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INVITED SPEAKERS

OPENING LECTURE

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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

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Nick Beeching

Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

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Karin Leder

Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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Jennifer M.B. Robson

Pathologist in Charge, Microbiology, Serology and Molecular Pathology, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology 

Brisbane, Australia

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Mike Starr 

Associate Professor, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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Stewart M. Condon

President, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) , Sydney, Australia

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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

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Eli Schwartz

The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israe

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Annelies Wilder-Smith

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research

SYMPOSIA SPEAKERS

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Michelle Balm

Infectious Diseases Physician, Capital & Coast District Health Board, Clinical Microbiologist, Wellington Southern Community Laboratories, Wellington, New Zealand

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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

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Cheryl Jones

Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease; Head of School and Dean, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Brent Lovelock

Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Peter Nasveld

Senior Medical Adviser, Army Headquarters, Australia

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David Powell

Medical Advisor International Air Transport Association (IATA), Geneva; Switzerland Aviation Medicine Specialist, Virgin Australia Airlines; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ

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Sapna Sadarangani 

National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Balbir Singh

Director Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

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I Md Ady Wirawan

Travel Medicine Unit, and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia

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Sarah Borwein

Managing Partner, Central Health Medical Practice, Central, Hong Kong

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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

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Kevin C. Kain

Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI), Toronto, Canada

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Sarah McGuinness

Infectious Diseases Physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University,Melbourne, Australia

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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

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Priscilla Rupali

Department of Infectious, Diseases Christian Medical,  College Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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Michael Schultz

Gastroenterologist, Head of Department, Department of Medicine, Te Tari Whaiora, University of Otago; Dunedin Hospital, Great King Street, Dunedin, Ōtepoti, New Zealand

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Joseph (Joe) Torresi

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

MEET THE PROFESSOR

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Balbir Singh

Director Malaria Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

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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

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Robert Bester

The Travel Doctor, Invercargill, New Zealand

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Lin H. Chen

Director, Travel Medicine Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, USA; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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Sonny Lau

Medical director, The Travel Doctor - TMVC, Melbourne, Australia

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Saroj Pokhrel

Physician, Internal medicine, CIWEC Hospital (Travel Medicine Center), Pokhara ,Nepal

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Pornthep 

Chanthavanich

Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Pediatrics, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Jonathan Cohen

Medical Director, Travel Clinics Australia

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Prativa Pandey

Medical Director, CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center, Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

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Olivier Cattin

Chief Medical Officer, Samitivej International, Yangon, Myanmar

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Suvash Dawadi

General Practitioner, CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center, Lainchau; Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal (MMSN), Kathmandu, Nepal

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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

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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

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 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

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David Powell

Medical Advisor International Air Transport Association (IATA), Geneva, Switzerland; Aviation Medicine Specialist, Virgin Australia Airlines; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, NZ

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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  

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Jenny Visser

Senior Lecturer; Director Travel Medicine; University of Otago, Wellington; National Medical Advisor, The Travel Doctor, New Zealand

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Annelies 

Wilder Smith

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research

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Santanu Chatterjee

Consultant Physician (Travel And Tropical Medicine), Pulse Diagnostics, Kolkata, India

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Martin Haditsch

Medical Head Labor Hannover MVZ GmbH, Hannover Germany and Medical Head TravelMedCenter Leonding Austria

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Itzchak (Itsik) Levy

Department of Infectious Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan; Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Deborah Mills

Medical Director, Dr Deb The Travel Doctor, Brisbane; Medical Director Travel Medicine Alliance Network, Australia

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Watcharapong 

Piyaphanee

Head, Travel Medicine Research Unit Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine Faculty of Tropical Medicine Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand

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Natalie Prevatt

Consultant Infectious Disease Paediatrician, NHS England, Whittington Hospital, London, UK

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Joseph (Joe) Torresi

Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Leo G Visser

Head, Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

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Claire Wong

Travel Health Specialist Nurse, Worldwise Travellers Health & Vaccination Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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