Agenda: Immunization Finance Washington DC Workshop
Lecture Room
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Session 1: Welcoming Remarks
Rosemary Chalk, Senior Program Officer, Institute of Medicine (moderator)
Susanne Stoiber, Executive Officer, Institute of Medicine
David R. Smith, Chair, IOM Committee on Immunization Finance Dissemination Workshops
Walter Orenstein, Associate Surgeon General and Director, National Immunization Program
Session 2: Building the Infrastructure to Support National Immunization Goals: State and County Perspectives
David R. Smith (moderator)
Donald Williamson, Alabama Department of Public Health
Natalie Smith, Director, Immunization Program for the State of California
Discussants:
Dianne White Delisi, Texas State House of Representatives
Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles Health Department
Question & Answer
Session 3: The Role of Private Sector Providers: Service Delivery, Record-Keeping, and Performance Incentives
Samuel Katz, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University (moderator)
David Tayloe, community pediatrician in private practice in rural North Carolina, representative from the American Academy of Pediatrics
Carol Wilhoit, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
John Fontanesi, Community Health Pediatrics Department, University of California at San Diego \
Suzanne Mercure, National Business Coalition on Health
Question & Answer
Session 4: Unresolved Problems and Future Challenges
David R. Smith (moderator)
Sara Rosenbaum, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University
William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University
Julie Gonen, Center for Prevention and Health Services, Washington Business Group on Health
Carey Vinson, American Association of Health Plans
Question & Answer
Session 5: Congressional Views
Brian Hickey, Seante Subcommittee on Health
Dayle Lewis, Office of Representative Steny Hoyer (D-Md)
Question & Answer
Concluding Remarks and Adjourn
David Smith, Texas Tech University
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