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John K. Iskander
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 137
Citations - 7415
John K. Iskander is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vaccination & Public health. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 130 publications receiving 6932 citations. Previous affiliations of John K. Iskander include United States Public Health Service.
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Structured Mentoring for Workforce Engagement and Professional Development in Public Health Settings.
Stephanie A. Dopson,Susan J. Griffey,Neelam Ghiya,Susan Laird,Aubrey Cyphert,John K. Iskander +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature in public health and aggregated personal subject matter expertise of existing programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is presented, which summarize selected mentoring models that vary primarily by time commitments and meeting frequency and identify specific work situations to which they may be applicable, primarily from the federal job experience point of view.
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CDC Grand Rounds: Promoting Well-Being and Independence in Older Adults
Benjamin Olivari,Matthew Baumgart,Sarah Lenz Lock,C. Grace Whiting,Christopher A. Taylor,John K. Iskander,Phoebe Thorpe,Lisa C. McGuire +7 more
TL;DR: As advances in public health and health care have helped increase life expectancy, public health professionals and health Care providers have the opportunity to improve the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers and reduce the burdens associated with aging.
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Tracking vaccine lot lifecycles using reports to the vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS).
Gustavo H. Dayan,John K. Iskander,John W. Glasser,Roseanne English-Bullard,Kathleen E. Fullerton,Robert T. Chen +5 more
TL;DR: Data from reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is used to develop a proxy means of surveillance for the lifecycle of selected vaccine lots.
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A Process for Sentinel Case Review to Assess Causal Relationships between Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse Outcomes, 2003–2004
Louisa E. Chapman,John K. Iskander,Robert T. Chen,John M. Neff,Guthrie S. Birkhead,Gregory A. Poland,Gregory C. Gray,Jane D. Siegel,Kent A. Sepkowitz,Rose Marie Robertson,Clyde W. Yancy,Fernando A. Guerra,Pierce Gardner,John F. Modlin,Toby Maurer,Tim Berger,W. Dana Flanders,Robert E. Shope +17 more
TL;DR: The data supported neutrality regarding the hypothesis that dilated cardiomyopathy was causally associated with smallpox vaccine-induced myocarditis, and a causal relationship between the immunization experience and the index patient's death was favored.