2023 Infection Prevention Boot Camp Speaker Lineup
KyIP Training Center is thrilled to kickstart this intensive learning journey with an impressive lineup of speakers who are experts in the field of infection prevention and control. Speakers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as well the Kentucky Department for Public Health, Norton Healthcare, Community Health Associates, and experts in leadership and change will join KyIP Training Center faculty onsite. Read presenter biographies below.
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Dr. Julia Frith, DNP, RN, CIC
Dr. Julia Frith is Manager of Program Development and Research at Norton Healthcare. Dr. Frith has been with Norton Healthcare since 2004. She started her nursing career in the pediatric intensive care unit at Norton Children’s Hospital. In 2008, Julia began her work in infection prevention. During this time, she has worked to implement evidence based practices focused on infection prevention throughout the health system. Julia engaged in the development of plans for new and emerging pathogens including Ebola and COVID-19.
Dr. Frith received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisville, a Master’s in Nursing Administration from Bellarmine University and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with an emphasis in Executive Leadership from University of Kentucky. Julia has been Certified in Infection Control through the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology since 2011.
Dr. Frith is an active member of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Currently she serves as a member of the Board and is President Elect for the Kentuckiana APIC chapter. Dr. Frith has served on the National APIC Practice Guidance Committee and is currently the Kentuckiana APIC liaison for Kentucky Society of Healthcare Engineers (KSHE).
In 2020, Dr. Frith received the Kentuckiana APIC Ruthie Award, an award developed in honor of Dr. Ruth Carrico intended to recognize leaders in infection prevention.
Dr. Janet Glowicz, PhD, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP
Dr. Janet Glowicz is a nurse Infection Preventionist with Project Firstline at the CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. She has practiced infection prevention in outpatient and acute care settings. At the CDC, Janet has served as the subject matter expert for hand hygiene. Janet enjoys being onsite at healthcare facilities and interacting with frontline personnel as they implement infection control actions.
Dr. Hudson Garrett, PhD, MSN, MPH, MBA, LTC-CIP, CIC
Dr. Hudson Garrett the President and Chief Executive Officer for Community Health Associates and a Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Infection Prevention and Infection Control from the University of
South Florida. He has completed the Johns Hopkins Fellows Program in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control. He is also a Fellow in the Academy of National Associations of Directors of Nursing Administration and was selected as a Lifetime Member in the Association, which is the highest honor bestowed upon a member.
He holds graduate certificates in healthcare leadership from both Cornell and the University of Notre Dame. He has served on expert panels related to disinfection and sterilization with the United States Food and Drug Administration, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency, most notably serving on the FDA’s Panel and Working Group for Flexible Endoscope Reprocessing and the EPA’s Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee.
Dr. Garrett has lectured around the world and provided testimony to government and regulatory agencies on a variety of topics related to infectious diseases, patient safety, and healthcare leadership
Dr. Michael Bell, MD
Dr. Michael Bell is the Deputy Director of CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Prior to that he served as the Associate Director for Infection Control and was the Executive Secretary for the US Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. His career has focused on investigating and preventing transmission of healthcare-associated illness, development of evidence-based infection control guidelines, and optimizing systems of care. Prior to his current position at CDC, he was the Chief of the Epidemiology Unit at the Viral Special Pathogens Branch, addressing control of high-risk pathogens.
He received his medical degree from the University of Washington and trained in Infectious Diseases at the University of California San Francisco.
Emily Anderson, BSN, RN
Emily Anderson has been the KY TB Program Manager with the Kentucky Department for Public Health since 2013 and appointed TB Controller in August 2018. She is responsible for the overall supervision and management of daily TB Program operations. She serves as the principle investigator of the TB Cooperative Agreement, Annual Performance Reports, Program Evaluation, and budgets. She has over 20 years combined local and state health department experience. Her varied nursing and public health leadership backgrounds have enabled her to lead state and regional public health initiatives and education for programs such as Tuberculosis, Local Health Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Audit Team, Maternal and Child Health Coordination, and Family Planning.
Stephen Furmanek, MPH, MS
Stephen is an experienced biostatistician with focus in the domains of clinical research, nursing and public health. Stephen has nearly a decade of experience transforming data into actionable information through statistical analysis.
