COURSE DATES & FORMAT:

The annual ISTM TMRUC will be offered online 23 - 24 February 2024. This will be a hybrid virtual event of live and pre-recorded presentations. Participants will have ample opportunity to interact with the faculty through interactive sessions and informal discussions. The course will be available on-demand after the live event. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Travel Medicine Review and Update Course is designed to review the ISTM Body of Knowledge for the Practice of Travel Medicine and to highlight recent developments in Travel Medicine. The curriculum will cover topics relevant to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who provide medical care and advice to travelers, expatriates, and migrants.

Sessions offered will include principles of immune response, risk assessment, and a travel vaccine overview. The expert faculty will present topics including adventure travel, bites and envenomation, cases, food and water exposures, ill returning travelers, risk assessment, malaria, yellow fever, special travelers, vaccines, and vectors. The care of special groups such as pregnant women, pediatric travelers, immigrants, VFR travelers, and immunocompromised hosts will also be discussed. Recent developments and advances in travelers' diarrhea, immunizations, and malaria medications.

COURSE CHAIR

Sheila Mackell, MD

Travel Medicine Review and Update Course, Chair

COURSE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Sheila Mackell, United States

Lin Chen, United States

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

Henry Wu, United States

COURSE SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Barnett

Yen Bui

Gerard Flaherty

Jeff Goad

Eric Halsey

David Hamer

Aisha Khatib

Sarah Kohl

Camille Kotton

Sheila Mackell

Scott Norton

Natalie Prevatt

Steve Schofield

Darvin Scott Smith

David Shlim 

 Henry Wu

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON YELLOW FEVER

Leo Visser, the Netherlands

 Aluisio Segurado, Brazil)

Salim Parker, South Africa)

Elizabeth Barnett, United States of America

 Moderator: Yen Bui, Canada

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON MALARIA

Dipti Patel, United Kingdom

Mike Starr, Australia

Francesca Norman, Spain

Albie de Frey, South Africa

Moderator: Edward Ryan, United States

COURSE MODERATORS

Lin Chen, United States 

Henry Wu, United States

Edward Ryan, United States

Sheila Mackell, United States

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

CREDIT HOURS

Accreditation Statement:

TBD

Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation:

TBD

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation:

TBD

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians (ACPE) Credit Designation:

TBD