Episode Summary: Listen as our hosts talk with another infection preventionist (IP) and a physician about IP and anesthesia working together on PPE. Next, they talk with the inventor of a new automated device that captures portable medical equipment disinfection data.
Our interviews are based on the following AJIC articles:
Authors: Jay Sanford, DO and Jill E. Holdsworth, MS, CIC, FAPIC, NREMT, CRCST
Julie Ann Martel, BS, Piyali Chatterjee, PhD, John David Coppin, MPH, Marjory Williams, PhD, Hosoon Choi, PhD, Mark Stibich, PhD, Sarah Simmons, DrPH, Deborah Passey, PhD, Chetan Jinadatha, MD, MPH
Guests
Jill Elizabeth Holdsworth, MS, CIC, FAPIC, NREMT, CRCST
Manager, Infection Prevention Department
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Jill obtained a Bachelor of Science from West Virginia Wesleyan College in Biology and a Master of Science from Marshall University in Exercise Science. She began her career as a cardiac rehab therapist in Huntington, WV. Jill began working as an IP in 2009, obtained her CIC after 1 year in the field, and became a Fellow of APIC in 2016. Jill became involved in APIC in 2009 with the DC Chapter, becoming the secretary in 2012, President-Elect in 2013 and the President in 2014. Jill was the 2015-2016 APIC Emergency Management Committee Chairman and is currently the AAMI Protective Barriers Committee co-chair. Jill is a certified EMT and is certified in sterile processing through IAHCSMM. She is currently working in Atlanta, GA as the Manager of Infection Prevention at Emory University Hospital Midtown.
Jay Sanford, DO
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Chief, Division of Pre-Operative Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Emory University SOM
Dr. Sanford currently serves as the Chief of the Division of Perioperative Medicine within the Department of Anesthesiology in the Emory University School of Medicine. In that role, he is responsible for overseeing operations and medical decision making within the Anesthesia Preoperative Clinics at both the Emory University Hospital Main and Midtown Campuses. He also serves as the residency site director at our Midtown campus, is co-chair of the residency’s Clinical Competency Committee, and is the current ERAS lead/liaison for our department in that location. He is also actively involved in departmental quality initiatives, research, and implementation.
Chetan Jinadatha, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Clinical Associate Professor, College of Medicine
Texas A & M University, Texas, USA
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha received his Medical Doctor from JJM Medical College, in India, and his Masters in Public Health from the School of Public Health, Texas A & M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas. He completed his internship, residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, in Temple, Texas.
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha currently is the Chief of Infectious Diseases Section at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple, Texas. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Texas A & M Health Science Center, Bryan, TX. He has extensive experience in prevention of healthcare acquired infections (HAIs). His clinical and research interests focus on the role of surfaces in causation of HAIs and how technology might be able to solve the problem of HAIs as well as Legionella and COVID prevention. Dr. Jinadatha has also testified as an expert witness on the use of technology for prevention of HAI in front of Science, Technology and Space Committee of the U.S. Congress in June 2014 and participated in several task forces related to Legionella prevention in the VA as well as waste water surveillance for COVID. Dr. Jinadatha has also authored chapters in the APIC textbook of Infection prevention and control and has published several manuscripts in peer reviewed journals