Patients 65 or older, or age 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like asthma, chronic lung disease, diabetes, or chronic heart disease may be at an increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia.

In February, 2022 the CDC published significant revisions to its recommendations for adult pneumococcal pneumonia prevention. Please join us for an overview of these changes.

Presenters:

Tim Temple
Vaccines Account Manager, Pfizer Vaccines

Tim Temple is a vaccines account manager for Pfizer Vaccines in the Greater Boston area. He works with healthcare networks, Federally Qualified Health Centers, state-level and community coalitions, payers, and many others to address and overcome immunization barriers, with the goal of improving preventive care.

Resources and innovative partnerships include initiatives to:
• improve health equity and address social determinants;
• optimize/integrate immunization within HIT and telehealth workflow;
• close quality care gaps and elevate population health;
• and address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation

Tim has been with Pfizer for 20 years, initially working in neuroscience/behavioral health, and joining the vaccines division 12 years ago. He has experience and perspective regarding immunization efforts at the office, retail pharmacy, and health system-level.

Prior to Pfizer, Tim was a U.S. Navy officer stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He holds a biomedical engineering degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Babson College, with a focus on corporate entrepreneurship.

Bob Fontenelli
Vaccines Account Manager, Pfizer Vaccines

Bob Fontenelli is a vaccines account manager for Pfizer Vaccines in the Greater Boston area. In this role Bob’s primary focus is to support customer efforts to improve immunization rates by developing innovative partnerships, providing solutions aligned to customer needs, and collaborating with stakeholders to remove barriers to immunization. Bob has experience in deploying resources and solutions in the areas of value-based care, HIT, social determinants of health, and telehealth workflow.

He has 25 years of experience in pharmaceuticals and healthcare having worked at J & J and Novartis prior to joining Pfizer. Throughout his career Bob has gained extensive product launch experience in various therapeutic areas, and has taken on roles of increasing responsibility, in training, sales management, and account management. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with concentrations in psychology and marketing.

This free webinar is brought to us from the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association.