Elizabeth Barnett is a pediatrician with a specialty in infectious diseases working in an urban hospital with a large international population.  Her career focus has been in general pediatric infectious diseases, travel and topical medicine, immigrant medicine, vaccines and vaccine safety, and antimicrobial therapy and resistance.  With colleagues in the adult infectious diseases group, she founded the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center in the early 1990s and the Refugee Health Assessment Program a few years later.  Her research interests have included travel medicine – through the Boston Area Travel Medicine Network (BATMN), a collaboration of 5 travel clinics in the Greater Boston Area – immigrant medicine, and vaccines, including participation in clinical trials of Japanese Encephalitis vaccine in children and oral cholera vaccine.  Dr. Barnett has been Site Director for the Boston GeoSentinel site since the 1990s, contributing over 6000 records.  Current academic and administrative activities include being the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director, a member of the BUSM Promotions Committee, and a member of the Leadership Group of GeoSentinel.  Dr. Barnett has also been active in ISTM for over 20 years, including participation in the Migrant Interest Group, and Director/Co-Director of the ISTM Review Course.

Steve Schofield has worked with the Canadian military for more than 20 years. His focus is communicable disease control and prevention. In this role, he advises on how to protect deploying troops including through use of vaccines and countermeasures to prevent insect bites. Steve has been allowed to play with people way smarter than him, including for some 20 years with the Canadian Committee to Advise in Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT), and has spent shorter stints on working groups for the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the Unites States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

 In a past life, he obtained a PhD from Imperial College which involved chasing things like tsetse flies in Zimbabwean national parks. He still sometimes chases insects and their ilk, including on his rural property, where he practices what he preaches to avoid being bitten by the Borrelia-infected ticks that have moved in over the last few years. He lives in Dunrobin just outside of Ottawa, where he is on the lowest rung of the houseful pecking order, i.e. below the three family dogs, two teenaged boys and his partner, Monica.

Dr. Henry Wu is a Distinguished Physician and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Emory University. Dr. Wu directs the Emory TravelWell Center, Emory’s center dedicated to the prevention, treatment and surveillance of infections related to travel and migration. He previously served at CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and Medical Epidemiologist at the Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch. Dr. Wu’s interests include emerging infectious diseases, tropical medicine and vaccine hesitancy.

Dr. Aisha Khatib is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She trained in family and emergency medicine from the University of Toronto and McGill University and completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the University of Toronto. She holds certification in Travel Medicine from the University of Otago in New Zealand, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Course in Peru. She worked as a Travel and Rugby Doctor in New Zealand for five years before returning to Canada. She is currently the Clinical Director of Travel Medicine at Medcan and a member of CATMAT, the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, an external advisory body to the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is also Past-President of the Alberta Association of Travel Health Professionals, Co-Chair of the ASTMH Update Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, and Past Chair of the ISTM Responsible Travel Interest Group. Her recent research focused on the safety of air travel during the pandemic, as well as climate change and travel.

Davidson Hamer, MD is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, the co-lead of the climate change and emerging infectious diseases research core at the BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, and an attending physician in infectious diseases and Director of the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Hamer is a board-certified infectious disease specialist and medical epidemiologist with particular interests in maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (MNCH&N) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), emerging arboviral diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine, infection control, and antimicrobial resistance.

Dr. Hamer has been involved in travel medicine for thirty years and from 2014 to 2021, Dr. Hamer served as the principal investigator and, since September 2021, as the Surveillance Lead, of GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of 70 sites in 30 countries that uses returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of disease emergence and transmission patterns throughout the world. At Boston Medical Center, he is the PI for several studies of enhanced screening, diagnosis, and management of migrants with Chagas disease and he is part of two national US Chagas disease consortia.

Dr. Hamer is currently the Scientific Program Chair for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Section Editor for the Journal of Travel Medicine (sentinel surveillance in travelers) and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (global health and Chagas disease). He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer for the GeoSentinel Foundation. He has nearly 500 publications that cover a range of topics within the fields of global health (MNCH&N), travel medicine, COVID-19, and the epidemiology of disease in returning travelers.

