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Our travel health centres provide a vitally important service to all those who travel for business or pleasure. At The Travel Clinic, our message is always, "travel safely with our help". We are a lively team of dedicated professionals with a passion for travel and a commitment to giving the very best travel advice.
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Mary Kedward
Managing Director
International Travel Health Advisor, RN, CTH ®
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Mary Kedward has worked in the field of travel health for 16 years. She developed a thriving business from home whilst also working in general practice, and running nurse led clinics over a variety of areas including minor illnesses, family planning, heart disease and baby immunisation. She became a Specialist Practitioner in 1998 and received a Travel Health qualification from Glasgow University . She received the Certificate of knowledge from the International Society of Travel Medicine, which shows international recognition of her skills. She has extensive experience in teaching in the field of Travel Health, and was offers Training to fellow healthcare professionals nationally .She is also a member of the British Travel Health Association and loves to dive, snorkel and ski.
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Jane Wilson-Howarth
Medical Director
BSc, MSc, BM, DCH, DCCH, DFSRH, FRSTM&H, MFTM RCPS(Glasg).
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Jane became a partner in General Practitice in Cambridge city in 2004. She's finally - perhaps - settled down after after 11 years overseas. She's worked mainly on child survival projects in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, India and, for six years, Nepal. She also has knowledge of the Andes through research in Peru on mountain sickness, and she has also travelled in southern Africa. Jane both teaches and writes extensively on travel health; she has taught on courses run by the Royal Geographical Society, VSO, the Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief, Royal College of Nursing, and continues to lecture regularly on Travel Health at the London School of Hygiene & Medicine, for Engineers without Borders. She is a prolific author; her publications include Bugs, Bites & Bowels, Shitting Pretty, Lemurs of the Lost World, Your Child Abroad: a travel health guide and A Glimpse of Eternal Snows. She has contributed to a variety of medical journals, to BBC Wildlife magazine and to the Independent newspaper. She is also a regular columnist for Wanderlust. Jane is on the editorial committee of the British Travel Health Association. She is a zoology graduate with post graduate research experience in parasitology and an interest in biting insects and dangerous wildlife. She has acted as a cave rescue warden is also a qualified SCUBA diver and ASA Life Saver. Recently she returned to rowing and has preticipated in the Town Bumps for the last three summers.
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Clare Back
Staff Nurse, RN
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Clare is a qualified nurse with a background in Orthopaedic nursing. She has worked as a practice nurse within a G.P. Surgery for the last 6 years. Clare loves her role within the Surgery which includes respiratory and cardiac care, wound management and baby immunisations (although she doesn't like making the babies cry!)
Clare has always had an interest in travel medicine which started within the surgery, offering travel advice to patients. Clare has been developing the interest within the last 3 years, culminating in May 2009 with the completion of the Foundation Course in Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in Glasgow.
As with all the staff here at the Travel Clinic, Clare enjoys her fair share of travelling which has included travel to Asia, Africa and Europe. The list of places as yet to travel is too long to include here! Clare is a keen photographer and uses travel as an excuse to practice this hobby.
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Penny Sibthorp
Nurse
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Penny is a qualified nurse with a background in accident and emergency and acute medicine but currently works within the primary care setting, which is where she has developed her interest in travel medicine. Having had a gap year living and working overseas she is keen to meet other people who are about to embark on a similar experience. Her next trip is to Africa to fulfill a lifetime ambition by going to see mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She can often be seen reading the lonely planet guide (or similar!) to the next place she is travelling to and then on the plane home is guilty of plotting and planning her subsequent trips! She is also a keen horse-rider and skier and hopes to have a go at snowboarding this season.
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Aidan Challan
Occupational Health Physician
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Qualified in 1974,achieved MRCP(UK) in 1978,Medical Research Council Clinical Research Scientist investigating Heart Disease and Diet 1978- 1982, Clinical Tutor at Addenbrookes Hosp Medical School 1982-1984. Physician in Charge at Bupa Screening Cambridge 1990-2004.Civilian GP to Royal Engineers 1990-2004.Occupational Health Physician from 2004 onwards. At present working as Occupational Health Physician in a variety of settings including the NHS. Interests: Occupational Medicine, Preventative Medicine and Health Screening
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In addition we also employ a bank of nurses experienced in travel health.
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