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CISTM18

18th Conference Of The International Society Of Travel Medicine (CISTM18), 21-25 May, 2023 Took Place At The Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 21; 4058 Basel, Switzerland. Currently The Video Recordings Can Be Viewed By Registered Attendees On The App And At The App Desktop Hyperlink. This Library Will Be Uploaded To The Learning Manangement System Soon And Registration And Access To The Recorded Scientific Program Is Available Post Event.

Welcome to the CISTM18


CISTM18 ISTM President

tm peter leggat

Peter Leggat, Australia

CISTM18 Scientific Program Committee Chair

david hamer

David Hamer, United States

CISTM18 Local Organizing Committee Chair

christoph hatz square

Christoph Hatz, Switzerland

Organization


The ISTM greatly appreciates the contributions of time and expertise provided by the following people to the 18th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine.

CISTM18: Dawn Of A New Era In Travel Medicine

Scientific Program Committee

Chair:David Hamer, United States of America
Co-Chair:Eric Caumes, France
Camilla Rothe, Germany
Associate Chairs:Colleen Lau, Australia
Miguel Cabada, United States of America and Peru
Members:Alykhan Abdulla, Canada
Kristina Angelo, United States of America
Olivier Aoun, France
Naomi Aronson, United States of America
Lucille Blumberg, South Africa
Sarah Borwein, Hong Kong
Yen Bui, Canada
Jasper Chan, Hong Kong
Pornthep Chanthavanich, Thailand
Santanu Chatterjee, India
Jane Chiodini, United Kingdom
Bradley Connor, United States of America
Heather Connor, Canada
Christina Coyle, United States of America
Albie de Frey, South Africa
Derek Evans, United Kingdom
Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Australia
Made Kurnia Widiastuti Giri, Indonesia
Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, United Kingdom
Sandra Grieve, United Kingdom
Ralph Huits, Italy
Regina LaRocque, United States of America
Karin Leder, Australia
Eyal Leshem, Israel
Susana Lloveras, Argentina
Tara Lombardo, Canada
Wolfram Metzger, Germany
Deborah Mills, Australia
Salim Parker, South Africa
Androula Pavli, Greece
Jose Antonio Perez Molina, Spain
Watcharapong Piyaphanee, Thailand
Corneliu Popescu, Romania
Karis Rodriguez, Brazil
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Colombia
Andrea Rossanese, Italy
Priscilla Rupali, India
Mauro Saio, Kenya
Sophie Schneitler, Germany
Marc Shaw, New Zealand
Patrick Soentjens, Belgium
Mugen Ujiie, Japan
Fernando Velez, Spain
Thomas Weitzel, Chile
Max Winkler, South Africa
Paul Yonga, Kenya
Yukihiro Yoshimura, Japan

CISTM18 Local Organizing Committee

Chair:Christoph Hatz
Members:Andrea Farnham
Blaise Genton
Sabine Haller
Esther Kuenzli
Andreas Neumayr
Daniel Paris
Cornelia Saehelin-Fux
Robert Steffen
Marcel Tanner
Juerg Utzinger

ISTM Executive Board

President:Peter Leggat, Australia
President-Elect:Gerard Flaherty, Ireland
Past-President:Lin Chen, United States of America
Counsellors:Rebecca Acosta, United States of America
Hilmir Asgeirsson, Sweden
Francesca Norman, Spain
Jenny Visser, New Zealand
Secretary/Treasurer:Michael Jones, United Kingdom
Executive Director:Whitney A. Mathews Alexander, United States of America

ISTM Secretariat

Interim Executive Director:Whitney A. Mathews Alexander
Finance Manager:Elena Axelrod
GeoSentinel Data and Network Coordinator:Hannah Emetulu
Interim Deputy Director:LaVelle Johnson
GeoSentinel Program Manager:Aisha Rizwan
 
Finance Controller:Jaclyn Simon
Program Coordinator:Kim Gray

Exhibit and Sponsorship Information


The ISTM acknowledges the generous support from our key CISTM18 sponsors and exhibitors.

ISTM would like to provide special thanks and acknowledgement to Basel Tourism, and the Swiss TPH to making this meeting a success.

