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2023 Professional Immunization Seminar
The Magic of Vaccines!
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 HAM_CME@upmc.edu 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.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Review updated state immunization guidelines and statistics
• Review best practices in vaccine handling and storing
• Review impact of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on patients and
health care systems
• Discuss results of clinical trials for new RSV vaccines
• Apply Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP)
recommendations for RSV vaccination in older adults
• Utilize the recommended Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practice (ACIP) schedules for children, adolescents, and adults
• Summarize the latest updates from the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) on vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases
• Describe services offered by the Erie County Department of Health
• Describe process for referring individuals seeking services to the Erie
County Department of Health
• Discuss beliefs that make people vaccine-hesitant or deny vaccines
• Assess methods to address immunization refusal
• Recognize how flu vaccines work
• Discuss how the manufacturing process affects vaccine efficacy
• Review what we can do to improve flu vaccine efficacy
Program Outline
7– 8 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8 – 8:05 a.m. Introduction
8:05 – 8:50 a.m. State Immunization Update
Thomas McCleaf
8:50 – 9:35 a.m. Ready Set Vaccinate: New RSV vaccines for adults 60 and up
Christina Kaminski, PharmD, BCGP
9:35 – 9:50 a.m. Refreshment Break
9:50 – 11:05 a.m. CDC Update
Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH
11:05 – 11:30 a.m. AM Panel Discussion
11:30 – 12:10 p.m. Lunch & Networking
12:10 – 12:40 p.m. Your Erie County Department of Health
Karen Wiggers, RN
12:40 – 1:20 p.m. Vaccine Hesitancy
Danielle M Gyorgak, MD, FAAP
1:20 – 1:35 p.m. Refreshment Break
1:35 – 2:20 p.m. Is It Fall Again? Time Flu By!
Donald Middleton, MD
2:20 – 2:45 p.m. PM Panel Discussion
2:45 p.m. Closing Remarks and Adjournment
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:
Danielle M Gyorgak, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics – Hamot
UPMC Children's Express Care - Erie
Christina Kaminski, PharmD, BCGP
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
Practice
LECOM School of Pharmacy
LECOM Senior Living Center
Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH
Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Thomas McCleaf
Director, Division of Immunizations
Pennsylvania Department of Health
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
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 5.5 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 5.5 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
NURSING (CNE)
A maximum of 5.5 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
- 5.50 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.
- 5.50 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.
- 5.50 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 5.50 Attendance
If you are interested in exhibiting, please contact the Hamot CME Department at 814-877-5691, or send an e-mail to HAM_CME@upmc.edu
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 ham_cme@upmc.edu 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: HAM_CME@UPMC.EDU.