One of Australia's leading travel health care experts, who is based locally in Brisbane and Stafford, recently presented a workshop at the first international meeting on travel medicine held in Australia.

Dr Deborah Mills, together with ten of her staff, attended the Asia Pacific International Conference On Travel Medicine held at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne from Sunday until Wednesday this week.

Dr Mills, as one of Australia's most foremost travel medicine specialists, was asked to present a workshop on malaria and a series of malaria cases.

Four nurses and one doctor who work with Dr Mills at her practices sat the Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Medicine examination at the conference; the first time it was held in the Southern hemisphere. Their results will be known in eight weeks from now.

The conference focused on a broad range of travel and tropical health issues facing the Asia Pacific region.

Regional experts examined the current emerging health issues facing this growing and dynamic region and put the travel health issues of specific locations under the spotlight.

Six hundred delegates from around Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific attended the conference and topics such as travel vaccinations, malaria and road safety were explored.

Key presentations were made by leading practitioners in travel and tropical medicine from the Asia-Pacific region, including Professor John Pearn, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Queensland, and Professor Robert Steffen, Head of Division of Communicable Diseases, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich

Dr Deborah Mills, who is Australia's foremost travel medicine specialist having provided travel medicine advice to patients for 20 years, is also the author of Australia's most popular medical travel book ‘Travelling Well' which is in its fourteenth edition and has 125,000 copies in print.