Contact Details:

Parking:

Parking stations are close at hand. The closest one is in Hindley St.

Staff:

Dr Bob Kass MB MRCP MScMCH DCH FAFPHM

Dr Kass is currently a Director of the Travellers’ Medical and Vaccination Centre Pty Ltd and is now responsible for the strategic development of the Travel Doctor Group of clinics TMVC. Prior to that he was National Medical Director of the Group for 7 years. He is an international health consultant and has served on the Executive Board of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) for 4 years. He holds specialist qualifications in paediatrics and public health medicine and has worked in a number of overseas countries, including Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, UK, Tonga, Tokelau, Thailand, Laos, India, Uganda and Burma. He has also worked as a paediatrician in central Australia where much of his work was with aboriginal communities.
During his period as paediatrician for the islands region of PNG Dr Kass was responsible for overseeing the care of not only the local people but also the considerable number of expatriate children living in the region. He maintains a special interest in tropical child health and has been involved in a number of Aid projects in Africa.
Since 1991 he has served on the National Health and Medical Research Council’s expert committee on malaria and using the TMVC Group database was a chief investigator in a major study of user acceptability of commonly used antimalarials.
In June 2000 he was elected as Treasurer to the newly formed Asia Pacific Travel Health Society. The secretariat is based in Jakarta.

Dr David Scrimgeour MBBS MedSc MPH FAFPHM

David is a graduate of Melbourne University, with postgraduate qualifications in public health from Harvard University. He has worked on a refugee health program in Sudan, on tuberculosis control in Indonesia, with WHO on malaria control in Namibia, and with WHO and AusAID on non-communicable disease control in various Pacific Island countries. His most recent consultancy has been in Vietnam where he worked on a primary health care project with AusAID. He also has extensive experience working with Aboriginal people in remote areas of Australia. He also enjoys travel, and has traveled through many countries especially in Asia and Central America.

Dr Sonny Lau MBBS MRCP(UK) MPHTM

Dr Lau is a medical graduate of the University of Melbourne. He has been working specifically in the travel medicine field since 1993. Prior to this Dr Lau worked in Hong Kong between 1985 to 1991. He then gained training in Infectious Diseases at the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital in Melbourne. He completed his Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the James Cook University of North Queensland in Townsville in 1998. He is a certified medical examiner for recreational diving medical. His special interest is tropical diseases in returned travellers.

Dr Maggie Phillips MBBS DTM&H; DRCOG

Dr Phillips has a special interest in tropical medicine and infectious diseases. She has many years experience as a primary health care provider in the Northern Territory, P.N.G. Western Samoa, Bangladesh and suburban Adelaide. She is currently a regional co-ordinator for an international surveillance programme on travel related health problems - Geosentinel. This programme is a joint operation between the International Society of Travel Medicine and the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta. Dr Phillips is experienced in women's health care and accredited to perform medicals for recreational divers. Her MPH treatise on "User acceptability of currently used antimalarials" and follow up paper in the Journal of Travel medicine is well quoted in medical literature.

Dr Michael Sorokin MBBCh, FRCP(Edin)

Dr Sorokin has extensive experience as a physician and G.P. in South Africa, the U.K., the Pacific Islands and rural South Australia. He has special interests in rheumatology, infectious diseases and preventative medicine. He was recently awarded the Order of Fiji in recognition of his services to health care in Fiji. Dr Sorokin is partly responsible for the maintenance of the TMVC Database and helps with reference material for the continuing education of TMVC medical staff.

Hours of Operation:

After Hours Arrangements:

Arrangements are made on an individual basis. Electronic communications are always available and overseas out of hours communications can be made via The Travel Doctor Adelaide.

Clinic Specialities:

The Travel Doctor TMVC has been providing services to business travellers for many years. The following services are available through a network of centres around Australia and overseas:

Services to the short term business traveller:

* The most current medical advice on international health risks
* Individualised reviews on a trip by trip basis
* Fitness to travel certificates
* Visa medicals where required
* A complete range of vaccinations on site including yellow fever, rabies and japanese encephalitis
* International vaccination booklets to keep as personal vaccination records
* Antimalarial medications and information leaflets on malaria
* A broad selection of standard and customised medical kits for travellers including an authorisation booklet and instructions for use.
* The Travel Doctor Group as your defacto medical officer for problems relating to travel or illness on return from overseas.
* Corporate accounts

Services to the expatriate worker or frequent traveller

In addition to those services available to the short term business traveller the Travel Doctor (TMVC) is able to provide

* Full medical examinations
* Seminar speakers on issues relating to traveller health and expatriates based overseas
* Occupational health and safety site inspections for companies in remote and/ or exotic locations.
* Specialised health insurance for your expatriate worker

In addition to these clinic based activities The Travel Doctor TMVC has a fully developed electronic communications facility through its Virtual Corporate Client Clinic.
The Travel Doctor (TMVC) can act as your defacto medical officer for problems relating to travel or illness on return from overseas. The Travel Doctor (TMVC) utilises it own database software system Walkabout 2000. It represents more than 10 years of research in the discipline of Travel Medicine and is unique in it’s capability of looking after people who are globally mobile. The database may be managed through The Travel Doctor (TMVC) through the corporate headquarters in Adelaide or through the OH&S; Department of the Company. In the first instance the Travel Doctor (TMVC) becomes the defacto Travel Health Doctor while in the second the Group supports the OH&S; Group of the company in it’s Travel Health delivery. The company medical officer is granted a license to use the Walkabout 2000 and this is supported by The Travel Doctor (TMVC).
The Travel Doctor (TMVC) also offers post-travel clinical support in the diagnosis and treatment of exotic illnesses contracted during travel. All clinics are allied with major teaching hospitals, and liaise with professionals in the fields of microbiology and infectious disease.
As a representative of the International Association for Medical to Travellers (IAMAT), TMVC can also provide information on English-speaking medical practitioners in most regions of the world.

Your Clinic Visit

We look forward to welcoming you to our clinic. You may care to visit our patient information section for details of what to expect when you visit us, what to bring to your appointment, and some background information on some of the more common vaccines.