24th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Travel Medicine (DFR), Bremerhaven, Germany, 16–18 September 2021

• Published in: Health Promotion & Physical Activity
• Main Author: Thomas Küpper
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Applied Sciences in Tarnow, Poland 2021
• Subjects: german society for travel medicine; dfr; conference; abstract; Medicine (General); R5-920; Other systems of medicine; RZ201-999; Sports medicine; RC1200-1245; Arctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.3355; https://doaj.org/article/b0cc13aad5b3425ea5330e7e30ae51a2

About the Meeting This year the Annual Meeting off the German Society of Travel Medicine took place in Bremerhaven, September 16th to 18th. This traditional harbour town where thousands of Germans were embarking hundred years ago facing an uncertain future, the so-called “climate house” (an exihibtion about several aspects of the world’s climate) and the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Arctic Research were a fantastic setting for the meeting’s motto “traveling under extreme conditions”. After a brillant introduction by Stefan Kröpelin about research in the Sahara two weeks away from the next pharmacy and a fascinating lecture by Eberhard Kohlberg how to organize expeditions to Antarctica and how to work and to live there several lecturers illuminated a wide field of travel medicine in more or less extreme conditions.