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    Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:04:26 +0100
    From: Lisa C Ranford Cartwright <L.Ranford-Cartwright at bio.gla.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Lisa C Ranford Cartwright <L.Ranford-Cartwright at bio.gla.ac.uk>
 Subject: BSP Mailing: 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE JOURNAL OF  TRAVEL
MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
      To: Lisa C Ranford Cartwright <L.Ranford-Cartwright at bio.gla.ac.uk>

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE AND
INFECTIOUS DISEASE

10-11 November 2005 - Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK 

CALL FOR POSTERS
Abstract submission deadline: 22 July 2005

View full programme information, submit abstracts and register at: 
http://www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com


Programme information is now available for the 1st International Conference
of the Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease which takes place
10-11 November 2005 in London, UK.

Organized by Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease / Elsevier this two-day
conference features an impressive line-up of invited speakers reviewing
advances in all aspects of travel medicine. Invited presentations include: 

Global health: The wider context
Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, UK

Emerging infectious diseases & travel medicine
Dr David Heymann, Executive Director, Communicable Diseases, WHO, Switzerland

Pathology without frontiers
Professor Sir James Underwood, President, Royal College of Pathologists, UK

A review of the long-term protection of hepatitis A & B vaccines
Professor Pierre van Damme, Professor of Epidemiology, University of
Antwerp, Belgium

Travel medicine - How does a travel practitioner keep up to date
Professor Jay Keystone, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada 

New developments in the field of travel-related vaccine - preventable diseases
Professor Elaine Jong, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA

These are supplemented by a number of submitted oral papers covering new
and thematic research in the areas of prevention of infectious disease
including vaccine-preventable diseases and malaria prophylaxis as well as
the treatment of the unwell returning traveller; migrant medicine with its
concomitant public health implication and the significance of respiratory
borne diseases and travel with particular reference to SARS and avian flu.

CALL FOR POSTERS
Abstracts for poster presentations at the conference are invited. Please
submit abstracts online at http://www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com by 22
July 2005.

REGISTER NOW - REDUCED RATES FOR STUDENTS AND NURSES
Register now for this essential conference for all those who practice or
are interested in the discipline of travel medicine. Special reduced rates
apply for students and nurses. You can register and book accommodation at
http://www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com

ORGANIZERS 
Jane Zuckerman, UK (Chair) 
Francesco Castelli, Italy
Philip Fischer, USA
Peter Leggat, Australia

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further details visit: http://www.travelmedicine.elsevier.com or
contact mailto:s.peters at elsevier.com. 


Lisa Ranford-Cartwright,Ph.D.
Honorary Communications Secretary
British Society for Parasitology

Lecturer
Division of Infection & Immunity
Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences
Joseph Black Building
University of Glasgow
Joseph Black Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland, UK
Tel: 00 44 141 330 2639
Fax: 00 44 141 330 4600
Email: L.C.Ranford-Cartwright at bio.gla.ac.uk

Lab webpages : http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/II/lrc/
BSP webpages: http://www.parasitology.org.uk

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