This month, the number of confirmed measles cases in the United States topped 1,000 -- the majority of them centered in New York City and surrounding areas. This is a frightening development for a preventable -- and potentially life-threatening -- disease that was declared "eliminated" in 2000. Why is measles on the rise? What must be done to ensure that our communities are made aware of its dangers and that health providers are given the authority to protect the public from its spread?
Join NYU Langone Health to hear physicians and public health experts discuss these issues.
Registration not required.
Program:
3:00pm: Opening Remarks, Catherine S. Manno, MD, Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics; Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Stephen. D. Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders, NYU Langone Health
3:15pm - 4:30pm: Panel 1: The nature of the 2019 New York measles outbreak and the adequacy of the response by medicine, public health, media, and policy makers.
- David M. Oshinsky, PhD (moderator), Director, Division of Medical Humanities, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health; Professor, Department of History, New York University
- Gwynne Hogan, Health Reporter, WNYC News
- Jennifer L. Lighter, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Hospital Epidemiologist, NYU Langone Health
- Donald G. McNeil Jr., Science and Health Reporter, The New York Times
- Michael S. Phillips, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Interim Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Chief Epidemiologist, NYU Langone Health
- Adam J. Ratner, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology; Director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, NYU Langone Health
4:30pm - 4:45pm: Break
4:45pm - 6:00pm: Panel 2: What lessons have we learned, and what ough to be done going forward in NY and nationally?
- Arthur L. Caplan, PhD (moderator), Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics; Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health
- Oxiris Barbot, MD, Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Rebecca Feldman, FNP, RN, Vaccine Task Force, Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association
- Richard N. Gottfried, JD, Chair, Health Committee; Member (75th Assembly District), New York State Assembly
- Mark J. Mulligan, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine; Professor, Department of Microbiology; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Director, NYU Langone Vaccine Center, NYU Langone Health
- Chanie Sternberg, President and CEO, Refuah Health Center
- Howard Zucker, MD, JD, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health
6:00pm - 6:30pm: Reception