CRICN, NSMICN, &TCICN
October 16, 2014
Holiday Inn Barrie Hotel & Conference Centre
IPAC Exchange 2014: Activate Your Knowledge!
Morning
Time
Topic
Speaker
8:30
Registration and Networking Continental Breakfast
9:00
Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks
9:15
Mandy Deeves
(NSMICN Network Coordinator)
Looking Back to the Future (actively)
Cathy Egan
IPAC PHO year in review and some future plans
(Director IPAC PHO)
Active Partnerships
9:30
10:00
The value of collaborating with partners across the health
care spectrum and tips for engaging others to move your
IPAC program forward
Naideen Bailey
(Regional IPAC Manager)
Coffee break
Success in Action
Local partners will share their successes in implementing
and sustaining a variety of initiatives in their IPAC programs
 Alcohol-based Hand Rub at Point-of-care
Brianna Grantham
(Long-term care)

Auditing Public Health Unit Clinics
Louise Azzara
(Public Health)
10:30

Building an IPAC Program
Debi Matias
(Community Health Centre)

Riding Solo
Stefania Cloutier
(Complex Continuing Care)

Engaging Patient Families and Visitors with
RP/AP Education
Start Your Action Plan
Reflection on the morning’s messages to plan an IPAC
initiative in your organization
12:00
Networking Lunch
Comella Levers (Acute Care)
Afternoon
Time
Topic
Evaluating Our Actions
12:45
An overview of evaluation and how to know you and
your program are being effective
Speaker
Omar Sharif
(PHO Evaluation Specialist)
Surveillance: Informing Our Actions
13:15
Changes in the recently re-released PIDAC Best
Practices for Surveillance of Health Care associated
Infections in Patient and Resident Populations and
their implications for various settings will be
highlighted
Sarah Eden
(TCICN Network Coordinator)
Unbundling Tools: Ideas into Action
13:35
Review PIDAC’s RP/AP best practice document to
identify which tools should be made available as
standalone resources
Risa Cashmore
(NSMICN IPAC Consultant)
Lights, Cameras, Action: Hot Topics in IPAC
14:00
15:00
Emerging infectious diseases-Ebola, immunization and
other trending topics for discussion with PHO’s IPAC
physicians
Closing Remarks/Call to Action
Dr. Giulio DiDiodato
Mandy Deeves