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Biography for Deborah Wexler, MD |
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| Deborah L. Wexler, MD,
family physician, is the founder and executive director of the
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
The organization provides practical immunization information to
healthcare professionals and their patients to increase immunization
rates and prevent disease. Dr. Wexler is editor of two immunization
education publications, Needle Tips and Vaccinate Adults.
She is also editor of IAC Express, an electronic immunization
information news service emailed weekly to more than 45,000 healthcare
professionals. Dr. Wexler is responsible for the development of more
than 250 immunization patient handouts and staff educational materials,
manuals, and other resources regarding immunization. She oversees the
content of two highly utilized websites,
www.immunize.org and
www.vaccineinformation.org averaging more than 20,000 visitors per
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| Dr. Wexler is deeply involved in national
vaccine policy and strategy issues. She serves as consultant to the
General Recommendations on Immunization Working Group of CDC's Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and on several occasions has
been invited to give presentations to the National Vaccine Advisory
Committee. Dr. Wexler is a long-standing member of the Executive Committee
of the National Influenza Vaccine Summit, and also serves on the steering
committees of the National Adult Immunization Summit and The 317
Coalition. She co-chairs the national Adult Vaccine Policy Group, and is a
member of the Childhood Vaccine Policy Group. She is a member of the
Advisory Board of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia, and has served on the Advisory Board of the American
Pharmacists Association's Pharmacy-Based Immunization Certificate Program. |
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| Dr. Wexler has received several awards and
special recognition for educational activities in immunization and
hepatitis B. In 1997, Dr. David Satcher, then Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) Director, presented IAC with the prestigious CDC's
Partners in Public Health Award "for outstanding work as healthcare
professionals and concerned citizens whose efforts were instrumental in
achieving high levels of routine infant hepatitis B immunization." In
2011, she was selected as the honoree of the Every Child By Two (ECBT)
Immunization Leadership Award. ECBT, founded by former First Lady Rosalynn
Carter and former First Lady of Arkansas Betty Bumpers, is dedicated to
protecting all children from vaccine-preventable diseases. Most recently,
Dr. Wexler was selected as a recipient of a 2012
American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Immunization Champion Award. |
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| Dr. Wexler earned a B.S. degree in Biology
from the University of Minnesota and received her M.D. degree from the
University of Minnesota in 1982. She completed her residency training in
Family Practice and Community Health in 1986 at the University of
Wisconsin. |
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| This page was
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March 7, 2012. |
| This page was reviewed on
March 7, 2012. |
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