Webinar: Updates and Tools for Meeting Back To School Immunizations

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the immunization coverage rates among infants, kindergartners, and adolescents.
2. Explain how the Bureau for Public Health receives, reviews, and makes determinations of medical exemptions.
3. State the essential Vaccines for Children policies and requirements.
4. Recall WVSIIS reporting requirements and benefits.
5. Identify common issues and solutions to challenges of reporting to WVSIIS.

SPEAKERS:

• Billie Moore, BS,
  Director of the Division of Immunization Services
• Jeffrey Neccuzi, BS,
  Vaccines for Children (VFC) Coordinator, Division of Immunization Services
• Carolyn Smith, ED.D, MHSc,
  Immunization Coordinator, Division of Immunization Services

Billie Moore  has served as the  Director of the Division of Immunization Services of the Bureau for Public Health since July 2020. As Director, she manages the completion and submission of all state and federal reporting requirements related to funds management and grant required activities for immunizations for children in West Virginia. She has 18+ years in the Managed Care industry, most recently with UniCare Health Plan of West Virginia for 12 years as the Director of Marketing. She has held a WV State Health Insurance license since 2003.

Jeff Neccuzi was West Virginia’s first Vaccines for Children (VFC) Coordinator at its inception in October 1994 and became the VFC coordinator again in 2019 after serving 17 years as the Program Manager. Jeff manages vaccine procurement, provider ordering, VFC enrollment and provider participation. Jeff has 27 years of experience in Immunization Services which he has used to participate in various workgroups and committees.

Carolyn Smith is the immunization coordinator of the WV Statewide Immunization Information System (WVSIIS) and, has served as a Health and Human Resource Specialist for over nine years as a trainer for the WVSIIS. Her duties include providing training to healthcare providers for the WVSIIS to ensure that all immunizations given to children under the age of 18 are entered in the registry and to provide assistance for accomplishing the mission of the immunization program which is to prevent and control vaccine-preventable diseases among children, adolescents, and adults of West Virginia. Her other responsibilities also include working with healthcare providers in West Virginia in helping them to connect their electronic health systems to the state immunization registry to meet meaningful objectives set forth by the CDC

In case you missed it …

Click here to view the archived webinar. 

For more information please contact:

Barb Thaxton, Program Manager
WV Immunization Network
Email Barb