2005

Baby Business: Two Models of Vaccination of the Newborn Child — Measles and HIV: Michael B. McChesney, MD
Virology and Immunology Unit
California National Primate Research Center
Focus: Lab Science
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From the Flintstones to the Jetsons: Changing Lanes on the Vaccine Superhighway en route to the Third Epidemiological Transition: George Armelagos, PhD
Professor and Chair, Anthropology
Emory University
Focus: History
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Tummy Trouble: Challenges in Developing a Vaccine for the Norwalk Virus: Mary Estes, PhD
Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Focus: Translational Science
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On the Road to Timbuktu: Attenuated Salmonella Typhi and Shigella as Live Oral Vaccines and Live Vectors: Myron Levine, MD, DTPH
Chair, Medical and Scientific Advisory Council Alzheimer's Association
Currently: Director, Farber Institute for Neurosciences Thomas Jefferson University Beginning summer 2007: Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Emory University and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience
Focus: Basic Science
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Hit Me with your Best Shot: Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Effects on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and Viral Pneumonia

Keith Klugman, PhD
Professor of Infectious Diseases
Department of International Health
Rollins School of Public Health

Cynthia Whitney, MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Focus: Clinical Science
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"The Killer That Stalked New York": Plot Outline: Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.
Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, & Dorothy Malone

Focus: Family Night
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Summer Vacation 2005: The VDC Membership!
Wherever there is a vaccine to disseminate, a vaccine preventable disease outbreak to examine, or fun to be had with friends and family -- VDC members will be there in force!
Focus: Rest & Relaxation
Attendance: 876

Shooting Up?: Immunizations in the United States — Success, Structure, and Stress: Alan Hinman, MD, MPH
Senior Public Health Scientist
Task Force for Child Survival and Development
Focus: Policy
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Kuang Chyuan Bing ("Mad Crazy Dog Disease"): Rabies in China — A Continuing Public Health Problem in the 21st Century: Zhen Fu, DVM, PhD
Professor
Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Georgia
Focus: Epidemiology
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The Truth about False Particles: Pseudovirion-based Approaches to HIV Vaccines: Paul Spearman, MD
Associate Professor (Pediatrics) and Division Director:
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology
Emory School of Medicine
Focus: Basic Science
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Death in the Cannibal Islands: The History of Epidemic Measles in 19th Century Fiji: David Morens, MD
Medical Historian and Medical Epidemiologist,
National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
Focus: History
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