From Hepatitis A to Zoster: 2024 Update on Immunization Recommendations for People With and At-risk for HIV

Dorothy A. Knutsen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY

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About the Presenter:Top of page

Dorothy Knutsen completed her fellowship in Infectious Diseases in June 2022 at NYU Langone and began working as faculty in July 2022 as a clinical assistant professor of Medicine, with her primary focus on providing care to people living with HIV and sexual/gender minorities. She has worked in the Bellevue Virology clinic as a physician for the past 4 years, as a fellow and now as an attending physician. She currently splits her clinical time in the outpatient NYU Langone Faculty Group Practice and the Bellevue Virology clinic and inpatient consults at Bellevue Hospital. Her patient population deals with significant barriers to healthcare, from language, economic, social, educational, addiction, and housing factors. During the mpox outbreak in 2022, she was the Mpox Medical Coordinator at Bellevue and NYU Langone. She was recently added as the PI for the Part C Ryan White Care Act grant at the NYC H+H Virology clinics.

Learning Objectives: Top of page

At the completion of this educational activity learners will:
1. Review the current immunization guidelines in people living with HIV.
2. Appreciate the differences in vaccine recommendations based on CD4 counts, particularly with live-virus vaccines.
3. Be familiar with mpox vaccine practices in at-risk populations.

CME Information:Top of page


This CME activity has approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for September 17, 2024, as a live activity. This activity will also be available as an enduring activity from September 24, 2024, through September 16, 2027.

The target audience is all physicians, NPs and PAs involved or interested in HIV education.

This online video and post-activity evaluation are one hour in length.

Accreditation Statement:Top of page


This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) and the Physicians’ Research Network (PRN). MSSNY is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Medical Society of the State of New York designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement: Top of page

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Disclosure Statement:Top of page

Policies and standards of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education require that speakers and planners for continuing medical education activities disclose any relevant financial relationships they may have with commercial interests whose products, devices, or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity.
- Dr. James F. Braun (Course Director/Program Planner) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
- Dr. Ofole Mgbako (Moderator) has had the following personal financial relationships in the past 24 months with manufacturers of the products or services that may be presented in this CME activity: Consultant to Gilead. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
- Dr. Dorothy Knutsen (Presenter) has no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Dr. Knutsen submitted her slides in advance for adequate peer review and supported her presentation and clinical recommendations with the best available evidence from the medical literature.

Financial Support:Top of page

This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare and by a generous charitable contribution from Northwell Center for AIDS Research.

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