ICT Conference on Professional Development

Diana M. Beck, RN, MSN, CNOR, is the perioperative education specialist at St. Mary’s Good Samaritan, Inc. in Centralia, Ill. and is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Missouri School of Nursing. She has an extensive history in nursing and nursing education that spans more than 30 years. She is a member of AORN, IAHCSMM and the National Nurses in Staff Development Organization, among others. She has been published in ICT and in numerous other professional periodicals and serves as a reviewer. She has lectured at meetings of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses and the Illinois Nurses Association.

Libby Chinnes, RN, BSN, CIC, is an independent infection control consultant with IC Solutions, LLC, based in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. She has more than 25 years of experience in infection prevention and control. She provides consultation to infection control programs in assessment, problem solving, and training in acute-care, long-term care, ambulatory care, home care, and long-term acute care. She also serves as a consultant to healthcare industries. Chinnes has served in many capacities for APIC, and is a frequent speaker at APIC’s ICE I course for new practitioners and APIC’s annual national conference. She is published in the field and has lectured extensively on infection prevention and control topics throughout the United States. For the third consecutive year, Chinnes is a speaker at the ICT Conference on Professional Development.

Nancy Chobin, RN, AAS, ACSP, CSPDM, is a corporate consultant and has been an educator at Saint Barnabas Health Care System, New Jersey since 1990. Nancy has more than 30 years of experience in the operating room, central sterile supply and materials management. She has consulted to more than 200 hospitals, healthcare systems and surgery centers in the U.S. and Canada. She is a past-president of the New Jersey Healthcare Central Service Association, and is a member of numerous industry organizations, including AORN, AAMI, SGNA and IAHCSMM. She serves on AAMI’s Sterilization Standards Committee and on AORN’s Recommended Practices Committee, and was the principal author of the Sterilization and Packaging Recommended Practices. Nancy is a contributing author to a number of industry publications, and she was named to ICT’s Who’s Who in Infection Control in 2006.

Barbara DeBaun, RN, MSN, CIC, has more than 30 years of experience in the field of infection prevention and control. She is currently an Improvement Advisor for Beacon, the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative. In this role, she provides vision and leadership in the development, implementation and facilitation of performance improvement initiatives for the 40 participating medical centers in the Francisco Bay Area. Prior to joining Beacon, Barbara was the director of patient safety and infection control at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Before that she directed the infection control programs at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco and the VA Hospital in the Bronx, NY. Barbara holds a BA in nursing from Pace University in New York and an MSN from San Francisco State University. She is an active member of APIC and currently serves as a member of the APIC Annual Conference Committee and the APIC Education Committee. She has lectured on a variety of patient safety and infection control topics and has published more than a dozen articles and several book chapters. In 2008, she was selected as ICT’s Educator of the Year.

Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, is the director of infection prevention for Rochester General Health System in Rochester, N.Y., and has 20 years of experience in infection prevention and quality improvement. Linda served as 2008 co-chairperson of National APIC'S Nominating and Awards committee. She is also a member of APIC’S Public Policy Committee and was lead author for APIC’S 2008 position paper on influenza immunization of healthcare workers and the 2009 position paper on surveillance technologies. She sits on several advisory panels including the New York State technical advisory panel for public reporting of hospital-acquired infections and the Hospital Association of New York state's technical advisory panel for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Linda was an author for APIC’S Guide to Elimination of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections and is lead author for APIC’S Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Elimination Guidelines. She has been a frequent spokesperson for APIC in media inquiries and has presented extensively at local, regional and national level. She received her master’s degree in administration from Alfred University, and her bachelor’s degree from State University of New York.

Karen Martin, RN, BS, MPH, CIC , has worked in the infection prevention field for 17 years and is currently the director of infection prevention and environmental services at Advocate Christ Medical Center and Hope Children’s Hospital. She has infection control experience in a variety of healthcare settings, including acute care, ambulatory care and pediatrics. She attended Michael Reese School of Nursing and National Lewis University and received a bachelor’s degree in education and management. Karen also received a master’s degree in public health from St. Xavier University. Karen is an active APIC member and has served on the nominating committee as well as chair of the Chicago APIC education board. She has been published in several major journal articles and has presented several abstracts at national APIC. She is currently authoring a chapter in the Joint Commission textbook on best practice. Karen has lectured for local Chicago APIC, ASHES, and the National Emergency Preparedness Organization.

Maryanne McGuckin, ScEd, MT (ASCP), is the founder and president of MMI which was established in 1984. She has more than 30 years of experience as a faculty and staff member of University of Pennsylvania. She is a senior scholar in the health policy department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. From 1998 to 1999 she was a visiting researcher at Oxford University in the UK, and in 2002 was a faculty exchange professor at Katholiecke University in Belgium. Maryanne’s created the Partners In Your Care program, a hand hygiene program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and is used in several hundred hospitals. Maryanne served on the 2002 CDC task force that developed hand hygiene guidelines, and currently is a member of the WHO task force on developing a global patient empowerment model. She has been a featured speaker at numerous scientific meetings such as the CDC, Joint Commission, APIC and SHEA. An author of dozens of original and peer-reviewed articles, Maryanne’s work has appeared in the American Journal of Infection Control, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the American Journal of Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the American Journal of Surgery. She is an expert source for national print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dateline, 60 Minutes and MSNBC.

Denise Murphy, RN, MPH, CIC, is the vice president for quality at Main Line Health System in suburban Philadelphia and is responsible for patient safety and risk management, clinical performance improvement, infection prevention and control, medical staff services, regulatory compliance, patient advocacy, bioethics and performance measurement. Denise also was vice president and chief safety and quality officer at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis. She spent seven years as director of healthcare epidemiology and patient safety for BJC HealthCare. Denise received her BSN in Portland, Maine and a master of public health degree from St. Louis University’s School of Public Health. She graduated from the first AHA/National Patient Safety Foundation-sponsored Leadership Fellowship training program in August 2003. Denise is an active member of APIC, SHEA, ASHRM and HICPAC. Denise is a past-president of the APIC board of directors and remains involved in futures planning, leadership development and global business strategy. Currently, she is authoring the patient safety chapter for ASHRM’s Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Organizations (sixth edition).

Shannon Oriola, RN, CIC, COHN is the department lead for Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology at the Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus in San Diego, California. She currently serves as APIC Board of Director and liaison to the APIC Public Policy Committee. She also serves on the California APIC Coordinating Council’s (CACC) Public Policy Committee, on the GERM Commission of the San Diego County Medical Society and has been appointed to serve on the California Department of Health Services SB 739 Healthcare-acquired infection Advisory Committee. She has practiced Infection Prevention and Control for thirteen years, has experience in Occupational Health Nursing and as a Safety Officer and is certified in Infection Control and Occupational Health Nursing. Shannon has lectured at the local, state, and national/international levels and has published several articles in infection prevention. She is recognized by the media as a resource for infection prevention having appeared locally on television and quoted nationally in magazine/ journals.

Ann Marie Pettis, RN, BSN, has been an Infection Preventionist for almost 30 years. Presently she is the Director of Infection Prevention for the University of Rochester Medical Center. She has published in the American Journal of Infection Control and Infection Control Today and Outpatient Surgery. She has lectured both locally and nationally, most recently as a guest speaker in Tokyo, Japan. She served as past president of Western New York Infection Control Organization and Finger Lakes Chapter of APIC. She is also on the New York State Advisory Committee in Infection Control. In 2006 she received a national Chapter Leadership Award. Presently she is the Legislative Representative for her local APIC chapter, co-chair of the National Communication Committee, a member of the National APIC Nominating and Awards Committee and a an editor for Infection Control Today and Outpatient Surgery. Professionally she is most proud of assisting with the SARS outbreak at the “ground zero” hospital, Scarborough Grace in Toronto. Her proudest personal accomplishment has been raising four children aged 10-23.

Cynthia Spry, RN, MSN, MA, CNOR, is an independent clinical consultant with 30 years of perioperative nursing experience. Most recently she retired from Advanced Sterilization Products, a Johnson & Johnson Company, where she was an international clinical consultant focusing on sterilization and disinfection. She is a past national president of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Cynthia is the co-chair of the AAMI committee responsible for ST 79 Comprehensive Guide to Steam Sterilization and Sterility Assurance. She has published extensively on sterilization, disinfection and related infection control, and is the current author of OR Manager’s quarterly column on sterilization. Cynthia holds both Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR) and CSIT (surgical instrument processor) certifications.