
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