• Guidelines to Prevent HAIs edited at High Income Countries
• INICC Guidelines to Prevent HAIs
  in Limited Resources Countries
• International HAI Rates published by INICC
• Impact of INICC Interventions
• INICC Online System for Surveillance of HAIs

Rosenthal, Victor D. -ARGENTINA-, Founder and Chairman

Dr. Rosenthal is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Buenos Aires. He holds an Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. He is a graduate in Clinical Effectiveness, from Harvard University. He is certified on Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Rosenthal is the founder and chairman of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), a nonprofit international research center which focuses on Healthcare-Associated Infections collaborating with more than 2,000 researchers in more than 500 cities in 66 countries. Currently collaborating with Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and with Microbiology Lab of US Army (NAMRU) on international infection control programs. He is Coauthor of JCI guidelines to prevent CLAB. He is a Task Force Member and Reviewer of the Infection Control Guidelines for the World Health Organization (WHO), He has collaborated with edition of the Infection Control Guidelines of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and several other countries. He is an editorial board member and scientific reviewer of several international peer reviewed journals, such as “Lancet”, “American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC)”; “Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology” (ICHE); and several others. Being an author of more than 400 scientific publications and book chapters worldwide, Dr. Rosenthal has received several awards granted at different international scientific meetings, including SHEA, APIC, IFIC, Pan American Meetings, and others. Dr. Rosenthal was a speaker in more than 5,000 conferences and symposiums in more than 100 countries, at the five continents, during last 28 years.

Mehta, Yatin- INDIA NORTH-, Country Director

Chairman of Medanta Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesia, Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, India. Past Vice President of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM)- Delhi. Past President of Indian Association of Cardio-Thoracic Anesthesia (IACTA). Founder and past Chief Editor of Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia. Executive Committee Member ISCCM. New Delhi, India. Asia.

Professor Sheila Myatra - INDIA, Country Secretary

Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, INDIA. Professor Sheila Myatra works in Asia’s largest cancer hospital since 19 years. She is consultant critical care specialist attending to a 23- bed mixed medical - surgical ICU. She is a teacher for Medical Council of India’s recognized Critical Care super specialization programme of the Homi Bhabha National University, Mumbai. She is currently Secretary for accreditation of the Indian College of Critical Care Medicine of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) and has been actively involved with the society as past national treasurer, executive committee member and chairman of the Mumbai branch of ISCCM. She is also the President and founder member of the national airway society "All India Difficult Airway Association" (AIDAA).She has been actively involved with the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) since 2007, She is the lead author of the first published ICU airway guideline - “Guidelines for Tracheal Intubation in the ICU” by AIDAA. She conducted the first national sedation survey and is the lead author of the end of life care guidelines for India. Her research interests include prevention of nosocomial infections, functional hemodynamic monitoring, difficult airway management, sedation and end of life care. She has recently developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring called the “tidal volume challenge” published in Critical Care Medicine in March 2017. She was awarded the FICCM (Fellowship of Indian college of Critical Care Medicine) by Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) in 2013 and Fellowship of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) in 2015. Three-time recipient of the President Citation by the President of the ISCCM 2012,2013 & 2015) for contribution to the society and the field of Critical Care in the country. Also awarded, the “Hargobind National Medical Scholarship” in 2001 to train in Critical Care at MSKCC (New York), USA. List of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Myatra+S

Hu, Bijie -CHINA-, Country Director

Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. Director, Department of Nosocomial Infection Control, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. Director, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. President, Nosocomial Infection Control Committee of China Prevent Medicine Association. Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. Board Member of the Infection Control Society of China. Shanghai, China. Asia.

Raka, Lul. -KOSOVO-, Country Director

President, National Committee for Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections, Ministry of Health. Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology, Medical School, Prishtina University. Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health of Kosova. Prishtina, Kosova. Europe.

Nguyen Viet Hung- VIETNAM, Advisory Board Member

Vice President and General Secretary of the Hanoi Society of Infection Control, HANSIC. Steering Member of Infection Control Committee of Ministry of Health. Assistant professor of Hanoi Medical University. Head of infection control department of Bach Mai hospital. Dr. Nguyen Viet Hung is one of the first ranking experts in hospital epidemiology in Vietnam. He has been working in the field of infection control and prevention for 20 years. He has published about 100 scientific papers.

Seto, Wing Hong. -HONG KONG-, Advisory Board Member

Chief of Service of Microbiology and Infection Control Officer, Queen Mary Hospital and Hong Kong West Cluster, Hospital Authority. Founding President of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control and President of the Asia Pacific Society of Quality Healthcare. Chairman of the Infection Control Scientific Committee of the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong. WHO Regular Advisor for various projects in Infection Control, Antibiotics Resistance and a core group member for the WHO Hand Hygiene guidelines. Honorary Professor for the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and visiting professor for the University of New South Wales. He has been awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong Government for his work in Infection Control in Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Asia.

