Dr. Karl Neumann is a pediatrician, travel medicine practitioner, and journalist. He is Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Weill Medical College of Comell University and Clinical Associate Attending Pediatrician Emeritus at New York Presbyterian Hospital / Cornell Medical Center. He is the former editor of the newsletter of the International Society of Travel Medicine, an editor of the International Child Health Newsletter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and former newsletter editor of the Wilderness Medical Society. He has written chapters on pediatric travel medicine for textbooks, hundreds of articles for major newspapers, and edited and published a popular newsletter. He lectures frequently to physicians around the world on the medical aspects of travel and outdoor recreational activities.