Understanding and Talking with Vaccine-hesitant Patients - Webinar 

Join HealthInsight for an immunizations webinar that will focus on practitioners being able to understand and address patients' concerns regarding vaccines and patient hesitation. Participants will learn communication techniques in order to motivate patients to get needed vaccines.

Join the webinar via this link: http://bit.ly/2xxepgY

Objectives: 

• To learn successful approaches to address patient hesitation regarding vaccinations.
• Understand variations in patients’ attitudes towards vaccinations.
• To improve communication between health care providers and patients.

Speaker: Gregory D. Zimet, PhD

Dr. Zimet is a Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Psychology in the Section of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Center for HPV Research. In addition, he is the immediate past-president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Dr. Zimet started investigating attitudes about vaccines for adolescents in the mid-1990s.  Much of his research has involved the study of vaccine acceptance and refusal, with a primary focus over the past 15 years on behavioral and social determinants of HPV vaccination. His studies have focused on adolescents and young adults, parents of adolescents, and health care providers, and include evaluations of vaccine communication intervention strategies. His adolescent vaccination research has included collaborations with investigators across the United States, Canada, the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands and Malaysia.