Dr. Mackell completed her undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania. She went south to the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, for medical school, then west to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), for pediatric training.

Dr. Mackell has traveled extensively and has worked as a pediatrician in numerous Latin American and Asian countries. She studied tropical medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, and at Cayetano Heredia Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru, and earned a certificate in tropical medicine and clinical travelers’ health. She practiced pediatrics and travel medicine in northern California and then northern Arizona for over 25 years.

She is an active member and Fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicine, director of the virtual Travel Medicine Review and Update course, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the ASTM&H.

 Dr. Mackell has authored several text chapters and articles on various topics in pediatric travel medicine. In addition, she has lectured extensively on travel medicine and international adoption. In 2022, she started a new chapter, retiring from general pediatric practice, and is now teaching travel medicine and public health and traveling frequently with surgical groups internationally to provide cleft lip and palate care.

Dr. Christopher Sanford is a family medicine physician who specializes in travel and tropical medicine. He has practiced and taught at the University of Washington since 2000; he joined UW’s Family Medicine Residency in 2009.

He is lead editor The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 5^th Edition (Elsevier, 2016) with co-editors Drs. Elaine Jong and Paul Pottinger.  His layman’s guide to travel health, Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide, was published by University of Washington Press in 2018.  He writes the chapters on travel medicine for The Merck Manual (both Professional and Home Editions); he has also published over a dozen chapters for texts and several articles on topics within tropical medicine, infectious disease, disaster medicine, and travel medicine.

He is co-host of the weekly podcast, The Germ and Worm Travel Health Podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and elsewhere. 

He is Chair of a biennial University of Washington CME course, Update, Travel Medicine & Global Health. During this two-and-a-half day conference, experts speak on a variety of topics within travel and tropical medicine, and global health, including public health in low-resource settings.

He is the founding director of the University of Washington Dept. of Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship, which accepted its first fellow in 2012.

His overseas work has included work at clinics and hospitals in the Peruvian Amazon and Ethiopia. His research interests include threats to health in cities in low-income nations, disaster medicine, public health, and medical education in low- resource settings.

Dr. Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and travel medicine. She is Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), and the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is also an Honorary Lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at Manchester University.

 She is a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention, the Travel Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, and the WHO International Travel and Health Guideline Development Group.

Dr Sarah McGuinness MBBS MPHTM FRACP FACTM PhD is an infectious diseases physician, lecturer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. She currently holds dual positions as Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She has a special interest in travel and tropical medicine and runs a tertiary-hospital based travel clinic. 

Obtained medical degree from the University of Pretoria in 1983 followed by Diplomas in Primary Emergency Care and Anesthesiology from the South African College of Medicine and a Diploma in Travel Medicine from the University of Glasgow and Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine. Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, Scotland and the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, Australia.

 Senior Honorary Lecturer in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand and instrumental in the development of WITS’s Travel Medicine Course developed in conjunction with James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

 Member of the WHO Expert Roster on Travel Health, Geneva, Switzerland, Site Director GeoSentinel, Johannesburg, South Africa, Founding member of Travel Doctor Corporate, Director of the Travel Doctor in South Africa, Medical Director of International Health Management Consultants, Geneva, Switzerland

 Currently involved in providing comprehensive travel health risk management to several multi- national companies, taking care of approximately 5 500 corporate travelers and national employees globally.

 Editorial Board Appointments (Past and present):

Associate Editor - The Southern African Journal of Epidemiology & Infection

Elected Member of Editorial Board of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Elsevier

Review Committee Member - International Travel and Health (ITH), WHO

Editorial Board Member - Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

 South African Society of Travel Medicine: Founding & Executive Committee Member

International Society of Travel Medicine: Travel for Work Council Member

Lived and worked in South Africa, Malawi and the UK and travels extensively to service the needs of corporate clients and as invited speaker at national and international conferences.

