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Medical Director, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Dr. Yokoe is a member of the Infectious Diseases division, the Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research has focused on the development and evaluation of streamlined and reliable methods for performing surveillance for healthcare-associated infections, particularly surgical site infections (SSI), and she has been an investigator in the CDC’s Prevention Epicenters research program.
She has previously served as the co-chair of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), the federal advisory committee that provides recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on issues relevant to infection prevention and control and preventing the spread of antimicrobial resistance. She currently serves on the SHEA Board of Trustees as President-Elect and will take on the role of SHEA President in 2023.
Dr. Yokoe co-led the creation of the SHEA- and Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)-sponsored documents titled “A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare- associated infections in acute care facilities” which were initially published in October of 2008, updated in 2014, and newly revised in 2022. The Compendium has been promoted by the IDSA, SHEA, the CDC, The Joint Commission, IHI, the American Hospital Association and many other professional societies and organizations as a tool to assist acute care hospitals in translating evidence-based recommendations for prevention of healthcare-associated infections into practice.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM US ET