Jenny splits her time between delivering clinical Travel Medicine and teaching Travel Medicine. She works at The Travel Doctor TMVC clinic in Wellington and convenes and teaches post graduate qualifications at University of Otago, Wellington. She is a self-confessed travel junkie, having travelled widely including some paid and volunteer work in Nepal, Bougainville and Antarctica.
| Travel Essentials � Don�t Let the Travel Bugs Get You
Breakfast Session |
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| Sunday, 15 June 2014 | Start 7:15am | Duration: 60mins | Baytrust |
| Close to 2.2 million overseas trips were made by New Zealanders in 2013, many to destinations in less developed and tropical countries. Depending on destination and type of travel, illness has been reported in up to 60% of travellers. The pre-travel consultation presents an opportunity for the healthcare professional to make an individual risk assessment which will guide their advice to the traveller on how some of these risks might be mitigated. This session will present a practical approach to advising travellers on common travel-related illness including vaccine preventable diseases, food and water borne illness, vector borne illness, malaria chemoprophylaxis and the travel medical kit. | |||