Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
Bernard C. Camins, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Medical Director for Infection Prevention at the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) in New York. He has been involved in healthcare epidemiology for more than 17 years. He has been a member of the Emergency Operations Center at MSHS created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through his role at Mount Sinai, he has implemented policies on testing and isolation precautions for patients, proper personal protective equipment recommendations for healthcare workers in the setting of a global shortage of supplies, and contact tracing after both community and workplace related exposures to COVID-19. In 2016, he was selected to be a member of CDC/SHEA Outbreak Response Training Program Planning Committee. The goal of this program was to train healthcare epidemiologists and infection preventionists on how to prepare and manage emergent highly infectious pathogens. He has been a consultant for several organizations such as MoMA, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera on how to reopen safely and follow guidelines set forth by the CDC and local health officials. He has advised the United States Tennis Association on how to safely host the US Open for two consecutive years.
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Monday, March 21, 2022
8:50 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Friday, March 25, 2022