2023 Meetings and Programs
Page last updated 1/2/2024
APIC Greater NY Chapter 13 meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month (except July and August) at Lenox Hill Hospital, in the Bruno Conference Room, 130 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10075.
Note - we also sometimes shift November and December meetings to the 2nd Wednesday of the month due to the holidays each month.
2:00 pm Education Program and Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
Note - we also sometimes shift November and December meetings to the 2nd Wednesday of the month due to the holidays each month.
2:00 pm Education Program and Membership Meeting (open to all, members & guests)
Chapter Meeting Journal Club Information and Resource:
At many of our chapter meetings, we have a Journal Club presentation by one of our chapter members or IPs from an area facility. The person doing the journal club is encouraged to select a relevant, current article from an IP-related peer-reviewed journal and discuss the article. The presenter is encouraged to prepare a PowerPoint slide set to help convey information about the article. Commentary on how and why the article provides (or doesn't provide) useful information is encouraged.
The presenter should also use the Evaluation Tool (download from the link below) as a final slide to grade and summarize the study. Please feel free to look at Journal Club presentations from past meetings to see examples. Presenters should also listen to several such presentations at meetings before doing a Journal Club talk. To volunteer to do a Journal Club presentation, please reach out to Alex Grizas at grizasa@hss.edu, the chapter president-elect, president, or any other board member. We very much welcome all IPs to participate in doing a journal club talk.
For a blank copy of our chapter's Journal Club Evaluation Tool, click here.
2023 Meeting Dates
A special THANK YOU to all of our chapter members who helped make 2023 such an exciting and successful year for our chapter! We are very excited to look forward to 2024!
December 13, 2023 - Thank you to Adebisi Adeyeye DHA MPH RN CIC FAPIC, Manager - Infection Control/Wound Management, VAMC NYC for your excellent presentation on "VA Oral Care and NV-HAP Initiatives." Thank you, too, to Debra Hagberg MT (ASCP) CIC, VP Infection Prevention and Clinical Excellence IVD Robots for sharing your great talk on "UV-C Technology for Enhanced Disinfection: Show me the Science." Finally, thank you to Gerald San Miguel MSN RN CIC for giving our Journal Club on "Reducing Sharps Injuries in the Operating Room of an Academic Tertiary Care Center,” by N. F. Sangji, et al.
November 15, 2023 - Special Thanks to Wava Truscott PhD MBA of Truscott MedSci Associates for your great and detailed presentation on “Understanding Changes in the World of Pathogens." We also say a big Thank You to Jenna Calder MSN RN CIC ONC for presenting our Journal Club on "Direct Gloving vs. Hand Hygiene Before Donning Gloves in Adherence to Hospital Infection Control Practices: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial” by Keri A. Thom MD MS et al.
October 19, 2023 - STATE-WIDE Infection Prevention and Control Conference
We were excited to participate with a team from all six APIC chapters across all of New York State to present SHAPING INFECTION PREVENTION: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Collaboration.
Thank you to our great speakers who shared at our full-day virtual event. Thank you, too, to our conference planning committee who worked together to bring this event to life.
Below are both handout versions of the presentations and full-size PDF versions of the slide sets are now available below. Please feel free to download and review each. A special thanks to each speaker who graciously agreed to let us share these files.
8:45 AM - Opening Remarks by national APIC President Patricia Jackson - Click here for this slide deck.
9 AM - handout: Candida auris & CPOs: Infection Prevention & Control Tips from “The Land of Best Practice”
Click here for this slide deck.
10 AM - Developing and Implementing an Efficient and Effective Internal Mock Survey Program
Click here for this slide deck.
11 AM - An Overview of Sterile Processing for Infection Preventionists, from an Infection Preventionist in Sterile Processing
Click here for this slide deck.
1 PM - Long Term Care - Outbreak Management in Long Term Care (when the outbreak isn’t Covid!)
Click here for this slide deck.
1 PM - Acute/Ambulatory Care - Infection Prevention and the Health Care Built Environment: Why Every Aspect Matters
Click here for this slide deck.