 Conducted Health Risk and Infrastructure audits in all of Sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of The Gambia, Togo, Benin, Niger, Somalia and Lesotho, in Afghanistan and parts of the Middle East and South-East Asia over a period spanning 25 years.

 Considers every malaria death in a non-immune traveler a personal failure.

Name in full: JOON-SUP YEOM

Address: Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

Severance Hospital

Yonsei University College of Medicine

50-1 Yonsei-ro,Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 03722

Tel: +82-2-2228-1942  

Fax: +82-2-393-6884

Present position:

             Division Chair, Division of Infectious Disease, Severance Hospital

             Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine

             Director, Center for Global Development, Yonsei Institute for Global Health

             South Korea Site (Severance Hospital) Director, The Global Serveillane Network of the International Society of Travel Medicine in parternership with the CDC (GEOSENTINEL)

Dr. McCarthy is the President-elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is past Chair of Canada’s Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, as well as the Clinical Group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. She is a course director of the Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine Course that takes place every 2 years in Thailand and Cambodia.

 Anne spent her early career in the Canadian Military, serving 20 years. During this time she deployed to Rwanda, Haiti and Cambodia, which provided real life clinical experience with many tropical diseases and drove home the need to prevent these illnesses in military members and travelers.

 She is Professor of Medicine at University of Ottawa and Infectious Disease Physician at the Ottawa Hospital, where she is an Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Clinician. She is also a Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and member of CanTravNet.

 Her research includes medical education, and clinical studies related to infectious disease, travel medicine, malaria, migrant health, and global health.

Professor Leo Visser studied medicine at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He specialized in Infectious Diseases at the Leiden University Medical Center, where he obtained his PhD (1997). He was appointed as Professor in Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine in 2014. For many years, Professor Visser is involved in clinical care, research, teaching and training in internal medicine and infectious diseases, with the emphasis on vaccinology, vaccine-preventable and tropical infectious diseases, travel medicine and global health. Professor Visser holds a position as Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and LUMC travel clinic at the LUMC. The travel clinic is member of the Leiden Vaccine Group and is a centre of expertise for travel medicine and vaccination research in The Netherlands.

 Professor Visser holds several positions at national and international committees and scientific organizations. Currently, Professor Visser is member of the European Expert Committee for Travel Medicine. In the past he was, amongst others, member of the steering committee of the European Network on the Surveillance of Imported Infectious Diseases (www.tropnet.eu), chair of the National Coordination Centre for Travellers' Health Advice (LCR), and former President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. His current research activities involve the safety and immunogenicity of alternative vaccination routes and vaccine responses in the more vulnerable individual with chronic diseases, advanced age, or immunosuppressed in particular those following solid organ transplantation or receiving immunobiologicals.

 CURRICULUM VITAE – Summary

 Jaime R. Torres, MD, MPH&TM

 Education and Training 

 Medical Doctor Degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, in 1972.

 Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine. Louisiana State University, Department of Medicine, 1976 to 1978.

 Tulane University, Master in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1978-1979.

 Professional  Activities

 Full Professor in Tropical Medicine (Tenure), School of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1984 to present.

 Head of the Infectious Diseases Section, Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1990 to present.

Moderator of Promed-esp, ProMED-mail (Program for Monitoring Infectious Diseases), International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2001 to present.

 Scientific Publications:

 Author of over 160 articles published in indexed journals. Author of 20 chapters in specialized medical books, co-editor of 5 specialized medical books.

 Main areas of activity:

 Epidemiology and pathogenesis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Special Aspects of Infectious Diseases in Isolated Amerindian Communities, Malaria, Viral Hepatitis, Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, Neurocysticercosis, Atypical Mycobacterial Infections, HIV infection and AIDS.

Dr. Salim Parker is a general and travel medicine practitioner based in Cape Town, South Africa and is an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town. He is an executive member of the South African Society of Travel Medicine and serves on the ISTM’s Liaison Committee. Additionally, Dr. Parker is the current ISTM executive board member. He has extensive Mass Gatherings experience, having accompanied pilgrims on the Hajj to Saudi Arabia for the past 20 years. He is the co-author, amongst others, of the CDC Yellow Book Hajj Travel chapter.

