Calendar: Travel Medicine Conferences, Courses, Educational Travel
Conferences
Winter Wilderness and Travel Medicine Course. Big Sky, Montana, February 10-13, 2002. Cold weather aspects of travel and wilderness medicine. Wilderness Medical Society, 3695 E. Fountain Blvd., Ste. A1, Colorado Springs, Co 80910. Contact WMS Meetings Plus 1-800-800-6819. Email: wms@wms.org Web address: www.wms.org
8th Swiss International Short Course on Travellers’ Health. Basel, Switzerland. February 25 – March 1, 2002. Organized by the Swiss Tropical Institute and under the patronage of the International Society of Travel Medicine A 1-week course providing comprehensive training in all aspects of travel medicine. Official language: English. Contact: Swiss Tropical Institute, Course Secretariat, Socinstrasse 57, CH – 4002 Basel, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 284 82 80. Fax: +41 61 284 81 06. Email courses-sti@unibas.ch.
Travel Medicine: Short Course. London, UK April 8-12, 2002. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM.) The course is designed for general practitioners and nurses who provide pre-travel health service and want to upsate their knowledge and skills. Registry LSHTM, 50 Bedford Square, London WCIB 3DP, UK. Tel: +44(0)20 7299 4648. Fax: +44(0)20 7323 0368. Email: shortcourse@lshtm.ac.uk.
International Conference on Travel Medicine and 2nd International SHEA (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Training Course in Healthcare Epidemiolgy. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. April 13-17, 2002. "Global Travel: The Raptures, The Risks." Topic to be discussed: travel epidemiology; venomous snakes. Hajj-related diseases; drug resistant diseases. International Faculty including president and two past presidents of the ISTM. In collaboration with WHO, ISTM, and other organizations. Contact: Conference Coordinator, Academic Affairs, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426 Tel: 252-0088 ext 2328 Fax: 252-0040 E-mail accaff1@ngha.med.sa.
5th Wilderness and Travel Medicine Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico. April 24-27, 2002. Update on all important, recent happenings in travel and wilderness medicine. Sponsored by the Wilderness Medical Society and University of California, San Diego Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program. Contact: CME, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92110. Tel 858-534-3940. Fax: 858-534-7672. Email: ocme@ucsd.edu; Web address: www.wms.org
III European Conference on Travel Medicine: Travel and Epidemics. Florence, Italy. May 15-18, 2002. A broad overview of the latest in travel medicine from leaders in the field. Sponsor: WHO Collaborating Centre for Tourist Health. Official Language: English. Contact: Dr. Walter Pasini Viale Dardanelli, 64 47900 Rimini, ltaly Tel. +39-0541-24301 or +39-0541-53209. Fax +39-0541-25748. E-mail: wpasini©rimini com. Or contact: Conference Secretariat: Travel Agency Girovagare, Viale Milton n. 81, 1- 50129 Firenze, Italy. Tel: 39 055 494949. Fax: 39 055 476393.
3rd Scandinavian Forum for Travel Medicine 2002. Copenhagen, Denmark. May 22-24, 2002. Sponsors: Travel medicine societies in Denmark, Sweden and Norway in collaboration with WHO. A focus on the scientific basis for travel medicine through state-of-the-art reviews, symposia, and free communications. Health risks when traveling to Eastern European countries. Official language: English - with parallel sessions in Scandinavian languages. Contact: Conference secretariat: ICS A/S Copenhagen, Strandvejen 171, P.O. Box 41, DK-2900 Hellerup Denmark. Tel: +45 3946 0500 Fax: +45 3946 0515. Email: forum2002@ics.dk Web address: www.ics.dk
Third European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health. Lisbon, Portugal September 8-12, 2002. "Tropical Medicine: A Global Challenge." Under the auspices of the Federation of the European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health. Hosted by the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. his Conference will concentrate on tropical medicine, travel medicine, migration, medicine, and international health , involving different experts to explore future innovative collaboration. Official language: English. Local Committee Chairman: Professor Dr. F. Antunes, Instituto de Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Rua da Junqueira, 96 PT-1600 Lisbon Tel: ++351-21-365-2638 Fax: ++351-21-797-6242 Email: ip231874@ip.pt Web address: www.kit.de/tropical2002
IV Biennial Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference. Shanghai, China:
October 22-25, 2002. Travel Health in the Asia Pacific Region: New Frontiers and Challenges. Sponsor: Asia Pacific Travel Health Society Official language: Official language: English – with simultaneous translation of the plenary meetings into Chinese. Contact: Ms. Zhou Yifan, Secretariat of 4APTHC, Room 1705, No. 2669 Xie Tu Road, Shanghai 200030 China. Tel: 86-21 64398193. Fax: 86-21 64398194. Email: apthc2002@sh163.net Web address: www.2002APTHC.NET
CISTM8 8th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine. New York. May 7-11, 2003. Contact: CISTM8 Conference Secretariat: Talley Management Group, Inc., 19 Mantua Rd. Mt. Royal, NJ 08061 USA. Tel: (856) 423-7222 Ext 218. Fax: (856) 423-3420.
Courses/Educational Travel.
Siem Reap (Angkor Wat), Cambodia. Conference date: February 18-22, 2002. (Travelling date: February 15-25, 2002.) CME on Travel and Tropical Medicine. Accredited by the University of Toronto. Sponsored by The Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital. Course organizer: Kevin C. Kain, MD, FRCPC, Director, Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine, EN G-224, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street. Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2C4, Kevin.kain@uhn.on.ca Travel arrangement through: Yue Chi, Concepts East Travel, 120 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 904 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 1E2 Tel: 416-322-3387 or 1-888-302-1222. Fax: 416-322-3129. E-mail: chiyue@idirect.com Tropical Medicine Expeditions to East Africa. Kenya, February 3 – 15, 2002. Uganda. February 24 - March 2002. Sponsors: Tropical Medicine Center, Cologne, Germany, University of Nairobi, Kenya, and University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda. Official language: English. Expedition designed for a limit ed number of physicians, public health experts, nurses. Visits to many hospitals and projects in urban and rural areas. Includes bedside teaching, laboratory work, and lectures in the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and control of all important tropical diseases. 50 contact hours. Contact: Kay Schaefer, MD. Fax: +49 221-340 49 05. E-Mail: contact@tropmedex.com Website: www.tropmedex.com Medical Practice with Limited Resources. Ifakara, Tanzania. June 8-28, 2002. Organized by the Swiss Tropical Institute. Three-week course to teach clinical tropical medicine within the health facilities of tropical countries. Official language: English. Contact: Swiss Tropical Institute, Course Secretariat, Socinstrasse 57, CH - 4002 Basel, Switzerland. Tel: +4161 284 82 80. Fax: +41 61 284 81 06. Email: courses-sti@unibas.ch.
The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine Lima, and the Andes and Amazon regions, Peru. Course scheduled for January 22, 2002, March 28, 2003, and for 2004. Sponsored by the University of Alabama and the IAMAT Foundation. Includes lectures, case conferences, diagnostic laboratory procedures, and bedside teaching in a 36-bed tropical medicine unit. Official language: English. International Faculty. 380 contact hours. Contact: David O. Freedman, M.D. Gorgas Memorial Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 530 Third Avenue South, BBRB 203, Birmingham, AL 35294. Fax: 205-934-5600 Or call: The Division of Continuing Medical Education at 800-UAB-MIST (U.S.) or 205-934-2687 (from overseas) Email: info@gorgas.org Web address: www.gorgas.org.
