Authors

Cedric Steiner
Recent : Let Airflow Show Pathogens the Door (or Window or Vent)

Cedric Steiner is a licensed nursing home administrator in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who has a specific interest in addressing infection control in the long-term care setting. Steiner is seeking partners for a webinar that he hopes will promote a holistic approach to indoor air management. Contact him at

Katharine J. Hoffman, MPH, CIC
Recent : Seeing Eye to Eye: Reprocessing of Eye Devices

Katharine Hoffman has spent over 14 years in health care in various roles and subspecialties to include mother infant care, occupational health, preventative medicine, and pediatrics, providing direct patient care as a certified medical assistant. She is board certified in infection prevention and control (CIC). Further education and training include a Bachelor of Science in health administration and health management, as well as a Master of Public Health focused in epidemiology. She currently works as an infection preventionist at JPS Health Network.

Linda Lybert
Recent : Surface Disinfection Incompatibility Does Not Support Effective Cleaning and Disinfection

Linda Lybert is a health care surface safety expert, executive director of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute, and president of Healthcare Surface Consulting. She focuses on surfaces and their role in the acquisition and transmission of pathogens, as well as how they can cause health care–associated infections.

Maya Gossman, RN
Recent : How This Vascular Access Nurse Relies on an Infection Preventionist

Maya Gossman, RN, is a vascular access nurse at Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Recent : When Should Universal Masking in Health Care Settings for COVID-19 Be Discontinued?

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is director of UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), professor of medicine and associate chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF, and medical director for “Ward 86” HIV Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital.

Jody Feigel, RN, MSN
Recent : During COVID, Telehealth Can Be an Infection Preventionist's Friend
Kenneth Maxik, MBA, MBB
Recent : Pharmacists Have Delivered During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Franklin Dexter, MD, PhD, FASA
Recent : The OR: A Prime Target for Pathogens

Franklin Dexter, MD, PhD, FASA, is a professor of anesthesia at the University of Iowa

Kenneth Bender, PharmD, MA
Recent : Too Few Americans Willing to Get the Flu Vaccine
Jenny Hayes, MSN, RN, CIC, CAIP, CASSPT
Recent : How to Keep Sharps Safety a Cut Above