The Northern European Conference on Travel Medicine is intended for all who are interested in state of the art clinical practice, research, and education in the field of travel and migration medicine - we are sure that this conference will provide a unique opportunity to hear and present the latest information in this exciting and expanding field of medicine. The target audience includes physicians, but also nurses, pharmacists, and students, involved in primary care, occupational, migrant and public health, infectious disease, emergency and wilderness medicine. Also, it is designed to meet the needs of the travel media and industry as well as manufacturers of travel health-related products, drugs and vaccines.

The invited topics listed below give an idea of the scope of the meeting. The programme will include all aspects of travel medicine including the “basics” such as vaccinations, malaria prophylaxis and travellers diarrhoea – but we will also emphasise that travel medicine advice must be based on sound science and good epidemiological data. Travel medicine in a globalised world includes migration medicine, occupational medicine and environmental issues. Practitioners giving pre-travel advice also see patients returning with unfamiliar and tropical diseases – differential diagnosis in these travellers will also be an important topic. A special local conference theme will be maritime medicine. Last but not least we think that the conference is a forum to establish standards for training and education in travel medicine.

Any scientific meeting lives from the submitted original research abstracts - attendees want to hear and to keep up with the latest studies and experiences of their travel medicine peers. We will therefore include several oral Free Communication sessions. If you have interesting work to present we encourage you to submit an abstract; there is almost sure to be a sizeable audience present.

The Scientific Committee has compiled a programme covering the highest scoring topics within the existing framework and encompassing areas not covered previously:

Scientific Programme
 
Plenaries:

Maritime medicine
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases
Fair tourism – is it possible?

Symposia:

Vaccines
Extreme travel
Venomous animals
Rapid surveillance systems
Occupational health, Assistance, Repatriation

Workshops

Tick-borne diseases in Europe
Immunosuppression and travel
Risk assessment  and evidence in travel medicine
Travel medicine as a speciality
Post travel: case-based differential diagnosis
Post travel: Case-based differential diagnosis in tropical dermatology

State of the art lectures:

Vaccinations for travellers
Travellers diarrhoea

Scientific Programme Committee

Chairs: Gerd Burchard, Hinrich Sudeck (Germany)
Co-chair: Sandra Grieve (UK)
Associate chair: Anu Kantele (Finland)
Associate chair: Randi Hammer Boge (UK)

J. Davies  - British Travel Health Association
M. Buhl - Danish Society of Travel Medicine
H. Siikamäki - Finnish Society for International Health
K. Smith - Health Protection Scotland
P. Noone - Irish Society of Travel Medicine
C. Wong - National Travel Health Network and Centre, UK
P.Voltersvik, R. Hammer Boge - Norwegian Forum for Travel Med and Prev of Inf Dis
S. Grieve - Royal College of Nursing
L. Rombo - Swedish Society for Travel Medicine
G.J.B. Sonder - National Coordination Center for Travelers Health Advice, The Netherlands
F. von Sonnenburg – International Socierty of Travel Medicine