Sergio Cimerman- BRAZIL-, Advisory Board Member

Presidente De La Sociedad Brasileña De Infectologia. Medico De Instituto De Infectologia Emilio Ribas. Ex Presidente De La Asociación Panamericana De Infectologia. Profesor De Infectologia De La Universidad De Mogi Das Cruzes

Javier Eduardo Desse- ARGENTINA-, Advisory Board Member

Docente Adscripto de Universidad de Buenos Aires y de Universidad Maimónides. Miembro Fundador de la Sociedad Argentina de Infectologia. Especialista en Medicina Interna Clinica Médica; Médico Infectólogo Universitario (UBA); Jefe de Unidad de Internación y Consultorios Externos de Infectologia en Hospital Provincial E E Erill de Escobar en Provincia de Buenos Aires; Jefe de Infectologia, Epidemiologia Hospitalaria y Control de Infecciones en Casa Hospital San Juan de Dios de Ramos Mejia en Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales - COLOMBIA-, Advisory Board Member

Expert in Tropical Infectious Diseases and Public Health. He is President of the Travel Medicine Committee of the Pan American Infectious Diseases Association (API), as well Secretary of the Colombian Infectious Diseases Association (ACIN). Also, President of the Coffee-Triangle Chapter of ACIN. Since 2014, has been recognized as Senior Researcher by the national agency of Science in Colombia, Colciencias. He is Professor and Appointed Director of Research of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Co-Chair of the Research Group Public Health and Infection. His H index=17 with over 240 papers in journals indexed in PubMed and/or Scopus.

Sofía del Carmen González Collantes- PERU-, Advisory Board Member

Presidente de Sociedad Peruana de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales. Presidente del Comité de Calificación de Instituciones Médico Científicas del Consejo Nacional del Colegio Médico del Perú. Médico especialista en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales. Maestría en Epidemiología. Docente de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. (U.N.M.S.M.). Miembro permanente del Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Daniel Alcides Carrión” U.N.M.S.M. Jefe de la Oficina de Epidemiología y Salud Ambiental del Centro Médico Naval “CMST”. Presidente del Comité de Ética del Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Daniel Alcides Carrión” U.N.M.S.M.

Hernán Diosnel Rodríguez Enciso- PARAGUAY, Advisory Board Member

Former President of Infectious Diseases Society of Paraguay. President of the 11th Congress of Infectious Diseases of Paraguay. Former Chair of Pharmacology at University of Integración de las Américas. Former Deputy Head of Instituto de Medicina Tropical. Specialist in Internal Medicine. Specialist in Infectious Diseases. Author of INICC Bundles to prevent BSI

Professor Sheila Myatra - INDIA-, Country Secretary

Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, INDIA. Professor Sheila Myatra works in Asia’s largest cancer hospital since 19 years. She is consultant critical care specialist attending to a 23- bed mixed medical - surgical ICU. She is a teacher for Medical Council of India’s recognized Critical Care super specialization programme of the Homi Bhabha National University, Mumbai. She is currently Secretary for accreditation of the Indian College of Critical Care Medicine of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) and has been actively involved with the society as past national treasurer, executive committee member and chairman of the Mumbai branch of ISCCM. She is also the President and founder member of the national airway society "All India Difficult Airway Association" (AIDAA).She has been actively involved with the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) since 2007, She is the lead author of the first published ICU airway guideline - “Guidelines for Tracheal Intubation in the ICU” by AIDAA. She conducted the first national sedation survey and is the lead author of the end of life care guidelines for India. Her research interests include prevention of nosocomial infections, functional hemodynamic monitoring, difficult airway management, sedation and end of life care. She has recently developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring called the “tidal volume challenge” published in Critical Care Medicine in March 2017. She was awarded the FICCM (Fellowship of Indian college of Critical Care Medicine) by Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) in 2013 and Fellowship of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) in 2015. Three-time recipient of the President Citation by the President of the ISCCM 2012,2013 & 2015) for contribution to the society and the field of Critical Care in the country. Also awarded, the “Hargobind National Medical Scholarship” in 2001 to train in Critical Care at MSKCC (New York), USA. List of publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Myatra+S

Mitsuda,Toshihiro. -JAPON-, Advisory Board Member

Head of the Division of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Yokohama City. University Hospital. Associate Professor at University Hospital, Yokohama City. Board of Directors of Japanese Society of Environmental Infections. Board of Directors of Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology. Yokohama, Japan. Asia.

