View from Stone Mountain

Brenda Bagwell

Greetings from Stone Mountain where summer is firmly in place and the air conditioners are never in the “off” position! It was wonderful to see so many of you in Lisbon at CISTM-9 - thank you to all who took a moment to stop and chat. I had the grandest time "catching up" with each of you. I do hope that everyone had an enjoyable time and took a minute or two for a bit of sightseeing. For those of you who could not make the journey - please know that you were missed and I do hope to see you at a conference in the very near future. Perhaps Edinburgh next June for the NECTM or in Vancouver at CISTM-10 in May 2007. It is never too early to begin making your plans!

I wanted to let the membership know of a few changes we have recently made in the ISTM secretariat office. I was recently named the Administrative Director of the ISTM (see page 3) - a position for which I am most grateful and am nervous about at the same time. We have also hired Brooke Gouge as my Administrative Assistant. Brooke is now the main point of contact for any membership issues that you may have. All emails concerning membership should be sent to her at: istm@istm.org. If you need to email me, please make a note of my new email address: admindir@istm.org . I know that you all are going to enjoy working with Brooke as she is just like me - only a younger version! If you get a moment, please send her a note welcoming her to the world of travel medicine.

As a reminder, we still have membership lapel pins available for a fee of $5.00 USD. We also have the Responsible Traveler/10 Tips for Healthy Travel bookmarks available at 1000 bookmarks for $125 USD. Please email us if you would be interested in any of these materials.

Until next time, remember that no matter how small, no act of kindness is ever wasted.

With warmest regards,
Brenda