1:00 - 1:10

Welcome and MDPH School Health Services Updates

Regional Consultants

Karen Robitaille, MSN, MBA, RN, NCSN

MDPH Director of School Health Services

1:10 - 1:35

Update of Current Respiratory Viruses, EEE & WNV

Catherine Brown, DVM, MSc, MPH

State Epidemiologist

MDPH Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences

1:35 - 2:00

Mitigating Transmission and Preventing Infectious Disease in School-Aged Children and Support of Newcomers

Safdar Medina, MD, FAAP

Pediatrician, School Physician, Physician Consultant to MDPH School Health Services

2:00 - 2:25

Tuberculosis and School Aged Children

Anna Hippchen, DNP

MDPH TB Lead Public Health Nursing Advisor

2:25 - 2:50

School Immunization Survey and Data

Christopher Tocci, MPH

MDPH Immunization Epidemiologist

2:50 - 3:00 

Office of Local and Regional Health

Public Health Excellence Grant

Caitlin Pettengill, DNP, RN

Chief Local Public Health Nurse

Office of Local and Regional Health

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Kristin Black, PhD, MS

Director of Shared Services

Office of Local and Regional Health

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Meg Burch, MS, RN, NCSN

Western Regional Consultant, Berkshire/Franklin

Ann Linehan, DNP, MSN, RN

Southeast Regional Consultant

Janet Guertin-Moruzzi, MEd, BSN, RN, NCSN

Public Health Nurse Advisor, Non Public Schools

Mary Jane O'Brien PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, NCSN

Boston Regional Consultant

Tracy Rowe, MEd, BSN, RN, NCSN

Central Regional Consultant

Tricia Smith, BSN, RN, NCSN

MetroWest Regional Consultant

Shanyn Toulouse, DNP, MEd, RN, NCSN

Northeast Regional Consultant

Veronica Webb Barrett, MSN, MA Ed Psych, RN, HNB-BC

Western Regional Consultant, Hampshire/Hamden