Melissa is a physician assistant, principal faculty in the University of Charleston Physician Assistant Program, Steering Committee Co-Chair for the WV Immunization Network, and President of the WV Association of Physician Assistants. She worked for almost a decade in primary care before moving into nephrology/internal medicine. She’s well-versed in vaccine research and the importance of […]
Luis is a first-generation U.S. citizen and came from a family of migrant farmworkers. After a military residency, he became a board-certified medical doctor. He is a family physician, working part-time in Fresno and the other part of the time in a rural community outside of the city. Luis sees everyone from pregnant women to […]
Our doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers combat active disease, while people in public health work to prevent infection from happening. Along with disease prevention, they also promote education and wellness. Laura has her master’s degree in public health and has been working in this line of work for 30 years. She has extensive knowledge of vaccine-preventable […]
I recently had the privilege of talking with Jane, a registered respiratory therapist who works in a level one trauma center. She’s out on the front lines—in the ER, ICU, on the surgical floor, and in labor and delivery—and has been for nearly ten years. She sees people when they are “not doing well,” as […]
Steve is no stranger to vaccinations or advanced degrees. I rarely meet someone with so many letters after his name. Steve currently works in the emergency department at a community hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, but is a jack-of-all-trades, specializing in not only emergency room medicine, but tropical diseases/travel medicine and acupuncture. Before […]