SEASON OPENER!!
FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS!!**
SEPT. MEETING LOCATION:
Rollins Auditorium & Online
Hybrid VDC
September 13, 2023
- Focus:
- Vaccine Delivery Technology
- Attendance: 725
Microneedle Patches:
'No More Tears' Technology
Innovation for Elimination:
The Role of Microneedle Patches in Measles and Rubella Elimination
James L. Goodson, RN, MPH
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First Things First:
What Is A Microneedle Patch and How Do You Build One?
Mark R. Prausnitz, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Making the Leap:
Moving Microneedle Patches From Bench to Bedside
Michael Royals, DVM
Micron Biomedical, Inc.
Microneedles for Microhumans:
Findings from the First Ever Clinical Trial of a Microneedle Patch to Deliver Measles and Rubella Vaccines to Infants and Toddlers
Ed Clarke, MD, PhD
Head of Vaccines and Immunity
Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at LSTHM
- Clubhouse Location:
- Rollins Auditorium
Claudia Nance Rollins Building,
Rollins School of Public Health
- Agenda: (all times Eastern time zone)
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- 6:00pm — wine, cheese, networking
6:30pm — Online presenters, members, and guests login
6:35pm — Meeting convenes
8:00pm — Q & A
8:15pm — Adjourn, braced to face the Fall semester* - 6:00pm — wine, cheese, networking
*Note the lack of post-program Dinner .... The VDC is attempting a SOFT RE-LAUNCH back into in-person meetings. So for the first couple of months we will provide pre-meeting reception food only.
Dear Vacineers,
WE'RE BACK!!
After almost exactly 3.5 years of doing this, that, and the other, to protect ourselves and stay sane while Flattening the Curve, the peoples of planet Earth are, we hope, finally getting to a place where masks are now an accepted fact of life for Santa Claus and in-person events have fully resumed.
A lot has happened since March 2020, some of it great (vaccines! paxlovid! toilet paper deliveries!), some of it novel (The definition of "To Zoom" has morphed from "To move or travel very quickly" to "To sit on your butt and stare at a screen all day"), some of it generating groan-worthy memes (check these out), and a LOT of it really truly very awfully horrid (isolation, supply chain break downs, precipitous drops in childhood vaccination rates, joblessness, giving birth/being sick/dying alone, mortuary trucks, pandemic death).
To Date:
| Confirmed Cases | Confirmed Deaths | Vaccine Doses Administered |
| 770,085,713 | 6,956,173 | 13,499,983,736 !! |
But while the rest of the world coped with zoom gone wild (remember the "I am not a Cat" lawyer and the football helmet-wearing Italian priest?) the VDC rolled smoothly on, enjoying 24 online meetings during which, because members who had left Atlanta in the last 25 years realized that they could now begin attending online, registrations for our monthly meetings routinely topped 1,000.
But, at long last, the VDC is re-entering the in-person world. Slowly. Gingerly. And without turning our backs on our non-Atlanta members and guests.
So, welcome to VDC: The Hybrid Edition!
But wait, there's more! Our pre-pandemic VDC clubhouse, the WHSCAB plaza and auditorium, is undergoing a season-long renovation so VDC 2023-2024 will be a Moveable Feast. THIS month, the School of Public Health will be hosting us, next month, the School of Medicine.
Here is how it works (CHOOSE ONE):
A. I'M INTERESTED IN THE PROGRAM BUT CAN NOT ATTEND ON SEPT 13
1. Register for the program
2. Indicate that you plan to attend ONLINE
3. Check your email the day after the program for a link to the recording
4. Enjoy!
B. I PLAN TO BE THERE IN-PERSON ON SEPT 13
1. Register for the program
2. Indicate that you plan to attend in-person
3. Using the link or information on the confirmation page, add event to your calendar
4. For networking purposes: Wear your work badge, make a name tag, or ask ChatGPT how to introduce yourself to people at the pre-program reception
C. I PLAN TO BE THERE ONLINE ON SEPT 13
1. Register for the program
2. Indicate that you plan to attend online
3. Using the link or information on the confirmation page, add event and URL to your calendar
4. Log on at 6:30pm Eastern on the day of the program
5. Say Hello to our presenters, some of whom are also attending virtually
Hope to see you at the Club on September 13,
-Kimbi
Your friendly neighborhood Vaccine Dinner Club Goddess
**Dear People Who Had This Message Forwarded to Them,
POP TEST!
The Vaccine Dinner Club:
- Is a 5,000+ member organization now entering its 25th year that exists to facilitate networking, dialogue, and collaboration between researchers, clinicians, policy makers, historian/journalists, and science-savvy members of the general public who are interested in vaccine need, history, policy, discovery, development, testing, deployment, use, and/or evaluation. Also in diseases that we WISH were vaccine preventable.
- Is going Hybrid this Fall. In addtion to the truly excellent science talk that everyone will enjoy, in-person attendees are also invited to wine, cheese & networking reception before the program and, starting in a couple of months, a casual buffet dinner afterwards.
- Has two missions:
1) To advance the practice of vaccine science and
2) to have a really good time at our monthly meetings. - Is THE place for inquiring minds to be, in-person or online, on the first Wednesday evening (usually) of every month during the academic year.
- All of the above
If you picked "e: All of the above" – Congratulations, you have what it takes to be a VDC member or guest! Read more about the VDC and consider joining us in-person or online September 13.
Want to join the Club but can't attend this month's meeting? CLICK HERE.
Kimbi Hagen, EdD
VDC Director/Goddess