INVITED SPEAKERS
OPENING LECTURE
Simon Mitchell
Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Auckland City Hospital; Consultant Diving Physician, Slark Hyperbaric Unit, North Shore Hospital; Professor and Head of Department, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Nick Beeching
Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Karin Leder
Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Jennifer M.B. Robson
Pathologist in Charge, Microbiology, Serology and Molecular Pathology, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology
Brisbane, Australia
Mike Starr
Associate Professor, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Stewart M. Condon
President, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) , Sydney, Australia
Eric J. Nilles
Director, Program on Infectious Diseases and Humanitarian Emergencies, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge; Assistant
Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Attending
Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Eli Schwartz
The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israe
Annelies Wilder-Smith
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research
SYMPOSIA SPEAKERS
Michelle Balm
Infectious Diseases Physician, Capital & Coast District Health Board, Clinical Microbiologist, Wellington Southern Community Laboratories, Wellington, New Zealand
Robert J Commons
Postdoctoral Senior Research Officer, Global Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory; Infectious Diseases Physician, Ballarat Health Services, Ballarat, Victoria; WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN), Clinical Module, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Cheryl Jones
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease; Head of School and Dean, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Brent Lovelock
Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Peter Nasveld
Senior Medical Adviser, Army Headquarters, Australia
David Powell
Medical Advisor International Air Transport Association (IATA), Geneva; Switzerland Aviation Medicine Specialist, Virgin Australia Airlines; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ
Sapna Sadarangani
National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Balbir Singh
Director Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
I Md Ady Wirawan
Travel Medicine Unit, and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia
Sarah Borwein
Managing Partner, Central Health Medical Practice, Central, Hong Kong
Graham Denyer
Chief Medical Officer for First Assistance and Course Director on the Dip Occupational and Aviation Medicin Unit, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Kevin C. Kain
Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI), Toronto, Canada
Sarah McGuinness
Infectious Diseases Physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University,Melbourne, Australia
Ami Neuberger
Department of Internal Medicine, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Haifa; The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Priscilla Rupali
Department of Infectious, Diseases Christian Medical, College Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Michael Schultz
Gastroenterologist, Head of Department, Department of Medicine, Te Tari Whaiora, University of Otago; Dunedin Hospital, Great King Street, Dunedin, Ōtepoti, New Zealand
Joseph (Joe) Torresi
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
MEET THE PROFESSOR
Balbir Singh
Director Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia
Robert Steffen
Emeritus Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute; University of Zurich Zurich,Switzerland; Adjunct Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
ABC WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
Robert Bester
The Travel Doctor, Invercargill, New Zealand
Lin H. Chen
Director, Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, USA; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Sonny Lau
Medical director, The Travel Doctor - TMVC, Melbourne, Australia
Saroj Pokhrel
Physician, Internal medicine, CIWEC Hospital (Travel Medicine Center), Pokhara ,Nepal
Pornthep
Chanthavanich
Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Pediatrics, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Jonathan Cohen
Medical Director, Travel Clinics Australia
Prativa Pandey
Medical Director, CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center, Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal
WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
Olivier Cattin
Chief Medical Officer, Samitivej International, Yangon, Myanmar
Suvash Dawadi
General Practitioner, CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center, Lainchau; Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal (MMSN), Kathmandu, Nepal
Peter Leggat
Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences , James Cook University, Townsville, Australia & President-Elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine
Reeta S. Mani
Additional Professor, Department of Neurovirology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference & Research in Rabies, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
Simon Mitchell
Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Auckland City Hospital; Consultant Diving Physician, Slark Hyperbaric Unit, North Shore Hospital; Professor and Head of Department, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
David Powell
Medical Advisor International Air Transport Association (IATA), Geneva, Switzerland; Aviation Medicine Specialist, Virgin Australia Airlines; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ
Marc Shaw
Professor, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Australia; Consultant in Travel & Expedition Medicine; Medical Director, WORLDWISE Travellers Health Centres, New Zealand
Jenny Visser
Senior Lecturer; Director Travel Medicine; University of Otago, Wellington; National Medical Advisor, The Travel Doctor, New Zealand
Annelies
Wilder Smith
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research
Santanu Chatterjee
Consultant Physician (Travel And Tropical Medicine), Pulse Diagnostics, Kolkata, India
Martin Haditsch
Medical Head Labor Hannover MVZ GmbH, Hannover Germany and Medical Head TravelMedCenter Leonding Austria
Itzchak (Itsik) Levy
Department of Infectious Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan; Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Deborah Mills
Medical Director, Dr Deb The Travel Doctor, Brisbane; Medical Director Travel Medicine Alliance Network, Australia
Watcharapong
Piyaphanee
Head, Travel Medicine Research Unit Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand
Natalie Prevatt
Consultant Infectious Disease Paediatrician, NHS England, Whittington Hospital, London, UK
Joseph (Joe) Torresi
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Leo G Visser
Head, Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Claire Wong
Travel Health Specialist Nurse, Worldwise Travellers Health & Vaccination Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand