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:

Plenary - Influenza
-Pandemic Influenza in 1918: What Happened and Why Does It Matter in 2010?

Plenary – Maritime Medicine
- Cruise ship medicine: Outbreak on board a cruise ship – what the doctor in travel medicine needs to know - from the view of the shipping company and the ships doctor
-Cruise ship medicine: Outbreak on board a cruise ship – what the doctor in travel medicine needs to know- From the view of the Port Health Authority
- Disease patterns in tele-medicine advice - experiences from Swedish RadioMedical
- Piracy in shipping

Plenary – Malaria and other vector-borne diseases
- Malaria
- CCHF: threats in travel medicine?
- Japanese encephalitis

Plenary – Fair tourism – is it possible?
- How travel affects our environment – a historical perspective
- Tourism responding to the challenge of climate change
-Cultural aspects of tourism – our common responsibility

Symposium - Late Breaker

- The new WHO International Travel and Health Publication 
- Risks for travellers to South Africa and recommendations for visitors to the FIFA World Cup 
- Volcanic eruptions and consequences for travel medicine*

Symposium - Vaccines
- Vaccine administration routes: immunological aspects
- Development of new influenza vaccines
- Intradermal and transdermal vaccination

Symposium - Extreme travel
- Cold injury and altitude
- Methods of expedition medicine
- Expeditions to remote India

Symposium - Venomous animals
- Shellfish poisoning
- Dangerous insects and other arthropods
- Horrors and myths in travel medicine

Symposium - Occupational Health, Assistance, Repatriation
- Post exposure prophylaxis for expatriates: HIV etc.
- Repatriation
- Screening of expatriates for psychiatric disorders

Symposium - Rapid Surveillance Systems
- News from the GeoSentinel network
- EuroTravNet – the European Travel Medicine Network
- Health map

Workshop - Tick-borne diseases in Europe
- Ticks in Europe: go and win?
- Borreliosis in Poland: risk for tourists and local population
- Discussion: TBE vaccine – for and against

Workshop - Post travel: case-based differential diagnosis
- Fever: what's the likely diagnosis in the returned traveller?
- Differential diagnosis of eosinophilia
- Pneumonia in travellers

Workshop - Risk assessment and evidence in travel medicine
- The absolute and the relative – what can the mathematical approach tell us about estimating travel related risk?
- The psychology of risk
- Methodology for estimating risks to travelers at policy level and how this translates to the individual

Workshop - Immunosuppression and travel
- Immunosuppression in the traveller: consequences for vaccination and medication
- The elderly traveller: immunosenescence and consequences for vaccination and medication
-  The pregnant traveller and malaria; risk and prevention

Workshop/Debate - Travel Medicine Qualifications and Competencies in NECTM Countries – the way forward?
- Success of a Dutch registration system for travel medicine physicians and nurses
- Proposals for an education programme for the Nordic countries
- Education in travel medicine – the Faculty of Travel Medicine (RCPSG)
- The diploma in Travel Medicine (HPS) – an E-learning course

Workshop - Post travel: Case-based differential diagnosis in tropical dermatology
- Skin diseases in travellers
- Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in travellers
- Skin diseases and STDs in Amazonia

State of the art lecture - Travellers diarrhoea
- Epidemiology and etiology of TD: obsolete, recent and missing data
- Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens causing TD
- Vaccines for travellers diarrhoea

State of the art lecture - Vaccinations for travellers
- Yellow fever risk mapping
- New dengue vaccines
- New vaccines in the pipeline

ABC lecture - Malaria
- Malaria education for travel health advisors and the travellers
- Blood, sweat and beer - the secret passions of the Anopheles 
- Antimalarials for chemoprophylaxis and stand-by treatment

ABC lecture - Vaccinations: Questions you wanted to ask but didn´t feel you could
- Case studies

Symposium: Networking with EuroTravNet and the European CDC: an open discussion
 - ECDC and travel related threats
 - EuroTravNet: how it works and how it grows
 - Travel medicine in Europe: the EuroTravNet survey

Hamburg special
- Health and immigrants in Hamburg – the Ballinstadt

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 - Travel Medicine Society of Ireland
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