6th Annual Southern Cross Travel Medicine Conference and the 2nd Southern Cross Tropical Medicine Conference

Friday 1 - Sunday 3 September 2023 - Hilton Sydney

SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA

2023 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (PDF)

2023 CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS (PDF)

RACGP Education Hours

RACGP education hours approved:

Education Activities = 9.5 hours
Reviewing Performance = 6.0 hours
Total: 15.5 hours for full conference attendance

2023 International Keynote Speakers

Dr Camilla Rothe

Tropical medicine specialist based in Munich, Germany.
Head of the Tropical and Travel Medicine Outpatient Department at LMU Hospital Centre.
Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of Travel Medicine
Editor of the popular textbook “Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine”.

Prof Christoph Hatz

Chief medical officer of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Professor of Tropical and Travel Medicine at the University of Basel
Professor of Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases at the University of Zürich
Head of University Travel Clinic and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaboration Centre

Dr Camilla Rothe's Bio

Dr Camilla Rothe is a tropical medicine specialist based in Munich, Germany. She is the head of the Tropical and Travel Medicine Outpatient Department at LMU Hospital Centre. She is chairwoman of the Advisory Board of Travel Medicine which issues national recommendations for malaria prophylaxis and travel vaccinations. She lived and worked in Malawi for several years. Camilla is editor of the popular textbook “Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine”. In 2020 she was placed on the TIME 100 list of “most influential people of the world” for being the first person to report asymptomatic transmission of COVID19.

Prof Christoph Hatz's Bio

Christoph Hatz was born in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his MD and DTM&H degrees in Basel and London, worked in Thailand, Tanzania and several hospitals in Switzerland, specializing in Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine. He acted as Professor of Epidemiology, Tropical and Travel Medicine at the Universities of Basel and Zürich. Research priorities focus on schistosomiasis, malaria and health systems. His current activities include working as consultant in clinical and public health projects at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel and chairing the international Expert Committee for Travel Medicine and the ‘Malaria Summit’ project of the International Society of Travel Medicine.