Experts in the Hot Seat! Powering Up Vaccines in Your Pediatric Practice
Webinar/Online
Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 7:00pm MT - 8:30pm MT
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Topic
Join us to share your experience and learn from experts about how to overcome the most common challenges when discussing vaccines with patients, parents, and caregivers.
Credits Offered
This event offers
1.5 contact hours
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
AANC.
Additional Information
Agenda
Vaccine Safety: The Highest Standards in Medicine
- Prelicensure vaccine safety standards
- Postlicensure vaccine safety surveillance system
- Emergency Use Authorizations and COVID-19: a microcosm of modern vaccine possibilities and challenges
- Common safety misconceptions and responses
Vaccine Messaging: Following the Evidence to Change Attitudes and Behaviors
- Determinants of vaccine hesitancy among parents and caregivers
- Important facets before the vaccine recommendation
- Effective vaccine recommendations and supporting evidence
Vaccine Services: Removing Barriers for Children
- Reducing disparities in vaccines
- Promoting vaccines outside of the clinic
- Responding to requests for altered vaccine schedules
- Debate on dismissal of vaccine-refusing families
Goal Statement
The goal of this activity is to improve the knowledge and competence of learners in an effort to optimize treatment for patients with vaccines.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and nurses who provide vaccine services for children and adolescents.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Address vaccine safety concerns from parents and caregivers with facts about prelicensure safety standards and postlicensure safety surveillance
- Employ evidence-based communication strategies to inform and motivate vaccine-hesitant parents and caregivers toward acceptance
- Update systems and initiatives to improve uptake and mitigate barriers for timely vaccination among pediatric populations
Speakers
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Engagement
Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Population Health
Stanford University School of Medicine
Attending Physician
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Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician
Medical Director, International Patient and Destination Services Program
President, Lurie Medical/Dental Staff
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Ch
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
George Washington University
Washington, DC