The COVID-19 Vaccine: A Discussion on Facts and FAQs

This seminar was recorded on February 8, 2021. Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, is the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population and Family Health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is also the founding director of the Department of Pediatric’s Center for Children’s Digital Health Research. Dr. Stockwell is Medical Director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Immunization Registry (EzVac). Additionally, she is a pediatrician in a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-associated community clinic, and is Associate Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) practice-based research network. Dr. Stockwell’s research program, which concentrates on underserved children and adolescents, focuses on translational interventions to improve vaccinations, with an emphasis on health technology and health literacy. She is site PI for two large CDC community cohort surveillance studies for COVID-19 and she is Co-Chair of the CUIMC COVID-19 Vaccine Committee. Marina Catallozzi, MD, MSCE, whose pronouns are she/her/hers, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons and of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatrics. She has served as the Pediatric Clerkship Director and the Director of Pediatric Medical Student Education at the College of Physicians & Surgeons since 2016. She is also the Track Director for the Medical Education Scholarly Projects at the medical school. At Mailman, Dr. Catallozzi is the Director of the General Public Health program, the largest accelerated MPH program in the school, and the co-leader of the Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health Certificate. Dr. Catallozzi's research has focused on adolescent and young adult access to confidential and clinical preventive services, adolescent relationship violence, adolescent and parent communication and decision-making in clinical trial participation and adolescent pregnancy prevention. Dr. Catallozzi is an Adolescent Medicine specialist and is board certified in both Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She has an active adolescent medicine practice in Washington Heights and is dedicated to improving the health of the community; she uses a strengths-based approach to adolescent patient care, programming and research.