2 PM - Long Term Care - Antibiotic Stewardship in Long Term Care
Click here for this slide deck.
2 PM - Acute/Ambulatory Care - All About IPC in the Ambulatory Care
Click here for this slide deck.
3 PM - All audience - Data Management - slides not available
4 PM - Late Breaker Session with NYSDOH
Click here for this slide deck.
September 20, 2023 - was held in person at Lenox Hill Hospital, Bruno Conference Room, and ONLINE from 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
* Panel presentation on IP Lessons Learned from APIC Conference 2023 Orlando, presented by:
Sherry Chisholm awardees: Saungi McCalla DHA MSN MPH RN CIC FAPIC and Briana Episcopia MPH RN CIC
* Chapter Leadership: Diana Yacoub and Talia Lefkowitz
* Journal Club will be presented by Caroline Donovan on this great AJIC article.
Note - Thak you to Antonella Eramo MS CIC who again presented our CIC review session. TY Antonella!
June 21, 2023 - Thank you to our panel presenters for sharing about sterilization and disinfection in their facilities, as a follow up to our May meeting that featured Dr. Rutala.
* Connor Brazil, BA CRCST CIS CHL LSSBB, NYU Langone Health
* Holly Kassner MPH CIC, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
* Rodolfo Simons CIC, Mount Sinai Hospital
* Saungi McCalla DHA MSN MPH RN CIC FAPIC, Brooklyn Hospital Center
Thank you, too, to Karen Brody MSN RN GERO-BC CIC who led our Journal Review of an excellent AJIC article titled "Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool for Improving Infection Control Procedures."
Finally, thank you to Antonella Eramo for leading our CIC review session once again after the main meeting.
May 17, 2023 - We say a huge Thank You to Dr. William Rutala who presented on Disinfection & Sterilization: Current Issues, New Research, and New Technology. Thank you, too, to Kinnos, and representative Lynda Klimas for sponsoring his talk. We say a big thank you, as well, to chapter member Holly Kassner MPH CIC, Infection Prevention Specialist, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills who gave our Journal Club presentation on the article “Evaluation of daily environmental cleaning and disinfection practices in veterans affairs acute and long-term care facilities: A Mixed methods study.”
And another big thanks goes to Antonella Eramo for presenting our CIC review session at this meeting. She also shared this excellent viral Hepatitis resource from the CDC.
April 19, 2023 - Thank you to Doramarie Arocha PhD MT(ASCP)SM CIC and Jessica Dangles MBA MS PMP for your presentation on the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology. They also shared the CBIC Infection Prevention & Control Department Lattice Summary document which may be helpful to many IPs, in both staff and leadership roles.
A big thank you, also, to Alexandra Grizas MPH CIC (Hospital for Special Surgery) who presented our Journal Club on “Impact of COVID-19 RT-PCR testing of asymptomatic health care workers on absenteeism and hospital transmission during the pandemic” (article link here). Here is the assessment form for the article she prepared!
March 15, 2023 - was held online. A big thank you goes to board member Sue Stone RN BSN CIC who presented our journal club on this great AJIC article.
Thank you to Michelle del Corral, Pharm D., MBA, Pfizer Vaccines Field Medical Director, for your excellent presentation on the "Use of Higher Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Among US Adults: Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - 2023."
Thank you, also, to Denise Cabrera and Guari Ponappa, Pfizer Vaccine Account Managers, who shared about "Adult Pneumococcal Vaccination Operationalization."
Thank you, too, to Arsenia Golfo MSN RN CIC, one of our chapter's board members, who gave the CIC Review session at the meeting.
February 15, 2023 - Thank you to chapter members Peggy O’Flynn RN, CIC; Infection Preventionist, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Kinta Alexandra DrPH, MS, MPH, CIC; Director, Infection Prevention and Control, NYC Health + Hospital | Harlem, and Sean Brown BSc, EMT-B, CIC; Associate Director, Infection Prevention and Control, NYC Health + Hospital | Harlem for your great presentations on MRSA/MSSA and/or MDRO Management.
