1st delegate for the French Society
Member of the Working Group Migration and Health
Eric Caumes is Professor of Infectious and Tropical diseases, at the University “Paris
Sorbonne” since 2001. He is a clinician certified in Dermatology, ID and tropical diseases,
with a master in epidemiology. He has been the head of the ID department at the Teaching Hospital “Pitié Salpêtrière” in Paris from 2014 to 2021. He is now consultant in ID at the Hotel-Dieu hospital in downtown Paris.
His research input concerns skin infections and STI, imported tropical diseases and
emerging infections, Lyme disease and long covid. He has published more than 500 articles related to travel medicine, dermatology/STI, and infectious/tropical diseases. He has contributed to a dozen of textbooks in travel medicine, or tropical diseases.
He has been a member of the Executive Board of the International Society of Travel
Medicine (ISTM)(2007–2011), and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Travel Medicine
(2012–2019). He is the chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the CISTM19 (New
Orleans, 11-15th May 2025).
