Surgical Implications of Vaccine-Preventable Disease Outbreaks

Saturday, September 20, 2025

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM MST

Location: Grand Ballroom A, 1st Floor

CE: .5

Sharon Beth Larson, DO, MS, FACOS, FACS (she/her/hers)

Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare

Slides
Christie Brock, DO, FACOS (she/her/hers)

General and Trauma Surgeon
Overland Park Regional Medical Center

Disclosure(s):

Sharon Beth Larson, DO, MS, FACOS, FACS: No relevant financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Christie Brock, DO, FACOS: No relevant financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

Understand how vaccine preventable diseases create infection control challenges in surgical settings.
Describe the complications of vaccine preventable diseases that require surgical intervention.
Appreciate how the response to vaccine preventable disease outbreaks incurs substantial healthcare costs.
Acknowledge the disruption of elective surgeries due to vaccine preventable disease outbreaks.