January 18, 2023 - Thank you to Karen Hoffman RN BSN MS CIC FSHEA FAPIC for your excellent presentation on "How Active Source Control of Nasal Carriage is Reducing HAI’s and Readmissions.” Thank you, too to representative Jusin Iorio and Nozin for sponsoring our speaker.
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At many of our chapter meetings, we have a Journal Club presentation by one of our chapter members or IPs from an area facility. The person doing the journal club is encouraged to select a relevant, current article from an IP-related peer-reviewed journal and discuss the article. The presenter is encouraged to prepare a PowerPoint slide set to help convey information about the article. Commentary on how and why the article provides (or doesn't provide) useful information is encouraged.
The presenter should also use the Evaluation Tool (download from the link below) as a final slide to grade and summarize the study. Please feel free to look at Journal Club presentations from past meetings to see examples. Presenters should also listen to several such presentations at meetings before doing a Journal Club talk. To volunteer to do a Journal Club presentation, please reach out to Alex Grizas at grizasa@hss.edu, the chapter president-elect, president, or any other board member. We very much welcome all IPs to participate in doing a journal club talk.
For a blank copy of our chapter's Journal Club Evaluation Tool, click here.
2023 Meeting Dates
A special THANK YOU to all of our chapter members who helped make 2023 such an exciting and successful year for our chapter! We are very excited to look forward to 2024!
December 13, 2023 - Thank you to Adebisi Adeyeye DHA MPH RN CIC FAPIC, Manager - Infection Control/Wound Management, VAMC NYC for your excellent presentation on "VA Oral Care and NV-HAP Initiatives." Thank you, too, to Debra Hagberg MT (ASCP) CIC, VP Infection Prevention and Clinical Excellence IVD Robots for sharing your great talk on "UV-C Technology for Enhanced Disinfection: Show me the Science." Finally, thank you to Gerald San Miguel MSN RN CIC for giving our Journal Club on "Reducing Sharps Injuries in the Operating Room of an Academic Tertiary Care Center,” by N. F. Sangji, et al.
November 15, 2023 - Special Thanks to Wava Truscott PhD MBA of Truscott MedSci Associates for your great and detailed presentation on “Understanding Changes in the World of Pathogens." We also say a big Thank You to Jenna Calder MSN RN CIC ONC for presenting our Journal Club on "Direct Gloving vs. Hand Hygiene Before Donning Gloves in Adherence to Hospital Infection Control Practices: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial” by Keri A. Thom MD MS et al.
October 19, 2023 - STATE-WIDE Infection Prevention and Control Conference
We were excited to participate with a team from all six APIC chapters across all of New York State to present SHAPING INFECTION PREVENTION: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Collaboration.
Thank you to our great speakers who shared at our full-day virtual event. Thank you, too, to our conference planning committee who worked together to bring this event to life.
Below are both handout versions of the presentations and full-size PDF versions of the slide sets are now available below. Please feel free to download and review each. A special thanks to each speaker who graciously agreed to let us share these files.
8:45 AM - Opening Remarks by national APIC President Patricia Jackson - Click here for this slide deck.
9 AM - handout: Candida auris & CPOs: Infection Prevention & Control Tips from “The Land of Best Practice”
Click here for this slide deck.
10 AM - Developing and Implementing an Efficient and Effective Internal Mock Survey Program
Click here for this slide deck.
11 AM - An Overview of Sterile Processing for Infection Preventionists, from an Infection Preventionist in Sterile Processing
Click here for this slide deck.
1 PM - Long Term Care - Outbreak Management in Long Term Care (when the outbreak isn’t Covid!)
Click here for this slide deck.
1 PM - Acute/Ambulatory Care - Infection Prevention and the Health Care Built Environment: Why Every Aspect Matters
Click here for this slide deck.
2 PM - Long Term Care - Antibiotic Stewardship in Long Term Care
Click here for this slide deck.
2 PM - Acute/Ambulatory Care - All About IPC in the Ambulatory Care
Click here for this slide deck.
3 PM - All audience - Data Management - slides not available
4 PM - Late Breaker Session with NYSDOH
Click here for this slide deck.
