| Plenary Session | Symposium Session | Workshop | Lunch Break | Social Event |
| Small Meetings | Free Communication | Meet the Professor / Local Speaker | Poster Session / Coffee Break | Quiz |
| Tuesday, 20 March 2018 | ||||
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| 09:00-17:00 | Pre-Conference workshops | |||
| Travel Clinics Australia 10th Biennial conference for TCA members only (China Room) | ||||
| Wednesday, 21 March 2018 | ||||
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| Time | ||||
| 08:00-17:00 | Pre-Conference Consultation on Update Strategies for WHO International Travel and Health (by invitation only; coordination by Shoreland Travax) (London I-II Room) | |||
| 08:30-15:00 | Certificate in Travel Health ® Examination | |||
| 18:30 | Opening Ceremony & Welcome Reception (Grand Hall I & II) | |||
| Thursday, 22 March 2018 | ||||
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| Time | Grand Hall 1 | Grand Hall 2 | London III | |
| 07:30-8:15 | Local Speaker – Representative of the Governor of Bangkok – Bangkok: History and Street food | Meet the Professor – David Warrell – My Life In The Tropics | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Plenary 1 Malaria (dedicated to Alan Magill) Brave New World (Nick White, UK) Drug Resistance (Adrianus Dondorp, Netherlands) Chairs: Eli Schwartz, Pornthep Chanthavanich |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Poster Session / Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Symposium 1 Neglected Tropical Diseases: Scabies (Andrew Steer, Australia), Melioidosis (Wirongrong Chierakul, Thailand ), Strongyloides (Priscilla Rupali, India) Chairs: Martin Haditsch, Watcharapong Piyaphanee |
Free Communications 1 Vaccines, Immunizations and Other Pre-travel Management Issues 1. Randomized controlled trial of detailed pretravel consultation versus short pretravel consultation combined with online WhatsApp support during the trip – Gilad Rozenberg 2. Characteristics and Preparation of the Last-Minute Traveler: Analysis from the Global TravEpiNet Consortium – Johnnie Yates 3. Adverse events after MMR and MMRV vaccine in adults — an active surveillance – Eyal Nadir Non-Infectious Risks: Trauma, Accidents, Security, Altitude and Other Travel Health Issues 4. Box Jellyfish Stings in Israeli Travelers to Thailand – Avigail Turgeman 5. Snakebites in the Cameron Highlands of Peninsular Malaysia – Ahmad Khaldun Ismail 6. Health Problems of Helicopter Rescued Patients Visiting CIWEC Hospital – Rashila Pradhan 7. Death at High Altitude among Israeli travelers in South America – Drorit Attias Chairs: Eyal Leshem, Phi Truong |
Workshop 1 ABC Vaccines (Jonathan Cohen, Australia & Santanu Chatterjee, India) | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Sponsored Lunch Symposium – Vaccine Preventable Enteric Infections | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Symposium 2 Mycobacterial infection: Tuberculosis in travellers (Marc Mendelson, South Africa), Nontuberculous Mycobacterial infections (Charoen Chuchottaworn, Thailand), Leprosy (Priya Joseph, India) Chairs: Priscilla Rupali, Yongyuth Wangroongsarb |
Workshop 2 Dengue (Usa Thisyakorn, Thailand & Inbal Fuchs, Israel) | Free Communications 2 Post-Travel Management, Returning Travelers 1. Travel is associated with a higher risk of respiratory viral infections despite influenza vaccination – Angela Chow 2. A novel diagnostic tool to diagnose acute schistosomiasis – Andreas Latz 3. Acute schistosomiasis in returning pediatric travellers – Eyal Leshem 4. Cardiac involvement in Enteric fever among travellers – Asaf Biber Vaccines, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Surveillance Chairs: Sarah McGuinness, Wirongrong Chierakul |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Poster Session / Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00-17:30 | Symposium 3 Migrants and Refugees: Migrants and Emerging Public Health Issues (Poh Lian Lim, Singapore), Migrant Health – an Asian Perspective (Masatoki Adachi, Japan), Refugee health and disease (Shidan Tosif, Australia) Chairs: Mike Starr, Tadaki Shinozuka |
Workshop 3 Rabies, Bites and Envenomings (David Warrell, UK, Mary Warrell, UK & Eric Caumes, France) | Workshop 4 Emerging Infections in the Asia Pacific (Jurai Wongsawat, Thailand & Jacky Chan, Hong Kong) | |
| 17:30-18:30 | APTHS Board Meeting (By Invitation) | |||
| Friday, 23 March 2018 | ||||
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| Time | Grand Hall 1 | Grand Hall 2 | London III | |
| 07:30-8:15 | Meet the Professor – Andrew Pollard – Update on Meningococcal vaccines | Meet the Professor – David Freedman – Travel Medicine Resources | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Plenary 2 Vaccines History and Future (Andrew Pollard, UK) Vaccine Availability (Jerome Kim, South Korea) Chairs: Robert Steffen, Mike Starr |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Poster Session / Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Symposium 4 Gastrointestinal Diseases: Salmonellosis (Chusana Suankratay, Thailand), Viral gastroenteritis (Eyal Leshem, Israel), Management of diarrhoeal diseases in the Asia Pacific (Gagandeep Kang, India) Chairs: Ami Neuberger, Levina Pakasi |
