John Boyce, MD, a renowned infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist and colleague Richard Martinello, MD a medical director of infection prevention devised an innovative method to assess how well HCPs perform hand hygiene using portable thermal imaging. Check out how they were able to better examine hand hygiene technique.

Guest: John Boyce, MD and Richard A. Martinello, MD

Publication Title: Pilot study of using thermal imaging to assess hand hygiene technique. Am J Infect Control. Published online September 14, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2022.07.015

Authors

John Boyce, MD
Richard A. Martinello, MD

John Boyce, MD

Dr. Boyce is currently President of J.M. Boyce Consulting LLC, a position he assumed in 2015 after retiring from his positions as Director of Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT and as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He worked as a hospital-based infectious diseases specialist for many years, and as a hospital epidemiologist in several university-affiliated facilities over a period of 40 years, and now spends his time as an infection control and prevention consultant. He served as president of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) in 1999. He was lead co-author on the HICPAC/APIC/SHEA/ IDSA “CDC” Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings, and was a contributing author to the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. He has co-authored numerous articles dealing with multiple aspects of hand hygiene.

Richard A. Martinello, MD

Dr. Richard Martinello is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is board certified in adult and pediatric infectious diseases and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He trained in adult and pediatric infectious diseases in addition to healthcare epidemiology at Yale. Dr. Martinello serves as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention for Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale New Haven Health System. Dr. Martinello’s research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of respiratory virus infections, disinfection of surfaces and air, and the prevention of healthcare associated infections. Dr. Martinello was recently funded by CDC to develop processes and recommendations to improve infection prevention and controls in hospitals, improve systems for identifying and tracking patients who may present risk to other patients/staff, and to develop a novel educational platform to improve the awareness and practice of infection prevention and control in healthcare.