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View this 3:10 minute informational video about the
spread of influenza and how to protect yourself and the many lives you touch.
(You must have RealPlayer installed on your system. The free version may be
downloaded from www.real.com) |
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Visit the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's influenza site to learn what you should know about influenza and to
review information for health professionals. |
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This website is designed to put a face on influenza
in the United States and show firsthand the seriousness of this potentially
deadly infectious disease. |
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Visit this website and read the stories of families
whose children have suffered severe medical complications from influenza,
including death. |
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| Presentations
from the 2008 National
Influenza Vaccine Summit |
Session One: General
Introduction
Keynote: Seasonal Flu
Immunization: Protecting Patients and Healthcare Workers
Speaker: Donald Wright, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, DHHS
ACIP update —
School-aged children and other changes or issues
Speaker: Anthony E. Fiore, CDC
Session Two: Using
Data, Targeting Specific Age Groups and Other Ways to Increase Coverage in
2008-2009
Recent monthly influenza vaccine uptake data and
the new school-age ACIP recommendation
Speaker: Gary L. Euler, CDC
New Jersey
regulations requiring annual influenza vaccinations of children attending
pre-school and licensed day care centers
Speaker: Eddy A. Bresnitz, New
Jersey Dept of Health and Senior Services
National
Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW)
Speaker: Alan P. Janssen, CDC
Messages for
target audiences: lessons learned from the "Faces of Influenza" campaign
Speaker: Bernadette A. Toomey,
American Lung Association
Children's
Influenza Immunization Coalition (CIIC)
Speaker: William Shaffner for Carol Baker, National
Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Insights from claims data
study
Speaker: David P. Greenberg, sanofi pasteur
After Dinner
Presentations
Summit Awards
"Stop Flu at School"
Soccer moms talk about influenza vaccination video
Speaker: Paul V. Effler, State of Hawaii Dept of
Health
RISE—HCW–Western
Pennsylvania
Speaker: David A. Nace, Univ of Pittsburgh
Department of Defense Seasonal
Influenza Activities
Speaker: Wayne E. Hachey, DoD
Manufacturers Projections for the 2008-2009
Season
MedImmune
Speaker: Kathleen L. Coelingh
sanofi-pasteur
Speaker: William L. Averbeck
CSL Biotherapies
Speaker: Ronan Gannon
Novartis
"Share the Love, Not the Flu"
video
Speaker: John K. Dorsey
GlaxoSmithKline
Speaker: Mitchell D. Johnson
Distributors Overview for the 2008-2009
Season
Healthcare Industry
Distribution Association (HIDA)
Speaker: Andrew E. Van Ostrand
Session Three:
Increasing Health Care Provider Participation to Increase Coverage in
2008-2009
Occupational medicine
Speaker: Roslyn Stone, Corporate Wellness, Inc.
Family medicine
Speaker: Herbert F. Young, AAFP
Community vaccination
Speaker: Steve Pellito, Maxim Health Systems
Pediatrics
Speaker: Jennifer A. Shu, AAP
Internal medicine
Speaker: Kim C. Dixon, ACP (no slides)
Pharmacists
Speaker: Mitchel C. Rothholz, APhA
Department of Health and Human Services
Speaker: Bruce G. Gellin, NVPO, DHHS
Session Four: Strategies to Overcome Myths and Misconceptions to Increase Coverage in 2008-2009
"I believe that an influenza shot can give me influenza or make me sick."
Speaker: Nancy L. Hughes, ANA
"I'm strong, healthy, eat well and have a strong immune system. I frequently wash and sanitize my hands,
and don't get sick despite frequent exposure to sick persons."
Speaker: David J. Weber, UNC _ Chapel Hill
"I understand that the vaccine
can be unsafe, especially for my baby."
Speaker: Patricia Stinchfield, NAPNAP
Marketing the truth
Speaker: Kristine M. Sheedy, CDC |
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Technology
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litjen.tan@ama-assn.org
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This website managed by the
Immunization
Action Coalition
Diane Peterson, editor • Mitch Rothholz,
RPh, MBA, contributing editor |
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