AAP/AMA Immunization Congress
February 27-March 1, 2007
Chicago, IL

Agenda

Media
A press statement and interviews with selected participants are available. Please contact esobczyk@aap.org or mweinstein@aap.org with any questions.

Background Materials
The following materials were provided as background for the pediatric portion of the Immunization Congress.

• AAP Task Force on Immunization Discussion Paper
  • Executive Summary
  • Full Discussion Paper
  
  
  

• The Business Case for Pricing Vaccines Fact Sheet

• Infectious Diseases in Children Vaccine Financing Roundtable
  • Part 1 (Online)
  • Part 2 (Online)
  • Parts 1 and 2 (Word document)

• Stamford Advocate: We Must Change the Way We Administer Vaccinations
  

• Introductory Remarks
  • Jon Abramson- Stresses on the System
  • Dave Tayloe- Impact on Families and Practices
  
  
  
• Inequities Panel
  • Alan Hinman- Overview
  • Howard Backer- State Program Perspective
  • Tom James- Private Payer Perspective
  • Jeanne Santoli- Implementation Perspective
  • Jon Temte- Practitioner Perspective
  
  
  
• Business Costs Panel
  • Anne Francis- Overview
  • Elizabeth Greenbaum- Employer Perspective
  • Alan Rosenberg- Private Payer Perspective
  • Mike Severson- Practitioner Perspective
  
  
  
• Walt Orenstein's Next-Steps for Pediatric Practice

Presentations- Adult Discussion

• Introductory Remarks
  • Neal Halsey- Keynote
  • David Johnson- Plenary

   

• Financing Adolescent and Adult Vaccines Panel
  • Walt Orenstein- Federal Perspective
  • Wayne Rawlins- Private Payer Perspective
  • Jon Temte- Practitioner Perspective
  • Gus Birkhead- NVAC Perspective
  • Chris Colwell- Manufacturer Perspective

   

• Vaccine Access Panel
  • Laura Efros- Production and Distribution
  • Roger Baxter- FDA Licensing to ACIP
  • Alan Hinman- Building Infrastructure
  • Kristin Nichol- Improving Access
  • Emily Marcus Levine- Liability and Compensation

   

The following entities provided unrestricted funding in support of this Congress and its objectives: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Merck and Co, Novartis Vaccines, sanofi pasteur, United Healthcare, and Wyeth.