2009
January 7
Immunization in the United States in 2009:
On the Verge of Breakdown, Breakthrough, or Both?
Ann Schuchat, MD
RADM, US Public Health Service
Assistant Surgeon General
Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
VDC Charter Member
Attendance: 348
February 3
- Old Age Ain’t for Sissies:
Immunosenescence and Vaccination in the Aged - Richard Aspinall, MD
Chair of Translational Medicine
Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Bottling the Fountain of Youth?: Potential Causes and Strategies for Immunosenescence Reversal
Kohtaro Fujihashi, PhD
Co-Director, Immunobiology Vaccine Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Vintage Mucosa: Immunity in the Aged
Janet McElhaney, MD
UConn Center on Aging
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Futurama: Designing Novel Approaches for Influenza Vaccines
in the Elderly
Attendance: 275
March 4
- Can 1 + 1 ever make 3?:
The Evidence for Vaccination, Mitochondrial Disease, and Autism - Douglas C. Wallace, PhD
Organized Research Unit for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics (MAMMAG)
University of California Irvine
Attendance: 335
April 1
- Early Lessons from our Mother:
Prenatal Infections,in-flew-Enza, and Infant Development
Christopher L. Coe, PhD - WB Cannon Professor (BioPsychology)
University of Wisconsin Madison
Attendance: 197
May 6
- Simultaneous Administration of Vaccines: How Many is Too Many?
Well, That Depends on Who You Ask... - Melinda Wharton, MD, MPH
Acting Director, Immunization Safety Office
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
CDC - Andrew Kroger, MD
Medical Officer, Immunization Services Division
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
CDC
Attendance: 219
June 3
- Can a naughty Gal* and uncomplex Man save your liver?
You be the judge!: People, hepatitis, glycobiology, and the
theory of everything
*(G naught) - Timothy M. Block, PhD
- President and Director, Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research
President, Hepatitis B Foundation
Director, Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Attendance: 177
July-August
- Summer Vacation 2007
- 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!
Attendance: 2,103
September 2
- From Pathogen to People to Policy:
Vaccine Research in Africa - Susan Allen, MD, MPH
Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Project
Eric Hunter, PhD - Emory Vaccine Center
Attendance: 498
October 7
- You Went to All that Trouble to Build It: So Why Won't they Come?:
The Reasons for, and Repercussions of, Vaccine Refusal - Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology,
Rollins School of Public Health Affiliate Faculty, Emory Vaccine Center
Attendance: 344
November 4
- Vaccinology meets Genomics ...
The Beginning of a Beautiful Relationshiop - Timothy D. Read, PhD
- Division of Infectious Disease,
Emory School of Medicine
Attendance: 255
December
- Cancelled due to death in family