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Director of Pharmacy and Infection Prevention
Southwest Health System, CO, United States
Marc Meyer has been a clinical pharmacist for the past 33 years for Southwest Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital and clinic system in Cortez, Colorado. For the past 22 years, he has served as an infection preventionist and the system’s Director of Infection Control. He is a member of SHEA and SIDP, an APIC member and Fellow, and is board certified in infection control and epidemiology. Since 2018 he has served as the systems Director of Pharmacy. He has served on numerous stewardship projects that have included a 600 bed LTC project, state wide efforts with the Colorado Hospital Association and nationally with the CDC, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Joint commission. He helped author the NQF's Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care: A Practical Playbook, released in 2016. He was one of the experts that helped publish the CDC’s Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small and Critical Access Hospitals in July 2017and was invited to post on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog about stewardship in small hospitals to launch that work. He also worked with the Pew Charitable Trusts and CDC on a review paper Antibiotic Stewardship in Small Hospitals: Barriers and Potential Solutions published in the journal CID in May2017. In July 2017, Southwest Health System stewardship program was highlighted in the CDC’s 2017 Antibiotic Use in the United States: Progress and Opportunities. He has also been active providing education on stewardship in LTC and CAH hospitals at APIC conference, to the CDC, and events in Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Illinois and South Dakota. He believes hospital Stewardship efforts alone will not keep us from losing antimicrobial efficacy, our goal is community stewardship. His work at SHS has branched out to include stewardship education and discussions with local dentists and launched a UTI and URI stewardship plan in eight SHS clinics. In June of 2018, Marc was awarded an APIC Hero award for influence and advocacy at the national conference in Minneapolis Minnesota. In April 2021, Marc spoke at SHEA’s national conference on health disparities in rural areas. Recently he has worked with the National Governors Association on vaccine issues in rural areas. Marc has led the COVID response for his health system team that included over 60 days of mass vaccine clinics as well as providing vaccine to homeless and homebound populations. Those clinics have vaccinated almost 21,500 patients. Current project interest include mobile apps to help small and CAH with pediatric issues and guidance documents for antimicrobial treatments to help small and CAH hospitals.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM US ET
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
7:50 AM – 4:00 PM US ET
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
8:50 AM – 10:15 AM US ET