Speaker: Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics, Sections of Pediatric Infectious Diseases/Epidemiology and General Academic Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus/Children’s Hospital Colorado, director, Pediatric Practice-Based Research Network (COCONet), chair, Committee on Infectious Diseases, American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Sean O’Leary is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, an investigator at ACCORDS (Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science), and the Director of the Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network (COCONet), Colorado’s pediatric practice-based research network. Dr. O’Leary’s research focuses on prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases through understanding clinical, attitudinal and infrastructural barriers to vaccination, and developing and testing interventions to address those barriers. Dr. O’Leary is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on School Health, serves as the Chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (the Red Book Committee) for the AAP, and is the liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the AAP as well. Prior to his infectious diseases fellowship, Dr. O’Leary was a partner in a large general pediatric practice in Fort Collins, Colorado for 8 years.
Today’s Grand Rounds is sponsored by the Dane County Immunization Coalition, which was founded back in 1993 and remains one of the most active such coalitions in the country. Thanks to the incredible Board of Directors, which represent all the public & private healthcare providers in Dane County, as well as businesses, service organizations, pharmacies, educational institutions & pharmaceutical companies, Dane County continues to have some of the highest immunization rates in the state & region. The DCIC mission is simple – to increase the number of children & adults who are immunized according to the most recent scientific recommendations.