Presenter: Dr Nigel Crawford
PDF Slides: Nigel Crawford – Optimising Immunisation
Children and adolescents with underlying special risk conditions (e.g. preterm infants; paediatric cancer; inflammatory bowel disease) are at increased risk of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD). The PhD thesis ties together a number of complementary studies in special risk groups including:
- Multi- faceted reviews of current immunisation status and physician recommendations.
- Novel vaccine immunogenicity studies of (4v) HPV vaccine and (10v) pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
- Randomised controlled trial utilising a postcard immunisation reminder in hospital outpatients.
The challenge is to use the available scientific evidence and translate it into helping clinicians optimise protection from VPD in their patients.
Dr Nigel Crawford is a general paediatrician working in General Medicine / SAEFVIC at the Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He completed his undergraduate degree at The Flinders University of South Australia and paediatric training in Melbourne and the UK (Cardiff, Wales).
He has a masters of public health from Cardiff University and is a NHMRC postgraduate research scholar, undertaking a PhD through The University of Melbourne. This grand round is the completion seminar for his PhD thesis titled: ‘Optimising Immunisation in Special Risk Groups’.
Presented on Wednesday 30th March 2011