Dr. Chris Sanford is a family medicine physician with a love of travel and a passion for helping others to stay healthy abroad. Through his entertaining videos & podcasts, blogs, and books, he helps travelers demystify the complexities of travel and tropical medicine so you can visit anywhere from the lush jungles of South America to the Sahara desert, all in good health. Doctor Travel is a prolific author and editor of books on travel medicine. He’s worked in clinical settings in the Peruvian Amazon, Uganda, and Ethiopia. For 15 years he served as a Medical Officer on a U.S. federal disaster response team. His deployments included New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the 2010 earthquake. When he’s not traveling, Doctor Travel is based in Seattle where he teaches at the University of Washington’s Departments of Family Medicine and Global Health.