Getting Prepared for Flu Season

Learn more about the CDC’s vaccination recommendations for 2015

Join healthcare colleagues for VHQC’s upcoming webinar: Immunizations Are Not a Shot in the Dark. The event will be held Tuesday, July 28 from noon to 1 p.m. Our speaker, David Kim, MD, MA, deputy associate director for adult immunizations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will share immunization recommendations for 2015. We will also discuss your challenges to documenting, tracking and administering adult immunizations to the patients you serve.

This free webinar is directed to a wide range of healthcare settings including:

• Physician Practices
• Home Health
• Nursing Homes
• Hospitals

As the Quality Innovation Network for Maryland and Virginia, VHQC is leading a number of quality improvement projects for physician practices, nursing homes, home health agencies and others. Visit http://qin.vhqc.org to learn more.

About our speaker:
Dr. Kim has been with the CDC since 1995 and joined the Immunization Services Division in 2014. Among other duties, he leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Adult Immunizations Working Group and presides over the adult immunization schedule in the United States. Prior to his work on adult immunizations, Dr. Kim worked on HIV drug resistance surveillance, public health emergency preparedness, managing quarantine stations, refugee health, and cruise ship epidemiology.

He is a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and received training in internal medicine at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.