COVID-19 Vaccines - Webinar for healthcare workers - part 2

Join Dr Thomas Shulz, Dr Anita Munoz, Dr Vijay Roach and A/ Prof Margie Danchin to further explore COVID-19 vaccination. Hear the latest on the vaccine rollout, answer your questions about safety and side effects, and build confidence in answering challenging questions from patients.

COVID-19 Vaccines – webinar part 1 explored how the vaccines were developed, vaccine effectiveness, possible side effects, early symptoms of an adverse reaction and what to do. Watch COVID-19 Vaccines – webinar part 1 here or view the presentation slides here and here.

Webinar part 2 will focus on:

• The latest information on the vaccine rollout

• Addressing your questions about safety, side effects and variants

• COVID-19 vaccines, fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding

• COVID-19 vaccines and teenagers

• Answering challenging questions from patients

A recording of this webinar and slides will be sent to registrants afterwards.

Speakers

Dr Anita Munoz, GP and Chair RACGP Victoria

Anita Muñoz is a GP in private practice in Melbourne's CBD. Anita has held advisory positions with Better Care Victoria and Safer Care Victoria and has been a medical educator for over nine years. Anita is Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Victoria.

She has a dedication to evidence-based medicine, lifelong learning, and promoting the role of general practice in the health of patients, communities and in public health more broadly.

Dr. Vijay Roach, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, President, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Dr, Vijay Roach is an obstetrician and gynaecologist with more than 20 years’ experience. Vijay lectures at the University of Sydney. He is the former Chairman of the Gidget Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation promoting the importance of emotional wellbeing among expectant and new parents.

A/Prof Margie Danchin, Consultant Paediatrician, General Medicine and Immunisation Service, Royal Children's Hospital

A/Prof Margie is consultant paediatrician within the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is the Group leader of Vaccine Uptake, MCRI, is on the COVID-19 ATAGI working group on vaccine safety, confidence and evaluation and has been working closely with the Victorian Department of Health during the pandemic to support COVID vaccine communication, acceptance, and uptake amongst the initial priority groups.

Dr Thomas Schulz, Senior Medical Advisor, COVID-19 Vaccination Program, Department of Health, Victoria

Dr Thomas Schulz is an Infectious Diseases Physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service. He has clinical appointments with the Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s Hospitals and is a Lecturer at The University of Melbourne Hospital.

He has a long-term interest in the health of refugees and immigrants and provides Infectious disease support to Goulburn Valley Hospital in Shepparton