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1 WORLDWISE ONLINE Ltd The WORLDWISE New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference, Auckland July 2016 This programme is currently being finalised and is subject to change FRIDAY 29 th JULY 2015 LEVEL 2 TRAVEL MEDICINE AT THE HERITAGE HOTEL WELCOME AND HOUSEKEEPING The World Goes Around CDC makes the World Go Around! MORNING TEA Session: Hot Stuff: Issues of the Moment - 15 min Punchpoints Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika made easy When and When NOT to use antibiotics for travellers diseases The Pitfalls and Indiscretions of Travellers The Vaccine Conundrum: When, and why, to use Polio and Tetanus with and without Pertussis PREPARING SPECIFIC TRAVELLERS: Travelling to altitude with chronic disease conditions: hypertension, diabetes and sulphur allergies LUNCH Practical Nursing Seminar: Claire Wong, Tonia Buzzolini, Tonya Anderson Session: Travel Safe, Travelling Wisely (25 minute sessions attend 2 out of 4) 1. The C20 Travel Medicine Consultation for Nurses in Primary Care Targeting the consult to the traveller with limited budget Assessing and developing risk analysis in the consultation. How to make the travel consultation more effective 2. Vaccine priorities for travellers 3. Finding yourself in the Amazon Ayahuasca spirituality 4. CDC Vignettes in Travel Medicine: What is hot and what is new Session: Vaccine Dateline Vaccines and future challenges The Mythology of Rabies So many views, so who is right! AFTERNOON TEA Emerging Diseases and Travel WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

2 Diseases of Circumstance Mosquito Borne Diseases for now and in the future CONVOCATION with our SPECIAL INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKERS: The Pacific Arboviruses Drinks and Canapes provided Siouxsie Wiles Entomologist University of Auckland Cameron Webb Entomologist University of NSW PROGRAMME: FRIDAY 29 th JULY 2016 YELLOW FEVER WORKSHOP AT THE HERITAGE HOTEL Yellow Fever workshop This session is for those that have registered to attend you will be required to sign in for this session Why all the fuss and why am I here? A short history of yellow fever and the need for approval What is yellow fever? Epidemiology, transmission and clinical features The legalities International Health Regulations and how they apply to yellow fever Revised IHRs through to June AFTERNOON TEA I wouldn t give it to my mother 15 mins 30mins 30mins Yellow fever vaccine indications, contraindications and adverse events 30mins The Immune Challenged Traveller 20 mins Putting the pieces together Case studies, comments and questions 20mins Yellow fever test Short MCQ paper 20mins What happens now? Yellow fever approval process, closing remarks 10mins Finish 3hrs WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

3 PROGRAMME: FRIDAY 29 th JULY 2016 Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Day Based on location at the Arataki Visitors Centre in the Waitakere Ranges (Transport from the Heritage Hotel provided) TIME TOPIC COMMENTS Welcome, Brief Program, Introductions Expedition Vignettes Short Experience from each panel member to highlight a specific wilderness medicine lesson learnt Environment Specific Health Threats; Cold Injuries and Hypothermia Lecture Room Altitude Medicine Equipment Review - Hypothermia Kits ** *Pre Hospital Practical s; Airway Revision Held outside in 2 stations Haemorrhage Control LUNCH Equipment Review - Field Trauma Equipment ** Environment Specific Health Threats; Heat Illness Lecture Room Amphibious Medicine *Pre Hospital Practical s; Spinal and Pelvic Injuries Outside concurrent stations Evacuation Preparation (Ground and Air ) Survival Skills Priorities of Life Outside concurrent stations Survival Kits Equipment Review - Water Purification ** Final Review of Key Points - Conclude Session * All of the Instructor panel will contribute to the practical sessions. ** Equipment reviews are all practical, informal discussion and demonstration of available equipment. Transport back to the Heritage Hotel also provided WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

4 SATURDAY 30 TH JULY 2016: LEVEL 3 TRAVEL MEDICINE AT THE HERITAGE HOTEL Welcome, housekeeping and introductions Session: All Together man, woman, earth, animals, plants Geography Shapes Disease the impact of climate change on global health Life in the Extremes: Evolutionary and Physiological Insights MORNING TEA (5 min Q and A) Dengue Epidemiology Humanitarian and Human Disaster The Red Cross: The Advent and the Extent Dengue Vaccine I want to Save Lives in Disasters: How do I Start? Fiji with NZMAT Zika How to Survive: What to do when a natural Disaster Strikes Travellers Diarrhoea ESBL Gram negatives and travellers diarrhoea/overuse of antibiotics LUNCH Parallel Sessions: Trafficking in Humankind (5 min Q and A) Poisonings. Envenomation from the Ocean Sea food poisoning, Coral cuts, Fish hook, fish spine, kina spine injuries (5 min Q and A) Malaria: Options to go! Update on NZ Guidelines WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

5 Water Borne Diseases: Beware the hidden Tiger Practice Recommendations in Adult Vaccination Administration: Practical Tips in the Preparation and Vaccination of Travellers Dive medicine update including Cold Water Immersion, Hypothermia. Drowning fresh sea water is there a difference? How to resuscitate. Surfing spots and the hazards Pressure effects, diving (shallow water blackout to nitrogen narcosis etc) Decompression effects and decompression chambers in the Pacific Contras to SCUBA diving Differences in professional and amateur divers A Triad of Syndromes - Investigating Eosinophilia, Fever, Diarrhoea in the Returned Traveller A Practical Guide for the Clinician Life-style issues of Travellers - Sex travellers - Internet marriages - STI s and the traveller Assessing and communicating risks to travellers AFTERNOON TEA The Mindfulness Required for Travellers The Magic of the Moment Intrepid Journeys travellers are doing: Adventure Tourism High Altitude Emerging Diseases and travel The Shackleton Expedition Survival in the extreme. Lessons from this The Febrile Returning Traveller Living in the Shadow of the World s Most Extreme Mountains Clinical Case Extreme Environments: Extreme Medicine WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

6 PROGRAMME: SUNDAY 31 st JULY LEVEL 3 AT THE HERITAGE HOTEL Session: The WISE Talks Chair: Marc Shaw WISEwords Wisdom, Innovation, Stimulation, Entertainment in Travel Medicine Ideas to stimulate the brain from those whose brains stimulate MORNING TEA Applying the Knowledge of Travel Medicine for the Greater Good Caring for the Globe ONE HEALTH Travellers Behaviour Abroad: Safety and Security Regional Travel: Central America and the Caribbean Final Comments LUNCH WORLDWISE Presents its 20th New Zealand Travel Medicine Conference Auckland July 2016 Programme updated May

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