A/Prof Mike Starr. Prof Starr is a General Pediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Consultant in   Emergency Medicine at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne (RCH). He's head of the RCH Travel Clinic. He's one of the authors of the Manual of Travel Medicine. He's a Fellow of the ISTM and a past Chair of the ISTM Pediatrics Interest Group.

Camille Kotton is the clinical director of the Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program in the Infectious Diseases Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Dr. Kotton’s clinical interests include cytomegalovirus, vaccines, donor-derived infections, zoonoses, and tropical medicine in the transplant setting. She is a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and is involved in national decisions regarding COVID-19 and other vaccines. She has a long-term interest in travel medicine for immunocompromised patients.

Gerard Flaherty, Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

 MD, PhD, BSc (Hons.), MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPI, MRCPI, Cert. Travel Med. (RCSI), Dip. SEM (GB & I), FFSEM (RCPI & RCSI), FAcadMEd, DTM RCPS (Glas), FFTM RCPS (Glas), FACTM, FFTM (ACTM), MFSEM (UK), MMedSc, Dip. HSc. (Clinical Teaching), MSc Int Trav Health (Sheffield), MECOSEP, MMEd (Dundee), Diop. sa Ghaeilge, Cert. Traffic Med, Cert. Ornith., Cert. Bird Behavior, FIFA Dip. Foot. Med., PG Cert Sc. Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety, FISTM, AFAMEE, FRGS, FIPC, MRSTMH.

 Prof. Gerard Flaherty graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2000 with a first-class honors degree and gold medals in each of the 8 final year subjects. As an undergraduate, Gerard gained an intercalated BSc degree in Anatomy and received numerous international academic distinctions, including the Duke Elder Prizer in Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Ophthalmology (UK), and the Annual Undergraduate Prize of the Faculty of Radiology (UK). He gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 2002 and Fellowship in 2011. He holds a Diploma in Travel Medicine from the RCPSG (Glasgow). He has completed 3 Master degrees, including a Masters in International and Travel Health (Sheffield) and Masters in Medical Education (Dundee). His two higher doctoral theses (MD, PhD) were based on his original research in travel medicine. He was elected to the role of President-elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine in May 2021 and President in May 2023. He previously served as ISTM Counselor (2015-19).

 He is a Fellow, examiner, former board member and education convener of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was also the recipient of the Cameron Lockie Prize for Travel Medicine in the UK and the Donald MacLeod medal in Sports Medicine, which was presented to him by HRH The Princess Royal. He is Past President, Research Officer and current NECTM Lead of the Travel Medicine Society of Ireland. He was Chair of the Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine (NECTM) 2012 scientific committee, which the Travel Medicine Society of Ireland hosted in Dublin, and Vice-Chair of the NECTM 2014 scientific committee in Norway. He also served on the international scientific committee for the 2015 NECTM, 2016 RCISTM, 2018 NECTM, and 2022 NECTM conferences in London, South Africa, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, respectively. He was Co-Chair for the 2021 CISTM17 virtual conference, held virtually in May 2021.

 He was elected to the Executive Board of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) in 2015 and has held several leadership positions, including membership of the Examinations Committee, the Older Traveler Interest Group Council, and Chair of the Publications Oversight Committee (2019-21) and Nominating Committee (2021-23). He is the current NECTM representative on the ISTM Liaison Committee. He also chairs the CISTM19 Oversight Committee.

 He is also a member of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society, and he has presented at the joint ACTM/APTHS webinar in August 2022. He holds an Adjunct Professorship in Travel Medicine and International Health with the International Medical University in Malaysia since 2014 and an Adjunct Professorship in Travel Medicine at Mahidol University, Thailand. Gerard’s research interests in travel medicine include risk assessment in the pre-travel consultation, travel health behavior, travelers with pre- existing medical conditions, high altitude medicine, mental health issues and travel, older travelers, technology and artificial intelligence in travel medicine, and education in travel health. He has 20 years of clinical experience in travel medicine. He has completed tropical medicine courses and expeditions in Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, Russia, Cuba, Peru, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Ghana, Morocco, and South Africa.

