President and CEO
Ofstead & Associates, Inc.
Cori L. Ofstead, MSPH, is an epidemiologist with 30 years of experience designing and conducting real-world studies to evaluate the impact of medical care on outcomes. She has served as the Principal Investigator on studies related to infection prevention, vaccination, and instrument reprocessing and a co-investigator on diabetes and disease management studies. Her research has been published in ICHE, AJIC, CHEST, Vaccine, Journal of Wound Care, AORN Journal, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, and Gastroenterology Nursing. She serves on the editorial board for AJIC and is a reviewer for Endoscopy, Endoscopy International Open, Journal of Urology, and Vaccine. Ms. Ofstead has spoken at events sponsored by CDC, FDA, APIC, ASGE, AGA, SGNA, AORN, IAHCSMM, and AAMI. She was a contributing author for IAHCSMM’s endoscope reprocessing textbook and served as a subject matter expert for AORN’s endoscope reprocessing guidelines. She is a voting member of AAMI Workgroup 84, where she is actively involved with endoscope processing Standard 91 and ultrasound probe processing TIR99. As founder and CEO of Ofstead & Associates, Inc., she oversees a multidisciplinary team based in Minnesota.
Disclosure: 3M Healthcare (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Consultant, Other Financial or Material Support, Research Grant or Support, Study materials; Advanced Sterilization Products (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Consultant, Research Grant or Support; Ambu, Inc./Invendo Medical (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, In-kind educational material, Other Financial or Material Support, Research Grant or Support; Auris Health (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Research Grant or Support; Boston Scientific (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, In-kind educational material, Other Financial or Material Support, Research Grant or Support; Cantel/Medivators (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Research Grant or Support; Convergascent (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Consultant; Endoscopy Repair Specialist (Individual(s) Involved: Self): In-kind educational material, Other Financial or Material Support; Fortive (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Healthmark (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Other Financial or Material Support, Research Grant or Support, Study materials; in-kind educational materials; Laborie/Cogentix (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Consultant, Research Grant or Support; Mobile Instrument Service & Repair (Individual(s) Involved: Self): In-kind educational material, Other Financial or Material Support; Ofstead & Associates, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Employee, Other Financial or Material Support, Ownership interest, Shareholder; Steris (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Other Financial or Material Support, Research Grant or Support, Study materials
Saturday, October 24, 2020
1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT