Interventional Care
PDI Perspective Podcast: The Importance of a Layered Approach to Disinfection
PDI Clinical Science Liason Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC talks with JHC Publisher John Pritchard about the importance of taking a layered approach to disinfection, including establishing policies and protocols, choosing disinfectants and technology, educating staff, and building a compliance standard.
Profile
Marc wanted to be an epidemiologist as a teenager and was first introduced to infection prevention when he performed DNA fingerprinting of multidrug resistant organisms for research activities, surveillance and outbreak investigations while in graduate school. He became an infection preventionist, a research epidemiologist and ultimately a corporate director of infection prevention and quality for a multi-hospital system. Marc served APIC at the local and national level, has published over 50 articles and served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Infection Control for a decade.
Marc now serves as PDI’s Clinical Science Liaison (CSL), for the Central Region-14 states across the Midwest.
Contact
Phone: 608-886-4325
Company Website:Pdihc.com
Email: Marc-oliver.wright@pdihc.com
Hobbies
Cooking
Collecting vinyl albums
Education
University of Illinois – Chicago
Master of Science: Public Health Sciences: Epidemiology
Bachelor of Science: Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Certification
American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)- MT (ASCP)
Certification Board of Infection Control (CBIC)- CIC
Fellowship
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc-FAPIC
Why I love what I do
I believe that infection prevention is 5% knowing what to do and 95% figuring out how to get it done. The role of the CSL at PDI is a combination of knowing the science, teaching it to others and helping them through the implementation process. There is something truly rewarding in helping multiple healthcare organizations achieve their goals of safer, better patient care.
Areas of Expertise
Informatics
Human factors
Surveillance methodology
Multi-drug resistant organisms
Healthcare systems
Leadership