Advisory Board
 

 

Bradley Connor, MD

Bradley Connor, M.D., received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas and did his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. After completing a fellowship in gastroenterology at the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College and a research fellowship at the Rockefeller University, New York, Dr. Connor has been in the private practice of gastroenterology and founded Travel Health Services, New York City's first private travel medicine clinic in 1987.

Dr. Connor is a charter member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and currently serves as counselor to the Executive Board and is Chair of the Travel Industry and Public Education Committee. Under Dr. Connor's leadership, the North American Charter for Travel Health Consensus Conference was organized, laying the groundwork for minimum standards of the travel industry with respect to health advice. Dr. Connor received the Clinical Research Award from the International Society of Travel Medicine in 1997 for his work on Cyclospora infections in Vietnam.

Dr. Connor's major research interests include chronic diarrhea in returning travelers, emerging gastrointestinal pathogens and enteric parasitic diseases. He was part of the Kathmandu, Nepal team that first described the clinical illness associated with Cyclospora and had done research on pathogenesis, clinical illness, epidemiology and treatment of Cyclospora infections. Dr. Connor serves as advisor to the Cyclospora Working Group and the Embassy of Guatemala and has been appointed to the Health Information for International Travel Working Group by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is co-director of "Medicine for Adventure Travel", a one-week travel medicine conference which has been held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming since 1993. Dr. Connor is the Chief Medical Advisor to Shoreland, creators of the TRAVAX computer software program for travel health information. Dr. Connor has served as a consultant since 1986 to the American Express Corporation Medical Department in Gastroenterology and Travel Medicine.

Dr. Connor is the author of numerous publications in the field of gastroenterology, parasitic diseases and travel medicine.

Mark S. Fradin, M.D.

Mark S. Fradin, M.D., is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Dermotology, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. An expert in the field of insect-bite prevention and repellents, Dr. Fradin is the author of Mosquitoes and Mosquito Repellents: A Clinician's Guide.

Jay Keystone, M.D.

Jay Keystone, M.D., FRCPC, M.Sc. (CTM), is a world-recognized authority in the field of tropical and travel medicine and Senior Editor of the Traveling Healthy Newsletter. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Chief of the Hospital's Tropical Medicine Unit. Dr. Keystone sits on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and is a past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine.

Karl Neumann, M.D.

Karl Neumann, M.D. is the editor of the Traveling Healthy newsletter and is a world-recognized authority and lecturer on the subject of children and travel. He is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia-Cornell Medical School.

Stuart Ramage Rose, M.D.

Stuart Ramage Rose, M.D. is Director of the International Travel Health Clinic at Noble Hospital in Westfield, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Rose, Founder and President of Travel Medicine, Inc., is a member of the American Society of Travel Medicine and Hygiene and the International Society of Travel Medicine.

 
 

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Bradley Connor, M.D.

Jay Keystone, M.D.

Karl Neumann, M.D.

Mark S. Fradin, M.D.

Stuart R. Rose, M.D.