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Vaccine Preventable Diseases
On Monday, July 13, 2009, a one-day conference entitled Vaccine Preventable Diseases - Evidence and Strategies to Protect Our Communities will be held that will focus on issues related to immunizations required for NJ children.
This one-day conference will be held simultaneously at three locations in NJ:
North
The Conference Center at Montclair State University, University Hall, 7th Floor, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043.
http://www.uniquevenues.com/facil.microsite.cfm/subpage/location/facil_id/520794
Central
Monmouth University, Bey Hall, Young Auditorium Building, #26 (on campus map), West Long Branch, NJ 07764.
http://www.monmouth.edu/about_monmouth/campus_map/CampusMap2009.pdf
South
Cumberland County College Conference Center, 3322 College Drive, Vineland, NJ 08360.
http://www.cccnj.edu/CEC/mapDirections.cfm
Target Audience
• Physicians/Nurses in Pediatrics and Family Practice
• Public Health Nurses
• School Nurses
• Public Health Officers
• Epidemiologists
• Infection Control Practitioners
• Health Educators
• Advanced Practice Nurses
Objectives
• Describe the consequences of
opting out of vaccination for preventable diseases.
• Compare the costs of preventing an epidemic
with the costs of containing one based on a case of measles in NJ.
• Share the profound issues of both
surviving polio and losing a twin to the now preventable disease.
• Characterize the preventable infectious diseases
that can result from failure to immunize or from insufficient immunity to them.
• Compare and contrast the antigen components of earlier vaccines
with those of today, highlighting at least one benefit of newer antigen component vaccine formulations.
• Describe N.J.A.C. 8:57 – 4, the regulations that the
NJ Department of Health and Senior Services will monitor and enforce.
• Provide examples of strategies/take home messages
which may be used to convince others to follow the recommended immunization schedules.
Agenda
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast / Registration
8:25 a.m. Welcome
Planning Committee Representative
8:35 a.m. Vaccine Acceptance, Refusal, and Public Health Implications
Daniel Salmon, PhD, MPH
Vaccine Safety Specialist, National Vaccine Program Office, US DHHS
9:50 a.m. Polio the Forgotten Killer
Janice Flood Nichols, MEd
Author
10:35 a.m. Break
10:50 a.m. Current Outbreaks and Control of Preventable Diseases
Peter Wenger, MD
Associate Professor, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Medical Director, Project Vaccinate
12:20 p.m. Lunch (provided)
1:05 p.m. Addressing Public Concerns About Immunizations
Margaret C. Fisher, MD
Medical Director, The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center
Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine
2:10 p.m. Break
2:25 p.m. Imported Measles in Urban America: Lessons Learned
Marsha McGowan, MPH, MA
Health Officer, City of Newark
Erica J. Sison, MPH
Public Health Advisor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:55 p.m. New Jersey Influenza Regulations
Barbara Montana, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Vaccine Preventable Disease Program, NJDHSS
3:50 p.m. Evaluation
Marcia M. Sass, ScD
Assistant Professor, UMDNJ-SPH, Department of Health Systems and Policy
Senior Evaluator, New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ-SPH
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
Continuing Education
Participants who complete the program will be awarded 6.0 Professional Development Hours by the Center for Professional Development in Nursing and Health (CPDNH). Continuing Nursing Education Contact hours have been applied for through the New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Application has been made for approval for 6.0 Category I Continuing Education Credits for CHES by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health. The UMDNJ-SPH has been designated as a provider of continuing education in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
Application has been made to the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services for CE contact hours toward the HO/REHS continuing education requirements.
Please note: accreditation refers to the provision of nursing continuing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product.
Registration & Program Fee
The fee for this program is $25 and includes
continental breakfast, lunch and course materials.
Program fee is non-refundable.
Registration is now available at the
New Jersey Learning Management Network (https://njlmn.rutgers.edu)
Please mail a check or money order, payable to UMDNJ-SPH to:
Juana Canela, UMDNJ-SPH - New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness
P.O. Box 2688, 335 George Street, Liberty Plaza Suite 3700, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2688
Please include name, address, affiliation, telephone number, and email address with your payment.
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For additional information contact:
Juana Canela at canelaju@umdnj.edu or call 732-235-4958
Sponsors and Supporters:
New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at the
University Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - School of Public Health
Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Greater Passaic Valley Public Health Nurses Association
Kent Consulting
New Jersey City University - College of Professional Studies
New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics, NJ Chapter
Monmouth University - Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing
Montclair State University, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences –
MPH in Community Health Education program
This program is funded in part by the
New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ-SPH, which is
supported by Cooperative Agreement #U90/CCU223257-05 from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