Apisarnthanarak, Anucha. -TAILANDIA-, Advisory Board Member

Scientific committee chair person for the Thai National Nosocomial Infection Control Group. Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital Associate Professor at Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital. Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Medicine since 2008. Active member of many Thai national societies including the National Antimicrobial Resistant Surveillance System of Thailand (NARST), and Infectious Diseases Association of Thailand. Editorial Board, Clinical Infectious Diseases Editorial Board, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Committee, SHEA External Affair Committee 2009-present. Member, SHEA Annual Meeting Planning Committe 2009-present. Bangkok, Thailand. Asia. Bangkok, Tailandia. Asia.

Graves, Nicholas. -AUSTRALIA-, Advisory Board Member

Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Institute for Health & Biomedical Innovation, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. Peer Reviewer of Scientific Journals: BMJ, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Epidemiology & Infection, AIDS, Journal of Internal Medicine, European Journal of Public Health, and others. Research Funding: NH&MRC Australia Project Grants; NHS Quality Improvement, Health Technology Assessment, Scotland; Health Research Board, Health Services Research, Ireland. Brisbane, Australia. Oceania.

Jarvis, William Robert. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Clinical Associate Professor, Division Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Epidemiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Editor, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE). Former Senior Editor, IcanPrevent, Ican, Inc. Former President and Vice-President, The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Former Chair, American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Former President and Vice President, Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Associated with Health Care, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC). Former Commissioned Corps Officer, U.S. Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Former Chief, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), CDC. Former Acting Director, HIP, NCID, CDC. Former Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, CDC. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Former Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

Olmsted, Russell N. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Ex APIC President. Epidemiologist, Infection Control Services; Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. 2006 President & Member, Michigan Society for Infection Control (MSIC). Member, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Associate Editor, American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC); and Member - Editorial Board, Journal of Hospital Infection (JHI). Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Alvarado, Carla J. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Research Scientist Emerita. Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Research Scientist and Course Director Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety Short Course. Former Board of Director of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC); Former Trustee of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Research Foundation; Chairperson of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Healthcare Technical Group. Affiliated to the MP 471 Patient Safety: Risk Assessment and Management and Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement Courses programs (CQPI) College of Engineering and the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received 2003 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Carol DeMille Lifetime Achievement in Infection Control Award. Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Sattar, Syed, A. -CANADA-, Advisory Board Member

Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Founding Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM), University of Ottawa. Member, Editorial Boards, Am. J. Infect. Control, International J. Infect. Control, Medicine & Hygiene. Advisor to the governments of Canada and the U.S. on various aspects of infection control. Member, World Health Organization?s core group to draft the Guidelines on Hand Hygiene. Member, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development?s Task Group to develop harmonized methodologies to assess the microbicidal activities of hard surface disinfectants. Recipient of the Martin S. Favero Lectureship Award (2006) of the Am. Assoc. for Infect. Control and Hosp. Epidemiol., and Hygeia Medal (2009) of the Rudolf Sch?lke Foundation. Ottawa, Canada.

Rutala, William A. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Safety Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System. Director and Co-founder of the Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine. Professor for the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine. Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission. Editorial Board Member of the Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE). Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Antimicrobial Research Strategies for Disinfectants and Former Member of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) [1999-2003] and of the General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel. Member of several professional societies including the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Lynch, Patricia. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Former Chair, International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) and an IFIC Board member since 1999. Former president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), of the Certification Board of Infection Control, and of the Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Associated with Health Care. Redmond, Washington, U.S.A.

Maki, Dennis G. -USA-, Advisory Board Member

Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine and Head, Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin Medical School. Attending Physician of the Center for Trauma and Life Support Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of Infectious Disease Clinic, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Former President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, and Councillor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Editorial Board Member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Former Editor, Primum Non Nocere, Center for Disease Control and Former Editorial Board Member of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Monitor, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Investigation, Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and others. Former Consultant to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and for the National Response to Bioterrorism of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Pittet, Didier. -SUIZA-, Advisory Board Member

Director, Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals. Ex Lead, World Health Organization (WHO) World Alliance for Patient Safety, First Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters, Geneva. Professor of Medicine, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine. Geneva, Switzerland. Europe.

Murphy, Catherine. -Australia-, Advisory Board Member

Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Gold Coast District Health Services Infection Control Team. Board Member and Past- President of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Member of the Editorial Boards of several leading infection control journals worldwide and widely published in scientific journals and textbooks. Post-Doctoral placement of one year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She completed several invited short-term missions for the World Health Organization (WHO), including investigation of infection control measures in several South East Asian countries during the height of the 2003 SARS outbreak. She has lectured extensively to infection prevention peers and medical industry across several continents. West Burleigh, Australia. Oceania.

