Aims of The College
The College is committed to the development of tropical medicine and is working with professionals to help manage the global burden of tropical disease and injury through networking, research and development.
The Aims of the College are to:
- Encourage continuing education and the exchange of knowledge in tropical medicine;
- Collaborate with other organisations in conducting activities of mutual concern, interest and direction in tropical medicine;
- Promote research in tropical medicine;
- Strive for professionalism and competence among its members and those specialising in and entering into the field of tropical medicine; and
- Maintain a historical collection of items relevant to the development of tropical medicine in Australasia.
Today the ACTM is a multi-disciplinary College, which incorporates a Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM), a Joint Faculty of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (see Wilderness medicine) with the Faculty of Travel Medicine, and Standing Committees on Medical Parasitology and Zoonotic Diseases, Publications, Toxinology and Disaster Health, as well as dealing with its core business of tropical medicine. The current Chair of the Faculty of Travel Medicine is Dr. Matthew Klein. The current Chairs of the Standing Committees on Medical Parasitology and Zoonoses, Toxinology, Disaster Health and Publications are Dr. Richard Bradbury, Dr. Ken D. Winkel, Dr. Vlas Efstathis and Professor Derek R. Smith, respectively. The Foundation Chairperson of the Faculty of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine is Associate Professor Marc Shaw.
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