Welcome to the Northern New England Travel Medicine Symposium

Elizabeth A. Talbot

MD
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease and International Health

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.

Harold Goodwin

Professor Emeritus, PhD Manchester Metropolitan University

Harold is WTM’s Responsible Tourism Advisor, he puts together the flagship Responsible Tourism program at WTM London which attracted 4000 participants in 2020 and the programs run at WTM Africa, WTM Latin America and Arabian Travel Market. Harold has worked on 4 continents with local communities, their governments and the inbound and outbound tourism industry. He is Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership and chairs the panels of judges for the World Responsible Tourism Awards and the other Awards in the family, Africa, India and Latin America. Harold works with industry, local communities, governments, and conservationists and undertakes consultancy and evaluations for companies, NGOs, governments, and international organizations. He is also a Director of the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is an Emeritus Professor, and Founder Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism promotes the principles of the Cape Town Declaration which he drafted.

Lin H. Chen

MD, FACP, FASTMH
Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital Cambridge, MA
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM, is Immediate Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine (2019-2021).  She is Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 
She is a graduate of Harvard University and Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  She trained in Boston followed by Yale-New Haven Hospital before returning to the Boston area.
She has directed the ISTM course, served on the Research Committee and the Board of Directors as a Counsellor. She served on the ASTMH Certificate Examination Committee and Education Committee and also on Work Groups of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Her editorial roles include the Journal of Travel Medicine, Current Infectious Disease Reports, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide.  She served on past scientific program committees of International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and ISTM Conferences. She is a site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travelers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.

Lisa V. Adams

MD

Associate Dean for Global Health

Director, Center for Global Health Equity 
Professor of Medicine

Co-chair,  COVID-19 Task Force at Dartmouth

Dr. Lisa V. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health and a Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease and International Health Section at Dartmouth. She is also the director of Dartmouth’s Center for Global Health Equity, and most recently served as the Co-Chair of Dartmouth’s COVID-19 Task Force and Chair of the COVID-19 Health and Epidemiology Working Group. In her academic roles, she develops and oversees cross-cutting global and domestic health equity programs involving faculty, staff, and students. She also teaches global health courses to undergraduates and medical students. Her area of expertise is international tuberculosis care and prevention with a focus on pediatric TB and TB/HIV healthcare delivery. As an international TB technical advisor, she has worked in over a dozen countries to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health and numerous nongovernmental partners. She is currently leading several collaborative training and research programs with academic and community partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kigali, Rwanda, and Mbabane, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).

Nicholas Daniel

DO, FAWM, DiMM
Associate Director, Wilderness and Austere Medicine Fellowship
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Associate Director of the Wilderness and Austere Medicine Fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  Nick completed a wilderness medicine fellowship at UMass-Baystate Medical center prior to serving as the Associate Director for the fellowship at Baystate.  He is active in wilderness medicine research and has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. He enjoys traveling whenever possible, with interests including hiking, ultra-hiking, mountaineering, scuba diving, building things, ice climbing, and learning to sail

 Nicholas Weinberg

MD, FAWM, DiMM

After being involved in the treatment and evacuation of a close friend who was severely injured in a rock climbing accident many years ago, Nick had an epiphany, deciding to pursue a career in emergency medicine while specializing in expedition and mountain medicine, as well as travel and tropical medicine. He has completed his Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) and is in the process of completing his Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM). He also completed an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with a focus on portable ultrasound in austere settings. In the past he has worked as a Wilderness EMT instructor, and his fieldwork has taken him from the Peruvian Amazon where he practiced tropical medicine, to the Everest region of Nepal, where he specialized in treating high-altitude illnesses in climbers and trekkers. Most recently, he worked as the ships physician on a traditional square-rigged sailing ship crossing the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to South Africa; and worked as the physician for the National Park Service for several seasons on an upper mountain rescue patrol on Denali/Mt. McKinley. In addition to his interests in adventure and travel medicine, he is also an avid mountaineer, ice climber, rock climber, backcountry skier, paddler, and offshore sailor.

Robert E. Brady

PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Robert E. Brady, PhD is a clinical psychologist serving as the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He also serves as the Training Director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Psychology Training Programs. His clinical service provides evidence-based psychotherapies for anxiety and related disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and trauma and stressor-related disorders. His research focuses on the application of implementation science methods to improve access to evidence-based psychosocial interventions for anxiety and mood disorders.

Robert K. McLellan

MD, MPH, FACOEM
Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Emeritus
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Robert K. McLellan, MD, MPH is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He recently retired as the Chief of the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, an Academic Medical Center in New Hampshire. There he led a comprehensive, integrated health promotion and health protection program incorporating occupational medicine, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, health promotion, employee assistance, primary care and workers’ compensation and chronic disease case management. He spearheaded efforts at Dartmouth-Hitchcock to prevent and mitigate clinician burnout, with an emphasis on work environment interventions.
Dr. McLellan has extensive experience as an occupational and environmental medical consultant in a wide range of economic sectors and maintained a clinical practice in occupational and environmental medicine for close to 40 years. He is a past president of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), as well as the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He leads current work at ACOEM on addressing clinician burnout.
Dr. McLellan has written extensively and lectured throughout the nation and internationally on a range of issues related to occupational and environmental medicine. He has been the Principal Investigator of several grants related to occupational and environmental medicine and was a co-recipient of the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s NORA (National Occupational Research Agenda) award for innovative research. He is the recipient of numerous other awards including: The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement award for “special contributions to the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine”, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’s Total Worker Health® Founder’s Award for “exceptional leadership scholarship, and steadfastness in advancing the NIOSH Total Worker Health Program®”, the Harriet Hardy Award from the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine “for a physician who exemplifies the highest ideals of occupational and environmental medicine practice,” New Hampshire Public Heath Association’s Roger Fossum award “for dedicated commitment and leadership in environmental and public health,” and a Commendation from the Governor of New Hampshire for his commitment to the community and the state.

William C. Torrey

MD
Raymond Sobel Professor and Interim Chairman of Psychiatry, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock

William C. Torrey MD is the Raymond Sobel Professor and Interim Chair of Psychiatry at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.  Dr. Torrey obtained his BA in Religion from Dartmouth College and his MD from Harvard Medical School.  He then trained in Psychiatry at Dartmouth before joining the faculty.  As Interim Chair, he leads the teaching, research, and clinical missions of the Department of Psychiatry.  He also practices psychiatry, promotes and implements innovative psychiatric services across Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s service system, trains others to provide evidence-supported care, and applies his clinical administrative experience to enhance services research projects. Through all these activities, he seeks to extend timely access to sustainable effective psychiatric services.