Director - Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections
NY State Department of Health
Ernest Clement has been a nurse for 40 years with experience in critical care, inpatient and outpatient oncology, and infection prevention and control. He has worked in the acute care and outpatient settings. He is the director of the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections. The Bureau is responsible for providing infection prevention and control guidance to healthcare facilities in New York state, auditing hospital NHSN reporting for certain reportable infections and addressing antimicrobial resistance and stewardship across the state. He has extensive experience investigating outbreaks of influenza, legionellosis, bloodborne pathogen exposures and infection control breaches, including breaches in medical equipment reprocessing. He holds a certification in infection control and teaches several online master’s level infection prevention and control and epidemiology courses. He received his BSN from SUNY Utica-Rome and his MSN from the University of Phoenix.
