Manual of Travel Medicine: a pre-travel guide for health care practitioners, 2/e
About
the editors
Allen Yung is a Consultant Emeritus
at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He worked at Fairfield Hospital for 32
years, and was Chief of Medicine for the final 4 years. His special interests
include tropical and travel medicine, tuberculosis, and fevers of any
sort. He is an honorary life member of the Australasian Society for Infectious
Diseases, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in
1998.
Tilman Ruff is currently Medical Advisor to the International Department of Australian Red Cross; Project Consultant in International Health, University of Melbourne; Technical Advisor to AusAID on the UNICEF/WHO Strengthening the Extended Programme on Immunisation in Pacific Island Countries Project; consultant to UNICEF on immunisation programs in Pacific Island countries; consultant to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals; and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. Tilman was founding Director of Travel Medicine at Fairfield Hospital, and then Head of Travel Medicine in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service.
Joseph Torresi is Head of Travel Medicine and an infectious diseases physician in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne.
Karin Leder is a Visiting Medical Officer in the Victorian Infectious Disease Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and head of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.
Daniel O’Brien is an infectious diseases physician working in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and in the Geelong Infectious Diseases Service at Geelong Hospital.