Infection Prevention

HAI Controversies: Contact Precautions.- Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technologies: Implementation and Outcomes.- Universal Glove and Gown Use for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE).- Isolation Precautions for Visitors to Healthcare Settings.- Bacterial contamination of the anesthesia work area: hands, patients, and things.- Infection Control in the Outpatient Setting.- New Technologies for Infection Prevention.- What is the Role of Mobile No-touch Disinfection Technology in Optimizing Healthcare Environmental Hygiene?.- Universal MRSA/Staphylococcal Decolonization for Hospitalized Patients.- Staphylococcal Decolonization in Surgery Patients.- The Surgical Care Improvement Project redux: Should CMS revive process of care measures for prevention of surgical site infections?.- Healthcare Worker Apparel and Infection Prevention.- Antimicrobial Textiles and Infection Prevention - Clothes and Inanimate Environment.-Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli - Infection Prevention Considerations.- Active surveillance cultures for MRSA, VRE, Multidrug Resistant Gram-negatives.- C. difficile Microbiome manipulation.- Air Contamination in the Hospital Environment.- Vertical versus horizontal infection control interventions.- The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist.- Whole Genome Sequencing for Outbreak Investigation.- Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Preparedness.- Probiotics and Infection Prevention.- Animals in Healthcare Settings.- Decolonization in Infection Control of Gram-negative Bacilli.- Testing water for Legionella Prevention.- The importance of C. difficile colonization on infection prevention.- Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel.- Controversies in Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance.- Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Outside the Intensive Care Unit.- Airborne Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment: The Powered Air-Purifying Respirator-Only Approach.- Donning

Gonzalo Bearman MD, MPH
Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Medicine-Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases/ Hospital Epidemiologist
Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
1300 East Marshall Street
PO BOX 980019
Richmond, Virginia 23298, United States of America
T: (804) 828-2121
F: (804) 828-2125
Email: gonzalo.bearman@vcuhealth.org



L. Silvia Munoz-Price, MD, PhD
Enterprise Epidemiologist
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States of America
T: (414) 955-8020
Email: smunozprice@mcw.edu



Daniel J Morgan, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist
Epidemiology, Public Health and Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 S. Pine Street
MSTF 334
Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States of America
T: (410) 706-1734
Email: dmorgan@epi.umaryland.edu