2015 Annual Conference and Vendor Fair
UAMS – Jack T Stephens Spine Institute Auditorium, October 23, 2014
7.30am – 15.30pm
07:30-08:00
Registration/Continental Breakfast
Vendors
08:00-08:05
Welcome to UAMS
08:05–09:05
Current Challenges in Endoscope Reprocessing
Mary Ann Drosnock, MS, CIC, CFER, RM (NRCM)
09:05-10:05
Collection of Blood and Urine Cultures: Critical Factors in Diagnosis and HAI Reporting
Robert Garcia, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC
10:05-10:35
Break/Vendors
10:35–11:35
Arkansas Department of Health Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance and Program
Updates
Kelley Garner MPH MLS(ASCP)CM and Dirk Haselow MD, PhD, MS
11.35–12.35
Minding the Gaps: Implementation Science, Human Factors Engineering and Systems Design for
Infection Prevention
Lisa L. Maragakis, MD, MPH
12:35-13:15
Lunch/Vendors
13:15–13:45
APIC Arkansas Business Meeting
13:45-14:45
Tuberculosis Among Marshallese in Arkansas/ Use of GeneXpert-Rif(r) in making airborne
respiratory isolation decisions
Leonard Ntaate Mukasa, MBChB PhD and Naveen Patil, MD, MHSA, MA
14:45-15:15
Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Symbiotic Relationship
Katherine Lusardi PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID
15:15–15:30
Question & Answer/Closing
Continuing Education:
5.75 nursing contact hours.
Participants must sign in and attend the entire day for successful completion and awarding of contact hours.
Certificates will be awarded at the end of the day. No partial credit will be given.
Central Arkansas Veterans Health System is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by Arkansas
Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on
Accreditation
Faculty
Mary Ann Drosnock, MS, CIC, CFER, RM (NRCM)
Manager, Clinical Education for Gastroenterology Healthmark Industries
Topic: Current Challenges in Endoscope Reprocessing (1 hour)
Objectives:
1. To understand endoscope reprocessing procedures & challenges
2. To identify best practices in reprocessing of flexible endoscopes
3. To understand how to determine if an endoscope is patient ready
4. Review and understand the following:
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Current guidelines, published literature and recommendations
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An overview of the anatomy of flexible scopes
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The evidence-based clinical relevant products on monitoring flexible endoscopes
Robert Garcia, BS, MT(ASCP), CIC
Infection Preventionist Stony Brook University Medical Center, Greater New York City Area
Topic: Collection of Blood and Urine Cultures: Critical Factors in Diagnosis and HAI Reporting (1 hour)
Objectives: Pending
Kelley Garner MPH MLS(ASCP)CM and Dirk Haselow MD, PhD, MS
Arkansas Department of Health
Topic: Arkansas Department of Health Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance and Program
Updates (1 hour)
Objectives:
1. Present current state and national Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) data collected
2. Provide an overview of current and future HAI Program activities as they relate
to general infection prevention and Ebola.
Lisa L. Maragakis, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. Senior Director of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, The Johns Hopkins
Health System
Topic: Minding the Gaps: Implementation Science, Human Factors Engineering and Systems Design for
Infection Prevention (1 hour)
Objectives:
1. Explain how the recent Ebola crisis highlighted some important knowledge and evidence gaps
in infection prevention.
2. Discuss how trans-disciplinary teams can help address these gaps and bring new
perspectives and approaches to infection prevention.
3. Describe how implementation science can help to inform and augment our infection
prevention interventions.
Leonard Ntaate Mukasa, MBChB PhD and Naveen Patil, MD, MHSA, MA
Arkansas Department of Health
Topic: Tuberculosis Among Marshallese in Arkansas/ Use of GeneXpert-Rif(r) in making airborne
respiratory isolation decisions (1 hour)
Objectives:
1. Marshallese in Arkansas. A historical perspective
2. The challenge of tuberculosis prevention and care in the Marshallese; features of
transmission and reactivation in this population
3. Plan of ADH to address challenges
4. How GeneXpert can revolutionize airborne isolation principle in tuberculosis
5. Access to GeneXpert technology at Arkansas State Tuberculosis Laboratory
Katherine Lusardi PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID
Clinical Specialist, Antimicrobial Stewardship, UAMS Medical Center
Topic: Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Symbiotic Relationship (0.5 hour)
Objectives:
1. Describe the goals of antimicrobial stewardship and the strategies recommended to
accomplish these.
2. Identify opportunities where infection prevention and stewardship can work together
towards common goals.