I graduated from The University of Portsmouth in 2010 and was awarded an MPharm degree and became a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber in 2017. The same year, I joined the Boots Independent Medical Agency (IMA) to prescribe for the Boots Travel Vaccinations and Health Advice Service. I have previous experience working in community pharmacy and as…
I am a dedicated travel health nurse working within the London Vaccination Clinic. My nursing history consists of predominantly administering immunisations and counselling patients of the risks versus benefits of travel related vaccines. Prior to this role I worked within the childhood immunisation programme which involved going into education centres to administer school-aged boosters and…
Tod Collis is the Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Travel Health withNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. He qualified with aBSc (hons) in Adult Nursing from the University of the West of England (UWE, 2016). Tod also holds a Master’s degree in Global Health from the University of Glasgow (2019) and a Diploma in Tropical Nursing from the Liverpool School…
Yvonne began her nursing career 39 years ago and has been involved in travel health primary care and travel health for just as long. She spent 13 years working in southern and west Africa for the US and UK governments, NGOs, and corporate industry. These experiences further inspired her career long passion for travel health…
BN (Hons), DipTopMed (LSHTM), Dip TN, MFTM RCPS (Glasg) Katy Peters is the founder and director of London Vaccination Clinic, a leading private travel medical service in central London. She was awarded the prestigious Cameron Lochie Prize by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow for her outstanding achievement in the Diploma in…
RN, MN, (Hon) DTM (RCPSG), FFTM (Glasgow), FISTM Fiona was a Nurse Consultant in Travel Medicine, heading up the national travel medicine agenda at Health Protection Scotland (now Public Health Scotland) in the years following the retiral of Dr Eric Walker. Over her career Fiona was heavily involved with originating and developing many key initiatives…
MBE, MB ChB, Hon DSc (Madras) FRCP, FFTM (RCP&S Glasgow); FRCGP; Dip Phil. Religion and Science (Cambridge) Honorary Professor (University of Glasgow) in Travel and Global Health. Responsibilities for Global Health and Travel Medicine special study modules (SSCs) and the Intercalated BSc course within Glasgow University Previously Consultant in Infectious Diseases and established travel health…
MB,ChB (Glasg), MD (Glasg), FRCP (Glasg), FFTM RCPS (Glasg), Fellow BGTHA (2007), FRCGP, Hon. FFTM RCPS (Glasg). Jon was a GP principal in the West-end of Glasgow for 30 years (1972-2002). Also, in 1978 he took up the post of Research Associate at the Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit, CDSU, (now Health Protection Scotland, HPS) to…
Cameron Lockie BSc Edin 1964, MB Edin 1966, FRCGP 1985, FRCP Edin, 1997, MBE Cameron Lockie was a GP in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and was the driving force behind the establishment of Travel Medicine as a recognised speciality in the UK. With his friend Eric Walker he founded a Travel Medicine course in the University of…
MSc (Trav Med) RN RM FFTM RCPS(Glasg) Queen’s Nurse, FISTM, FBGTHA, FATHNA Jane graduated with a Masters degree (MSc) in travel medicine in 1998 from the University of Glasgow, being in the first cohort to take this new dynamic course. Throughout her career in travel medicine, she has worked clinically in primary care on a…