Dr. Elena Swingler, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP
Dr. Swingler is a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases at Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital. She graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Business Administration degrees. She then completed both PGY1 and PGY2 residency training at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her main professional areas of interests include implementing and evaluating antimicrobial stewardship interventions, developing system policy and protocols, antimicrobial resistance, and mycobacterial infections.
Dr. Alan Junkins, PhD, D(ABMM)
Dr. Junkins graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1991 with a PhD in Bacteriology, with an emphasis in food-borne pathogens, especially E. coli O157:H7. He then spent 16 years teaching clinical laboratory sciences students at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Iowa, before completing a fellowship in medical and public health microbiology at the University of Iowa. Since becoming the Chief of Microbiology for Norton Healthcare in 2009, Dr. Junkins had special interest in promoting clinically relevant testing and reporting of microbiology results and management of laboratory data.
Karen Nevin, MS, BSN, RN, CVAHP
As Premier’s Senior Director, Clinical Value Analysis, Karen leads and facilitates the Value Analysis Committee and the clinical process within the Performance Groups and Premier’s committed programs. As a clinical expert she uses her understanding and medical expertise to analyze current and future market technology trends while prioritizing customer needs. In addition Karen’s responsibilities also include assisting the clinical work groups for all Performance Groups as well as working with members and suppliers to identify and develop strategies to introduce new technology and improve product utilization. Karen has more than 33 years of nursing experience in the Perianesthesia and Surgical Services. Her management duties included capital equipment acquisitions, total joint implant management, physician preference product ordering, daily oversight of the Department of Anesthesia, and responsibility for over 50 OR’s 12 Endoscopy procedure rooms and all Pre-op and Post-op departments.
Carrell Rush, MPH
Carrell Rush is the Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Epidemiologist for the Kentucky Department for Public Health. With a passion for safeguarding public health, Carrell’s expertise lies in meticulously tracing and curbing the spread of pathogens through meticulous research and strategic interventions. Armed with advanced analytical skills, Carrell ensures swift responses to outbreaks, minimizes health risks, and informs policy decisions. Their unwavering commitment to community well-being has solidified them as a frontline defender, actively shaping healthier futures for the state’s residents.
Michael Curren, BSN, RN, CIC, NHDP-BC
Michael Curran received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1992 from Providence College, a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 2016 from Indiana Wesleyan University, and is an MPH candidate in Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness from Saint Louis University. He had joined the HAI/AR Prevention Program in 2018, focusing his efforts on identifying potential outbreaks of multidrug-resistant organisms and coordinating the public health response to identified outbreaks to minimize transmission of these pathogenic organisms.
Prior to joining the HAI/AR Prevention program, Mr. Curran spent six years working as a staff nurse at UK Healthcare. While working at UK Healthcare, he had volunteered to join the hospital’s Serious Communicable Disease Response Team after the hospital was designated as an Ebola Assessment Hospital in 2015. One of the roles on that team was as a Steering Committee member focused on developing training programs for the team members.
In addition to his work on the HAI/AR Prevention Program and with UK Healthcare, Mr. Curran has been a Nurse Specialist for the KY-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) since 2009. KY-1 DMAT is part of the National Disaster Medical System of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has been deployed multiple times as part of the response to federally declared disasters, including multiple deployments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These deployments since February of 2020 contributed to Mr. Curran receiving the United States Public Health Service’s COVID-19 Pandemic Civilian Service medal along with approximately 1,500 others in Indianapolis, IN on August 23, 2022.
Dr. Nimalie Stone, MD
Dr. Stone is the Medical Epidemiologist for Long-term Care in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is a Board-certified infectious disease physician who has a research and clinical background in managing infections and antibiotic resistant pathogens in post-acute and long-term care settings. She completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University followed by an infectious disease fellowship at Emory University. Prior to joining CDC, she spent several years providing clinical care and advising infection prevention and control programs for a long-term acute care hospital and affiliated nursing home within the Emory Healthcare system. She continues to hold a faculty appointment within in the Emory University Division of Infectious Diseases.
In her role at CDC, Dr. Stone works to address the needs for infection prevention programs in long-term care. She develops guidelines, educational resources and quality improvement programs to reduce healthcare associated infections and promote antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes.
Dr. Stone advocates strongly for the inclusion of long-term care in educational programs and policies focused on infection prevention in healthcare.
