Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) brought two healthcare experts from leading US universities to Doha to speak at WCM-Q’s Grand Rounds series. Dr Linnie M Golightly of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, delivered a presentation on the latest travel medicine advice, explaining how healthcare professionals can help mitigate risks to the health of patients who travel abroad.
Dr Golightly, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, explained that health professionals must obtain detailed travel information from patients and take a comprehensive medical history in order to offer appropriate advice. She then discussed which vaccines are required for visits to different parts of the world, including vaccinations against polio, yellow fever, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and B, cholera, rabies and others.
Dr Golightly said: “Travel health advice varies depending on the patient’s own health profile, the region they are traveling to, countries they transit through, whether they are visiting rural or urban areas, and the types of activities they plan to do. It is therefore very important to obtain as much information as possible in order to give appropriate advice to protect the health of each individual patient.”
In an earlier presentation, Dr Courtney M Townsend Jr, Professor and Robertson-Poth Distinguished Chair, General Surgery, in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch, spoke about recent research into Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors, also known as NETs.
