At ExpedMed, we pride ourselves in bringing in the very best faculty to teach Expedition Medicine.
Our faculty are chosen for their expertise, field experience, and communication talent. Many have won teaching awards.
One excellent example is Professor David O. Freedman who will be covering travel medicine and tropical medicine at our April 21-22, 2023 event in Little Rock. He is an Infectious Disease expert who is the founding director of the renowned Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru. He has also served in leadership positions within the International Society of Travel Medicine and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dr. Freedman’s bio is below, and if you want to hear him in person, be sure to register today at ExpedMed.org/register . Space is limited!
“David O. Freedman, MD, FASTMH, FIDSA, FISTM—Founding Director, Travelers' Health Clinic; Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Founding Director, Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine, Lima, Peru; Past-President American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Clinical Group. Co-Editor, Textbook of Travel Medicine Editions 1-3; Associate Editor, Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal; Section Editor, Journal of Travel Medicine. Associate Editor of the Sanford Guide, overseeing parasitic drugs and all vaccine content. From 1997-2022, Dr. Freedman served as Managing Senior Director, Shoreland Travax overseeing all medical content.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) from 2005-13. During the 2016 Zika epidemic he served as one of 12 members of the World Health Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee on Zika.
From 1995-2000 he served as Chair of the Expert Committee on Antiparasitic Drugs for the US Pharmacopeia. For 18 years until 2013 he was Director of the global GeoSentinel Surveillance Network which he co-founded and which currently maintains the largest database of ill travelers available.”
