Interventional Care
PDI Perspectives Podcast: The Transformative Role of the IP
Marc-Oliver Wright of PDI Healthcare talks with Dr. Deb Burdsall, Ph.D., RN-BC, CIC, FAPIC, about the challenges Infection Preventionists face when trying to keep hospitals and other healthcare facilities infection-free, the shortage and need for more healthcare professionals, and how the role of the Infection Preventionist has changed over the years.
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