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Health Scientist
Environmental Infection Control, LLC
LYNNE SEHULSTER, PhD, M(ASCP), CMIP(AHE) is currently a Health Scientist providing consultation as the single member proprietor of Environmental Infection Prevention, LLC. She retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2017 after a career spanning 20 ½ years. While there she worked as a Health Scientist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) within the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). Prior to her coming to CDC, she served as an infectious disease epidemiologist for 15 ½ years at the Texas Department of Health (currently known as the Texas Department of State Health Services).
Her areas of expertise include environmental infection control, microbial inactivation, and transmission of infectious diseases. She has advised CDC and other federal and state health agencies, healthcare professionals, and the public on issues concerning environmental cleaning, sterilization and disinfection, healthcare built environment and construction, healthcare laundry issues, prion disease epidemiology, and environmental management of emerging diseases. She coordinated and contributed to the CDC/HICPAC “Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities” that was released in 2003, and has assisted federal colleagues and other entities in the development of their infection prevention guidelines. Most recently she is a contributor to the 3rd edition of the AHE Practice Guidance for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning (to be released soon).
She received her PhD and MS in Microbiology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, completed a postdoctoral appointment in viral immunology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX, received her certificate as a Microbiologist with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (M[ASCP]) and recently completed the requirements for her Certificate of Mastery of Infection Prevention (AHE). She currently serves as an Editorial Board member for the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and recently retired from the Editorial Board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Monday, June 26, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.