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IRC 2002 – a Well Attended, Collaborative, and Successful Conference
In its third year as a National Immunization Program conference, the Immunization Registry Conference was attended by over 450 public health professionals from throughout the United States and her territories, as well as Canada, Ireland, and Sweden. This is an 80% increase in attendance from the 2001 Immunization Registry Conference held in Little Rock, Arkansas. The 2002 Immunization Registry Conference debuted an on-line abstract submission system; an on-line conference registration system; and established a conference web page as part of the National Immunization Program’s web site. These actions facilitated the expeditious exchange of information among the various conference planners, partners, and sponsors, as well as individual conference participants.
The 2002 Immunization Registry Conference championed the initiative to fully include all of the external partners and sponsors in the planning and organizing process of the conference agenda, rather than allow them to serve customary advisory capacity. To achieve this end, everyone—National Immunization Program, American Immunization Registry Association, Every Child By Two, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, The Task Force for Child Survival and Development, All Kids Count, The Center for Innovation in Health Information Systems, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Committee on Immunization Registry Standards for Electronic Transactions—reserved their individual organizational objectives, in a pursuit of unselfish efforts to develop a conference that reflected a blend of programmatic and technical subject matter that would endeavor to serve the best interests of everyone within the larger immunization registry community. Highlights of the 2002 Immunization Registry Conference included a keynote address by Dr. Eve Slater, Assistant Secretary of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and plenary presentations by Dr. Louis Cooper, Past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Linda Wolfe, President of the National Association of School Nurses, Dr. Isaac Weisfuse, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Disease Control New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Dr. Raymond Strikas, Director, Smallpox Preparedness and Response Activity, National Immunization Program.
Source: Greg Lanman, CDC NIP