SDIC Summits
The San Diego Immunization Coalition hosts summits biannually.
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2024 Kick the Flu +2 Summit
Act Now Immunizations Champions!
Please join for our hybrid 20th Annual Kick the Flu + 2 San Diego Immunization Coalition Summit
"A Call to Arms"!
on Thursday, 8/29/24, from 12:30 – 4:00 PM at the County Operations Center - Chambers,
5520 Overland Ave, San Diego, CA 92123.
*Nursing CEUs and CHES Credits will be provided
Speakers:
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Robert Schechter, MD, MPH - Chief, Immunization Branch, California Department of Public Health
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Dr. Pia Pannaraj, MD, MPH - Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at UCSD and President of California Immunization Coalition
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Danelle Wallace, MPH – Senior Epidemiologist with the Epidemiology and Immunization Services Branch of the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency
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Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS - Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Science Communicator
We are thrilled to welcome three panelist speakers: Glory Nagtalon, a nurse from Kaiser Permanente, Heather Simpson from Back to the Vax, and pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Pia Pannaraj from UCSD. These speakers will offer further perspectives on this year's vaccine hesitancy discussion.
Part 1 - 2024 - KTF2 Recording
Recording - Part 1
Part 2 - 2024 - KTF2 Recording
Recording - Part 2
PowerPoint
2024 Spring Summit
Please join us at the 2024 Spring Into Action San Diego Immunization Coalition Summit on
Wednesday, 4/3/24, from 1:00 – 4:00 PM at the County Operations Center Chambers.
The Summit will highlight the significance of routine immunization schedules. Hear from esteemed speakers, including:
• Dr. Mark Sawyer - Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Infectious Disease Specialist from Rady’s Children’s Hospital
• Alana McGrath – Epidemiologist II at the County of San Diego’s Epidemiology and Immunization Services Branch
• Kelley Leung – Immunization Branch Nurse Consultant with the California Department of Public Health
• Michael Powell – Chief, Registry and Assessment Section with the California Department of Public Health
Also, hear from Dr. Marsha Spitzer (Family Health Centers of San Diego), Dr. Erik Hogen (Scripps Health), and
Dr. Kenneth Morris (Children’s Primary Care Medical Group) as they address parental concerns about immunizations.
We will also be providing Nursing CEUs as well as CHES Credits!
Speakers:
Danelle Wallace, MPH
County of San Diego
Influenza, COVID-19, and RSV 2022-2023 Surveillance Summary
Mark Sawyer, MD
University of California, San Diego
Rady's Children's Hospital
Flu + 2: What’s New?
Jerome Sigua, MD
Sanofi
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Burden of Disease in All Infants and Potential Prevention Strategies
Kenneth Morris, MD, FAAP
Children’s Primary Care Medical Group
Clinic Considerations for Influenza, COVID-19, and RSV Vaccinations/Injectables
2023 Kick the Flu + 2 Summit
2023 Back ot the Future Summit
Speakers:
Danelle Wallace, MPH
County of San Diego
Predictors of Incomplete Vaccination Schedules Among Children and Adolescents in San Diego County During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mark Sawyer, MD
University of California, San Diego
Rady's Children's Hospital
Improving Childhood Immunizations Rates After COVID-19
Victoria Sowers, MHI, BSN, RN, CHC
Passport Health
Travel after the COVID Pandemic