Online Program
Promoting Immunizations in a Challenging Environment
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Cost: $ 25.00
Contact Hours 1.25
Objectives:
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify how recommendations on childhood immunizations have changed in the past year
- Identify how school nurses and other child health professionals may adapt their practices and communications to the rapidly changing immunization landscape in the US
Presenter:
Mary Beth Miotto, MD, MPH, FAAP is a general pediatrician at the Mattapan Community Health Center in Boston and serves as the Immediate President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP). Mary Beth has been a school health champion for her entire career, having served as medical director of eight Massachusetts school-based health centers and sat on the medical advisory board of a large urban school. Dr. Miotto often states that every pediatrician is a school physician because their patients spend over half of their waking hours in school and one of her proudest moments was accepting the Massachusetts School Nurse Organization Friend of School Nursing Award in April 2022.
Mary Beth completed her medical training at the George Washington University School of Medicine and her pediatric residency at the Children’s National Medical Center, both in Washington DC. She more recently earned her Master of Public Health with honors at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. Her clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of autism, complex ADHD, and learning disorders in the medical home, partnering with schools on medical and behavioral student accommodation plans, and improving information sharing between clinicians and schools. Dr. Miotto is an active leader in specialty and state medical societies and chairs the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Committee on Student Health and Sports Medicine, which published a school mental health toolkit in 2023. Dr. Miotto is a member of the AAP/HRSA Bright Futures Advisory Team, the AAP Committee on Psychosocial Effects on Child and Family Health, and the Autism Subcommittee of the AAP Council on Children with Disabilities. She was the lead author of an upcoming policy statement on Safe Administration of Medications in School on behalf of the AAP Council on School Health. Dr, Miotto was the 2024 recipient of the MMS Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service, the 2022 AAP Special Achievement Award and the 2008 National Association of Gifted Education Special Achievement Award.
Presenter Disclosure Statement:None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Continuing Education Information:
Northeastern University School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Provider Number 2019U003