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Presentation Title: Adult Immunization
Dr. Tan will analyze recent recommendations and discuss how practices can optimize their vaccination rate and resolve cultural barriers to immunization.
Time: SaturdayAfternoon
Purpose:
To improve on clinical competence and performance in immunization for adult Chinese patients
Objectives:
- Examine barriers to immunization in Chinese patient
- Examine office practice procedures to identify barriers to immunization
- Utilize Chinese language materials available in the office to overcome language and cultural barriers
- Perform a Quality Improvement project to track and increase vaccination rates
- Educate patients and their families on the importance of vaccinations
Current Positions:
Chair and Chief Strategy Officer, Immunization Action Coalition; Co-Chair, National Adult Immunization Summit and National Influenza Vaccine Summit
Bio:
L.J Tan is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Immunization Action Coalition, which he joined January 1st, 2013. There, L.J is leading the IAC's new strategic direction on national immunization advocacy and policy development. Prior to that, L.J was the Director of Medicine and Public Health at the American Medical Association (AMA) for 15 years, where he led multiple AMA efforts in immunizations and infectious diseases, prevention and health promotion, aging and community health, and eliminating healthcare disparities and improving the health of physicians.
Dr. Tan received his PhD in Immunology/Microbiology from Northwestern University Medical School, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Immunology at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Dr. Tan was recently elected onto the National Quality Forum’s Adult Immunizations Expert Committee, onto the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Vaccine Study Group (EVASG), and serves as an editor for BMC Infectious Diseases and for Medscape Infectious Diseases.
He just completed his term as an elected member of the federal National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). He still serves on the NVAC’s HPV, Vaccine Confidence, and Maternal Immunization working groups. Previously, L.J chaired the Immunization Infrastructure WG and also served on the vaccine safety WG.
Dr. Tan has also served as a member of the federal Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), and he still serves on the Adult Immunization working group. Previously, L.J also served on the influenza, zoster, and evidence-based working groups.
Dr. Tan co-founded (with the CDC and the NVPO) and currently co-chairs the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit, and founded and organized the first National Immunization Congress in 2007, and organized the Second National Immunization Congress in 2010. He served as a primary consultant for the first European Union Influenza Summit in 2011, and the first Asian Pacific Influenza Summit in 2012, and continues to advise those bodies.
He serves or has served on the Steering Committees for the 317 Coalition, the National Network for Immunization Information (NNii), the Partnership to End Cervical Cancer, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, and on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Immunization Action Coalition and Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal.
L.J is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Public Health Association, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, American Society of Microbiology, the American Association of Immunologists, the National Council of Asian & Pacific Islander Physicians, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.