BIOGRAPHY
I am primarily an Infectious Disease Specialist and Medical Microbiologist with Nelson Bays Primary Health and Nelson Marlborough DHB. I also frequently work for WHO and NZ MFAT in Pacific Islands on antibiotic stewardship, guidelines and microbiology laboratories. I have done more than 25 short-term infectious diseases or general medicine locum jobs in Australian hospitals over the last 10 years. I am an expert independent advisor for ACC and run a private internal medicine clinic in Nelson. I spend most of the NZ summer running research trials – my recent interests include probenecid boosting, optimising duration of antibiotic treatment and prevention strategies for clean surgical site infections.
ABSTRACT
Travel Medicine – For When The Physician Is The Traveller
20-70% of those who travel to a developing country get some sort of illness, commonly an infection. This session will provide a lot of useful information for those of you who travel and want to avoid getting an infection that could ruin your holiday or work. I will tell you about websites for getting advice on vaccinations, general infection prevention measures (drinking water, hand hygiene, bites, skin antiseptics), what to take in your first aid kit, and how to avoid the latest infective dangers in the Pacific Islands and Asia. And you might be surprised at what grows in the stool of health-care workers who return from a holiday in Asia – and the implications for this if you get sick over the next year or two.
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