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Ep. 11 – Ready for Respiratory Virus Season: Flu, COVID & Vaccines Your Kids Need

Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, FAAP, joins host Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez for a look ahead to the fall respiratory virus season. They talk about flu and COVID and why it's important to get updated vaccines to help your child's immune system be ready for what's coming.

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Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, FAAP

Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, FAAP, is the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health and the Felice K. Shea Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Professor of Population and Family Health in the Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Stockwell is also a practicing pediatrician and the Associate Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) practice-based research network. Her research program, which concentrates on underserved children and adolescents, focuses on interventions to improve vaccinations, with an emphasis on health technology and health literacy, as well as on respiratory infections and long COVID.

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Music credits:
Theme music composed by Doug Nagel.

The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Last Updated
8/22/2024
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