TIMETABLE FOR THE SHORT COURSE IN TRAVEL MEDICINE APRIL 2011
VENUE:
Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM - Keppel Street
Monday 4th April
Dr R.H. Behrens
09.00-09.45
Overview of Travel Medicine
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Consultant Epidemiologist
HPA, Colindale
09.45-10.15
Surveillance of travel associated disease
Dr J. Jones
10.15-10.45
10.45-11.30
Coffee
Communication skills for health
professionals in travel medicine
Dr L. Noble
Senior Lecturer in Communication
Skills, UCL Medical School
11.30-12.15
Jet-Lag
Prof. J. Arendt
12.15-13.00
14.00-15.00
Road Safety and Accident Prevention
Altitude and Climate
Saul Billingsley
Dr D. Martin
Emeritus Professor of Endocrionology, Past Director of Centre for
Chronobiology, University of Surrey
FIA Foundation, London
UCL Medical School
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.30
16.30
Tea
Insurance and Repatriation of ill patients
Course get together (Lower Café area LSHTM - Keppel Street)
Dr F. Morgan
Healix International
Tuesday 5th April
09.45-10.30
Enteric infection including travellers’
diarrhoea
Travel and Ethnic Groups
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.45
Coffee
Caring for children abroad
11.45-12.30
14.00-16.30
Controversies in travel medicine
Problem workshop on travel health –
breakout rooms LG6 and LG7
15.00-15.30
Tea
09.00-09.45
Prof. D. Hill
Director of NaTHNaC (London)
Dr R.H. Behrens
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Dr J. WilsonHowarth
Students
Dr R.H. Behrens
Tropical Community Physician &
General Practitioner
Group Work
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Director of NaTHNaC (London)
& Prof. D. Hill
Wednesday 6th April
09.00-09.45
09.45-10.30
Management and Diagnosis of the
Returning Traveller
Medical fitness for travel by air
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.45
Coffee
Thrombotic disease in travel
11.45-12.30
Dr M. Brown
Prof. M. Bagshaw
Clinical Senior Lecturer, LSHTM &
HTD
Visiting Professor of Aviation
Medicine at Kings College, London
Dr P. Kesteven
Newcastle Royal Infirmary
Dr M. Jones
Consultant Physician, Edinburgh
13.30-14.15
Preparation of, and screening for overseas
workers
Rabies and its prevention
Dr C. Hatz
14.15-15.00
15.00-15.20
15.20-16.00
Immunisation - Routine Vaccination
Tea
Immunisation – Vaccination for travel
Prof. D. Hill
Head, Medical Department, Swiss
Tropical Institute & Univer Zürich
Director of NaTHNaC (London)
Prof. D. Hill
Director of NaTHNaC (London)
16:00-17:00
The Immunosupressed traveller
Prof. L. Visser
Leiden University Netherlands
Thursday 7th April
09.00-09.45
Malaria: epidemiology and disease
Dr C. Drakeley
Senior Lecturer, LSHTM
09.45-10.30
Malaria prophylaxis, a guide to current
practice
Coffee
Malaria – question & answer session
Dr R.H. Behrens
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Dr R.H. Behrens/
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Director of NaTHNaC (London)
LSHTM
Rothampstead Research Centre
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.45
Prof. D. Hill
11.45-12.30
13.30-14.30
Bite Prevention and Personal Protection
measures
Skin disease associated with travel
14.30-17.00
15.30-16.00
Controversies in travel medicine
Tea
Dr J Logan
Prof. F. VegaLopez
Students
Consultant Dermatologist (UCLH)
Presentations and Debate
Friday 8th April
09.00-09.45
Sexually Transmitted Infections and Travel
Dr K. Rogstad
09.45-10.30
Venomous bites and stings and marine
poisoning
Prof. D. Warrell
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.45
11.45-12.30
Coffee
Medico-legal aspects of travel advice
Risk assessment in travel medicine
14.00-16.00
14.00-16.00
14.00-16.00
Dr J. Pedley
Dr R.H. Behrens
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Past Head, Nuffield Department of
Clinical Medicine, Emeritus Professor
of Tropical Medicine & Infectious
Diseases
Medical Protection Society
Consultant in Travel and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM/HTD)
Workshop, surfing the Internet for Health Information. Jane Falconer (group A – room LG2)
Operating a Travel Clinic with a visit to the HTD Travel Clinic (group B)
Travel Clinic Resources, Books and Software. (group C)