PCC Webinar: Rolling Up Our Sleeves: The Effort to Vaccinate Americans

As millions of people across the country roll up their sleeves to receive COVID-19 shots, many sectors are also rolling up their sleeves and getting to work in this massive undertaking. Primary care has very much been in the mix—answering patient questions, helping to overcome vaccine hesitancy and beginning to administer the vaccines. We have the experience, assets and skills to help meet the country’s vaccine goals. But for widespread immunity to happen rapidly and efficiently, it will take coordination and cooperation by primary care and other sectors. And there are many challenges, requirements and considerations, from patient concerns about the vaccine, to differences in vaccine effectiveness, to data collection and sharing, and more recently, issues related to virus mutations. In this webinar, four experts provide different perspectives on the role of primary care and other sectors as the distribution of the vaccines ramps up.

Panelists:

  • Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, FACP, FRCP, FIDSA, Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer | American College of Physicians
  • Angelica Geter, DrPH, MPH, Chief Strategy Officer | Black Women's Health Imperative
  • David Fairchild, MD, MPH, Medical Officer, CVS MinuteClinic; Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Lloyd Michener, MD | Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Moderator: Ann Greiner, President and CEO | Primary Care Collaborative

Links to resources mentioned during the webinar and other helpful resources on this topic:

Angelica Geter

Chief Strategy Officer, Black Women's Health Imperative
Through research, legislation, and corporate engagement, Dr. Geter leads national efforts at the Black Women's Health Imperative to decrease health disparities and the impact of racism on Black women’s health. She was the first-ever Chief Health Officer for the City of Atlanta. She led the COVID-19 prevention, surveillance, and preparedness efforts for the Mayor’s Pandemic Coordination Team. Her leadership resulted in a multi-million dollar partnership to establish COVID-19 testing and treatment services for Atlanta residents and the development of the City of Atlanta's COVID-19 surveillance dashboard. read more

Ann Greiner, MCP

President & Chief Executive Officer, Primary Care Collaborative
Ann Greiner serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), where she is focused on defining and implementing an advocacy, research and education agenda that furthers comprehensive, team-based and patient-centered primary care.  read more

Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, MACP, FRCP, FIDSA, FAMWA, FEFIM

Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, American College of Physicians
Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, MACP, FRCP, FIDSA, FAMWA, FEFIM, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the American College of Physicians (ACP). She is the immediate past chair of the board of directors. read more

David Fairchild, MD, MPH

Medical Officer, CVS MinuteClinic
Dr. Fairchild joined CVS Health in 2019 as the Chief Medical Officer for MinuteClinic and Senior Vice President and Associate CMO within the CVS Health enterprise. In the preceding four years, he was a Director at BDC Advisors, where he led the consulting firm’s physician enterprise strategy practice. Prior to joining BDC Advisors, Dr. Fairchild held various academic medicine positions, most recently serving as Senior Vice President for Clinical Integration at UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC), President of the UMass Memorial Accountable Care Organization, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before working at UMMHC, he was Chief Medical Officer at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. read more

J. Lloyd Michener, MD

Emeritus Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke School of Medicine
J. Lloyd Michener, MD is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor, UNC Gillings School of Public Health. He also serves as Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation and is a member of the National Academies of Medicine Workgroup on Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement. He has served as Director of the “Practical Playbook”, with the support of the deBeaumont Foundation, CDC and HRSA, linking health care, public health and communities. In addition, he served as Chair of the Department of Community & Family Medicine for more than two decades and was the founding director of Duke Center for Community Research. read more
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