Welcome to the Northern New England Travel Medicine Symposium
October 24-26 2024
Chase and Mill Falls, Meredith, NH
Northern New England Travel Medicine Symposium is just around the corner and we are so excited for you to see what’s in store. We’ve brought together a unique and inspiring group of speakers, with a schedule full of engaging events and networking meetups. Don’t miss out!
Fees:
- RNs, Pharmacists, MD Trainees: $400
- Advanced Practice Providers: $500
- MDs, DOs: $550
(All meals are included)
On-line registration has closed. Walk-in registrations will be available the days of the conference.
Traveling to Safe Harbor in a Sea of Change
The Travel Medicine Symposium in our own backyard geared to experienced travel providers
Northern New England Travel Symposium is just around the corner! Check out our full schedule and pick up your ticket today to ensure your seat is reserved. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting and inspiring event.
Casual attire required! No business suits!! The goal is to relax and learn together.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to incorporate at least three new evidence-based changes into their clinical practice of Travel Medicine/Nursing.
In support of improving patient care, Dartmouth Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation
Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
American Medical Association (AMA)
Dartmouth Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate
with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Dartmouth Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.5 ANCC contact hours.
Other Learners: All other learners may claim CME-designated participation credit. Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of CME-designated participation credit for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional
Education.
Registration deadline is 5 days prior to the beginning of the symposium. There will be no refunds after that date. A $25 administrative fee will be retained on all refunds requested before the registration deadline.
Room cancellation with 7 or more days advance notice prior to arrival will be charged a $30 cancellation fee.
Our Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change)
Thursday Oct 24 2024
Registration Opens
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Travel Health Nurse Workshop
Travel clinic organization and structure, Insurance issues/healthcare overseas, Certification, Nursing triage
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Gail Rosselot, NP, MS, MPH, FAANP
Hotel Check-in
4:00 PM -
Networking around the cash bar
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dinner
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Welcome and opening remarks!
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Plenary - Pandemics, Syndemics, Permademics, Are We Ready for What’s Ahead?
Martin S. MD, FASTMH, FIDSA, EIS
Closing reflections and preview of next day
8:15 PM : 8:30 PM
Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD
Friday Oct 25 2024
Continental breakfast
7:00 AM - 7:55 AM
Top Ten Topics in Travel Medicine - 2024
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Elizabeth Talbot, MD
Vaccination Update - What’s New in Travel Vaccines: Emerging & Essential Updates
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Aisha Khatib, MD
Break (Coffee/Tea)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Travelers Diarrhea – Not easily avoided but still readily overcome
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Davidson Hamer, MD
Malaria Prophylaxis in Travelers: Challenges and Controversies
11:15 AM - 12:15 AM
Aisha Khatib, MD
Lunch
Networking/Activity time -- Enjoy the resort facilities and conversations with fellow clinicians!
12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Mpox - What are we doing for travelers? Key issues for travel medicine
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Elizabeth Talbot, MD
Aisha Khatib, MD
Medical Tourism
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Gail Rosselot, NP, MS, MPH, FAANP
Break
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Ill-returned Traveler - Clinical Vignettes
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Davidson Hamer, MD
Networking around the cash bar
5:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Dinner
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Travel Health Game Show Night: “I’ll take Mpox for $500, Alex!”
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lynette Johnson, RN
Closing reflections and preview of next day
8:00 PM : 8:15 PM
Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD
Saturday Oct 26 2024
Continental Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM
Vector Borne Infections: The Rising Threat of Chikungunya, Dengue and Oropouche
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Davidson Hamer MD
Sun, Sea and Sexuality
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Thomas McMahon, RN
Break - (Hotel Check out by 11am)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Feeling Stuck: Clinical Assessment and Management of Needle Fear
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Robert Brady, PhD
The Future of Travel Medicine: Navigating Global Health Challenges
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Aisha Khatib, MD
Closing comments and adjournment
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Elizabeth A. Talbot, MD
Our Speakers
Our speakers come from all corners of the country (and even the globe) to share their insights and knowledge. Check out their bios below to learn more, and make sure to save your spot by registering today.
