Infection Prevention in Special Populations and Settings

This bundle highlights practical, expert-driven approaches to infection prevention across diverse patient populations and care settings. It explores strategies to optimize outcomes for immunocompromised patients, integrates case-based learning, and addresses real-world challenges in reducing healthcare-associated infections. Sessions examine infection prevention in underrepresented environments—including psychiatric care, cystic fibrosis, and ambulatory settings—while offering solutions to common barriers and frontline pushback. Through expert insights and interactive discussion, participants gain actionable tools to strengthen infection control and antimicrobial stewardship in complex, high-risk settings.
 

Sessions included:

  1. Optimizing Outcomes: Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship in Immunocompromised Patients
  2. Interesting Cases
  3. Town Hall: Reducing HAIs in Diverse Healthcare Settings
  4. Touched a Nerve? Experts Respond to Pushback
  5. Infection Prevention Issues and Best Practices in Diverse Settings
  6. Behind Locked Doors: IPC Considerations in Psychiatric Care and CF
  7. Ambulatory Minefields
Course summary
Course opens: 
07/01/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Member cost:
$70.00
Cost:
$91.00
Part of: 
SHEA Spring 2026 Bundles

Optimizing Outcomes: Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship in Immunocompromised Patients

  • Introduction
  • Medicinal Leech Therapy and the Role of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship - Hana Hakim    MD, MS, CIC, FSHEA
  • Case Base Panel Discussion - Meghan Baker  MD, ScD
  • Animals and the Immunocompromised: a Hospital Story - Theodore  Rader    MD, MS
  • "I think we have a mold outbreak"  - Erica Stohs  MD, MPH

Interesting Cases

  • Introduction             
  • In Hot Water: A Public Health Investigation into a Case of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria  - Simone  Godwin  DVM, MPH, MS
  • Q+A            
  • CRE in the NICU - Alyssa Castillo    MD
  • Q+A            
  • Lactobacillus Bacteremia  - Zachary Most  MD, MSc
  • Q+A    

Town Hall: Reducing HAIs in Diverse Healthcare Settings

  • Introduction             
  •  Introduction to Settings: Acute Care, Long Term Care, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health Panel  - Josh  Schaffzin    MD;PHD
  •  Introduction to Settings: Acute Care, Long Term Care, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health Panel  -  Kara  Jacobs Slifka    MD;MPH
  •  Introduction to Settings: Acute Care, Long Term Care, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health Panel - Marci  Drees    MD, MS
  •  Introduction to Settings: Acute Care, Long Term Care, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health Panel  - Graham  Snyder    MD, MS

Touched a Nerve? Experts Respond to Pushback

  • Introduction             
  • Experts Respond to Pushback Panel  - Julie Szymczak    PhD
  • Experts Respond to Pushback Panel - Zanthia  Wiley    MD
  • Touches a Nerve? Experts Respond to Pushback Panel  - Lisa  Dumkow    PharmD
  • Experts Respond to Pushback Panel  - Justin Moore  PharmD, MS
  • Experts Respond to Pushback Panel  - Lauren O'Brien    MD
  • Panelist  -  Meghan Jeffres  PharmD

Infection Prevention Issues and Best Practices in Diverse Settings

  • Introduction             
  • Infection Prevention in Behavioral Health Settings: Barriers and Strategies - Kevin  Gibas  MD, MPH
  • Prevention Strategies in Dental Care  - Kathy    Eklund    RDH, MHP
  • From Kennel to Clinic: Best Infection Prevention Practices in Veterinary Medicine  - Leslie  Kollmann    BS, AAS, CVT, CIC
  • There’s No Place Like Home: Preventing Infections Beyond the Hospital  - Ann Marie  Pettis    BSN;RN;CIC

Behind Locked Doors: IPC Considerations in Psychiatric Care and CF

  • Introduction             
  • Preventing Infections in the Correctional Setting  - Sue  MedleyLane    RN, CCHP-A, IP
  • Infection Prevention Considerations in Psychiatric Care -  Bernard  Camins    MD
  • Q+A Panel    

Ambulatory Minefields

  • Introduction             
  • Tackling the Ambulatory Infection Prevention Beast - Rebecca  Stern    MD
  • Public Health Investigation Across the Ambulatory Spectrum  - Audrey  Brezak    MPH
  • Q+A Panel    

Price

Member cost:
$70.00
Cost:
$91.00
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