
2025 Professional Immunization Seminar
The Luck of Vaccinations!
This annual event has been designed to provide up-to-date education to health care providers in order to improve health outcomes in the field of immunization and vaccine preventable diseases. New recommendations and guidelines will be addressed through didactic lectures and panel discussion.
Help Us Help You:
Do you have a question that you would like to submit to the speakers in advance?
Send an email to [email protected] titled “Immunization Question.”
These questions will be compiled and presented at the panel discussion sessions along with live questions from the audience.
Target Audience
Family practice physicians, pediatricians, internists, pharmacists, nurses, advanced practice providers, school nurses, nursing students, medical residents and medical students will benefit from attendance at this activity.
7:30 – 8 | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
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8 – 8:05 | Introduction | Danielle Mehlenbacher, DO |
8:05 – 8:50 | State Immunization Update | Thomas McCleaf |
8:50 – 9:20 | Rabies | Bryan Rall, PA-C |
9:20 – 9:50 | TPOXX | Colleen Wallace, BSN, RN |
9:50 - 10:05 | Refreshment Break/Networking |
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10:05 – 11:15 | CDC Update | Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH |
11:15 – 11:40 | AM Panel Discussion | Faculty Panel |
11:40 – 12:30 | Lunch/Networking |
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12:30 – 1:30 | Travel Vaccination's and Clinic | Martin Vandort, MD Hannah Metheney, PharmD, Shayla Jellison, PharmD, Brittany Riedy, PharmD |
1:30 – 2:15 | The Vaccine Pipeline. What may be coming. | Donald Middleton, MD |
2:15 – 2:30 | Refreshment Break/Networking |
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2:30 – 3:20 | Community Resources: -MHEDs Clinic -Health Foundation -Department of Health
| Alivia Haibach, MPA Sarah Prylinski, BSN, RN Karen Wiggers, RN |
3:20 – 3:45 | PM Panel Discussion | Faculty Panel |
3:45 | Closing Remarks and Adjournment |
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Two ways to attend this hybrid conference:
Option 1:
In Person at the Crystal Ballroom at the Ambassador Banquet and Conference Center, behind the Courtyard by Marriott at 7794 Peach St., Erie, Pa.
Registration fees includes the seminar, continental breakfast, refreshment breaks and lunch.
Option 2:
Virtually via Zoom
Pre-registrants will be sent links prior to the conference, and all links will be available on the conference website for those who have registered.
Travel
Click here for directions
Course Director:
Danielle Mehlenbacher, DO
Division of Family Medicine
Vineyard Primary Care
Faculty:
Thomas McCleaf
Director, Division of Immunizations
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH
Medical Health Educator
Provider Education and Training Team (proposed)
Health Education and Communication Branch
Immunization Services Division
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Donald Middleton, MD
Division of Internal Medicine
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
UPMC St. Margaret Hospital
Karen Wiggers, RN
Public Health Nurse, Immunizations
Erie County Department of Health
Bryan L. Rall, MPAS, PA-C
RHS APP Student Clinical Coordinator
Senior Physician Assistant- Department of Emergency Medicine
Colleen Wallace, BSN, RN
Director, Community Health Services
Erie County Department of Health
Hannah Metheney, PharmD
UPMC Hamot
Shayla Jellison, PharmD
UPMC Hamot
Brittany Riedy, PharmD
UPMC Hamot
Martin B Van Dort, MD
Infectious Disease
Saint Vincent Hosptial
Alivia Haibach, MPA
Chief Executive Officer
Multi-Cultural Health Evaluation Delivery System, Inc. (MHEDS)
Sarah Prylinski, BSN, RN
Clinical Program Manager
Hamot Health Foundation
Disclosure Statement: No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.
ACCREDITATION
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
PHYSICIAN (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PHARMACY (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 6.25 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
NURSING (CNE)
A maximum of 6.25 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.
OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 6.25 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
- 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 6.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 6.25 Attendance
If you are interested in exhibiting, please contact the Hamot CME Department at 814-877-5691, or send an e-mail to [email protected]
Price
UPMC EMPLOYEE PAYMENT VIA JOURNAL ENTRY TRANSFER OR MEB SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS
If you are a UPMC employee and your department will be responsible for payment, we can charge your department directly.
DO NOT SUBMIT a disbursement to UPMC Accounts Payable.
For journal transfer and MEB funds, please fill out the appropriate form below:
MEB Tracking Form reviewed 7-6-2020.pdf
CANCELLATION POLICY
Please notify UPMC Hamot’s CME Department of substitutions and cancellations, via email to [email protected] or by telephone at 814-877-5691.
IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PAY BY CHECK
Please contact the UPMC Hamot CME Department at: 814-877-5691 or e-mail: [email protected].