Michelle Fiscus

Dr. Michelle Fiscus is a board-certified pediatrician and public health advocate who practiced general pediatrics in Franklin, TN for 17 years before transitioning to a career in public health in 2016. She served as the medical director of the Tennessee Department of Health’s Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization Program and led the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts until July 2021. Since 2022, she has served as the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of the Association of Immunization Managers, where she leads strategies to improve vaccination rates across the lifespan. She is especially interested in human papillomavirus, seasonal influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Fiscus has served as a senior health policy consultant for the National Academy for State Health Policy and served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) is a non-profit, tax-exempt professional membership organization that works to support the 64 federally-funded immunization program managers across the 50 states, 6 major cities, and 8 U.S. territories and freely-associated states. AIM is dedicated to establishing a nation free of vaccine-preventable disease. AIM members are the leaders of state, local, and territorial immunization programs—directing the public health efforts designed to keep children and adults vaccinated and protected against disease. Since 1999, AIM has provided a national voice for immunization programs and a forum for program managers to learn from each other, confront challenges, and achieve success. Since its inception, AIM has gathered and shared information with its members on policy implementation, legislative issues, programmatic successes, and more.