Servolo de Medeiros, Eduardo Alexandrino. -BRASIL- , Ex Country Director

Medical Doctor at Clinica Greal Doencas Infecciosas, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Specialised in Infectious Diseases graduated from the School of Medicine of Fundacao do ABC. Medical Residence Training. MSc and PHD in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases from the Federal University Sao Paulo (UNIFESP). Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. Scientific Coordinator of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases Researcher of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil. Project coordinator of distant-learning courses of Healthcare-Associated Infections, with the support of the Brazilian Surveillance Agency (Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria), and of Bacterial Resistance, with the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Research leader of projects financially supported by the FAPESP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Latin America.

Leblebicioglu, Hakan -TURQUIA-, Ex Country Director

Head of Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School. Professor of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Courses at Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School. President of Black Sea Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (BSCMID); Founding Member of Turkish Society of Hospital Infection Prevention; Vice President of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Specialty Society of Turkey (EKMUD). Editor of Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (ACMA). Samsun, Turkey. Europe.

Cuéllar, Luis E. - PERU -, Ex Country Director

Head of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas (INEN). Professor of Infectious Diseases at Universidad Nacional Former President of Peruvian Society of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (SPEIT). Lima, Peru. Latin America.

Alvarez Moreno, Carlos Arturo -COLOMBIA-, Ex Country Director

Head of Infectious Diseases Unit , San Ignacio Hospital, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and President of Infectious Diseases Department, Organization Sanitas International, Colombia. Professor of Medicine School at the National University of Colombia and Professor of Medicine School at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Colombia. Bogota, Colombia. Latin America.

Jaggi, Namita. -INDIA NORTH- , Ex Country Secretary

Director. Labs & Infection Control at Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon, India. Chair. Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee in Artemis Health Institute, New Delhi, India. Member of the Hospital Infection Society of India and extensive collaborator with National and International experts in the field of Infection Control for Global Development. With over 15 years experience excelling in her academic career, her key areas of interest and passion are antimicrobial stewardship, device-associated infection rates, healthcare worker safety and healthcare epidemiology. She has received several awards and distinctions, including Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award 2010. Author of a number of publications, research papers and articles, and an active participant at National and International Conferences. New Delhi, India. Asia.

French, Gary. -UK-, Ex Advisory Board Member

Professor French was a lecturer in Microbiology at London and then the University of the West Indies (1977 – 79). In 1980, he became a Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant in Microbiology at St Thomas’. He was appointed the Foundation Chair of Microbiology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1982. Professor French returned to UK in 1990 and was appointed Professor of Medical Microbiology at King’s College London (KCL). Until his retirement in November 2011, Professor French was Consultant in Microbiology and Head of Infection Control at the Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital NHS Trust (GSTT). He was also advisor in Infection Control to the Moorefield’s Eye Hospital and the Lambeth & Southwark Primary Care Trust, and Civil Consultant in Microbiology of the Royal Air Force from 2001-2009. Professor Gary French As an Honorary Professor at KCL and Honorary Consultant at GSTT, Professor French continued to supervise MD research degrees at KCL and a large Department of Health funded research project on rapid MRSA diagnosis at GSTT and King’s College Hospital, London. Professor French is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a member of the Hospital Infection Society, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Association of Medical Microbiologists, the Pathology Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He was Chairman of the Hospital Infection Society from 1999 -2001 and Editor of the Journal of Hospital Infection from 1995-1999. He was also a Board Member of the International Federation of Infection Control from 2000-2006. Professor French has the Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC), which is the highest UK postgraduate specialist qualification in hospital infection awarded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His areas of specialist interest are clinical microbiology, hospital and healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic therapy and antimicrobial resistance.

Larson, Elaine. -USA-, Ex Advisory Board Member

Elaine Larson is Associate Dean for Research and the Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research, Columbia University School of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is a former Dean, Georgetown University School of Nursing. Dr. Larson has been a member of the Board of Directors, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and the Report Review Committee, National Academy of Sciences. She received the first Pathfinder Award from the National Institute of Nursing Research in 2003 and an International Nurse Researcher Award from Sigma Theta Tau in 2011. In 2013, Dr. Larson became the first recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology for her contributions to hand-washing and other epidemiologic research. She is a fellow in the Institute of Medicine, Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of America, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research to Prevent Infections at Columbia University and an interdisciplinary T32 pre- and post-doctoral training grant, “Training in Interdisciplinary Research to Reduce Infections.” She has been Editor of the American Journal of Infection Control since 1995 and has published more than 250 journal articles, four books and a number of book chapters in the areas of infection prevention, epidemiology, and clinical research.

Mc Donnell, Gerald. -UK-, Ex Advisory Board Member

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Medical Laboratory Sciences from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Presenter at international conferences and has published over 130 patents and research papers, including a book on Antisepsis, Disinfection and Sterilization: Types, Action and Resistance. Member of national and international organizations for standard and guideline development. Basingstoke. England. United Kingdom.