Aisha Khatib
MD, CCFP(EM), CTravMed, DTM&H, CTropMed, FISTM
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Clinical Director of Travel Medicine, Medcan Canada
Dr. Aisha Khatib is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She trained in family and emergency medicine from the University of Toronto and McGill University, and completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the University of Toronto. She holds certification in Travel Medicine from the University of Otago in New Zealand, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Course in Peru. She worked as a Travel and Rugby Doctor in New Zealand for five years before returning to Canada. She is currently the Clinical Director of Travel Medicine at Medcan and a member of CATMAT, the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, an external advisory body to the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is also President of the Alberta Association of Travel Health Professionals, Co-Chair of the ASTMH Update Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, and Chair of the ISTM Responsible Travel Interest Group. Her recent research focused on the safety of air travel during the pandemic, as well as climate change and travel.
Marty Cetron
MD
FIDSA, FASTMH
Captain USPHS (Ret.)
Former director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) CDC,
Martin Cetron, MD, is an expert in global health security, complex humanitarian emergencies, immigration and migration health with a focus on emerging infections and tropical diseases. After 11 years of medical specialty training, he joined the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service as a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) in 1992-2022. Over the last 30 years, Dr. Cetron has been a leader in numerous public health emergency response activities at CDC, serving as the Director for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (2003-2022). Dr. Cetron has co-authored >200 publications covering epidemiologic research in >15 countries and was responsible for developing and implementing CDC Immigration Health and Quarantine Policies & Regulations. He served as an expert international consultant to WHO & UN Agencies on global health security and complex humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Cetron has received numerous national honors for his public health service, including the CDC William C Watson Jr. Medal of Excellence, and the Lester Granger- Martin Luther King Social Justice Award. Dr. Cetron teaches regularly at Emory University and Dartmouth College. He served on the Dartmouth’s Dickey Board of Visitors.
David Hamer
MD, FACP, FIDSA, FASTMH, FISTM
Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health and Chobanian & Avesidian School of Medicine
Director, Travel Clinic, Boston, Medical Center
Davidson Hamer, MD is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, a faculty member in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, and an attending physician in infectious diseases and Director of the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Hamer is an infectious disease specialist and medical epidemiologist with particular interests in emerging diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine, infection control, and antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Hamer has been involved in travel and tropical medicine for thirty years and from 2014 to 2021, Dr. Hamer served as the principal investigator and, since September 2021, the Surveillance Lead, of GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of 71 sites in 29 countries that uses returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of disease emergence and transmission patterns throughout the world. He is currently the co-lead for the climate change and emerging infectious diseases core for the BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research.
Elizabeth A. Talbot
MD
Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Section of Infectious Disease and International Health
Dartmouth Health
Director, International Travel Clinic at DH
Dr. Talbot is an infectious diseases- and tropical medicine-trained internist, who has had extensive experience in international and domestic infectious disease control through outbreak investigation, clinical projects, research, and consultation. She trained at Duke University and with the Epidemic Intelligence Service, then was stationed in Botswana with the CDC and was seconded to the World Health Organization before coming to Dartmouth where she is a Professor at the Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth. Since 2003, Dr. Talbot has been NH’s Deputy State Epidemiologist, and Medical Director of the Travel Clinic.
Gail Rosselot
MS, MPH, APRN, ANP, COHN-S, FAANP, FFTM, RCPS (Glasg), FISTM, FATHNA
Certificate in Travel Medicine®
President and Director, Travel Well of Westchester and the Westchester Courses in Travel Health Fundamentals Briarcliff Manor, NY
Ms. Rosselot is an adult nurse practitioner specializing in travel health and certified in occupational health. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, Cornell University-NY Hospital School of Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing, and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She is a founding member and officer of the American Travel Health Nurses Association (ATHNA), current chair of the ISTM Continuing Professional Development Committee, past chair of the ISTM Nurses Professional Group and recipient of its Distinguished Nurse Leadership Award. Ms. Rosselot has authored sections in the CDC Health Information for International Travel and travel health chapters in the Keystone, Jong, and Vaughn and Viera textbooks. She teaches courses for CDC, the CIA, Smithsonian, the Canadian Federal Government, numerous corporations, and U.S. universities. Recently she chaired the group that achieved ANA specialty recognition for travel health nursing and was lead author of Travel Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 1st ed. that includes the Code of Ethics for Travel Health Nursing. Currently she is a co-author of the new ACHF travel health white paper: “A Guide for Travel Health Practices at Institutions of Higher Education” and chairs the task force to develop a U.S. certification for the specialty of travel health nursing.
