Children Ages 5-11 COVID-19 Vaccine Information Forum

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Families with students attending schools in Multnomah County are invited to a panel webinar with local health professionals to discuss COVID-19 vaccinations. Tune in to this important webinar, co-hosted by the Multnomah County Health Department, Multnomah Education Service District and Multnomah County school districts, on Wednesday, November 17th at 6pm
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Watch the Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctQc5bvV_g

These health experts are scheduled to be on the panel: Dom Chan, Jessica Guernsey, 
Dr. Ann Loeffler, Charlene McGee,​and Dr. Donn Spight.

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Panelists

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Dominic (Dom) Chan, the director of pharmacy at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Randall Children's Hospital and Unity Center for Behavioral Health and also serves as the director of the PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency program. Prior to that he was associate director and clinical coordinator of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Legacy Health where he helped to strategically lead both programs to ensure Legacy Health had the operational and clinical infrastructure and resources to maximize positive outcomes in infected patients and minimize avoidable harm. He is, admittedly, intolerant of intolerance, and holds dear the need for our society to ask hard questions about our direct or indirect complicit contribution to social disparities in order to form bias-mitigated solutions. 

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Jessica Guernsey, the Public Health Director for Multnomah County. She joined Multnomah County Public Health 20 years ago. She worked on the strategic plan for the regional response to a potential influenza pandemic, with an emphasis on equity, which helped support the response to H1N1 in 2009. She has extensive experience with helping communities protect themselves during outbreaks. She leads the COVID-19 response in the county.

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Ann Loeffler, MD, Dr. Loeffler is the Multnomah County Deputy Health Officer and a tri-county deputy health officer. She serves as the medical director for Communicable Disease Services including programs to prevent, track and treat tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Loeffler is a pediatric infectious disease specialist. She sits on state and federal committees dedicated to the eradication of tuberculosis and has served as a consultant for the Curry International Tuberculosis Center for more than 20 years. Dr. Loeffler earned her medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed residency programs in pediatrics and infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the County she worked for local health departments and for Children’s Hospital Oakland and Randall Children's Hospital

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Charlene McGee, the Program Manager for the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) at Multnomah County. Charlene brings over 15 years of leadership working at the intersection of public health and healthcare systems to confront and change social determinants of health. As a Liberian-Oregonian, her experience as a survivor of the Liberian civil war and Black immigrant heavily influenced her career in health equity, health policy and program development. She works closely with community partners to elevate lived experience and community wisdom in order to advocate for systems and policy improvements, and culturally appropriate interventions to promote health.

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Donn Spight, M.D., FACS, FASMBS, a professor of surgery at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and a staff physician in the Division of General Surgery at the Portland VA Health Care System. He went to medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago and did his residency training at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Spight is actively involved in mentoring and training medical students and residents. He has served as the medical director for OHSU Simulation since 2018 and serves as a diversity navigator in the M.D. program. He is co-chair of the OHSU Vaccine Equity Committee to ensure every Oregonian has the opportunity to be vaccinated.

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Moderator

Dr. Paul Coakley
Mult. Education Service District
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Superintendents

James Owens
Centennial School District​
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Ken Richardson
David Douglas School District​
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James Hiu
Gresham-Barlow School District​
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Michael Lopes-Serrao
Parkrose School District
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​Guadalupe Guerrero
Portland Public Schools
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