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Thrombocytopenic Thrombosis after Janssen Vaccine | Public Health and CDC/FDA Updates | April 19, 2021

Date of Presentation: April 19, 2021

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Virology  

Keywords: #j&j  #Janssen  #johnson & johnson  #public health updates  #thrombocytopenic thrombosis  

In this series of presentations, ECHO faculty members, Dr. Thomas Weiser, Medical Epidemiologist and Ex-Officio Representative from IHS on the ACIP, and Dr. Harry Brown, Medical Epidemiologist with USET, review COVID-19 vaccines, provide a summary of the April 14th ACIP Emergency meeting, and discuss thrombocytopenic thrombosis after the Janssen vaccine.  Then, Dr. Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, ECHO faculty member and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Idaho Division of Public Health, provides a public health practice update and a number of valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by HHS, CDC and FDA.

Recording:

Presented by:

Dr. Harry J Brown, Dr. Tom Weiser, Dr. Eileen M Dunne

Harry J Brown, MD, is a retired Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service. He spent over 26 years in uniform, and all of his career was spent in the Indian Health Service. He attended the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and completed a residency in family medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. Harry is board certified in family medicine. He served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Nashville Area from 2007 – 2014, and as Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Billings Area for 2015. He currently works as a hospitalist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, NC, and as a medical epidemiologist for the United South and Eastern Tribes in Nashville, TN as part of their Tribal Epidemiology Center.

Thomas Weiser, MD, is the Medical Epidemiologist for the Portland Area Indian Health Service assigned to the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and NW Tribal Epidemiology Center. He has been with PHS since 1998, initially serving as an IHS Medical Officer in Whiteriver, Arizona from 1998-2005. He completed the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service from 2005-2007. In addition to supporting general public health and epidemiologic research at the NW Tribal Epidemiology Center, Tom is also the Co-Chair of the Portland Area IHS Institutional Review Board. Nationally, he has served on the IHS Heroin, Opioids and Pain Efforts (HOPE) Committee as the Chair of the Metrics Sub-committee and since 2018 has served as the IHS ex-officio representative to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Eileen M. Dunne, PhD, is an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assigned to the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare. Eileen has a Ph.D. in microbiology from Boston University and spent nine years at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia conducting clinical research on pediatric infections and pneumococcal vaccines. Her primary interests include infectious diseases, immunization, and public health.

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Date added: April 19, 2021