2022 TMRUC Course Speaker Bio's, Disclosures, Videos, and Handouts

Recorded On: 02/12/2022

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2022 TMRUC Course Speaker Bio's, Disclosures, Videos, and Handouts.  The live and recorded presentations will be posted to the course a few days after the live event. 

Yen Bui, MD, DTMH

Professional Education Committee, Chair

Department of Public Health, Quebec

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.

 

Dr. David H. Hamer, MD

Professor of Global Health and Medicine

Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine

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.

 

Michael Jones, MB, ChB, FRCP(Edin, Glasg & Lond), FFTM RCPS(Glasg)

Secretary Treasurer

International Society of Travel Medicine

Dr Michael Jones, MB, ChB, FRCP(Edin, Glasg & Lond), FFTM RCPS(Glasg) graduated from Aberdeen University in 1972, and after training in internal medicine, was appointed a UK Key Cadre Technical Aid Officer as a Specialist Physician at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania 1976-1982.

On return to the UK he co-founded HealthLink360 with his wife Elizabeth who became its first Director of Psychological Services. Located near Edinburgh, this not-for-profit charity provides whole person health care for expatriates working with voluntary agencies throughout the developing world. He was Medical Director 1983-2006, volunteer Honorary Consultant until 2018 and is now a Consultant Advisor. He set up a thriving public access HL360 Travel Clinic in 2004.

He was a staff physician at the Edinburgh Regional Infectious Diseases Unit (RIDU) from 1983, Associate Specialist from 1989, Consultant from 2005 and founded the RIDU Travel Clinic in 1993. He had a strong interest in the management of HIV infection, managing his own patient cohort for nearly 30 years. Retiring in 2014 he continued in clinical practice at the Spire Hospital, Edinburgh and HealthLink360 until end 2018.

He has lectured widely on HIV, Infectious Diseases and tropical medicine, and internationally on Travel Medicine. He wrote a module for the Glasgow Diploma in Travel Medicine in 1998. In 2007 he was invited to chair the Faculty of Travel Medicine Examination Committee at RCPS Glasgow, became Vice Dean in 2009 and Dean 2012-15, where he encouraged international links, educational development, and enjoyed chairing an enthusiastic Board.

Mike was Editor of the quarterly developing world journal Tropical Doctor, 1995-2002, edited the vaccination and anti-malarial prophylaxis pages for the GP Newspaper Pulse from 1994 and was Associate Editor of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 2015-18.

He joined the International Health Advisory Committee of the Mission Agency SIM, based in Charlotte, NC in 2001. From 2003-9 he made five visits to Zambia supporting the roll out of ART with the Lothian-Zambia HIV/AIDS Partnership. In 2014 he co-authored a report on developing Travel Medicine services for the Government of Oman and helped organize the first conference on Travel Medicine in the Arab world in Oman in 2015.

He was a founder member of ISTM in Atlanta in 1991 and has attended every CISTM since, presenting 34 posters and lectures over the years. He was Chair of the Psychological Health of Travellers Interest Group 2014-17 and became Secretary-Treasurer for the International Society of Travel Medicine in June 2019. He enjoys downhill skiing, cycling, golf, swimming, and home maintenance.

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2022 TMRUC Speaker Bio's (Brief)
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2022 TMRUC Course Disclosures
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Elizabeth Talbot (live) 11Feb2022 - WELCOME
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Open to view video. Welcome by Elizabeth Talbot 11Feb2022
Elizabeth Barnett 11Feb2022 - Global Travel and Risk Assessment
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Open to view video. Elizabeth Barnett 11Feb2022 - Global Travel and Risk Assessment
Lin Chen 11Feb2022 - Vectors of Disease
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Open to view video. Lin Chen 11Feb2022 - Vectors of Disease
Henry Wu 11Feb2022 - Vector-Borne Diseases
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Open to view video. Henry Wu 11Feb2022 - Vector-Borne Diseases
Aisha Khatib 11Feb2022 - Malaria ABC Plus Chemoprophlaxis
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Open to view video. Aisha Khatib - 11Feb2022 - Malaria ABC Plus Chemoprophlaxis
Lin Chen and Aisha Khatib (live) 11Feb2022 - Lunch and Learn, Climate Change and Travel
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Open to view video. Lin Chen and Aisha Khatib (live) 11Feb2022 - Lunch and Learn, Climate Change and Travel
Sheila Mackell 11Feb2022 - Routine Vaccines
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Open to view video. Sheila Mackell 11Feb2022 - Routine Vaccines
Mary Louise Scully 11Feb2022 - Travel Vaccines
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Open to view video. Mary Louise Scully 11Feb2022 - Travel Vaccines
Elizabeth Talbot (live) 11Feb2022 - Covid Vaccines
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Open to view video. Elizabeth Talbot (live) 11Feb2022 - Covid Vaccines
Covid Vaccines Q&A with Covid Panel (live) 11Feb2022
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Open to view video. Covid Vaccines Q&A with Covid Panel (live) 11Feb2022
Yellow Fever International Panel (live) 11Feb2022
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Open to view video. Yellow Fever International Panel (live) 11Feb2022
International Panel on Malaria (live) 12Feb2022
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Open to view video. International Panel on Malaria (live) 12Feb2022
David Hamer (live) 12Feb2022 - Adventure Travel
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Open to view video. David Hamer (live) 12Feb2022 - Adventure Travel
Sheila Mackell 12Feb2022 - Child, Pregnant, Breastfeeding Travelers
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Open to view video. Sheila Mackell 12Feb2022 - Child, Pregnant, Breastfeeding Travelers
Gerard Flaherty 12Feb2022 - High Risk Travellers
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Open to view video. Gerard Flaherty 12Feb2022 - High Risk Travellers
Elizabeth Barnett 12Feb2022 - Visiting Friends and Relatives
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Open to view video. Elizabeth Barnett 12Feb2022 - Visiting Friends and Relatives
Malaria and Bites Q&A (live) 12Feb2022
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Open to view video. Malaria and Bites Q&A (live) 12Feb2022
Lunch & Learn Aerospace Travel (live) 12Feb2022
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Open to view video. Lunch & Learn Aerospace Travel (live) 12Feb2022
David Freedman (live) 12Feb2022 - Coronavirus I
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Open to view video. David Freedman (live) 12Feb2022 - Coronavirus I
Henry Wu (live) 12Feb2022 - Coronavirus II
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Open to view video. Henry Wu (live) 12Feb2022 - Coronavirus II
Mary Louise Scully 12Feb2022 - Food, Water, Diarrhea
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Open to view video. Mary Louise Scully 12Feb2022 - Food, Water, Diarrhea
Sarah Kohl 12Feb2022 - Epidemiology Made Relevant
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Open to view video. Sarah Kohl 12Feb2022 - Epidemiology Made Relevant
Lin Chen 12Feb2022 - Ill Return Travelers
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Open to view video. Lin Chen 12Feb2022 - Ill Return Travelers
Last Chance Q&A (live) 12Feb2022
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Open to view video. Last Chance Q&A (live) 12Feb2022