Prof Anne McCarthy(canada)
Dr McCarthy is the President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is past Chair of Canada’s Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, as well as the Clinical Group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. She is a course director of the Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine Course that takes place every 2 years in Thailand and Cambodia.
Anne spent her early career in the Canadian Military, serving 20 years, training than serving as an expert in Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine. During this time, she deployed to Rwanda, Haiti and Cambodia, which provided real life clinical experience with many tropical diseases and drove home the need to prevent these illnesses in military members and all travelers.
She is Professor of Medicine at University of Ottawa and a recently retired Infectious Disease Physician at the Ottawa Hospital, where for decades she was the Director of the Tropical Medicine and International Health Clinic. She is a previous Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and member of CanTravNet.
She loves to teach and throughout her career has done medical education research, particularly related to health care provider participation in Global Health. Her clinical research has included infectious and tropical diseases, travel medicine, malaria, and migrant health.