September 20, 2023 - was held in person at Lenox Hill Hospital, Bruno Conference Room, and ONLINE from 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
* Panel presentation on IP Lessons Learned from APIC Conference 2023 Orlando, presented by:
Sherry Chisholm awardees: Saungi McCalla DHA MSN MPH RN CIC FAPIC and Briana Episcopia MPH RN CIC
* Chapter Leadership: Diana Yacoub and Talia Lefkowitz
* Journal Club will be presented by Caroline Donovan on this great AJIC article.
Note - Thak you to Antonella Eramo MS CIC who again presented our CIC review session. TY Antonella!
June 21, 2023 - Thank you to our panel presenters for sharing about sterilization and disinfection in their facilities, as a follow up to our May meeting that featured Dr. Rutala.
* Connor Brazil, BA CRCST CIS CHL LSSBB, NYU Langone Health
* Holly Kassner MPH CIC, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
* Rodolfo Simons CIC, Mount Sinai Hospital
* Saungi McCalla DHA MSN MPH RN CIC FAPIC, Brooklyn Hospital Center
Thank you, too, to Karen Brody MSN RN GERO-BC CIC who led our Journal Review of an excellent AJIC article titled "Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool for Improving Infection Control Procedures."
Finally, thank you to Antonella Eramo for leading our CIC review session once again after the main meeting.
May 17, 2023 - We say a huge Thank You to Dr. William Rutala who presented on Disinfection & Sterilization: Current Issues, New Research, and New Technology. Thank you, too, to Kinnos, and representative Lynda Klimas for sponsoring his talk. We say a big thank you, as well, to chapter member Holly Kassner MPH CIC, Infection Prevention Specialist, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills who gave our Journal Club presentation on the article “Evaluation of daily environmental cleaning and disinfection practices in veterans affairs acute and long-term care facilities: A Mixed methods study.”
And another big thanks goes to Antonella Eramo for presenting our CIC review session at this meeting. She also shared this excellent viral Hepatitis resource from the CDC.
April 19, 2023 - Thank you to Doramarie Arocha PhD MT(ASCP)SM CIC and Jessica Dangles MBA MS PMP for your presentation on the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology. They also shared the CBIC Infection Prevention & Control Department Lattice Summary document which may be helpful to many IPs, in both staff and leadership roles.
A big thank you, also, to Alexandra Grizas MPH CIC (Hospital for Special Surgery) who presented our Journal Club on “Impact of COVID-19 RT-PCR testing of asymptomatic health care workers on absenteeism and hospital transmission during the pandemic” (article link here). Here is the assessment form for the article she prepared!
March 15, 2023 - was held online. A big thank you goes to board member Sue Stone RN BSN CIC who presented our journal club on this great AJIC article.
Thank you to Michelle del Corral, Pharm D., MBA, Pfizer Vaccines Field Medical Director, for your excellent presentation on the "Use of Higher Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Among US Adults: Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - 2023."
Thank you, also, to Denise Cabrera and Guari Ponappa, Pfizer Vaccine Account Managers, who shared about "Adult Pneumococcal Vaccination Operationalization."
Thank you, too, to Arsenia Golfo MSN RN CIC, one of our chapter's board members, who gave the CIC Review session at the meeting.
February 15, 2023 - Thank you to chapter members Peggy O’Flynn RN, CIC; Infection Preventionist, Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Kinta Alexandra DrPH, MS, MPH, CIC; Director, Infection Prevention and Control, NYC Health + Hospital | Harlem, and Sean Brown BSc, EMT-B, CIC; Associate Director, Infection Prevention and Control, NYC Health + Hospital | Harlem for your great presentations on MRSA/MSSA and/or MDRO Management.
January 18, 2023 - Thank you to Karen Hoffman RN BSN MS CIC FSHEA FAPIC for your excellent presentation on "How Active Source Control of Nasal Carriage is Reducing HAI’s and Readmissions.” Thank you, too to representative Jusin Iorio and Nozin for sponsoring our speaker.
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