Presentations
Apart from study days which I used to speak at regularly around the country, I sometimes presented at large travel related meetings both in the UK and abroad. Here are handouts of those presentations in case you attended one and wanted to review the information delivered – just click on the chosen image below! Please note, they were up to date at the time and date of the presentation, but many facts may have been superseded since that time.
June 2024. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. Protecting the Vulnerable Traveller.
ATHNA stands for the American Travel Health Nurse Association. ATHNA is the professional organization for the specialty of travel health nursing in North America. Founded in 2004, ATHNA is committed to professional development, networking, research, and advocacy in travel health nursing. ATHNA created a novel clinical gathering termed the NED: Networking, Education and Development. Offered on the same summer day at member homes across the country I was invited to present at their meetings for 2024. I prepared a video which was played at the events, but also made a platform of resources to accompany the talk to provide a collection of further resources and learning materials. You’ll find the talk in the introduction section and I hope the rest of the resource is thereafter self explanatory.
Click the image to view the platform – video in the introduction section.
October 2021. Annual Symposium of the Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Between October 2018 and 2021, I held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. As the outgoing Dean it was traditional to deliver the eponymous ‘David Livingstone Lecture’ at the last conference of one’s term of office. The presentation was required to have some connection to David Livingstone. I decided to study his wife Mary and all she did in terms of travel, comparing her experience to that of female travellers today. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, we were still in the style of delivering all education and meetings via digital platforms, but this is the video I made for the event. I hope you enjoy it. Click the image to view.
October 2016. Best Practice in Nursing Conference at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham
At this event for 2016 I presented an advanced workshop again. The managment company filmed the presenation and have allowed me to put it here on my website. I’ve created it into an e learning programme which has enabled me to create links within the slides to go directly to further information resources. Where feasible I’ve also updated some of the changes in guidance since I gave the talk. The information is therefore up to date at the time of posting this (23.01.17) but please be aware developments are happening all the time and may change again in the future. Click the image to view.
September 2015. TRAVAX 30th Birthday Conference. 21st Century Travel Health Communication
At this special birthday celebration for TRAVAX, I was invited to present a talk on ’21st Century Travel Health Communication’. Having always had a passion for technology (and I still marvel that the advancements made in my lifetime), it was interesting and great fun to put together. I undertook a survey specifically for my presentation and some of the results are shown in it. I also included some historical pictures and detail and while some of the faces are now more mature and many items such as apps have changed quite a lot, it also demonstrates how far we’ve come. Unfortunately I don’t have a video of the talk and delivered it with all the facts in my head so there is no accompanying text, but I hope many of the slides tell the story! Click the image to view.
May 2013. Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine, (CISTM13) held in Maastricht.
I was invited to present in a symposium at the ISTM in a symposium entitled ‘Risk: Perceived Versus Real, and Communication Tools’. My brief for the objective was ‘The learner can translate actual risk in a quantifiable measure for the traveler so that the latter can better assess the relevance of applying a preventive measure for her (him)…. and the content request was
1) Describe how actual risk can be appropriately communicated to a lay person and give examples
2) Illustrate how different means can lead to different uptake of preventive measures
March 2013 Joint Conference of the Faculty of Travel Medicine and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society held at BMA House, London.
This meeting was the third joint meeting of these two important groups, The Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow is keen to share high standards of practice in travel medicine to groups who are newer to the field of practice. Over 100 delegates were present on the day, largely from a pharmacy background. The day was successful and hopefully useful to all who attended. My presentation provided an outline of information on many aspects of training and resources for a travel medicine service.
