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The Story of Immunization
The 2013 special edition, The Story of Immunization, is devoted to the safety and efficacy of vaccines and their importance in relation to public health. It includes articles on the history of vaccines, the science of vaccination, outbreaks and much more. Articles from both local and national authors are included in the special edition through a collaboration of experts from frontline, industry, academia and public health.

The Story of Immunization was co-edited by Wendell W. Hoffman, MD and Keith Hansen, MD.

Read individual articles from The Story of Immunization or view the entire issue below.

SDSMA President's Comments: Vaccinations - Maintaining The Safety Net - Robert L. Allison, MD
Robert L. Allison, MD, is president of the South Dakota State Medical Association and an internal medicine physician at Avera Medical Group in Pierre, South Dakota.

Foreword - Deborah L. Wexler, MD
Deborah L. Wexler, MD, is executive director of the Immunization Action Coalition in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Preface - A Time of Ignorance, a Time of Pathos, a Time of Change - Gregory A. Poland, MD, MACP, FIDSA; Caroline M. Poland, MA, LCAC, NCC
Gregory A. Poland, MD, MACP, FIDSA, is director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group and professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Caroline M. Poland, MA, LCAC, NCC, is a mental health and addictions counselor at Taylor University.

Chapter 1: The Case for Vaccines - Wendell W. Hoffman, MD, FACP
Wendell W. Hoffman, MD, FACP, is the guest editor of The Story of Immunization and is a clinical professor of medicine at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota; a consultant in infectious disease and is patient safety officer at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 2: Tyler - Joseph E. Segeleon, MD
Joseph E. Segeleon, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and chief medical officer at Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 3: Telling Stories of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Why it Works - Rachel M. Cunningham, MPH; Julie A. Boom, MD
Rachel M. Cunningham, MPH, is immunization registry and educational specialist at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Julie A. Boom, MD, is director of the Immunization Project and director of infant and child immunization at the Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.

Chapter 4: The State of Immunization 2013: We Are The World - Anne Schuchat, MD
Anne Schuchat, MD, is acting director at the Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Chapter 5: A Brief History of Vaccination: Establishing Safety and Efficacy - Jennifer L. Hsu, MD
Jennifer Hsu, MD, is assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and is an infectious disease physician at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 6: The Science of Vaccination - Corwin A. Robertson, MD, MPH, FACP
Corwin A. Robertson, MD, MPH, FACP, is director of scientific and medical affairs, U.S., at Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.

Chapter 7: Current Controversies in Childhood Vaccination - Maria Carrillo-Marquez, MD; Lisa White, MD
Maria Carrillo-Marquez, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatric infectious disease in the Department of Pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and a physician at Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Lisa White, MD, is an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and assistant professor at the University of South Dakota Department of Health Sciences. She is a pediatric hospitalist at Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 8: Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy - Gary S. Marshall, MD
Gary S. Marshall, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Chapter 9: A Brief History of Autism, the Autism/Vaccine Hypothesis and a Review of the Genetic Basis of Autism Spectrum Disorders - Jerome Blake, MD; H. Eugene Hoyme, MD; Patricia L. Crotwell, PhD
Jerome Blake, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and a physician at Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

H. Eugene Hoyme, MD, is president of Sanford Research/USD and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota. He is a physician at Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Patricia L. Crotwell, PhD, is director of Sanford Clinic USD Genetics Laboratory in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota.

Chapter 10: Becoming a Vaccine Champion: Evicence-based Interventions to Address the Challenges of Vaccination - Erick Temoka, MD
Erick Temoka, MD, is a physician at Avera Medical Group Pediatrics in Aberdeen, South Dakota

Chapter 11: Vaccinating Through a Lifetime: Adult Priorities - Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP; Vanessa Garcia-Chen, MD
Mary D. Nettleman, MD, is dean of Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota.

Vanessa Garcia-Chen, MD, is co-chief resident in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota.

Chapter 12: Pregnancy and Vaccines - Adrianne Racek, MSIV; Peter Van Eerden, MD
Adrianne Racek is a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Dakota Medical School.

Peter Van Eerden, MD, MS, is associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and a maternal-fetal medicine physician at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, North Dakota.

Chapter 13: Vaccine-Preventble Diseases and Vaccination Rates in South Dakota - Lon Kightlinger, PhD
Lon Kightlinger, PhD, is state epidemiologist at the South Dakota Department of Health.

Chapter 14: The Impact of Vaccination Among American Indians - Progress and Challenges - Amy V. Groom, MPH
Amy V. Groom, MPH, is Indian Health Services Immunization Program manager.

Chapter 15: Immunization and Travel - Srividya Srinivasan, MD
Srividya Srinivasan, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota and a physician at Sanford Infectious Disease Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 16: Vaccination and the Health Care Worker - James M. Keegan, MD; R. Vivian Derby, MA, BSHC, RN; Tamara Rhames, RN, CIC; Beth Boersma, LPN, CIC
James M. Keegan, MD, is chief medical officer at Regional Health and chief executive officer of Regional Health Physicians in Rapid City, South Dakota.

R. Vivian Derby, MA, BSHC, RN is clinical effectiveness coordinator at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Tamara Rhames, RN, CIC, is director of infection control at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Beth Boersma, LPN, CIC, is coordinator of infection control at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Chapter 17: Influenza Vaccination: A 21st Century Dilemma - Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH
Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH, is a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Chapter 18: Safe Handling of Vaccines: The Rewards of Rigorous Routines - Kelly Hefti, MSN, RN, CNP, COHN-S; Gerard David, MD
Kelly Hefti, MSN, RN, CNP, COHN-S, is director of health and safety at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Gerard David, MD, is a physician at Sanford Infectious Disease Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Chapter 19: The New Vaccine Frontier - Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, is president of Merck Vaccines.

Afterword: Vaccines in the 21st Century: A Cautionary Tale - Nicholas S. Kelley, PhD; Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Nicholas S. Kelley, PhD, is a research associate at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.