RACP COVID-19 Vaccination Series

RACP COVID-19 Vaccination Series

RACP Congress 2021 brings you another engaging and informative session in the COVID-19 Vaccination series.

 

Chaired by Associate Professor Megan Rees and featuring speakers, Dr Chia Chong and Professor Kanta Subbarao, this series will explore the latest in vaccine science and provide an update on rollouts and what you should know.

 

Exploring the effectiveness of current vaccines, new strains, and real world data, this session will provide a comprehensive look at what we know.

 

This session will also explore the vaccine uptake and continue to build on what we have learned regarding strategies to address vaccine hesitancy, ways to discuss vaccines with patients, and provide useful strategies to address vaccine hesitancy within the community.

When: Thursday 25th March 2021
6pm-7.30pm AEDT
8pm-9.30pm NZDT
Where: Online
Cost: Free
RSVP: Register HERE

About your speakers
Associate Professor Megan Rees is a Respiratory and Sleep Physician with an interest in pulmonary infections. Her undergraduate medical degree is from the University of Melbourne, DTMH (Lond) and physician training was completed in the UK (MRCP) and FRACP and advanced training in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine in Australia.

Megan Rees is a consultant physician in Respiratory, Sleep and General Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is the RMH lead for the Australian Bronchiectasis Registry. Professor Rees is the co-chair of the Respiratory Infectious Diseases Special Interest Group of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians COVID-19 Expert Advisory Group. Megan is a member of the Disease-Modifying Treatment and Chemo-prophylaxis Panel of the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce.

Professor Kanta Subbarao is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She is a virologist and a physician with specialty training in paediatrics and paediatric infectious diseases. Prior to her arrival in Melbourne, she was a senior scientist at the US National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr Chia Chong MBBS FRACP is a Consultant Geriatrician member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is a geriatrician working in both hospital and community settings at Eastern Health, Victoria. She is co-author of the position statement Immunisation for Older People from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM).

Revisit the past COVID-19 Vaccination series webinars.
The previous sessions of the COVID-19 Vaccination series are now available for RACP member viewing. To view the previous sessions, select the link below:

25/02 Webinar – Australian vaccine rollout
10/03 Webinar – AoNZ vaccine rollout

Save the date
Final Session: Thursday, 22 April 2021

Please note: a copy of the recording with be accessible via NZCPHM for RACP non-members.