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