 Gerard’s previous academic position as Professor of Medical Education and Immediate Past Undergraduate Medical Program Director at NUI Galway and Head of International Students for the School of Medicine gave him responsibility for design, delivery, and assessment of the undergraduate medical curriculum, including the special study module program. He is also a Past Chair of the Curriculum Review Committee and has sat on numerous committees at school and university levels, including the university examination appeals committee. He serves as Academic Integrity Advisor for the School of Medicine, College representative on the University Discipline Committee and on the University, Society Coordinating Group. He received a President’s Award from NUI Galway for Teaching Excellence in 2008. He has been awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators (UK). He served on the executive committee of AMEE between 2017 and 2020. He has been awarded Associate Fellowship of AMEE. He was appointed to the role of Professor of Travel Medicine and International Health in 2021. He has over 250 publications and research presentations to date, including a textbook, and 8 textbook chapters. He has delivered invited lectures to various institutions and organizations in over 20 countries. He serves as Section Editor (non- communicable diseases) for the Journal of Travel Medicine. He is a regular reviewer for multiple travel medicine and medical education journals, including Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, and Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (TMID). He was a recent Guest Editor for a special travel medicine issue of the TMID journal.

 Gerard has worked with Croí, the West of Ireland Cardiac Foundation, for many years as a volunteer expedition physician on fundraising high-altitude treks to the Himalayas and Africa. He was instrumental in establishing the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health, on whose Advisory Council he serves as Director of Academic Affairs and Fellowship. In addition to acting as Founder and Program Director (2013-2020) for the Masters in Preventive Cardiology program at NUI Galway, Gerard was responsible for the medical management and supervision of participants enrolled on the Croí MyAction preventive cardiology program. In his leisure time, Gerard travels, golfs, walks in forests, cares for bonsai trees, treks mountains, and bird-watches. He has been awarded Certificates in Ornithology and in Bird Behavior. He is fluent in English and Gaelic and speaks French and German with moderate proficiency.

Dr. Yen-Giang Bui is the current Chair of the Professional Education Committee of ISTM.

She serves on various expert committees both in Travel Health and in Immunization at the provincial and federal level in Canada. She is the Vice-Chair of the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, Public Health Agency of Canada, where she contributes to various working groups, and leads the working groups on yellow fever and rabies.

Dr. Bui holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a Certificate in Travel Health and a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health.

She has been a consulting physician at the Department of Public Health of the Montérégie, Québec, Canada since 2001 in Infectious Diseases, and in the past has provided primary care to asylum seekers in Montreal for many years.

Dr. Bui has been directly involved in capacity building and knowledge transfer to Travel Health practitioners in Québec for the last 20 years. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she provided support to public health practitioners, vaccinators and community organizations in her region through regular updates, and training in motivational interviewing techniques to decrease vaccine hesitancy.

Dr. Bui is a clinician at the Travel Health Clinic of the CISSS Montérégie-Centre and maintains a strong interest in post-resettlement challenges facing immigrants such as barriers to preventive care, high-risk travelers (VFRs), infectious diseases, mental health issues etc.

Scott Norton, MD, MPH, MSc, is Adjunct Professor of Dermatology and of Preventive Medicine & Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. He has a background in tropical dermatology, zoonotic diseases, and population health. During his military career, Dr. Norton served as Chief of Dermatology at Walter Reed Medical Center. He later served as the Chief of Pediatric Dermatology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. He is a consultant in dermatology and tropical medicine for the Peace Corps and other public service organizations and is co-author for 3 chapters for the CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel

Dr. Shlim is the author of over fifty-five original research papers and has written over twenty chapters in textbooks on travel medicine. He is an editor of the CDC’s Health Information for International Travel, and a co-author of the chapter on rabies in that book. He is a past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine, and the current chairman of The Medicine and Compassion Projectâ.

