Conference Program and Presentation Slides

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You can read the presenters’ bios here.

Thursday March 9, 2017

March 9th	Topic		Presenter
8:00–8:30	Registration and Breakfast		Exhibitors
8:30–8:40	Welcome and Opening Remarks		Linda Hoang PICNet Medical Co-Lead
8:40–9:00	Update on PICNet		Bruce Gamage PICNet
9:00–9:45	Employee engagement and workplace happiness		Arden Krystal RN MHA Executive Vice President, Patient & Employee Experience, PHSA
9:45–10:15	Health Break		Exhibitors
10:15–11:15	Whole genome sequencing and what we are learning about CPO transmission		Dr. Linda Hoang MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC Medical Microbiologist BCCDC and Co-Medical Lead, PICNet Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin MD, FCFP, MHSc, FRCPC Executive Medical Director, Infection Control and Medical Health Officer, Fraser Health Authority
11:15–12:00	Interactivity		PICNet Education Steering Committee
12:00–1:00	Lunch		Exhibitors
1:00–1:45	Pediatric diarrheal illness		Dr. David Goldfarb MD FRCPC Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Medical Microbiologist, BC Children’s Hospital, PHSA
1:45 – 1:50	Groovy Movement		Joanne Archer, PICNet
1:50 – 2:35	Using ultraviolet light for disinfection of surfaces		Dr. Liz Bryce MD FRCPC Medical Microbiologist and Regional Medical Director for Infection Control at Vancouver Coastal Health, Acute and Co-Medical Lead, PICNet
2:35–3:05	Health Break		Exhibitors
3:05–3:50	Patient Citizen movement		Carolyn Canfield Citizen-Patient; honorary lecturer, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia
3:50- 4:05	Groovy Movement and wrap-up		Joanne Archer and Bruce Gamage

Friday March 10, 2017

March 10th	Topic		Speaker
8:00–8:30	Breakfast		Exhibitors
8:30–9:15	BCaLM: (British Columbia associated Lyo-Biota) for management of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection		Dr. Christine Lee MD, FRCPC Professor, Dept of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University; Clinical Professor, UBC
9:15–10:00	Registration regulations and rules: How products come to market		Jim Gauthier MLT, CIC Senior Clinical Advisor, Infection Prevention Sealed Air Diversey Care
10:00–10:30	Health Break		Exhibitors
10:30–11:15	Infectious diseases and First Nations people		Isobel McDonald RN BScN MEd Clinical Nurse Specialist, Public Health, First Nations Health Authority Shawana Buchholz RN MPH Clinical Nurse Educator Health Protection, First Nations Health Authority
11:15–12:00	Contact and disease transmission through the lens of fluid fragmentation		Lydia Bourouiba, PhD Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch		Exhibitors
1:00 – 1:45	Fresh thinking needed or ELSE! Infection control practices in units with behavioral issues		Barley Chironda MSc (c) RPN CIC Healthcare National Sales Director and Infection Control Specialist, Clorox Professional Products Company
1:45 – 1:50	Groovy Movement		Joanne Archer, PICNet
	Short n Snappy Presentations
1:50– 2:05	Implications of TB PCR testing for frontline ICPs		Sheena Badh BSN RN, Ka Wai Leung BSN RN MPH CIC, Lesley Pike BN RN Fraser Health Authority
2:05 – 2:20	What is a Value Analysis Team?		Gail Holmes RN BScN MHA BC Clinical and Support Services (BCCSS)
2:20-2:35	Improving patient hand hygiene: Staff engagement and barriers to the implementation of patient hand wipes before meals		Danielle Richards RN BScN MA Providence Health Care
2:35–2:45	Groovy Movement		Joanne Archer, PICNet
2:45 – 3:15	Door prizes and Wrap-up		Bruce Gamage

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