Connecticut Cancer Partnership Summit: "HPV Vaccination: Progress and Challenges"
Location: The Pond House in the Elizabeth Park Conservancy
Register: http://events.r20.constantcont...
You are invited to join the Connecticut Cancer Partnership's HPV Workgroup in an informational summit on HPV vaccination. Topics to be covered include HPV-related disease, rates of vaccination in Connecticut, the roles of oral health practitioners and school -based health centers in HPV education and vaccination, and improvement projects in pediatric practices.
Agenda
8:45 Welcome: Dr. Jody Terranova, Deputy Commissioner, CT DPH
9:00 Keynote: HPV: A Global to Local Perspective. Mitchell Clark, MD, FRCSC, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Yale School of Medicine
9:35 State of HPV Vaccination Efforts in Connecticut: Deepa Mavani, MPH, CT DPH Immunization Program
10:00 Pediatric practice improvement project: Terri Bernstein, APRN, Greenwich Pediatrics
10:35 Break
10:55 HPV-related oral and oropharyngeal disease, patient education, and prevention: an oral healthcare perspective: Easwar Natarajan, DMSc, Associate Professor in the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences, UConn School of Dentistry
11:30 School-based Health Centers and HPV Vaccination: Rachel DeMarco, APRN, Community Health Center, Inc.
11:50 How can we continue to make progress? Connecticut Cancer Partnership’s HPV Vaccination Workgroup
12: 00 Adjourn
Speakers
CT Department of Public Health
Jody Terranova, DO, MPADeputy CommissionerState of Connecticut
Deepa Mavani, MPHConnecticut Department of Public Health Immunization ProgramGreenwich Pediatric Associates
Terri Bernstein, DNP, APRN, CPNP, FNP-BCNurse PractitionerUConn School of Dentistry
Easwar Natarajan, DMScAssociate Professor, Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic SciencesCommunity Health Center, Inc.
Rachel DeMarco, APRN