COMMITTEES
Conference Chair
Jenny Visser
Senior Lecturer
Director Travel Medicine
University of Otago, Wellington;
National Medical Advisor
The Travel Doctor
New Zealand
Scientific Committee Co-Chairs
Colleen Lau
NHMRC Fellow
Department of Global Health
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Eyal Leshem
Clinical Associate Professor
Sackler School of Medicine
Tel Aviv University;
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer, Israel
Organizing Committee Members
Tony Gherardin
Senior Medical Adviser
Foreign Service Medical Unit
Australian Government
Canberra, Australia
Levina S. Pakasi
Executive Board Counselor Member, Asia-Pacific Travel Health Society (APTHS)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Marc Shaw
Local Representative
Professor, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Australia; Medical Director, WORLDWISE Travellers Health Centres New Zealand
Joan Ingram
Local Representative
Infectious Diseases
Physician, Auckland Travel Medicine Service and Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Eli Schwartz
Director
The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Tel Hashomer, Israel
Mike Starr
Associate Professor, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician,
Department of General Medicine,
Royal Children's Hospital,
Melbourne, Australia