Webinar – ACIP Updates to Pneumococcal Vaccines

Please join the Massachusetts Adult Immunization Coalition and Dr. Camille Kotton of Mass General Hospital and the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for an educational session around the recent updates to Pneumococcal Vaccine. This free event will run on Thursday, June 9, 2022, from 12:15pm-1:00pm.

Dr. Kotton will provide a brief overview on pneumococcal disease, discuss the updated pneumococcal vaccine recommendations, and present clinical cases.

Camille Nelson Kotton MD, FIDSA, FAST is the Clinical Director of the Transplant Infectious Disease and Immunocompromised Host Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. She was chair of The Infectious Disease Community of Practice of The American Society of Transplantation (2012-2018). From 2007-2013, she was the president of The Transplant Infectious Disease Section of The Transplantation Society. She is the first transplant infectious disease specialist to be a councilor of The Transplantation Society (2020). Dr. Kotton has authored the past three versions of the American Society of Transplantation Travel Medicine guidelines and has been an author of the CDC Yellow Book Chapter on Immunocompromised Hosts and Travel for over a decade. She is a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and is involved in national decisions regarding COVID-19 and other vaccines.

For more information about the program and continuing education, please contact Amy Sgueglia at amy_sgueglia@jsi.com.