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Webinar: Will Influenza be Back? A Global Update and Strategies for Avoiding the Twindemic: Part 1

Name: Webinar: Will Influenza be Back? A Global Update and Strategies for Avoiding the Twindemic: Part 1
Start: 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-09-09T13:00:00-04:00

September 9, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Seasonal flu vaccines remain the best way to prevent the spread of influenza. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused healthcare providers to change how they operate to continue to provide essential services to patients. Maintaining immunization services is essential for protecting individuals and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks and reducing the burden of respiratory illness during the upcoming influenza season. With overlapping vulnerable populations, how can health care providers and public health experts prevent a “twindemic” of COVID-19 and influenza?

Webinar Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Review and discuss the epidemiology and burden of disease of influenza;
Discuss any updates to influenza vaccination recommendations;
Discuss the impact of co-circulating influenza and COVID-19 disease during the upcoming influenza vaccination season; and
Summarize innovative approaches to improving influenza immunization access during COVID-19.

Highlights of the webinar: As a result of this activity, the learner will expand their knowledge and competence on the influenza recommendations during the COVID pandemic.

Featured Presenter:

Litjen (L.J) Tan, MS, PhD

Dr. L.J Tan, MS, PhD,

Dr. Tan is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) and Co-Chair of the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit. Prior to joining the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), Dr. Tan was the Director of Medicine and Public Health at the American Medical Association (AMA), a position he held since 2008. From 1997 to 2008, he was the AMA’s Director of Infectious Disease, Immunology, and Molecular Medicine. Dr. Tan was a voting member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Vaccine Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2013, where he served on the adult immunization, vaccine safety, and healthcare worker immunization working groups, and chaired the immunization infrastructure working group. He also served for more than ten years as the AMA’s liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, where he served on the influenza, pneumococcal, zoster, and adult immunization working groups.

Dr. Tan is an editor for Vaccine, BMC Infectious Diseases, Medscape Infectious Diseases, and a member of the ESCMID Vaccine Study Group and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

Presentation Slides

Links from Webinar:

www.immunize.org

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We hope you will join us for this informative look at navigating the upcoming flu season amidst a pandemic in uncharted waters.

Click here to view archived webinar. CEU credits are now closed.

In case you miss it:

This webinar will also be recorded and archived on the WV Immunization Network’s event webpage. CEUs will be available until October 9, 2021 for those who view the live or archived webinar and complete the evaluation.

Continuing Education:

Disclosure:

Information concerning faculty, speaker and planning committee relationships will be disclosed to the audience from the podium. The presenters have disclosed has that no financial relationships exist

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by __WV Immunization Network and CAMC Health Education and Research Institute. CAMC Health Education and Research Institute 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.

Physicians-. The CAMC Institute designates this virtual activity for a maximum of 1 hour for AMA PRA Category I Credit(s)™ . Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses The CAMC Health Education and Research Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This offering has been approved for 1 contact hour (JA0026-22-21-373) Expiration date is 2 years from the course dat

Pharmacy – The CAMC Health Education and Research Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. To receive credit, participants must complete the sign-in sheet, attend each session and complete an evaluation. ACPE credits will be posted online to the CPE Monitor within six (6) weeks following the activity. This knowledge based activity provides 1 contact hour (JA0006133-9999-21-040-L06-P)

Physician, Pharmacy, and Nursing CEUs have been approved for the live and archive available for the archived webinar until October 9, 2021

The Office of Laboratory Services will issue certificates to laboratorians who participate in this webinar. OLS is not a certified continuing education provider. The certificates are only valid for the WV Laboratory Practitioners License CEU requirement. Archived participates will have until October 9, 2021 to review the webinar for CEU credits.

Marshall University School of Medicine Department of Dentistry & Oral Surgery is an ADA CERP recognized provider.

This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education

Recognition Program (ADA CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to ADA CERP at www.ada.org/goto/cerp.

Questions?

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Details

Date:: September 9, 2021
Time:: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm