Sheila C.K. Hall
Having lived and travelled abroad for many years before working as a practice nurse in Glasgow, Sheila has always maintained a keen interest in the developing field of travel medicine.
This interest led to her undertaking the diploma and MSc degree in Travel Medicine at Glasgow University in 1999. She is now involved with the Foundation and Diploma Travel-health Courses (which are organised by Health Protection Scotland) being a member of the core group, exam board, course lecturer and student supervisor. In July 2006 Sheila was admitted as a Member to the Faculty of Travel Medicine at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and was awarded the ISTM Certificate in Travel Health® in 2007.
Sheila has frequently written travel health articles for nursing journals and has been an invited speaker at many of the international travel medicine conferences, most recently in Helsinki 2008.
In 2000 Sheila visited India as part of a travel-medicine delegation to Chennai. She also completed a 12-day teaching tour of New Zealand meeting nurses and doctors in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland; and a trip to Malawi in 2003 enabled her to see the health problems faced by the people of this country first hand.
Sheila is a member of the ISTM committee concerned with the effects of tourism on host countries and responsible tourism. She would encourage anyone with an interest in these issues to visit the Tourism Concern web site.
Margaret Umeed
RGN, MSc.
Margaret is a Registered Nurse who trained in Glasgow and
gained experience in the field of infectious diseases before working as
a nurse in Pakistan for 18 months. She began working in General Practice
in 1990 and has been a full time practice nurse since then; currently
working in a deprived area of Glasgow.
She is a Specialist Nurse Practitioner, an Independent Nurse Prescriber
and holds the NMC Lecturer/Practice Educator qualification. She currently
represents General Practice Nursing on the RCN Travel Health Forum. She
qualified with the MSc. (Trav. Med.) from Glasgow University in 2001 and
has been a valuable member of the TREC teaching team since its inception
in 1999. Margaret also contributes to the Diploma
and Foundation Courses in Travel Medicine as a student supervisor
and lecturer.
Fiona Genasi
Fiona is a registered nurse and midwife with a Masters degree in Nursing (Glasgow) and an Honorary Diploma in Travel Medicine (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow).She works as a Nurse Consultant in Travel Health Medicine within Health Protection Scotland (HPS) providing expert travel health advice and support to government, the National Health Service, other organisations, and the public.
Fiona has been active in developing standards for Travel Health education both nationally and internationally, and is involved with several key initiatives in this area. She is a member of the Core Group and Exam Board for the Diploma of Travel Medicine (awarded by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow), and was involved in establishing the Certificate of Knowledge Exam, offered by the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is an Honorary Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow, has authored several texts on the topic of Travel Health and has been a very welcome member of the TREC team over the past few years.
In July 2006, Fiona was one of the first nurses to be admitted to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow (RCPSG) as a Fellow.
April 2009 saw Fiona being nominated and elected by members of ISTM to be the next President of the Society. She will be the first nurse to hold this prestigious position!
Mrs Lorna Boyne
RGN, MN, (Hon.) DTM, FFTM RCPS (Glas).
Lorna has been involved in Travel Medicine for some 14 years and has been
one of the travel team at Health
Protection Scotland (HPS) during that time.
Her current role is Lead in Travel Medicine Education and Standards at HPS.
One of her main remits is as Honorary Clinical Registrar for the Diploma
and Foundation Courses in Travel Medicine HPS at the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow (RCPSG). She has been involved
in Travel Medicine education for more than 10 years, including from the
inception of the Diploma in Travel Medicine (originally through the University
of Glasgow). Lorna has also been a key member of the TREC teaching team
since its inception!
Other key roles include consultation at the Brownlee Centre specialist referral
travel clinic and provision of advice to health care professionals on the
HPS travel health help-line. She is a member of the Nursing in Practice
Committee through the International
Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and a former Committee member of the
Royal College of Nurses Travel Health Forum; in this capacity she helped
to produce a Competencies document for nurses providing travel health services
in the UK.
She was involved in setting up the Faculty of Travel Medicine through the
RCPSG where she was
one of the first nurses to be admitted as a Fellow, and then became the
Honorary Secretary of the FTM.
She has co-authored 4 textbooks on Travel Medicine.