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Full Schedule

  • Cancelled
  • Exhibitor Snapshot: Invictus Sterilization
  • Exhibitor Snapshot: UMF Corporation | PerfectCLEAN
  • Exhibitor Snapshot: UVconcepts
  • Exhibitor Snapshot:Cadmium
  • Thursday, November 10, 2022
  • 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM
    Opening Remarks
  • 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
    Harnessing Your Power to Create Change
  • 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
    Networking Break
  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
    Achieving Better Outcomes When You Follow IFUs: A deep-dive into the intricacies of reprocessing scopes, surface, and endocavity probes

    Primary Speaker: Katharine J. Hoffman, MPH, CIC – JPS Health Network

    Co-Speaker: Chrystia Johnson, MSHS, MT(AMT), CIC – JPS Health Network

    Sterilization

  • 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
    Using Human Factors Engineering to Identify Barriers and Facilitators to Environmental Cleaning

    Primary Speaker: Linda McKinley, RN, PhD, MPH, CIC, FAPIC (she/her/hers) – Wm. S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital

    Low Level Disinfection

  • 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
    Break
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Fluorescing the Hawthorne Effect: Highlighting the Importance of the Use of Fluorescent Marking Technique in Operating Room Terminal Clean Audits

    Primary Speaker: Brandon Feusner, T-CHEST – UofL Health

    Co-Speaker: Shawn Alderman, MPH – UofL Health - Jewish Hospital

    Technology and Innovation

  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Kicking the autoclave habit: tools to make the case for safer instrument reprocessing in ambulatory settings.

    Primary Speaker: Heidi Mikkelsen-McCabe, RN, BSN, CIC – Rhode Island Hospital

    Technology and Innovation

  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
    Lunch
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Do Manufacturer's Instructions for Use (IFUs) Keep You Up At Night?

    Primary Speaker: Cindy Turney, CRCST – St. Luke's Health System

    Low Level Disinfection

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Turning Inspection Lemons into Lemonade: Infection Prevention Learnings and Process Improvement Tools from the Sterile Processing Department

    Primary Speaker: Caitlin Brown, MPH, MLS(ASCP) – Intermountain Healthcare

    Co-Speaker: Eduardo Velazquez, CRCST, CHL, CFER – Intermountain Saint Joseph Hospital

    Sterilization

  • 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM
    Networking Break
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Healthcare Surface Disinfection: Innovations and Experiences

    Primary Speaker: Chetan Jinadatha, MD, MPH – Clinical Professor, Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX.

    Co-Speaker: Stephanie A. Mayoryk, RN BSN CIC – Mayoryk Consulting Services, LLC

    Technology and Innovation

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    High-Level Disinfection & Sterilization (HLD/S): Are You Survey Ready?

    Primary Speaker: Sara Townsend, MS-HQS, CIC, FAPIC – CHOP

    Co-Speaker: Jill Manuola, MSN, RN, NPD-BC – CHOP

    Sterilization

  • 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
    Break
  • 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
    CDS The Pitch
  • 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    Evening Networking Reception
  • Friday, November 11, 2022
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
    Standards in Focus: Key Updates In ANSI/AAMI ST91 and Other Standards on the Horizon.
  • 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
    Break
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    How Laundries Disinfect Healthcare Textiles

    Primary Speaker: Linda Fairbanks – Association for Linen Management

  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Monitoring and Evaluating Infection Prevention Programs For Environmental Risk: You Can’t Improve What You Haven’t Measured

    Co-Speaker: John LaRochelle, BA, CHESP – Lighthouse Healthcare

    High Level Disinfection

  • 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
    Break
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
    A Useful Guide: Everything You Need to Know about UV-C Disinfection

    Primary Speaker: Thuc Vu, PhD – OhmniLabs

    Co-Speaker: Aaron Chau – OhmniLabs

    Technology and Innovation

  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
    Colorized disinfection method improves cleaning efficacy: results from three hospital studies and a meta-analysis of the link between cleaning efficacy and reduced healthcare associated infections

    Technology and Innovation

  • 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
    Lunch
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM
    Atlas of the SPD - A Beginner’s Roadmap to High Reliability
  • 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
    Break
  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
    High Level Disinfection Analysts in a Central Sterile Processing World: A 'Tell' of a Quality Assurance Program

    Primary Speaker: Kia Parker, CSPDT, CRCST, CER, CHL, a-IPC – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center/ The James

    High Level Disinfection

  • 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
    Sterile Processing in Dental Clinics: Challenges and Triumphs

    Primary Speaker: Pamela A. Charron Burnap, RN, BSN CIC CSPM – Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command New England (NMRTCNE)

    Co-Speaker: LCDR. Keith J. Freeman, RN – Navy

    Sterilization

  • 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
    Conference Concludes