APIC Text Editorial Panel
2024 APIC Text Editorial Panel
Purpose: The APIC Text Editorial Panel reviews and revises the APIC Text, APIC’s flagship resource for practice and for certification and recertification study. All content follows rigorous development and review practices. Chapter updates are identified by a number of criteria, including monthly analytics, industry trends, and activities by the CDC and other government or advisory bodies, as well as relevance to general practice, frequency of use, regulatory dimension, robustness/fragility, and consequences to direct care.
Co-Chairs*
Ranekka Dean, PhD, RN, CIC, FAPIC*
System Senior Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NYU Langone Health
Research Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Saskia Popescu, PhD, MPH, MA, CIC, FAPIC*
Senior Fellow,
Council on Strategic Risks Assistant Professor, College of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Clinical Editors
Lisa Caffery, MS, BSN, RN-BC, CIC, FAPIC
Infection Prevention Coordinator
Genesis Health System
Davenport, IA
Margaret Gilman, MAS, CIC
Manager, Infection Prevention and Control
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware
Pamela A. Douglas, RN, MSN, CIC
Infection Prevention Coordinator
Texas A&M University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, College Station, TX
Patricia Lawrence, MS, BSN, BS, RN, CIC
Director of Infection Prevention Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) at Anna Jaques Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Elizabeth Monsees, PhD, MBA, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Senior Director, Infection Prevention and Stewardship Integration Assistant Professor University of Missouri — Kansas City, MO
Barbara O’Connor, RN, MSN, CIC, NHDP-BC
Director, Infection Prevention and Control
Northwest Hospital, LifeBridge Health Randallstown, MD
Cynthia Nelson, MHED, MHA, MGH, CIC
Infection Prevention/Quality/CSS Manager
Dearborn Surgery Center
Dearborn, MI
Caroline Persson, MPH, MPA, CPH, CIC CIC, PMP, FAPIC
Program Director
Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Denver, CO
Steve Schweon, RN, CIC, MPH, MSN, FSHEA, FAPIC
Infection Preventionist
Steven J. Schweon, LLC
Saylorsburg, PA
Barbara Smith, RN, BSN, MPA, CIC, FAPIC
Nurse Epidemiologist/Infection Preventionist
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s/Mount Sinai West Hospitals
New York, NY
Raghavendra Tirupathi, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine Physician and Infectious Diseases/HIV Consultant
Keystone Health
Chambersburg, PA
Sharon Ward-Fore, MS, MT(ASCP), CIC
Infection Prevention Consultant
Pinehurst, NC
Staff Liaison
Rachel Walther
Senior Content Manager, Practice Resources
Liz Hartke
Director, Practice Resources
*There are no term limits