Expedition leader

Associate Professor Marc Shaw
DrPH, FRGS, F.R.N.Z.C.G.P, F.A.C.T.M, F.F.T.M(ACTM), F.F.T.M RCPS (Glas)Dip,Trav.Med,
Associate Professor, James Cook University, Townsville, AUSTRALIA
Medical Director, WORLDWISE Travellers Health and WORLDWISE ONLINE, NZ

Expedition director and leader Associate Professor Marc Shaw, is a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practice, a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of the Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. In addition, he has been most recently distinguished as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He regularly contributes to academic journals and publications.

Marc is the founder and Director of Worldwise Travellers Health Centres of New Zealand – specialist travel health clinics in Auckland, Hamilton, and other centres throughout the country.

An extensive traveller and adventurer his entire life, Marc has worked in a number of countries, including England, Germany, Kazakhstan, Namibia, South Africa and the Pitcairn Islands. He was the expedition doctor for the Scientific Exploration Society expedition to Mongolia in 2005. Marc’s two most significant projects were in the Amazonas region with Sir Peter Blake in 2001, into remote regions of the Rio Negro in Brazil and Orinoco in Venezuela, and in the areas struck by the disastrous Tsunami in 2005.

Marc was instrumental is setting up training for an ambulance service for tsunami-hit Sri Lanka and received a New Zealand Special Service Medal for his work here and also in tsunami devastated Indonesia.