One vaccine that often gets left behind is Meningitis B. Few have received the MenB vaccine, yet it’s responsible for 100% of meningitis outbreaks on college campuses since 2011. Dr. Tamera Coyne-Beasley is the Derrol Dawkins Endowed Chair in Adolescent Medicine, Division Director for Adolescent Medicine, Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Community Engagement, and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama and Patti Wukovits, a Registered Nurse and Executive Director of the Kimberly Coffey Foundation. After losing her 17-year-old daughter Kimberly to Meningitis B in 2012, Patti formed the Foundation in her daughter’s name to improve awareness of meningococcal disease and the vaccines available to help prevent it. Learn more in this interview on PCTV.