Platinum Sponsor

emergent2

Silver Sponsor

takeda

ISTM Sponsor and Exhibitor List

  • APTHS Asia Pacific Travel Health Society
  • ATHNA
  • Bavarian Nordic
  • David R. Schlim
  • Emergent BioSolutions Inc
  • MDPI Academic Open Access Publishing since 1996
  • NECTM9
  • TROPIMED
  • Oxford University Press OUP
  • Pfizer
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  • Sanofi
  • Shoreland Travax
  • South African Society of Travel Medicine SASTM
  • Swiss TPH
  • Takeda
  • Valneva

Program Topics


Conference topics include:

Plenaries

  • Climate Change and Health – Our Future
  • COVID-19 and International Travelers
  • Travel-Associated Mortality: A Dead End
  • Antimicrobial Resistance Worldwide — An Increasing Global Threat

Symposia

  • COVID-19 Spread through Travel and Impact on Migrants
  • Travel Medicine– The African Perspective
  • Clinical Spectrum of Leishmaniasis: A Global Overview
  • Febrile Illness in South America
  • Human Trafficking
  • Improving the Health of Migrants and Refugees
  • Mass Gatherings in a Globalized World — COVID-19 and Beyond
  • Malaria Update
  • IAMAT Sponsored Mental Health in Travelers
  • Bugs, Burns, and Bites
  • Dengue: The Next Decade
  • Innovative Vaccination Strategies
  • Hot, Cold, and Deep
  • Tick-borne infections: Don’t Let it Get Under Your Skin
  • Global Spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Panels

  • Limited Malaria Risk Scenarios — Strategies and Recommendations
  • Long-Term and Expatriate Travelers

Debates

  • Chemoprophylaxis of Acute Mountain Sickness
  • COVID-19 Border Closures and Quarantine Mandates

Workshops

  • Medical Emergencies During Travel
  • Tropical Diseases in South America: Case Discussions from The Gorgas Course
  • Challenges in Migrant Health
  • Nurses in Travel Health Practice
  • Military Travel ; An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth
  • Medical Kits for Expedition and Adventure Travel

Alan Magill Memorial Lecture

Prevention and Treatment of Malaria in the Context of Drug Resistance

Phil Rosenthal, United States of America

Plenary Sessions



Monday, 22 May 2023

Climate Change and Health – Our Future 

  • Health and Health Systems – Kristie Ebi, United States of America
  • Emerging Infectious Disesases – Jan Semenza, Sweden 

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

COVID-19 and International Travelers 

  • Non-pharmaceutical Preventive Measures – Ben Cowling, China
  • RVaccines and Treatment – Barbra Blair, United States of America 

Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Travel-Associated Mortality – A Dead End 

  • Causes of Death in Travelers – Stephen Hargarten, United States of America
  • Homicide, Road Accidents, and Drowning – Richard Franklin, Australia

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Antimicrobial Resistance – An Increasing Global Threat 

  • Gram Negative Infections in Travelers – Anu Kantele, Finland
  • Gram Positive Infections in Travelers – Philipp Zanger, Germany

Symposia



COVID-19 Spread through Travel and Impact on Migrants

  • Global Spread through Travel – Isaac Bogoch, Canada
  • Response of Cruise Industry – Michael Callahan, United States of America
  • Impact on Migrant Health – Francesco Castelli, Italy 

Travel Medicine – The African Perspective 

  • View from West Africa – Kenny Prince-Agbodjan, Senegal
  • View from Southern Africa – Simbarashe Makuni, Zimbabwe 
  • View from East Africa – Charles Tarimo, Tanzania 
  • View from North Africa – Walaa Shabana, Egypt

Clinical Spectrum of Leishmaniasis: A Global Overview

  • Eurasia – Mark Bailey, United Kingdom 
  • Middle East and Africa – Peter Melby, United States of America 
  • Latin America – Andrea Boggild, Canada 

Febrile Illness in South America

  • Malaria – Andre Siqueira, Brazil
  • Emerging Viral Infections – Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Colombia
  • Yellow Fever – Esper Georges Kallas, Brazil 

Human Trafficking

  • Recognizing Victims – Doro Winkler, Switzerland
  • Unaccompanied Children and Adolescents – Paul Wise, United States of America
  • Implications for Travel Medicine Providers – Ajwang Warria, Canada

Improving the Health of Migrants and Refugees

  • Infectious Disease Screening – Christina Greenaway, Canada
  • “Salud Entre Culturas” a model of health care provision in Madrid – Rogelio Lopez Velez, Spain
  • Vaccination Strategies in Recent Migrants and Refugees – Alexander Klosovsky, Switzerland 

