Appendix 1: Contributors

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

HICPAC Members

Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, Duke University Medical Center; Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH, Washington University School of Medicine; Vickie M. Brown, RN, MPH; Kristina Bryant, MD, University of Louisville; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, Ann Arbor VA Medical Center and Michigan Medicine; Nicholas Daniels, MD, MPH, University of California, San Diego; Elaine Dekker, RN, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center; Daniel J. Diekema, MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine; Susan Huang, MD, MPH, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine; Loretta L. Fauerbach, MS, CIC, Fauerbach and Associates, LLC; Michael D. Howell, MD, MPH, Google Research; W. Charles Huskins, MD, MSc, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Lynn Janssen, MS, CIC, CPHQ, California Department of Public Health; Lisa Maragakis, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Jan Patterson, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Michael Anne Preas, RN, CIC, University of Maryland Medical Center; Gina Pugliese, RN, MS, Premier Healthcare Alliance; Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH, The University of Chicago; Thomas Talbot III, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Michael L. Tapper, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital; Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor, MD, Emory University School of Medicine; Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco.

ex officio Members

William B. Baine, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; David Henderson, MD, National Institutes of Health; Melissa Miller, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Paul D. Moore, PhD, Health Resources and Services Administration; Elizabeth Claverie-Williams, MS, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Sheila Murphey, MD, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Gary Roselle, MD, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Daniel Schwartz, MD, MBA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Jacqueline Taylor, Health Resources and Services Administration; Judith Trawick, Health Resources and Services Administration.

Representatives of Liaison Organizations

David Banach, MD, MPH, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Darlene Carey, MSN, RN, CIC, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, Society of Hospital Medicine; Paul T. Conway, American Association of Kidney Patients; Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Karen deKay, MSN, RN, CIC, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses; Lousie Dembry, MD, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Akin Demehin, American Hospital Association; Kathleen Dunn, BScN, MN, RN, Public Health Agency of Canada; Kristen Ehresmann, RN, MPH, Association of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Sandra Fitzler, RN, American Health Care Association; Nancy Foster, American Hospital Association; Diana Gaviria, MD, MPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Jennifer Gutowski, MPH, BSN, RN, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Holly Harmon, RN, MBA, American Health Care Association; Patrick Horine, MHA, DNV GL Healthcare; Michael D. Howell, MD, MPH, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Marion Kainer, MD, MPH, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Chris Lombardozzi, MD, America’s Essential Hospitals; Emily Lutterloh, MD, MPH, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Sarah Matthews, MD, National Association of County and City Health Officials; Michael McElroy, MPH, CIC, America’s Essential Hospitals; Lisa McGiffert, Consumers Union; Toju Ogunremi, Public Health Agency of Canada; Laurie O’Neil, RN, BN, Public Health Agency of Canada; Michael Anne Preas, RN, Association of Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.; Mark E. Rupp, MD, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; Mark Russi, MD, MPH, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, Society of Hospital Medicine; Robert G. Sawyer, MD, Surgical Infection Society; Christa Schorr, DNP, MSN, Society of Critical Care Medicine; Andrea Shane, MD, MPH, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society; Linda Spaulding, RN, DNV GL Healthcare; Donna Tiberi, RN, MHA, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program; Margaret VanAmringe, MHS, The Joint Commission; Valerie Vaughn, MD, Society for Hospital Medicine; Stephen G. Weber, MD, MPH, Infectious Disease Society of America; Elizabeth Wick, MD, American College of Surgeons; Amber Wood, MSN, RN, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

Acknowledgments

Sonya Arundar, MS, Eagle Global Scientific, LLC, Atlanta, GA; Michael Bell, MD, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Mahnaz Dasti, MPH, formerly Time Solutions, LLC, Atlanta, GA; Jeffrey Hageman, MS, formerly CDC, Atlanta, GA; Erin Stone, MA, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Michael L. Tapper, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY; Debra Taylor, MPH, CDC, Atlanta, GA.

Declarations of Interest

None of the authors reported financial or intellectual interests related to the topics in this guideline except for the following:

• Ruth Carrico: Speaker and consultant for Pfizer; speaker for Sanofi Pasteur; consultant for Medscape; speaker and workgroup member of the Gerontological Society iCAMP workshop committee; recipient of research award from Pfizer and research subaward from CDC (via Catholic Charities).
• Thomas R. Talbot: Spouse receives research support from Sanofi Pasteur, Medimmune, and Gilead and serves on advisory committee for Novartis.
• David J. Weber: Consultant and speaker for Pfizer and Merck.