AATHP Travel Health Symposium & General Meeting - The 20th Anniversary Proudly Presents
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Proudly Presents:
The 20th Anniversary
AATHP Travel Health Symposium
&
General Meeting
June 3 & 4, 2016
Solara Resort and Spa Canmore, Alberta, Canada
Speaker Information and Topics
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Prativa Pandey
Medical Director – CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Pandey attended medical school in New Delhi, India, and was residency trained in
Internal Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She became Board Certified in that specialty
in 1984 and practiced for 10 years in the Boston area. She joined the clinic in 1993 and
became the Medical Director in 1998. She is the past president of the International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and is site director for the GeoSentinel project, an
international cooperative project to monitor emerging diseases through research of travel
related illnesses. She has worked one season as a Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA)
volunteer doctor in the Everest Region and currently serves on the medical board of the
HRA.
Presentations:
1. Pulmonary embolism masquerading as high altitude pulmonary edema at high altitude
2. Destination Nepal
3. Increasing resistance in diarrheal pathogens among travelers to Nepal and other
destinations.
Friday Night Speaker: Dr. Christopher Van Tilburg, MD
Occupational, Travel and Mountain Emergency Departments, Providence Hood River
Memorial Hospital and Medical Committee, Mountain Rescue Association.
Christopher Van Tilburg is a staff physician at Mountain Emergency Services,
Emergency, and Occupational and Travel Medicine Departments at Providence Hood
River Memorial Hospital, in Hood River, Oregon, USA. He is a member of Crag Rats, the
oldest mountain rescue unit in the USA, the Mountain Rescue Association Medical
Committee, and the International Society of Travel Medicine, for which he serves as
editor of Travel Medicine News. He is author of 11 books including Mountain Rescue
Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature (St. Martins, 2007) and
Adrenaline Junkie’s Bucket List: 100 Extreme Outdoor Adventures to do Before You Die
(St. Martins, 2013). He has taught wilderness medicine, served as an expedition doctor,
and worked as a medical relief physician in 70 countries in 5 continents.
Dr. Van Tilburg shows images from mountain rescue cases in the USA, Canada,
Tanzania, Switzerland, Peru, Andorra, Chile, Argentina and elsewhere to illustrate three
key points. How we prepare for adventure travel with equipment, training, experience,
personal wellbeing; how we mitigate risk during travel; and how we prepare for an
accident once it occurs. The lessons described can be applied to many different areas of
travel and travel medicine, not just mountain rescue.
Presentations:
1. “Risk in Adventure Travel: Lessons from Mountain Rescue Around the World”.
2. Critters that bite and sting and how to pack a travel kit
Dr.Henry Wu, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Henry Wu is an Assistant Professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, and
serves as the Emory TravelWell Center’s Co-Director. He is a graduate of Harvard
Medical School and completed his post-graduate training in internal medicine and
infectious diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed a
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. Dr. Wu previously served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and
Medical Epidemiologist at the Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His interests include central
nervous system infections, tropical diseases, and infectious diseases epidemiology.
Presentations:
1. Emerging and evolving infectious diseases and the Role of the traveler in
translocation of disease.
2. Practical strategies for traveling and working safely in developing countries.
Dr. Arthur Diskin, MD, FACEP
Vice President & Global Chief Medical Officer Royal Caribbean International
Dr. Diskin attended college and medical school at the University of Miami. He completed
his residency in Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County Medical Center/University of
Southern California. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency
Medicine. Dr. Diskin is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
(FACEP), Past President of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians (FCEP), former
Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Miami Jackson
Memorial Hospital (JMH), in Miami, Florida and past Chair of the Section on Cruise Ship
and Maritime Medicine of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Dr. Diskin has served as a physician on board ships intermittently since the 1980’s and
was a consultant to Carnival Cruise Lines from 1990-2008 and their Medical Director
through 2008 when he came to Royal Caribbean. He co-developed the Institute of Cruise
Ship Medicine (ICSM), open to physicians from numerous cruise lines while with Carnival
Cruise Lines and has now created a similar program at RCI – the International Academy
of Cruise Ship Medicine (IACSM). In his current role, he is responsible for recruiting,
retaining and reviewing the credentials of the ship’s physicians and nurses, determining
which medications and equipment to stock, developing medical evacuation and disaster
management policies and advising the ships’ physicians as needed. He is also
responsible for the clinical management of crew medical care on the ships and in their
home countries, management of the CareTeam, the Crew Wellness program, and all
Public Health related issues.
