When

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
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Where

Milltop Banquet and Conference Center 
802 Mulberry Street
Noblesville, IN 46060
 

 
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Contact

Lisa Robertson 
Indiana Immunization Coalition 
317-628-7116 
director@vaccinateindiana.org 
 

Meningitis B Dinner and Program 

The Indiana Immunization Coalition is hosting a Meningitis B dinner and program at the Mill Top Banquet and Conference Center.  We hope that you will join us!

5:00 to 6:00pm: Cocktails and Social Hour

6:00 to 9:00pm: Dinner and Program

Keynote speakers include Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley and Patti Wukovits (more information below on the speakers).

The event is on the evening of the first day of the Indiana Association of School Nurses' annual conference.

***CNE will be awarded.

Speaker information:

Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM the Derrol Dawkins, MD Endowed Chair in Adolescent Medicine, is the Division Director for Adolescent Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama.  She is also the Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Community Engagement and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.

Dr. Coyne-Beasley is involved in the development of policy for adolescent health and vaccines. She was a voting member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, appointed by the U.S. Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, to develop vaccine policy for the U.S. She chaired the Adult Immunization ACIP work group and remains on the HPV and Adult Immunization workgroups. Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley has extensive experience working with adolescents and parents on vaccination issues. 

Patti Wukovits, BSN, RN is the Executive Director of the Kimberly Coffey Foundation, formed in 2012 in memory of Kimberly Coffey who died of Meningitis B.  Ms. Wukovits is a leading national advocate and educator for the importance of the Meningitis B vaccine, and recognizing the early symptoms of the disease.  The Foundation's vision is a world without meningococcal disease, so that no other family must endure the loss of a child or have a loved one experience the devastating effects of the disease.