He pioneered travel medicine research on travelers’ diarrhea, typhoid fever, hepatitis, altitude illness, trekking deaths, and rabies. He also helped discover the diarrhea causing protozoal pathogen Cyclospora.

 Dr. Shlim is the co-author, with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, of Medicine and Compassion, a book that offers advice from a Tibetan Buddhist lama on methods of training in compassion for health care professionals. His new memoir, A Gentle Rain of Compassion, was published in September 2022.

Scott grew up in Boulder, Colorado and attended medical school at the University of Colorado.

He went to public health school at Harvard University where an interest in Tropical Public Health was further developed, leading to a yearlong study as a Fulbright Scholar in Cali Colombia, where he studied improved diagnostic technologies to understand the epidemiology of leishmaniasis, and onchocerciasis (River Blindness), a leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.

 He completed residency then a Fellowship at Stanford University in Medicine then Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine.

 He taught at Stanford Medical School and directed a course in Human Biology entitled “Parasites & Pestilence” for over 20 years. He was presented the Bloomfield award in recognition of excellence in teaching of clinical medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.

 Since 1999, he has organized local then regional then Kaiser Nationally sponsored Travel Medicine Conferences to prepare travelers for safe international trips. He served as Chief of Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine at Kaiser Redwood City before retiring in 2023 after the COVID pandemic. He concluded his tenure on a high note, serving as a subject matter expert and on the regional task force for COVID and Influenza vaccination.

 He has served locally on the San Mateo County Mosquito Abatement District Board as trustee and board member since 2012 for his town of Hillsborough. He currently serves on the Professional Education Committee as Co-Chair in the ISTM (International Society of Travel Medicine), organizing webinars and Update Courses. He continues working in the clinical sector for the International non-profit organization since the tsunami in 2004 with MENTOR-Initiative leading training workshops about Malaria and Vector-borne diseases as well as Emergency Responses, in Indonesia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Haiti, and Myanmar.

 He has appeared on The Doctors Show (CBS), Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and National Geographic (and even the Tyra Bank’s Show in New York!) about several unusual parasitic diseases in humans including leishmaniasis, tapeworm, leprosy and hookworm.

Dr. Jeff Goad is a Tenured Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Chapman University School of Pharmacy. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the USC School of Pharmacy and Master of Public Health from the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He completed a residency in pediatric pharmacy practice at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and holds the Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine. For over 25 years, Dr. Goad has maintained an active practice in Travel Health clinics and immunization services. He coordinates and teaches travel medicine, immunization, epidemiology, and parasitology courses. He is a national faculty and advisory board member for the American Pharmacists Association Pharmacy-Based Immunization Training Program and developer of the APhA Travel Medicine Advanced Competency Training Course. He has presented at over 300 pharmacy and medical conferences and published more than 70 articles and book chapters. Dr. Goad is President-Elect for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the first pharmacist to serve in this role; past Chair and co-founder of the International Society of Travel Medicine’s Pharmacist Professional Group; past President of the California Pharmacists Association and the first pharmacist President of the California Immunization Coalition.

Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM, is Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine (2019-2021). She is Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Chen is a graduate of Harvard University and Jefferson Medical College and trained at New England Deaconess Hospital (Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (Infectious Diseases). She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), and International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM).

She has directed the ISTM Travel Medicine Review and Update Course, served on the Research Committee and the Executive Board as a Counsellor. She served on the ASTMH Certificate Examination Committee, Education Committee, Nomination Committee, and also on Work Groups of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Her editorial roles include the Journal of Travel Medicine, Current Infectious Disease Reports, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide. She has authored chapters in CDC’s Health Information for International Travel (Yellow Book) for over a decade. She served on past scientific program committees of International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and ISTM Conferences. She is a site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travelers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.