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Preconference Workshop

Disinfection and Sterilization

PCW02 - Disinfection, Sterilization and Antisepsis: Principles, Practices, Current Issues, New Research and New Technologies

Sunday, June 15, 2025
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM MST
Location: North Room 231
CE: 0
AEU Credits: 0
CME Credits: 0
CNE Credits: 0
IPCH Credits: 0
IPU Credits: 7

    Presenter(s)

  • William A. Rutala, PhD, MS, MPH (he/him/his)

    Professor of Medicine; Director, Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology
    UNC School of Medicine
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Disclosure(s): Ideate Medical: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Kinnos: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Professional Disposables International (PDI): Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)

    • Co-Presenter(s)

  • John M. Boyce, MD (he/him/his)

    President
    J.M. Boyce Consulting, LLC
    Hyde Park, New York

    Disclosure(s): Diversey- A Solenis Company: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); GOJO Industries, Inc: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Travel support (Ongoing)

  • Steven J. Adams, RN BA CRCST CIS CHL CER

    Manager - Sterile Processing Department
    Sinai Hospital
    Baltimore, Maryland

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Curtis Donskey, MD

    Professor of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center
    Cleveland, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): The Clorox Company: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Ushio America: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

  • MD

    Mary Ann Drosnock, DrHSc, CIC, CFER, RM (NRCM), FAPIC

    Head of Clinical Affairs
    Healthmark Industries
    Bath, Pennsylvania

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • DW

    David J. Weber, MD, MPH (he/him/his)

    Medical Director, Infection Prevention
    UNC Medical Center
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Disclosure(s): BD USA: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); GAMA Healthcare: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Germitec: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); GSK: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Merck & Co. Inc.: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Moderna: Adjudication Board (Ongoing); PDI, Inc: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Pfizer: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)

  • Cori L. Ofstead, MSPH (she/her/hers)

    President & CEO
    Ofstead & Associates, Inc.
    Bloomington, Minnesota

    Disclosure(s): Advanced Health Solutions: Research Grant (Ongoing); Advanced Sterilization Products: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Research Grant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Cleanis: Research Grant (Terminated, October 1, 2022); Fanco International Group: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Healthmark Industries: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Other Research Support (Ongoing), Research Grant (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing); Laborie: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Lumicell: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Nanosonics: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Neptune Medical: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Ofstead & Associates, Inc.: Employment (full or part time) (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Steris Corporation: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)

  • Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA (he/him/his)

    Director
    Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention
    Durham, North Carolina

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Session Description: This program will present scientific and practical information related to the use of sterilization technologies, disinfectants and antiseptics in healthcare settings. This international symposium will include lectures and panel discussion on the latest breakthroughs regarding cleaning/disinfecting of non-critical environmental surfaces as well as reprocessing semi-critical and critical medical devices. The presentations will discuss: current issues associated with hand hygiene, disinfection and sterilization in healthcare; special issues and solutions associated with reprocessing endoscopes and other medical devices; new technologies and products for disinfection, sterilization and antisepsis; and the products to use to inactivate emerging pathogens (e.g., Candida auris, mpox, C. difficile, SARS-CoV-2, human papilloma virus). In addition to invited lectures, panel discussions will be offered.

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss current issues associated with hand hygiene.
  • Describe new technologies, issues, standards (e.g., AAMI) for disinfection, sterilization and antisepsis/hand hygiene.
  • Examine the special issues for reprocessing semi-critical (e.g., endoscopes, examining internal channels) and critical (e.g., medical and surgical instruments) items.
  • Evaluate the role of surfaces (to include floors, sinks, portable equipment ) in transmission of viruses and epidemiologically important pathogens and the latest technologies in cleaning/disinfection/”no touch” room decontamination/continuous room decontamination to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
  • Discuss new challenges in surface disinfection and instrument reprocessing (e.g., biofilms, surface irregularities, instrument staining, MIFU).