Jennifer Sanguinet, DrPh, MBA-HCM, BSIS, CIC, FAPIC

Director Infection Prevention
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital

Jennifer Sanguinet has a Doctorate in Public Health, a Master’s in Business Administration in Healthcare Management, and a Bachelor’s in Information Systems. She has her Certification in Infection Control (CIC) and is a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (FAPIC). 

Jennifer began her career in Infection Prevention as an administrative assistant at UCLA many years ago, and has served in Infection Prevention in multiple facilities across the state of California.  She has filled many additional roles in the past including Infectious Disease Response Leader, Employee Health Director and Information Systems Director. In 2014, Jennifer joined HCA as the Director of Infection Prevention at West Hills Hospital & Medical Center.  She earned the HCA Clinical Excellence Award for Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Prevention in 2016.  She has been published in numerous publications including AJIC (American Journal of Infection Control) regarding varied topics such as collaboration between the lab and infection prevention, the use of no touch disinfection, and methods for reducing healthcare infections. Jennifer has been privileged to speak on numerous occasions throughout her career including the APIC national conference and the Infection Prevention & Control Annual Conference in the UK.

In 2017, Jennifer moved to her current position as Infection Prevention Director at Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center.  She serves as the current Co-Chair of the Nevada Antimicrobial Stewardship Program since 2017. She has also just recently been elected as the President Elect for the Southern Nevada Chapter 035. Jennifer is a 25+ year member of APIC and enjoys teaching, sharing and learning about infection prevention and public health. 

Gerard Marshall BS, AS, RRT, CIC

Manager of Infection Prevention
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and Sunrise Children’s Hospital

Gerard has been in healthcare since 1979 starting as an Registered Respiratory Therapist in NICU and Labor & Delivery emergency response. He went on to gain skills in pediatrics, adult critical care, and rehabilitation for both pediatrics and adults. From 1992 until 2019 he was in a Director role for PT, OT, ST and RT.

Gerard presented at the 1985 National Nursing Convention on the advent of interventions for Ventilator management of AIDS in the ICU and has spoken on asthma education for the NV Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Association. Gerard was also a non-hospital based NALS educator at its inception in the early eighties.

He was President of the Nevada Society for Respiratory Care for 2 terms and facilitated the initiation of NV State Respiratory Therapy Licensure. He was a NSRC board member for 15 years.

Gerard has been actively involved in student education and has been a field coordinator for PT, OT, RT and Public Health students for 25+ years.

Gerard holds a CIC Board Certification in Infection Prevention and Control and has been involved in Infection Prevention since 2006. Active in NV APIC since 2009. He has been in his current role as Manager of Infection Prevention at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center since 2020.

He has been the Co-Chair of the Nevada Antimicrobial Stewardship Program since 2019 and has been a NVASP Board member since 2010.