Annual Polio & Health Symposium: Overcoming the Challenges of COVID-19 to Achieve a Global Health Legacy

The Rotary Club of Emory-Clifton (www.emorycliftonrotary.org), with
presenting partner United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses of Georgia (UAPRN,
www.uaprn.enpnetwork.com) and partners Shriners Hospitals for Children
(www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org) and the Medical Association of Georgia
(www.mag.org), will virtually present the Third Annual Health and Polio Symposium on
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Atlanta. “Overcoming the Challenges of COVID-19 to
Achieve a Global Health Legacy” is open to the public and will be presented through a
live webcast. Online tickets are $60 for health professionals seeking continuing
education credits. Rotarians and members of the public are invited to participate and are
welcome to make a donation to support the program.

In this program, you will review the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, learn about a promising new polio vaccine, and be updated on the status of acute flaccid myelitis (a polio-like syndrome). You will also hear about progress in the development of a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 and the impact of this disease on cardiovascular health and delivery of health care in general.

You will see how the capacity built by global polio eradication strengthened the fight against the pandemic and prepared the public health workforce to prevent COVID-19 once an effective vaccine is available.

Speakers include:
 Carlos del Rio, M.D., infectious disease expert and distinguished professor of
medicine at Emory University
 John F. Vertefeuille, Ph.D., M.H.S., polio eradication branch chief of the CDC
Polio Emergency Response
 Carol Pandak, Ed.D., director of PolioPlus, Rotary’s global effort to eradicate
polio

 Patrice Harris, M.D., immediate past president of the American Medical
Association and the first African-American Women to hold this prestigious
position
 Stephen L. Cochi, M.D., senior advisor to the director of the Global
Immunization Division, Center for Global Health
 Scott H. Kozin, M.D., chief of staff of Shriners Hospitals for Children
 Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., founder and director of Preventive Cardiology at
Emory Clinic
 Ashley Blackmon, MS, FNP-C, APRN, Advanced Heart Failure and Heart
Transplant at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
 Lisa Eichelberger, RN, Ph.D., Dean and professor of the College of Health at
Clayton State University in Morrow, Ga.