CDC Director Joins Leading Medical Experts to Share Developments about Seasonal Influenza
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) presents key information for the upcoming flu season every fall, and this year – a pandemic year -- NFID joins leading medical experts to call for Americans to be vaccinated against all types of influenza. An adequate supply of seasonal influenza vaccine is expected, and is already being distributed.
A panel including experts from academia, government, health professional societies and the public health field will address the need to make seasonal influenza vaccination a priority.
-- Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
-- Anne Schuchat, MD, Director, National Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases, CDC
-- Gregory A. Poland, MD, Mayo Clinic, Chair, Adult Immunization Advisory
Board, American College of Physicians
-- Cora L. Christian, MD, AARP Board of Directors
-- David T. Tayloe, Jr., MD, FAAP, President, American Academy of
Pediatrics
-- Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, Immediate Past President, American Medical
Association
-- William Schaffner, MD, President-Elect, NFID, Program Moderator,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
DATE/TIME: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 10 a.m.
WHERE: The National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW,
13th Floor, First Amendment Lounge, Washington, DC 20045
(Reporters outside of the DC area are encouraged to
participate by telephone or webcast and should call for
log-in details.)
Reuters, 09/02/09