The Latin American Society of Travel Medicine (SLAMVI) is a scientific organization with Latin American scope with members from different countries in the region, dedicated to treating health problems related to travelers, preserving individual health, the sending and receiving communities, and promoting healthy tourism, considering the care of the environment, as well as addressing the health conditions of migrant populations.

Promover la salud de las personas que viajan desde y hacia América Latina

Promover el conocimiento de la Medicina del Viajero y sus alcances, entre la comunidad médica, la sociedad en general y especialmente en los sectores de la economía más directamente relacionados con los viajes y el turismo

Lograr el reconocimiento de la Medicina del Viajero como especialidad médica independiente, en Latinoamérica

Crear un ámbito de discusión relacionado y dedicado a la Salud del Viajero

Promover un intercambio ágil y dinámico de los conocimientos en la Medicina del Viajero en América Latina

Promover en la región las investigaciones científicas en el área de la Medicina del Viajero

Capacitar a los profesionales y no profesionales que trabajan en áreas directa e indirectamente relacionadas con los viajeros

Fomentar y fortalecer la integración latinoamericana de los profesionales de nuestra especialidad, a través de conferencias, reuniones, cursos, simposios y congresos

Activities Developed from 2004 to 2015

In Training of Health Professionals

VIII Latin American Course on Traveler´s Medicine, during the III Latin American Congress on Traveler´s Medicine. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. September 2012

Workshop on Scientific Writing on Travel Medicine, during the III Latin American Congress of Travel Medicine. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. September 2012

I Update Conference on Travel Medicine-SLAMVI. Buenos Aires, September 2013

IX Latin American Course on Travel Medicine. Buenos Aires. October-November 2013

X Latin American Course of Travel Medicine. Buenos Aires. September-November 2014

Course on Traveler´s Medicine before the INFECTO2015 Congress of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases (SBI) in Gramado, Brazil, August 2015


Dissemination of the specialty and society in national and international scientific events

Participation of SLAMVI members in the 13th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (CISTM13). Maastricht, Holland. May 2013


Participation in scientific events in the region

SADI - SLAMVI meeting during the XIII Argentine Congress of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Mar del Plata. June 2013

Joint activity SADI-SLAMVI. Congress of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Rosario, May 2014

Participation of SLAMVI members in the XLIX Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine, Campo Grande, Brazil, August 2014

Participation of SLAMVI members in the Eighth Scientific Conference of the Argentine Society of Hematology. Young hematologists. December 19, 2014

SADI-SLAMVI Meeting DURING THE XIV Argentine Congress of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Buenos Aires, May 2015


conferences

III Latin American Congress of Travel Medicine, R. de Janeiro, September 2012

II Latin American Congress of Travel Medicine, Miami, March 2010

I Latin American Congress of Travel Medicine, Buenos Aires, April 2008


Pre-launch presentation
Miami, FIDEC Symposium, September 2004


Launch
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, December 2004


Dissemination of the specialty and society in national and international scientific events

Rosario, 1st Ibero-American Congress "Tourism and Specialization", November 2005

Buenos Aires, Seminar on Travel Medicine at AVIABUE, August 2006

Buenos Aires, I Congress of Sciences Applied to Tourism, September 2006

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Participation in scientific events in the region

SLAMVI Round Table, Congress of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Córdoba 2012

“II International Conference on Epidemiology – EPI CVE – Epidemiological Surveillance: das ações à research looking for evidence” São Paulo, Brazil. November 12 - 14, 2012

SLAMVI Round Table, Congress of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Mar del Plata. May 2007-2008


Training of health professionals

VII Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Córdoba, October-December 2012)

VI Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Buenos Aires, October and November 2011)

V Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Rosario, October and November 2010)

IV Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Buenos Aires, October and November 2009)

III Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Buenos Aires, October and November 2008)

II Latin American Course on Travel Medicine
(Buenos Aires, October and November 2007)

I Latin American Course on Travel Medicine. 40 doctors completed the course.
(Buenos Aires, October and November 2006)

VACUNAS EN VIAJEROS
- Coordinador: Verbanaz Sergio (Argentina)
- Secretario: Risquez Parra Alejandro (Venezuela)
- Bruggesser Florencia (Argentina)
- Chattás Ana Laura (Argentina)
- Falcone Claudia (Argentina)
- Lloveras Susana (Argentina)
- Macchi Alejandra (Argentina)
- Querci Marcia (Argentina)
- Salvador Paola (Argentina)
- Broese Bárbara (Argentina)
- Chaves Souza Tania (Brasil)
- Esquivel Patricia (Argentina)
- Galloso Claudia (Argentina)
- Giamperi Carolina (Argentina)
- Lanz Uribe Atenea (México)
- Molina Vanesa (Argentina)
- Morales Martínez Raisa (España)
- Ricci Beatriz (Argentina)
- Rodríguez Viviana (Argentina)
- Dapás Juan Ignacio (Argentina)
- Novarese Viviana (Argentina)
- Tapia García Jesús (Colombia)

MALARIA EN VIAJEROS
- Coordinadora: Echazarreta Sofía (Argentina)
- Secretario: Elmassian Pablo (Argentina)
- Chidid Cecilia (Argentina)
- Troglio Florencia (Argentina)
- Rojas Magda Ivonne (Panamá)
- Saavedra Quintanilla Juan (Perú)
- Rodriguez-Morales Alfonso J. (Colombia)
- Yantorno Maria (Argentina)
- Alves Jesse (Brasil)
- Cudos Carolina (Argentina)
- Angeletti Virginia (Argentina)
- Esquivel Patricia (Argentina)
- Fonseca Marise (Brasil)
- Repetto Silvia (Argentina)
- Weitzel Thomas (Chile)
- Chaves Sousa Tania (Brasil)
- Echazarreta Sofía (Argentina)