Your EPIC adventure awaits you!
Meet Our Team
Dr. Norman Beatty is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine. He is an active member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health (ACCTMTH) and the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM). He is the clinic director and an active traveler himself! His work in the field of neglected tropical diseases and medical entomology has taken him all over the world. Dr. Beatty is actively engaged with the travel medicine community and continuously stays up to date with current events around the globe. Working alongside Daylee Sheppard PA-C, their mission is to provide a detailed and comprehensive travel medicine consultation for your trip!
Daylee Sheppard PA-C is a physician-assistant with a focus on infectious diseases in transplantation and tropical medicine. Daylee has extensive training in traveler health and has completed The Gorgas Diploma Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute in Lima, Peru, with faculty from the Cayetano Heredia University and The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB). Daylee is a frequent traveler and enjoys hiking, running and spending time with her family!
What do we do?
Travel Medicine Consultation
During your consultation we will review your itinerary to assess the trip and formulate a detailed plan to stay healthy during your travels. The visit will involve reviewing any requirements for entry into a region or country and travel restrictions, recommendations for current risks in that area, and prevention strategies to reduce injury or infectious diseases. A traveler report for each country on the itinerary is reviewed during the visit and provided to go home with.
Recommendations for hiking, climbing, wilderness survival, insect protection strategies, field research, ecotourism and other tips are discussed during the visit depending on the nature of the trip. We also provide medications that may be needed during the trip, such as those for motion sickness, traveler’s diarrhea, altitude illness, and malaria chemoprophylaxis.
Our clinic has a full array of vaccines for our travelers and includes
- Yellow Fever
- Typhoid (Typhim Vi)
- Hepatitis A
- Meningococcal (Menveo)
- Polio (IPOL)
- Tdap
- Rabies
- Hepatitis B
- MMR
- Japanese Encephalitis.
To make an appointment for a travel medicine consultation please call: 352-294-5480. Our clinic is held every Thursday and throughout the year depending on demand
We look forward to preparing your for your travel experience, whether this is your first big trip abroad or you’re a seasoned traveler, we offer a wide range of expertise 🙂