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Mini-Webinar:

Gain Practical Insights from Clinical Experts in the Prevention of CABSIs

Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) Education and the Community Hospital

About 30 minutes long

Speakers

Daniel J. Sexton, MD
Director, Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON)
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Daniel Sexton is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) and the Medical Director of Duke Hospital Infection Control and Epidemiology Program.

Dr. Sexton received his medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and completed his Internal Medicine internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency in medicine at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He also served as a Medical Epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and was an Infectious Diseases Fellow at Duke University Medical Center. He returned to Duke 19 years ago after spending eleven years in private practice in Oklahoma City. Dr. Sexton is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and has authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

In addition to presenting numerous abstracts at national and international conferences, Dr. Sexton spent 15 months as a visiting clinical professor in Melbourne and Darwin, Australia and served 3 years as a member of the board of directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Sexton is a Senior Co-editor of the Infectious Diseases section of Up-To-Date. For 7 years he was the director of the Duke internal medicine house staff training program at Durham Regional Hospital. Dr. Sexton has twice received the Eugene Stead teaching award which is awarded by the Duke housestaff for outstanding teaching efforts. He has also received the National Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence and the Clinican Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Deverick J. Anderson, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON)
Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Dev Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently a participating member of the Infection Control and Prevention group at Duke University Medical Center, the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. He is chair of the Antibiotic Evaluation Team at Duke University Medical Center. He is board-certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Dr. Anderson received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 2001 and completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Duke University Medical Center in 2004. He completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Duke University Medical Center in 2006. He received a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in May of 2007.

Dr. Anderson has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles and has presented numerous abstracts at national conferences. He was the recipient of the Pfizer Fellowship in Infectious Disease in 2005, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s Scholarship Award in 2006, the North Carolina Infectious Diseases Society’s Terry Lee, MD, Award, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s Barry Farr Award in 2008. He received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program award in 2009. His research interests include hospital-acquired infections, infection control, hospital epidemiology, and multidrug-resistant organisms.

Evelyn M. Cook, RN, CIC
DICON Nurse Clinician
Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON)
Duke University Medical Center

Evelyn Cook is a Nurse Clinician and Nurse Liaison with the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) for the Department of Medicine and PDC, PLLC at Duke University Medical Center. In this position, she serves as a liaison with community infection control practitioners and assists them in developing a surveillance program that is driven by a collaborative network-based approach, where statistically validated data is collected, analyzed and routinely provided to practicing physicians and infection control staff to motivate and reduce the rates of nosocomial infections in community hospitals.

Ms. Cook, who is also a Registered Nurse and has National Board Certifications in Infection Control and Health Care Quality, has been active in several professional organizations including North Carolina Association for Professionals in Infection Control (President 2005-06), National Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, National Association for Professionals in Healthcare Quality and North Carolina Association for Professionals in Healthcare Quality. She was named Practitioner of the Year in 2002 by the North Carolina Association of Professionals in Infection Control.

Session Learning Objectives and Content Highlights

1. Review the significant impact on hospitals and adverse outcomes for patients caused by CLABSIs
2. Provide an overview of how educational programs decrease the risk of CLABSI and describe an educational program created by the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON)
3. Address the unique impact that CLABSIs have on community hospitals

Frequently Asked Questions with the DICON team