News Release 

TOMPKINS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Alice Cole, RN, MSE – Public Health Director

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 23, 2008
For more information contact:
Karen Bishop 274-6606 or Theresa Lyczko at 274-6710

 

“Vaccinations: Why Me?” — Panel discussion and speaker to address topic

 
September 23, 2008 – Jan Nichols will be the featured speaker in a discussion of vaccinations and vaccine preventable disease. Ms. Nichols, a polio survivor will share her personal story and discuss how polio has shaped her personal and professional life.

The session will take place on Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 6:00 – 8:15 pm at the Tompkins County Public Library in the Borg Warner room. The panel discussion is sponsored by the Ithaca Rotary Club and presented by the Tompkins County Health Department.

The panel will also include Jamie Loehr, MD, Cayuga Family Medicine, William Klepack, MD, Dryden Family Medicine and Medical Director at the Tompkins County Health Department and Jeffrey Snedeker, MD, Northeast Pediatrics, President - Tompkins County Board of Health, and faculty member at University Hospital in Syracuse where he teaches pediatric infectious disease.

The panel will provide an overview of vaccine preventable disease globally, disease incidence trends locally over the last decade, and alternatives to the childhood immunization schedule.

Free and open to the public.

 

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