2015 Meetings and Programs
click on the date for the meeting flyer
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APIC Greater NY Chapter 13 convenes on the 3rd Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at Lenox Hill Hospital, in the Michael S. Bruno, MD Presentation Room - 1st Floor, 130 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10075.
1:30 pm Board of Directors Meeting (for board members)
2:00 pm Education Program (open to all, members & guests)
3:30 pm Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
1:30 pm Board of Directors Meeting (for board members)
2:00 pm Education Program (open to all, members & guests)
3:30 pm Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
Chapter Meeting Journal Club Resource:
For a blank copy of our chapter's Journal Club Evaluation Tool, click here.
2015 MEETINGS
December 16, 2015 - Thank you to Robin Haag, our chapter's 2015 Infection Prevention Champion for your presentation "My 'Infamous' Career - AKA - How Did I End Up Here." We wish everyone a very Happy New Year and look forward to our January 20, 2016 meeting. Congratulations to our chapter's election winners for 2016 - 2017.
November 18, 2015 - Thank you to Mario Perella CBSPD for your entertaining and informative presentation - Sterilization "Test Your Knowledge" Jeopardy Thank you too, to Saungi McCalla (White Plains Hospital) and Steve Bock (NYU Langone Medical Center) for your presentation from the national APIC conference in June, highlighting our chapter's Journal Club & Q & A at our monthly meetings. Thank you too, to Steve Bock who presented our November Journal Club on this AJIC article and Natalie Fucito (NYU Langone Medical Center) who presented our November Q & A. And of course, thank you to 3M and representative Terrance Motherway for sponsoring our lunch.
October 21, 2015 - Our chapter held its Day-Long Bi-Annual Conference: "The Expanding Role of Infection Prevention," Copies of the speakers' slide sets will be posted in early January, 2016. Thank you to all who attended and all of the many vendors who made the day so successful for all! It was a great day of learning, networking, and learning about the latest products to support safe patient care.
October 14, 2015 - NO regular meeting. Meeting replaced by our October 21 All-Day Conference - see above.
September 16, 2015 - Thank you to Barbara Smith of Mount Sinai St. Luke’s / Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, our chapter's Sherry Chisholm award winner who shared her experiences at the National APIC Conference in Nashville, TN in June. Thank you, too, to our own chapter member Marianne Pavia (St. Mary's Hospital for Children) present her recent AJIC article for our Journal Club presentation with analysis/critique by Steve Bock (NYU Langone Medical Center) and the Q & A session by Larry Colbert (Bellevue Hospital). Thank you, as well, to Elsa Santos-Cruz (Mount Sinai Hospital) for her APIC 2015 conference presentation - Eradication of a Burkholderia cepacia Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit by a Bundled Environmental Hygiene Approach. Finally, thank you to Marie Moss (St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital as well) who shared her APIC 2015 talk Reduction in Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates and Device Utilization in a Medical and a Respiratory Stepdown Unit.
July and August 2015 - no meetings (summer vacation)
June 17, 2015 - Thank you to Linda Homan RN BSN CIC for her excellent presentation "Best Practices in O.R. Environmental Hygiene." Thank you too, to Ranekka Dean MPA RN CIC from NYU Langone Medical Center for your journal Club talk "The adenosine triphosphate test is a rapid and reliable audit tool to assess manual cleaning adequacy of flexible endoscope channels" based on this AJIC article and Elsa Santos-Cruz IP CIC from The Mount Sinai Hospital for the Q & A session we enjoyed.
May 20, 2015 -- Thank you to chapter member Janet Haas RN Ph.D CIC from Lenox Hill Hospital for your fine presentation "Information Technology Pearls for Infection Prevention." Thank you too, to Anna Stachel MS CIC from NYU Langone Medical Center, for our journal Club presentation and to Larry Colbert, from Bellevue Hospital Center, for your presentation of our Q & A session.
April 15, 2015 -- Thank you Dustin Crumby RN BSN MBA for your great talk on "Waterborne Pathogens: A Source of Hospital-Acquired Infections." Thank you, too, to Steven Bock for your journal club presentation on "Collateral Benefit of Screening Patients for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at Hospital Admission: Isolation of Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria" from AJIC January 2015 (with an evaluation tool), and to Carmentina Silvestre-Tan for your Q&A presentation to the membership. And of course, thank you Nalco for sponsoring our lunch.
March 18, 2015 -- Thank you Carolyn Herzig MS, for your excellent presentation, "Infection Prevention and Control in the Correctional Settings" and for agreeing to share your slides with us. Thank you, too, Elsa Santos-Cruz for presenting our journal club on "Successful control of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii" (with an evaluation tool) from AJIC Sept 2014 and to Natalie Fucito for giving our Q&A session at the meeting. We appreciate your effort and willingness to share your presentations with the chapter as well. Finally we say a special thank you to Altapure for sponsoring our lunch.
February 18, 2015 -- Thank you chapter member Rosalie Giardina MT(ASCP), from the NYS DOH HAI Office, for sharing "Key 2015 NHSN HAI Updates." Thank you, too, to Teresa Abraham for presenting our meeting's Q&A session.
January 21, 2015 -- Thank you to Ali Hassoun MD from Alabama Infectious Diseases Center, Huntsville,
Alabama for his excellent presentation "The Shifting Landscape of TB Testing: The IGRA Movement." Thank you, too, to Abegail Pangan for presenting the journal club on "Impact of Universal Disinfectant Cap Implementation on Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections" (AJIC Dec 2014), Steve Bock for his Q&A session, and our two Professional Development Award winners Brenda Denneny & Abegail Pangan, sharing their experiences.