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Our Specialists
Our team is dedicated to making this
the best experience for you.
Harvey Strydhorst, BA ECC
President
For over twenty years Harvey has worked in the travel industry. It was a natural fit for him to be cofounder of what has become the multi award winning Sea Courses Cruises in 1995. This has enabled him to experience over a hundred countries and just as many sea voyages on many of the world's best ocean liners.
With his keen understanding of his professional clients needs, he has instilled the principles of - explore, learn, & connect - not only with his travel offerings, but too with his team's consulting services. It is because of his insights and knowledge that he has the honour to sit on the Celebrity Cruises Travel Agent Advisory Board and the Regent Seven Seas Cruises Travel Agent Council.
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Dr. Martin Gerretsen, MD MCFP ECC
Director of Continuing Health Education
Martin is co-owner of Sea Courses Cruises. He is a family physician specializing in addictions medicine and has been involved in the development of CME conferences for over twenty years.
He has built Sea Course’s CME at SEA® from a doctor’s perspective. Cognizant that a conference is to bring “clinical pearls” of information pertinent for today’s medical practice, he builds his program to include time for interaction and discussion with faculty and fellow attendees.
Martin is also an Elite Cruise Counsellor and Luxury Cruise Specialist and has sailed on over 110 cruises onboard twenty different cruise lines and to all seven continents.
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Cruise Consultants
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Brenda Arnett, ECC LCC CTC
Brenda has over twenty years both in corporate and cruise travel. She is also an Elite & Luxury Cruise Specialist. With this, she has over eighteen cruises and visited seventy six countries. Chances are she has been to your port and/or been on your ship. Her honest approach benefits her clients with giving helpful advice and the in & outs of making it the best cruise experience for you.
Besides hands on knowledge of luxury cruising, she is an adventure traveler and has been known to be in somewhere in South America with an old jeep in the middle of the night with the thought `it seemed like good idea at the time`.
brenda@seacourses.com
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Peter Banh
With eleven years in the travel industry, Peter first started working with a wholesaler in booking air flights to coincide with pre-arranged land tours. In the past six years he has worked in the cruise industry for the leisure market. His travels have taken him to Western Europe, Eastern Caribbean, Hawaii, New York plus Hong Kong. His consistency and patience are recognized for fulfilling his clients’ travel needs.
peter@seacourses.com
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Todd Hancock, BES CTC ACC
Todd has been with Sea Courses since 2004. He has a BES in Geography from the University of Waterloo and has been in corporate and cruise travel since 1994.
Completing twenty seven cruises, he has visited such places such as the Baltic, Black Sea, Caribbean, coastal UK and Asia. He has also traveled to the exotic locations of Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Persian Gulf.
He is known for giving his due diligence with the best of the cruise companies that has benefited his diverse clientele.
todd@seacourses.com
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Angela Mok, MCC
Angela is a former pharmacy technician and is now happily fulfilling dreams as a cruise consultant. Her cruise addiction began at the age of two and since then she's cruised to Alaska, Mexican Riviera, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Scandinavia/Russia, Greek Isles, China Yangtze River, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Hawaii.
Angela's professionalism and knowledge in destinations is a tremendous benefit to her clientele.
angela@seacourses.com
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Janice Wilkie, CLIA - MCC
Janice comes to us with over twenty years experience in travel, hospitality & tourism. For nine years she held onboard positions that included Future Cruise Consultant and Group Coordinator with Royal Caribbean. Her cruise travel includes Pacific & Atlantic crossings, Europe, Scandinavia, Baltic, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Hawaii and the Panama Canal. She also had the benefit of visiting such rarely traveled cruise ports such as Malta, Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Funchal, Ajjacio, and Allicante.
She has completed the Uniworld River Cruise Specialist program and has traveled on such in Europe.
janice@seacourses.com
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Our Conference Team
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Dr. John Axler MD, CCFP, FCFP,
Sea Courses Program Advisor
Dr. Axler is Assistant Professor, in the U of T, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine and is currently is the Director of Continuing Education for that department. He has been actively involved in CME for over 25 years and has been the Course Director for Primary Care Today and Saturday at the University, as well as many other CME projects.
He is the 2009 2010 co-winner of the U of T faculty of Medicine Colin Woolf award for Long-term Contribution to Continuing Education. He is the 2011 co-winner of the DFCM award for excellence in CME. He has helped develop over 100 accredited CME programs and is the co-author of the MD Passport Nutrition e newsletter.
He was in full time active clinical practice in Toronto from 1969 to July 1, 2012. He has retired from full time practice and now does locums.
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J. Henry Petersen
Conference Coordinator
Henry has been involved in marketing and business development for over seventeen years in North America and Europe starting with software technologies. This involved many branding, messaging, channels and positioning exercises. It evolved successfully over time to the development of a congress production company that focuses on C & VP decision makers for heavy industry, energy and manufacturing. This too included partnerships with Federal agencies (such as the EPA & EnergyStar) plus state level economic development agencies.
Besides having lived in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, just some of his travels have included Bali, Marrakech and Ibiza. He has an on going love affair with Barcelona, Berlin and Dallas.
After one too many Montreal winters, he now resides in Vancouver.
henry@seacourses.com
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Our Travel Concierges
Our Sea Courses Travel Concierges are onboard to assure your voyage is worry-free and extraordinary. They will also host our Partner's Program designed to connect you with fellow guests and enrich your cruise experience.
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Our Conference Moderators
Each Sea Courses conference will have a moderator who is onboard to facilitate your conference activities. The moderator may be a member of the faculty, a member of the host medical association, or part of the Sea Courses CME team.
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The Sea Courses Faculty
In our 15 years of providing cruise conferences, we have worked with over 200 speakers – most of who are from Canada or USA. In keeping with the international nature of our conferences, we have also hired speakers from Australia, Asia, Mexico, and Europe. The courses are conducted in English, and may also offer modules in French or Spanish.
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