COURSE DATES & FORMAT:

The annual ISTM TMRUC will be offered online 11 - 12 February 2022. 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 travellers, 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 travellers, risk assessment, malaria, yellow fever, special travellers, vaccines, and vectors. The care of special groups such as pregnant women, pediatric travellers, immigrants, VFR travellers, diabetics, and immunocompromised hosts will also be discussed. Recent developments and advances in travellers' diarrhea, immunizations, malaria medications, and navigating COVID in travel will be highlighted.

COURSE CHAIR

Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD

Travel Medicine Review and Update Course, Chair

Deputy State Epidemiologist, NH DHHS

Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and International Health, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA

COURSE PLANNING COMMITTEE

Elizabeth A. Talbot, United States

Lin Chen, United States

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

Sarah Kohl, United States

COURSE SPEAKERS

Aisha Khatib, Canada

Camilla Rothe, Germany

David Hamer, United States

David Freedman, United States

Elizabeth Barnett, United States

Gerard Flaherty, Ireland

Henry Wu, United States

Lin Chen, United States

Mary-Louise Scully, United States

Michael Jones, United Kingdom

Sarah Kohl, United States

Sheila Mackell, United States

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON YELLOW FEVER

Jane Chiodini, United Kingdom

Jenny Visser, New Zealand

Leo Visser, Netherlands

Mary-Louise Scully, United States

Salim Parker, South Africa

Moderator: Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON MALARIA

Dipti Patel, United Kingdom

Mike Starr, Australia

Patricia Schlagenhauf, Switzerland

Steve Schofield, Canada

Moderator: Francesco Castelli, Italy

COURSE MODERATORS

Camilla Rothe, Germany

Christina Coyle, United States

David Shlim, United States

Francesco Castelli, Italy

Gerard Flaherty, Ireland

Yen-Giang Bui, Canada

CREDIT HOURS

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM).  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation:

Amedco LLC designates this live activity / enduring material for a maximum of 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation:

Amedco LLC designates this live activity / enduring material for a maximum of 16.25 ANCC contact hours.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians (ACPE) Credit Designation:

Amedco LLC designates this live activity / enduring material for a maximum of 9.75 knowledge-based CPE contact hours.

* NOTE to Pharmacists: The only official Statement of Credit is the one you pull from CPE Monitor. You must request your certificate within 30 days of your participation in the activity to meet the deadline for submission to CPE Monitor. 

 

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