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David Siegel, MD, MPH, is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and a Lieutenant Commander in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. He joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC) from 2016 to 2018 and remained in DCPC as a medical officer. Dr. Siegel focuses his work and research on pediatric, young adult, prostate, and tobacco-associated cancers and on using cancer registry data to improve disparities in clinical trial enrollment and outcomes.
Dr. Siegel attended Washington University in St. Louis for his undergraduate studies and the George Washington University School of Medicine for medical school. He completed a pediatric residency and a pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
The vaccine gender gap: More women are getting shots than men
The vaccine gender gap: More women are getting shots than men
Public health experts cite many reasons for the difference, including that women make up three-quarters of the workforce in health care and education.
Nurse Lisa Wheeler administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cristina Montins, 40, at Ellis Davis Fieldhouse, a Parkland Hospital testing and vaccine location, in Dallas on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
By Kaiser Health News
Mary Ann Steiner drove 2 1/2 hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Mo., to get vaccinated against COVID-19. After pulling into the drive-through line in a church parking lot, she noticed that others waiting for shots had something in common with her.
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