Mass Gatherings in a Globalized World – COVID-19 and Beyond

  • Mass Pilgrimages (Kumbh Mela) – Santanu Chatterjee, India 
  • Hajj and Umrah – Ziad Memish, Saudi Arabia
  • Major Sporting Events – Jan Fehr, Switzerland

Malaria Update

  • Global Epidemiology – Guido Calleri, Italy
  • Travellers’ Malaria Prevention – Anne McCarthy, Canada
  • Vaccines – Meta Roestenberg, The Netherlands

International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers IAMAT Sponsored Mental Health in Travelers 

  • Pre-Travel Assessment – Maureen MacConnell, United States of America
  • Management During Travel – Yeshashwork Kibour, Morocco


Bugs, Burns and Bites

  • Anti-Vector Measures – Sarah McGuinness, Australia
  • Sun Safety – Scott Norton, United States of America
  • Animal Bites – David Shlim, United States of America

Dengue – The Next Decade

  • Evolving Global Epidemiology – Ralph Huits, The Netherlands
  • Aedes Vectors, Climate Change, and Modern Control Methods – Kristy Murray, United States of America
  • Dengue Vaccines – Annelies WIlder-Smith, Switzerland

Innovative Vaccination Schemes 

  • Japanese Encephalitis – Susan Hills, United States of America
  • Tick-Borne Encephalitis – Urseula Kunze, Austria
  • Rabies  – Patrick Soentjens, Belgium
  • Yellow Fever – Leo Visser, The Netherlands

Hot, Cold and Deep 

  •  Heat Illness – Caroline Finch, Australia
  •  Cold Illness – Scott McIntosh, United States of America
  •  Diving – Jean-Eric Blatteau, France

Tick-Borne Infections – Don’t Let it Get Under you Skin 

  • Tick-Borne Encephalitis – Rahel Ackerman, Switzerland
  • Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – Takeshi Tanaka, Japan
  • Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever – Maria Paz Sanchez-Seco, Spain
  • Tick-Borne Rickettsia – Daniel Paris, Switzerland

Global Spread of Emerging Infectious Diseases

  • Europe – Alexia Anagnostopoulos, Switzerland
  • South and Southeast Asia – Priscilla Rupali, India
  • Americas – David Freedman, United States of America

Workshops



Medical emergencies During Travel

  • Susan Anderson, United States of America 
  • Mathieu Potin, Switzerland 

Tropical Diseases in South America: Case Discussions from the Gorgas Course

  • Sapha Barkati, Canada 
  • Carlos Seas, Peru 

Challenging Topics in Migrant Health

  • North American Perspective – Nancy Jenks, United States of America  
  • Mediterranean Perspective – Androula Pavli, Greece 

Nurses in Travel Health Practice

  • Skills and Training – Sandra Grieve, United Kingdom  
  • Competency Frameworks and Accreditation – Catherine Keil, Australia 

Military Travel – An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

  • Opthalmological Emergencies – Jean-Marie Giraud, France  
  • Dental Emergencies – Alexander Schramm, Germany 

Medical Kits for Expedition and Adventure Travel 

  • Howard Backer, United States of America  
  •  Jenny Visser, New Zealand  

ABC Workshop: Travel Vaccines

  • Lin Chen, United States of America 
  • Jane Chiodini, United Kingdom  

Debate



Prevention of Altitude Illness

MODERATOR:

  • Ed Ryan, United States of America

PANELISTS:

  • Shigeyuki Kano, Japan
  • Michael Libman, Canada
  • Dipti Patel, United Kingdom
  • Natalia Rodriguez, Spain
  • Deb Mills, Australia
  • Olivia Veit, Switzerland

COVID-19 Border Closures and Quarantine Mandates

MODERATOR:

Rebecca Acosta, United States of America

PANELISTS:

  • Fabrice Althaus, Europe
  • Kyle Petersen, United States of America
  • Jenny Sisson, Australia
  • Madeline Wilks, United States of America

Panel Discussion



Limited Malaria Risk Scenarios – Strategies and Recommendations

MODERATOR:

  • Ed Ryan, United States of America

PANELISTS:

  • Shigeyuki Kano, Japan
  • Michael Libman, Canada
  • Dipti Patel, United Kingdom
  • Natalia Rodriguez, Spain
  • Deb Mills, Australia
  • Olivia Veit, Switzerland