Workshop 5 Destination Pacific Islands (Ram Raju, Fiji & Jenny Visser, New Zealand) | Workshop 6 Special Populations of Travellers (Sarah McGuinness, Australia & Martin Haditsch, Austria) | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Sponsored Lunch Symposium – Influenza, Meningococcal and JE Vaccines (Sanofi) | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Symposium 5 The Global Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance: Patients, Tourists and antimicrobial resistance (Lin Chen, USA), Humanitarian disasters and antimicrobial resistance (Tamar Lachish, Israel), Antimicrobial Resistance in the Asia Pacific region (Iyarit Thaipisuttikul, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand) Chairs: Marc Shaw, Santanu Chatterjee |
Workshop 7 Destination SE Asia (Rafi Kot, Vietnam & Olivier Cattin, Myanmar) | Free communications 3 Malaria and Malaria Prophylaxis 1. Assessing Compliance and Tolerability to a 3-Day Atovaquone/Proguanil Schedule for Malaria Prophylaxis – Luis Furuya-Kanamori 2. The experience of twice weekly atovaquone-proguanil prophylaxis in travelers to Africa – Asaf Biber 3. Development of a novel Malaria Antibody assay utilizing antigens from all 5 human pathogenic Plasmodium species – Andreas Latz Tropical Medicine 4. Dengue among International Travellers in Bali: clinical and molecular characteristics of isolated Dengue Viruses – Dewa Ayu Putri Sri Masyeni 5. Toxocariasis in Israel, a nationwide study and clinical case presentation – Daniel Boleslavsky Specific Travelers: Migrants, Refugees, Expatriates, Co-morbid illness 6. “Placenta-Soup” as Culprit in Human Brucella Melitensis Cases during an Outbreak in a Modern Dairy Cattle Farm – Inbal Fuchs Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Surveillance 7. Novel IVD tools for diagnosing filariasis in humans and animals – Andreas Latz Chairs: Peter Leggatt, Aung Swi Prue Marma |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Poster Session / Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00-17:30 | Workshop 8 Paediatrics in the Tropics (Stefan Hagmann, USA & Pornthep Chanthavanich, Thailand) | Workshop 9 ABC Malaria and Travellers Diarrhoea (Colleen Lau, Australia & Prativa Pandey, Nepal) | Workshop 10 Same Destination – Different Advice Moderator –Tony Gherardin, Australia | |
| Saturday, 24 March 2018 | ||||
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| Time | London I | London II | London III | |
| 07:30-8:15 | Meet the Professor – Karin Leder – Top 10 papers in Travel and Tropical Medicine | Local Speakers – Suda Punrin & Lapakorn Chatapat – Difficult Cases in Travel Clinic: Thailand’s experience | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Plenary 3 Arboviruses and Mosquito Control Arboviruses in the Asia Pacific region (Annelies Wilder-Smith, Singapore) Control of mosquito-borne diseases (Gregor Devine, Australia) Chairs: Colleen Lau, Karin Leder |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Poster Session / Coffee Break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Symposium 6 Parasitic Diseases in the Asia Pacific region: Schistosomiasis (Don McManus, Australia), Liver Flukes (Yupaporn Wattanagoon, Thailand), Giardiasis (Michael Libman, Canada) Chairs: Tony Gherardin, Nay Soe Maung |
Workshop 11 Marine Medicine (Thanasawat Chaiyakul, Thailand & Levina Pakasi, Indonesia) | Late Breaker Session 1. Plague: Lucille Blumberg (20 min) 2. Rabies: Post exposure guidelines for rabies – Henry Wilde and colleagues (30 min) 3. Zika: a. Screening of Zika in Israeli Travelers – Eli Schwartz (10 min) b. Challenges in diagnosing cocirculating and cross reacting dengue, zika and chikungunya – Andreas Latz (10 min) c. Detection of Zika in Thailand – Rome Buathong (10 min) d. Immunology of Zika in Thailand and other Asian countries – Duncan Smith (10 min) Chairs: Jenny Visser, Yael Paran |
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| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch break including Poster Session | |||
| 13:30-14:30 | Quiz – Travel & Tropical Medicine (Quiz Master – Marc Shaw) | 12:30-14:30 Nurses reception and workshop |
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| 14:30-1545 | Plenary 4 Where Travel and Tropical Medicine Converge Travel and Tropical Medicine: 2 sides of the same coin (Eli Schwartz, Israel) Travellers and global health (Marc Mendelson, Sth Africa) Chairs: Mike Starr, Watcharapong Piyaphanee |
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| 15:45-16:15 | Closing Ceremony | |||
| APTHC 2018
