aronson, United States Olivier Aoun, France Oula Itani, France Peter Felkai, Hungary Ralph Huits, The Netherlands Richard Dawood, United Kingdom Sophie Schneitler, Germany Stefan Hagmann, United States Stephen Vaughan, Canada Sue Ann McDevitt, United States Terezinha Marta Castineiras, Brazil Vanessa Field, United Kingdom Yen Bui, Canada |
CISTM19 Local Organizing Committee
| Chair: | Susan McLellan, United States of America |
| Co-Chair: | James Diaz, United States of America |
| Members: | Charlie Ericsson, United States of America Dahlene Fusco, United States of America Obi Nnedu, United States of America John Schieffelin, United States of America Margarita (Maggie) Silio, United States of America Crystal Zheng, United States of America Phyllis Kozarsky, United States of America Jeffrey Percak, United States of America Nicholas Van Sickels, United Kingdom |