North Dakota Immunization Conference
July 17 & 18, 2018 - Bismarck Event Center - Bismarck, ND
Conference Objectives
- Explore strategies and best practices to increase immunization coverage rates
- Evaluate communication strategies for responding to questions from vaccine hesitant families
- Examine about key changes in school and child care immunization requirements
- Hear the story of a young person lost to a vaccine preventable disease and how his mother's advocacy work continues to protect other children from the same disease
- Examine immunocompromising conditions and which vaccines are indicated for those patients
- Review a recent vaccine preventable disease outbreak in a neighboring state
- Discuss updates to the child, adolescent, and adult immunization schedule
Who Should Attend?
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Pharmacists
- Public Health Professionals
- Anyone interested in immunizations
Topics Covered
- Adult Immunization Update
- Billing for Immunizations
- Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Update
- Evaluating Clinician Led HPV AFIX Visits
- Head and Neck Cancers
- HPV Vaccinations
- Immunizations for International Travelers
- Immunization Recommendations for Immunocompromised Patients
- Measles Outbreak
- Meningococcal Vaccines
- School and Childcare Requirements
- Somalian Community Outreach
- Vaccine Hesitant Families
Companies Exhibiting
- American Cancer Society
- AstraZeneca
- DeltaTrak
- Dynavax
- GlaxoSmithKline
- LogTag Recorders
- Meningitis Angels
- Merck Vaccine Division
- North Dakota Department of Health
- North Dakota State University Center for Immunization Research and Education
- Pfizer
- Retractable Technologies, Inc.
- Sanofi Pasteur
- TempArmour Refrigeration
- TruMed Systems
The Immunization Conference will take place at the Bismarck Event Center
The Event Center is located at: 315 South 5th Street, Bismarck, ND 58504