Dr. Vincenzo Marcolongo Lecture
The Marcolongo Lecture honors Vincenzo Marcolongo (1922–1988), founder of IAMAT -International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers. A graduate of the medical school at the University of Rome, Dr. Marcolongo did his postgraduate training at McGill University in Montreal and returned to Italy to obtain his doctorate in tropical medicine.
Dr. Marcolongo made the health needs of travelers his life’s work. Of particular interest to him was malaria and preventing the unnecessary morbidity and mortality it causes among travelers.
In an era of increasing international travel, he realized that there was a need for collaboration among medical practitioners around the world to help travelers. In 1960 he founded IAMAT, a non-profit organization that awards scholarships to doctors and nurses from countries where travel medicine is an emerging practice.
Through IAMAT, Dr. Marcolongo worked tirelessly to inform travelers of health risks and raise awareness of travelers’ health among travel industry professionals and medical practitioners worldwide. His foresight, compassion and generosity continue to serve as inspiration for IAMAT’s work.
In his own words: “The need for peace and understanding between the peoples of the world has never been as great as now. Peace can come only with understanding, and travel is an important means of acquiring it. It is, however, only through the full consciousness of ‘the essence of the human’ that we shall be able to open the difficult paths of international relationships. As a traveler you have an excellent opportunity to serve your country and the world in creating ties of friendship. To you, therefore, we bring this message, a message sparked with beauty all its own: ‘The search for the human’."
The Marcolongo Lecture was instituted in 1990; the list of speakers follows.
| 2024 | Schistosomiasis: Insights into Immunology and Treatment from Human Challenge Studies | Meta Roestenberg, Leiden University, Netherlands | |
| 2023 | Dengue: The Latest in Vaccines and Other Prevention Tools | Gabriela Paz-Bailey, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases | |
| 2022 | Practical Aspects of Travelers' Diarrhea for the Clinician | Mark Riddle, Pfizer Vaccines, United States | |
| 2021 | Leprosy: An Ongoing Clinical Challenge | Pedro Legua, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru | |
| 2020 |
Tuberculosis: Update and Current Challenges |
Soumya Swaminathan, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2019 | The Provision of Safe Water in Complex Environments | Robert Handby, Australian Red Cross (Retired) |
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| 2018 | Environmental Disease in Tropical Regions | David Christiani Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
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| 2017 | Vibrio cholera: Lessons from Haiti and its pending research agenda | Claudio F. Lanata, Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional, Lima, Peru | |
| 2016 | Leptospirosis in the Tropics: The Diagnostic Challenge | Suneth Agampodi, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka |
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| 2015 |
The Clinical Fascination of Snake-Bite World Wide |
David A. Warrell | |
| 2014 | Paraccocidiodomycosis: A Neglected Mycosis of Latin America |
Carlos Seas | |
| 2013 | Management of Tegumentary Leishmaniasis: Lessons from Studies on Pathogenesis of Leishmania braziliensis Infection |
Edgar Carvalho | |
| 2012 | Gallbladder Carriage of Salmonella: From Chile to Nepal |
Buddha Basnyat | |
| 2011 | Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV Infection and HIV Free Survival: Perspectives From Resource Limited Settings |
Frederick Sawe | |
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2010 |
Neonatal Infections- A Global Perspective |
Anita K.M. Zaidi |
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| 2009 | Paradigm Shifts in Tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility Testing: New Dos and Don'ts |
David Moore |
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| 2008 | Understanding Neurocysticercosis: Advances in the Last 50 Years |
Raul Isturiz |
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| 2007 | Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Neglected Diseasse with Low Prevalence but High Impact |
Christian Burri |
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| 2006 | Severe Malaria: a Moving Target? |
Kevin Marsh |
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| 2005 | Cystic Echinococcosis: to Treat or not to Treat? |
Enrico Brunetti |
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| 2004 | Human African Trypanosomiasis: The Past Explains the Present and is the Key to the Future |
Jacques Pepin |
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| 2003 | Japanese Encephalitis: West Nile's Ugly Sister |
Tom Solomon |
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| 2002 | Melioidosis: The Peril in the Paddy Fields |
David Dance |
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| 2001 | Leishmaniasis in the Sudan |
Edward Zijlstra |
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| 2000 | Leptospirosis, the Hide and Seek Disease |
Solly Faine |
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| 1999 | Malaria Prophylaxis: A New Approach |
Eli Schwartz |
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| 1998 | Puerto Rico Meeting Canceled (Hurricane) |
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| 1997 | Clinical Features & Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Central and Eastern Europe |
M. Roggendorg |
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| 1996 | An Infectious Disease Specialist in Hait: AIDS, Typhoid Fever and Civil Unrest |
Jean Pape |
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| 1995 | Tuberculosis: Developments in Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention |
JJ Ellner |
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| 1994 | Management of Severe and Complicated Malaria |
Nick White |
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| 1993 | Human Rabies: Clinical Features, Pathogenesis and Potential Treatment |
Thiravat Hemauchuda |
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| 1992 | HIV and Opportunistic Infections in Northeastern Brazil |
Anastacio de Queiroz Sousa |
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| 1991 | Tropical Dermatology |
Anthony Bryceson |
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| 1990 | Radiological Aspects of Tropical and Parasitic Disease |
Michael Reeder |