System Director of Infection Prevention
PeaceHealth
Vancouver, Washington
Catherine Kroll, MPH, CIC is the immediate past president for the Oregon and SW Washington APIC Chapter and committee member of the APIC Policy Committee. She is also the System Director for Infection Prevention at PeaceHealth, a 9 hospital system located in the Pacific Northwest. She has a passion for building and maintaining strong community partnerships to produce measurably better patient outcomes. Prior to 2014, Kroll worked for 9 years in governmental public health in local, state, and federal agencies. Before moving to Southwest Washington, Catherine completed be BSc in Microbiology at Montana State, a Master in Public Health at Emory University and an applied infectious disease epidemiology fellowship with the Florida Epidemic Intelligence Service. When she isn't collaborating to prevent infectious diesases, you can find her hanging out with her goldendoodles working to perfect her neapolitan wood fire pizza.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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