Annual Dr. Gottfried Schmer Lecture:
Vaccine and Neglected Disease Diplomacy

Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD, FASTMH, FAAP
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular & Virology and Microbiology
Co-Head, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children's Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics
Co-Director, Center for Vaccine Development Texas Children's Hospital 

Upon completion of this program, attendees should be able to:

• To summarize the progress of international vaccine and mass treatment programs led by UN agencies and the US and UK Governments.
• To report on how progress in vaccines and vaccine development has stalled or reversed due to modern 21st century “Anthropocene” forces.
• To review the new hotspot global areas where the disease has emerged or re-emerged.
• To describe how modern vaccine diplomacy can ensure our ability to develop the needed new vaccines or overcome hurdles to vaccinate the world’s children.

Live streamed via Zoom*: https://www.zoom.us/j/414978331 

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Grant Acknowledgment: None

Planning Committee Disclosures:

The following members have no financial or other relationship with any commercial interest in the past twelve months: Ben Bradley, MD, PhD; Sindhu Cherian, MD; Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD; Nabiha Huq Saifee, MD, PhD; Ryan Morse, MD; Cate Paschal, PhD; Brian Shirts MD, PhD; and Susan Fink, MD PhD.

Planning member disclosures, continued: Sean Murphy, MD, PhD discloses equity in Sound Vaccines Inc., research support from Novartis, and consulting for Giner Inc.; Daniel Sabath, MD, PhD discloses Grant/Research support from RareCyte, Inc.; Hamilton Tsang, MD discloses research funding from Terumo BCTbio.

Sponsored by the University of Washington School of Medicine, the Department of Laboratory Medicine, and the Office of Continuing Medical Education. Sign-in is required to receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) or Continuing Education (CE) credit.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (Each session is 1.0 credit.)

UW Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds meets the expected criteria to offer SAM credit for American Board of Pathology (ABPath) diplomates for Continuing Certification (CC), formerly known as Maintenance of Certification (MOC). UW Laboratory Medicine reports all ABPath SAM credit completions to ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).