Healthcare Cleaning and Infection Control Conference

Industry, Science & Practice coming together to share, learn & connect

Keynote Speakers

Professor Karen Vickery, a distinguished healthcare researcher, will speak at the iClean Conference:
A/Professor Vickery is Honorary Scientific Director of the Surgical Infection Research Group, at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.
A/Professor Vickery has been at the forefront of research into detecting biofilm associated with breast implant failure, and endoscope and environmental surfaces decontamination failures. Her research aims to prevent healthcare associated infections by focusing on both surgical strategies for preventing biofilm infection of medical implants, treating biofilm infections of chronic wounds and strategies that improve instrument and environmental decontamination.

Her expertise in decontamination has led to membership of expert advisory committees for the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), GENCA and Standards Australia.
Prof. Vickery's session at the iClean Conference will offer valuable insights into healthcare epidemiology, particularly in surgical infection prevention and management.

Bill Bassett is a pioneer in the healthcare cleaning industry. Group Director of the Interclean Group, his business philosophy is centred around innovation and gathering people to dialogue, research and develop best products and practices which aid the important task of infection control and reducing HAI’s in our healthcare facilities.
A passionate and engaging speaker, Bill offers innovation and futuristic thinking to people who are looking for sustainable cleaning solutions that deliver best practice every time.

PhD, DNP, FNP-C, CIC, FSHEA FAAN
Carrico & Ramirez, PLLC
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Global Health Centre University of Louisville School of Medicine
• Trained in healthcare epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Refugee and Global Health
• Passionate about understanding the Clinical Environment of Care
Dr. Carrico is a senior consultant with Carrico & Ramirez, PLLC focused on infectious diseases, infection prevention and control, and vaccinology. She is also a Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner, gratis faculty, with the University of Louisville School Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Carrico has been in the field of infection prevention and control and healthcare epidemiology since 1994 and has served on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) with her work being recognized nationally and internationally.
She is an active mentor for healthcare workers as they hone their patient safety and their leadership skills in supporting healthcare change.

MS, CHESP
System Director of EVS, Safety & Security at Northside Hospital, Atlanta
• America’s leading Environmental Services Manager
• Past President of AHE
• Passionate about staff and training
Fiona Nemetz is the System Director of EVS, Safety & Security, providing leadership to the EVS, Safety & Security programs for a five Hospital system and over 260 off site locations. Collaboratively she has moved the EVS team to sustained 90th percentile HCAHPS goals at all five Hospitals in the Northside system. Under her leadership, the Atlanta Campus EVS department won the AHE Department of the year award for large hospitals 2015, and the Cherokee campus EVS Department at the won the AHE Department of the year award for small hospitals 2018.

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Anaïs David is a highly accomplished professional with a distinguished academic background, holding a degree in chemistry and analytical science engineering from CPE Lyon, France. She began her professional career in new materials development at a startup affiliated with the University of Southampton.
Presently, Anaïs holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at NatéoSanté, a renowned French enterprise specializing in indoor quality solutions tailored for medical and professional environments. Drawing upon her rich and diverse experiences, Anaïs is passionately committed to helping healthcare professionals, lending her expertise to enhancing air quality.
Through her efforts, she endeavors to preempt health issues and elevate the quality of life for individuals across various sectors. Her unwavering dedication underscores her pivotal role in advancing the mission of NatéoSanté and fostering a healthier, more conducive environment for all.

• Scientific Lead for Clean Hospital programs
• Passionate about infection prevention and environmental hygiene
Dr Alexandra Peters is part of the University Hospitals of Geneva and World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre and is the lead for research and educational program development for Clean Hospitals, a global network dedicated to making hospitals safer through improved environmental hygiene. Clean Hospitals aims to raise awareness for the role the healthcare environment in respect to patient safety. The group’s goal is to conduct and support academic research, promote inter-disciplinarity, change how healthcare institutions view environmental hygiene, and raise standards worldwide.

Based in Geneva, Alexandra also works in the infection control program and World Health organisation collaborating centre on patient safety and the University Hospitals of Geneva. She is passionate about infection prevention, environmental hygiene, human behaviour and the science of teaching.

Working closely with Prof. Didier Pittet, Alexandra presents cleaning and disinfection training in a simple, down to earth and relevant way.

• Developed Clean Hands Research
• Respected internationally
• Now developing Clean Hospitals International Group
Prof Didier Pittet, MD, MS, OBE is Professor of Medicine, the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of the Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor Pittet is Lead Adviser of the fi rst WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge “Clean Care is Safe Care” (2005-2017) and has been leading the WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign since 2009. Prof. Didier Pittet is sought after to present his academic findings at conferences and events internationally which allow infection control managers around the world to benefit from this work.

After the successful integration of the Clean Hands campaign over the last 20 years, Prof Pittet is now leading a Clean Hospitals task force in Europe where a group of international leaders are working together to create better cleaning procedures, training, auditing and management processes that will allow cleaning and infection control managers around the world to improve quality and outcomes.