Lynette Johnson
MS, RN - Nurse Clinician
Certificate in Travel Medicine®
Dartmouth Health, Lebanon, NH
Lynette Johnson is a nurse clinician with Dartmouth Health Infectious Disease and International Health. Her time is divided between caring for patients with HIV and providing travel counseling through Dartmouth’s Travel Clinic. She graduated from Western Governors University with an MSN. Lynette is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice through Colby-Sawyer College. She holds a Certificate in Travel Health™ from ISTM. She enjoys traveling, hiking and crime who-done-its and collecting globes and books. As an ardent board game enthusiast, Lynette is rarely known to turn down a game of Scrabble, Catan or Apples to Apples.
Thomas McMahon
BSN
Dartmouth Health, Lebanon, NH
Thomas is a Registered Nurse with the Infectious Disease team at Dartmouth Hitchcock. Tom’s nursing career has focused around LGBTQ+ and Sexual Health. He recently has taken on Tropical Medicine and has fallen in love ever since learning about this specialty. He enjoys combining all of his knowledge to better help his patient’s in all of these specialties. Before moving to New Hampshire, Tom worked for a small sexual health clinic outside Philadelphia.
Robert E. Brady
PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health
Robert Brady, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine and staff psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He serves as the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Training Director of the Dartmouth Psychology Training Programs. He earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Arkansas and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in health services research at the Central Arkansas VA. Dr. Brady’s clinical services target anxiety and related disorders using evidence-based treatments derived from cognitive-behavioral theory and practice. He is a certified Prolonged Exposure Consultant, providing ongoing training and supervision of clinicians providing care to patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. His research focuses on the development, testing, and implementation of brief psychosocial interventions for anxiety disorders delivered outside of the traditional mental health setting by healthcare providers without formal mental health training.
Venue
Chase House and Mill Falls Hotels
Nestled along shimmering Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, New Hampshire, which has garnered praise as one of America’s best small towns, Mill Falls at the Lake resort offers an all-season getaway where everything at the lake is within reach. With a collection of four distinct accommodations that extend from the deluxe to the charming, our resort connects guests with the lake and the breathtaking alpine surroundings. Rich recreation, delicious dining, eclectic shopping, and indulgent pampering— it’s all here at Mill Falls at the Lake.
CHASE HOUSE (Conference Hotel)
Across the street from Meredith Bay, the newly renovated Chase House offers views of the bustling Town Docks and positions you just steps away from Meredith’s quaint village life. All 21 guest rooms in this lodging are built for your comfort, with crackling fireplaces, lake views,
THE INN AT MILL FALLS (Hotel next door)
A restored nineteenth-century linen mill and a tumbling 40-foot waterfall create a setting that envelops guests in an atmosphere of warmth, comfort, and easy relaxation. This 54-room Meredith, NH inn has two pet-friendly hotel rooms and is ideal for families, with its indoor pool and favorable location adjacent to the Marketplace shops, restaurants, and main street activities.
CHASE HOUSE and THE INN AT MILL FALLS are located next to each other.
Guest have free access to Church Landing Hotel full service Cascade spa and salon, indoor/outdoor swimming pools, and hot tubs.
To reserve click the button bellow to get the best rate.
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Price: USD 229.00/night or USD 239.00/night
Getting there ...
Chase House and Mill Falls Hotels, 300 Daniel Webster Hwy, Meredith, NH 03253
Chase House and Mill Falls at the Lake are located at 300 Daniel Webster Highway (8 miles from exit 23 off I-93) in Meredith, NH.
The town of Meredith is located in New Hampshire’s beautiful Lakes Region, just 75 minutes north of Manchester-
Boston Regional Airport and 2 hours north of Boston, MA and Logan International Airport.
