IP&MA at APIC: Sharing IP Research and Best Practices

We have several IP&MA infection preventionists sharing their work this week at the APIC 2025 in Phoenix. The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s annual conference is an annual meeting where infection preventionists and IP researchers share and discuss research findings in the fields of infection prevention and control and healthcare epidemiology, and exchange ideas and insights that can help improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes. 

Improving HAI Surveillance Accuracy

Kelly Holmes and Mishga Moinuddin will be presenting their work on consistency and accuracy among IPs when applying National Healthcare Safety Network healthcare associated infection surveillance definition. Their presentation, Development and Assessment of Surveillance Competency Among Infection Preventionists, will highlight characteristics that improve inter-rater reliability scores among infection preventionists and review methods to enhance IP surveillance knowledge. 

Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in High Risk Care Settings

Ayisha Allen and Jessica Nwachukwu will share challenges and tools for managing emerging pathogens in an inpatient rehabilitation care setting. In their presentation, Beating the Bug: Safeguarding Rehabilitation Success from Candida Auris, they’ll share their experience of working with a facility to develop processes to ensure high risk, high need patients could safely participate in the full breadth of rehabilitation care activities, and achieve mobility goals at a rate similar to non-isolated patients. 

Improving Surgical Safety

We also have a few team members presenting poster abstracts focused on peri-operative safety. Jessica Gamboa will be sharing her team’s work on Improving the Compliance of Intraoperative Antibiotic Redosing Among Colorectal Cases, and Sydney Ruzicka will be  presenting on water quality in sterile processing with her abstract, Borescope to Water Analysis Pipeline. 

Join the Conversation

If you’ll be at APIC, stop by to say “hi.” We’d love to share some of what we learned this year, and find out what you’re working on too.  And if you want to learn more about any of our projects, or how we can support your program let’s connect and see how IP&MA can support you. Together, we can explore solutions that promote patient safety, reduce costs, and improve lives.