Health Professionals

Schedule: Preparatory Course for the ISTM Certificate of Knowledge Examination

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool 9-10 February 2006

Day 1: Friday 09 February

Registration opens 08:15; Final session ends 17:00

 

Day 2: Saturday 10 February

First session begins 08:30; Final session ends 17:00

 

Confirmed Faculty

Friday 09 February 2007

Registration and Welcome                                           08:15 - 9:00

Travel risk assessment                                                 09:00 - 9:20

Principles of Epidemiology and Statistics                  09:20 - 9:45

Global Disease Epidemiology and Safety               09:45 - 10:00

Tea Break                                                                       10:00 - 10:30

Principles of the Immune Response                        11:00 - 11:30

Routine Vaccination                                                     11:30 - 12:15

Lunch                                                                              12:15 - 13:15

Travel Vaccination                                                        13:15 - 14:00

Vectors & Avoidance; Bites & Envenomations        14:00 - 14:45

Tea Break                                                                      14:45 - 15:15

Vector-Borne Disease                                                 15:15 - 16:00

Questions & Answers                                                  16:00 - 17:00

Saturday 10 February 2007

Enteric Infection & Travellers’ Diarrhoea                      8:30 - 9:15

Prevention of Malaria                                                      9:15 - 10:00

Pregnant, Breast-Feeding & Paediatric Travellers 10:00 - 10:30

Tea Break                                                                       10:30 - 11:00

Hosts with Special Health Needs                             11:00 - 11:45

Special Populations                                                     11:45 - 12:15

Lunch                                                                              12:15 - 13:15

Environmental Exposures                                           13:15 - 14:00

Evaluation of the Returned Traveller                         14:00 - 14:45

Tea Break                                                                       14:45 - 15:15

Travel Clinic Management                                          15:15 - 16:00

Questions & Answers                                                 16:00 - 17:00

Confirmed Faculty

Course Director:          

Prof. David R Hill, MD, DTM&H, FRCP

Course Co-Directors:

Dr. Lisa Ford MBBS, DRCOG, BSc, MSc

Ms. Hilary Simons MSc, RGN, RSCN, Dip N

Faculty: 

Dr. Anthony Bryceson

Dr. Mads R Buhl, Dr Med, DTM&H (Liv)

Prof. Peter Chiodini, BSc, MB, PhD, MRCS, FRCP, FRCPath

Ms. Carolyn Driver, MsC, RN, RM, RHV

Dr. David Lalloo, MB, BS, MS, FRCP

Dr. Andrew I Riordan, MB, MRCP, DTM&H (Liv), MD, FRPCH

Prof. Robert Steffen, MD