RSV Roundtable: Addressing the senior population
In the fourth installment of RSV Roundtable, our panel explains the challenges in protecting the senior population against RSV.
EP: 1.RSV Roundtable: What clinicians are witnessing in terms of RSV incidence
EP: 2.RSV Roundtable: Disease education, vaccine hesitancy, and awareness
EP: 3.RSV Roundtable: Nirsevimab's impact
EP: 4.RSV Roundtable: Addressing the senior population
EP: 5.The clinical takeaways of the RSV immunizations
EP: 6.RSV this year: Clinician insights and urgent vaccination strategies
Welcome to the fourth episode of our 5-episode series; respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) Roundtable, a collaborative project from Contemporary Pediatrics, Contagion, and Contemporary OB/GYN.
This series discusses several aspects of RSV including incidence rates, vaccines, and immunizations.
In this episode, our panel evaluates challenges in providing RSV vaccination to the senior population, including the lack of a "one size fits all" recommendation and risk factors such as heart failure that are more common in this population.
Our panel of clinicians includes:
- Robert H. Hopkins Jr., MD: medical director, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases; professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- William Muller, MD, PhD: attending physician, Infectious Diseases; Ted Emerson Miller research scholar; professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; scientific director, Clinical and Community Trials, Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital
- Sallie Permar, MD, PhD: Nancy C. Paduano professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine; pediatrician-in-chief, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Laura Riley, MD: chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine; obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Neil Silverman, MD: professor, obstetrics and gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program
This series will release a new episode every Friday through January 5, 2024.
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