Who We Are

Travel Medicine Consultants of Northern California is a full service medical practice specializing in tropical and travel medicine. This makes us uniquely qualified to assist travelers, immigrants, adventure enthusiasts, and foreign visitors with particular health concerns that pertain to their countries of origin and destination. We also serve other members of the medical community by providing assistance in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of rare and exotic diseases.

Dr. Vivian Belmusto, MD is a board-certified graduate of the UC Davis residency program in pediatrics who has spent the last few years working in the fields of tropical and travel medicine. Before starting medical school she earned a Master’s Degree with an emphasis in tropical medicine and geographic pathology and during medical school was accepted through a U.N. sponsored program to do an externship in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines. After medical school she completed her internship at the University of Miami and gained experience in disaster relief doing fieldwork in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.

After completing her residency Dr. Belmusto worked in the Sacramento community in low income clinics serving the homeless, refugees, recent immigrants and poor and was later hired by Sacramento County where she assisted in developing a community-based program to serve medically indigent children. In 2000 she earned a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia/University of Alabama joint program at the Gorgas Institute of Tropical Diseases in Lima, Peru and then returned to the U.S. where she earned the Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine through the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

She was then hired as an independent contractor by the US Army and Navy as a clinical investigator and returned to Peru. There she completed the Gorgas Expert Course in Tropical Medicine and after completing a year-long clinical trial in northern Peru was transferred to the Amazon as Director of Laboratory Operations for the U.S. Navy in Iquitos, Peru. Most of her work has been in yellow fever, malaria, dengue, and vaccines.

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