Presentations:
1. Cruise ship travel
2. Legionella outbreaks and control
Dr. Stan Houston, MD DTM&H FRCPC
Professor of Medicine & Public Health,
Director, Northern Alberta HIV Program
Dr. Houston did his medical training in his native Saskatchewan and subsequently trained
in Family Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. He
practiced primary care in northern Saskatchewan and rural Lesotho, Africa and taught
and practiced at the University of Zimbabwe for 4 years. He consulted for over a decade
with the National TB Program of Ecuador and for a similar time as a TB consultant to
Doctors without Borders in South Sudan. Locally, he practices Internal Medicine and
Infectious Disease at the U of A and directs the Northern Alberta HIV Program. Other
activities have included CATMAT membership, The Canadian TB Standards, involvement
in starting the New Canadians Clinic and of course, acting as an advisor to Travellers
Health Services and AATHP.
Presentations:
1. AATHP 20th Anniversary Remarks
2. TB 101
3. Hot Topics in MalariaDr. William Stauffer, MD, MSPH, FASTMH
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases &
International Medicine, University of Minnesota
Dr. Bill Stauffer is a Professor Departments of Medicine, Division of Infectious
Diseases. He also holds appointments in the Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases & in
the School of Public Health. He is clinical faculty in Infectious Diseases
HealthPartners Specialties Center/Regions Hospital. He is an expert in travel and
tropical medicine working in clinical medicine, surveillance and policy development.
He serves as the lead medical advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant,
Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he works on issues of human mobility and
how it effects human health (e.g. travel medicine, refugee & immigrant health). He
Co-Directs the UMN/CDC Global Health Course (). He works extensively overseas
in clinical medicine education, research and in public health, most recently in
Tanzania, Uganda, Thailand, Malaysia. His research areas have included
infectious disease surveillance, malaria diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases,
cost evaluation of public health programs, avian influenza, strongyloidiasis and
viral hepatitis. He acts as an advisor to the European Centers for Disease Control,
the World Health Organization, and chairs an Inter-Governmental Refugee Health
Work-Group aimed at aligning medical management of refugees.
Presentations:
1. The intersection of migrant and travel health – Best practices
2. Neglected Tropical Diseases
“Ask the Expert” Question and Answer Panel
An interactive question and answer session to help resolve common queries and share
knowledge and expertise. Panel participants include all of our presenters at this years
conference.
Please bring questions to the session or submit them beforehand to:
lisamyotte@albertahealthservices.caPlease note: Topics are subject to change. Finalized schedule will be posted on
AATHP website.
Conference Registration Fees:
Registration- received up to May 06, 2016 -$325 Canadian
Late Registration- registrations received after May 06, 2016 -$350 Canadian
Student rate -$275 Canadian- open to full time students in health related field (must
submit proof of status for current year)
Conference fees include:
• a one year membership to AATHP
• Friday lunch, supper and coffee breaks
• Saturday breakfast ,lunch and coffee breaks
Registration Deadline:
Registrations and payment must be received by May 27, 2016. Sorry we are unable
to accept walk in delegates or late registrations.
Registration Information:
AATHP is excited to offer online registration.
Note: All registrants must register on eply – payment is by paypal ONLY.
To register for the 2016 symposium, click on the link below or enter the address into your
browser:
https://www.eply.com/2016AATHPConf
Payment Options:
1) Online credit or debit payment with secure Paypal account
If you have any questions regarding registration:
Please contact:
Catherine Shepherd at catherine.shepherd@albertahealthservices.ca
Louise Sharren at louise.sharren@sobeys.com
Refund Policy:Included in the fees is a $40 non-refundable membership fee. For
cancellations after May 5, 2016 only 50% of the remaining registration fee will be
refunded. Unfortunately, no refunds will be provided after May 27, 2016.Accommodations Solara Resort and Spa, 187 Kananaskis Way, Canmore, AB Conference Rates: One bedroom suite is $179.00 per night plus taxes There is a pull out sofa in addition to the bed in the bedroom. Two bedroom suite is 2$219.00 per night plus taxes. There is a pull out sofa in addition to the 2 beds in the rooms. Parking is Complimentary for Hotel guests. When booking please ask for the AATHP Conference Rate Booking hotel rooms at the Solara Resort and Spa: Call - 1.877.778.5617 On-line reservations: https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?Hotel=42574&Chain=17544&group=AATHP&arrive=2016- 06-02 Please Note: The Solara Resort is graciously holding a block of rooms for AATHP until May 2, 2016 quoting AATHP. After this date the room block will be released. Room Booking after May 2, 2016 is based on availability but the conference rate is still in effect. If you have any questions or difficulties with room reservations please contact: Karen Kertcher, AATHP karen.kertcher@albertahealthservices.ca Sky Shuttle service from/to the Calgary airport and Solara Resort: Pick up and drop off can be booked online and by phone: Please see: www.banffairporter.com Or call: 1 888-449-2901
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