about tic

The one-stop destination for all of your travel health needs.

The Travel and Immunization Clinic offers the widest variety of travel vaccines in the Kansas City metropolitan area. See our full list of services and patient groups.
 

 

The travel health specialists at the Travel and Immunization Clinic (TIC) in Overland Park, Kan., provide travelers with pre-travel counsel that can be as extensive—or as limited—as necessary. The TIC considers your health history and travel itinerary to develop a customized course of action, and provides practical tips regarding safety, altitude sickness and food and water precautions. Along with the immunizations and medications necessary to stay healthy while traveling. The TIC stocks essential supplies for all your travel health needs including insect repellants, water purification supplies, mosquito netting, travel destination books and travel insurance applications. Post-travel assessments are also available when needed.
 

Carolee Scherer,
president
Dr. Stephen Scherer,
medical director

Family-owned and trusted since 1986

This locally owned and trusted travel medicine clinic has been serving clients in the Kansas City area since 1986. Dr. Stephen Scherer MD, medical director, practiced as an Internal Medicine specialist for over 25 years. In 2001, he and wife, Carolee moved the clinic to its current convenient location, to continue protecting clients from the health risks of international travel. Since then, their team has further developed the area’s most trusted travel health clinic serving leisure travelers, mission groups, business travelers, disaster aid workers, adventure travelers, students studying abroad and others who wish to protect their health during any worldwide journeys.

 
Why choose the Travel and Immunization Clinic?

You may ask, “Why do I need to visit the Travel and Immunization Clinic when I could go to my own doctor to get my shots?” The answer is simple: chances are, your family doctor is not as experienced or well-equipped to make specific travel health recommendations as is the team of travel specialists at The Travel and Immunization Clinic (TIC). Travel medicine is a complex field and has now become a true medical specialty. Travel medicine is performed best by those who practice that specialty exclusively. In addition, your primary care physician does not have all of the exotic vaccines required to prevent tropical illnesses such as Typhoid fever, Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis or rabies.

The TIC staff is specially trained to blend the patient’s personal health history and travel itinerary with country-specific information including the most accurate and current assessments of potential health risks, geographical and climate conditions and U.S. State Department Advisories. TIC’s database of over 200 countries is updated daily with city and region-specific information compiled from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Office visits at TIC often prevent unnecessary vaccinations sometimes given by less knowledgeable, although well-meaning, primary care doctors. These not only waste your time and money, but could also place you at risk for unnecessary adverse reactions. Receiving inappropriate prescriptions from your family doctor could be detrimental to your travel health. Because the TIC practices nothing but travel medicine, they concentrate on providing precisely the exact services required for your health history, travel dates and destinations.

 

During vaccine shortages, the Travel and Immunization Clinic gets priority supply

During occasional periods of vaccine shortages, the TIC receives priority supplies of critical vaccines due to its’ high volume provider status. This usually results in the TIC having all vaccines in stock at all times – yet another reason most primary care doctors can’t provide the same consistent level of care found here.