317 - Closing Plenary Session: All About Vaccines: The Individual, the Community, the World

10/6/2019

9:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Room: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC (3rd Floor)

MOC Credit: Maximum of 1.5 hours of MOC Credit
CME Credit: Maximum of 1.5 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACPE Credit: ACPE 1.5 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: 0221-9999-19-434-L06-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

report on the re-emergence of neglected diseases due to modern 21st century forces of war, political instability, antiscience, urbanization, and climate change, and the new vaccines required to combat these conditions
describe key enabling technologies for the discovery and development of vaccines for emerging infectious diseases
describe this new era in which state-of-the art vaccines are being developed to improve the lives of families in in the world’s most impoverished countries

Presentations:

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
2914 - Neglected Disease and Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of War, Political Instability, Antiscience, and Climate Change
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
2915 - Vaccines for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: From Science to Implementation
Anthony S. Fauci, MD – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
2916 - Developing Vaccines for Poverty-Related Diseases: A New Global Public Health Model
Penny M. Heaton, MD – Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

Moderator(s)

Cesar Arias, MD, MSc, PhD

Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX

Disclosure: American Society for Microbiology: Fees for Editor of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Money paid to University, Other Financial or Material Support
Entasis Pharmaceuticals: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
MeMed Diagnostics: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
Merck: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
UptoDate: Other Financial or Material Support, Royalties from a Chapter
Cynthia Sears, MD

Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, Maryland

Disclosure: BMS: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
Kristina Bryant, MD, FPIDS

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Disclosure: MedStudy: Honoraria for development of education products, Other Financial or Material Support
Pfizer: Research Grant

Speaker(s)

Anthony Fauci, MD

Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, Maryland

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Penny Heaton, MD

CEO
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
Cambridge, MA

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD

Founding Dean National School of Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose