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.

Dr. Santanu Chatterjee MBBS, DTM&H, FACTM, FFTM ACTM, FFTM RCPS (Glasgow) has done specialized training in tropical and travel medicine. He is a Visiting Lecturer at KPC Medical College in Kolkata, India and has an independent private referral practice and travel clinic where he has provided healthcare to travelers and expatriates for the last 30 years.

 Dr. Chatterjee is a member of the International Medical Advisory Board of IAMAT (Canada), Past President of the Asia-Pacific Travel Health Society (2006-2008), past ISTM Counselor (1999-2003), and former Chair of the ISTM Host Country Committee (1999-2006) wherein he played a central role in drafting the ISTM Responsible Traveler document. He has also served as the Regional Editor of NewShare (2001-2009) and was member of the WHO External Review Group of International Travel and Health.

 Dr Chatterjee has presented at many international conferences and has original research contributions on travelers’ diarrhea, travelers’ health behavior and malaria chemoprophylaxis.

Dr. Shaymaa Abdalal is an Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. She is also a Travel Medicine and Public Health Senior Registrar at King Abdulaziz University hospital. Dr. Shaymaa Abdalal also runs the clinical parasitology diagnostic lab. After earning a medical degree from King Abdulaziz University and completing her training at Tulane university, Shaymaa dedicated her career to preventing, diagnosing, and treating infectious diseases, with a special focus on tropical illnesses prevalent in travelers.

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.