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Provincial Infectious Disease Advisory Committee

Member Biographies

Anne Bialachowski
Regional Coordinator
Central South Infection Control Network

Anne Bialachowski obtained a Bachelor of Nursing from Dalhousie University and started her career as a nurse in the Canadian Armed forces. She worked primarily in Critical Care before switching into Infection Control in 1997. She has been certified in Infection Control since 1999 and is active in Infection Control at the local and provincial level as a member of the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee. She is completing her Masters of Nursing with a clinical focus in Infection Control at D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY.


Sandra Callery
Assistant clinical professor, McMaster University
Director, Infection Prevention and Control
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sandra Callery has worked in the field of Infection Prevention and Control for many years. Her other work experiences include clinical research and occupational health and safety. She has worked in a variety of health care settings, including public health; small community hospitals and large tertiary care centres.

Sandra is a registered nurse and holds a Master of Health Sciences (Health Care Practice) where her research focused on HIV infection, counselling and testing. She has participated in research and publications regarding disease transmission and management of patients with antibiotic resistant organisms.

She is a past National President of the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association of Canada (CHICA Canada). She continues to participate in international infection control initiatives through CHICA.

Ms. Callery was a member of the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee during the SARS outbreak in May 2003. Sandra is the CHICA liaison member to the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and is a working group chairperson for the National Pandemic Influenza Planning Committee. She has continued to be involved with Pandemic Influenza Planning at both the provincial and municipal level.

She is a member of the faculty for the Centennial College Course for Infection Prevention and Control and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University for the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Currently she is the Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto Canada.


Mary Anne Carson
Manager, Communicable Disease Control Services
Halton Region Health Department

Mary Anne Carson is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from McMaster University. She has spent her more than 25-year nursing career in public health with the majority of the time spent in the immunization and communicable disease control area. She is currently the Manager of Communicable Disease Control Services for Halton Region Health Department, a position she has held for the past 13 years.


Dr. Maureen Cividino
Occupational Health Physician
St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton

Dr. Maureen Cividino is an Occupational Physician at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario. She chairs the Hamilton Infection Control Committee and the Hamilton Outbreak Committee. Dr. Cividino is the OMA representative member of the OHA/OMA/MOHLTC Communicable Diseases Surveillance Protocols Committee. She completed her BScN from Lakehead University and her M.D. at McMaster University in 1979, and completed the Family Medicine Residency program at McMaster in 1981. Dr. Cividino practiced Family Medicine for twelve years and chaired the Medical Quality of Care Committee, Infection Control Committee and Latex Committees at St. Joseph's. She worked as the Occupational Physician at Hamilton Civic Hospitals from 1992 until 1996. She was President of the Medical Staff in 1995-1996 at the Hamilton Civic Hospitals. Dr. Cividino received an Honorary Fellowship from the Canadian College of Family Practice.


Dr. Margaret Fearon
Executive Medical Director, Medical Microbiology
Canadian Blood Services

Dr. Fearon joined Canadian Blood Services as Executive Medical Director, Medical Microbiology in June 2004. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She is president of the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID) 2005/2006.

Dr. Fearon did her medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and fellowship in Medical Microbiology at the University of Toronto. She worked as an Associate Staff member in the Department of Microbiology at the Hospital for Sick Children from 1988 to 1991, when she took the position of Medical Microbiologist at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Laboratories Branch from 1991 to 2004.

Dr. Fearon is chair of the Virology Committee at Quality Management Programme-Laboratory Services and is a member of the National West Nile Steering Committee, and the Canadian Public Health Lab Network, where she co-chaired the Lab Response to Bioterrorism subcommittee. She has participated in the National, Provincial and City of Toronto Pandemic Influenza Planning committees. She is a member of the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine and the American Association of Blood Banks.


Dr. Gary Garber
Head of Infectious Diseases
Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Gary Garber is head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Hospital and professor of Medicine and of Biochemistry Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Garber is vice-chairman (Finance) of the Department of Medicine and Chairman of the Ottawa Hospital Corporate Infection Control Committee.

Dr. Garber received his M.D. from the University of Calgary and did his internal medicine training at the University of Toronto and infectious disease training and MRC fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Garber is a previous president of the Canadian Infectious Disease Society, a founder of the Canadian Association for HIV Research, was a founding director of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network and a member of the American Society for Microbiology.

Dr. Garber's research interests include the appropriate use of antibiotics and evaluating novel antibiotics and antifungal agents in nosocomial infection (pneumonia, neutropenia, sepsis). His laboratory studies the pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis a sexually transmitted vaginal infection.


Dr. Ian M. Gemmill
Medical Officer of Health
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit

Dr. Ian Gemmill has been the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health since September 1997. Previously, he was the Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Ottawa-Carleton Health Department from 1981 to 1997 and was Director of the OCHD Sexual Health Clinic. He is a graduate of Queen's University, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Community Medicine, an Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Public Health Association, and a member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

Dr. Gemmill has 23 years of experience in public health in Ontario and has a strong interest in communicable diseases, immunization, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual health and tobacco use control. He has served on a number of national and provincial committees on communicable diseases and immunization, including the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (1996-2003), the Ontario Provincial Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (1996-2004), and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Public Health Association. He is also co-chair of the Canadian Coalition for Immunization Awareness and Promotion.

Dr Gemmill is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology and of Family Medicine at Queen's University.


Dr. Ronald Gold

Dr. Ronald Gold was Head of the Division of Infectious Disease at the Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1996.

Dr. Gold received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1957, his Medical Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1962 and his Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1967. He obtained his pediatric training at the Boston City Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, and St. Mary's Hospital in London. He is a member/fellow of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society.

Dr. Gold's research has focused primarily on the safety and immunogenicity of vaccines. Dr. Gold served as a member of both the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the Infectious Disease and Immunization Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society for many years. He was co-principle investigator in the development of the Immunization Monitoring Program, Active [IMPACT], an active surveillance system based at 12 Canadian children's hospitals to detect severe adverse events occurring after vaccination. He was also on the Steering Committee that organized the Canadian Association on Immunization Research and Evaluation [CAIRE], a network of Canadian vaccine researchers.

Since retirement, Dr. Gold has been a Medical Consultant to Aventis Pasteur Canada, advising on its vaccine research programs.


Dr. Saul Greenberg
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics
University of Toronto

Dr. Greenberg is a community pediatrician in practice in central Toronto since 1976, doing primary care and consultations. He graduated from University of Toronto in 1970 and did most of his residency training at the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC).

Dr. Greenberg has been an attending physician at HSC since then and is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto. As well as teaching residents and medical students at HSC and acting as the responsible staff physician on the wards he also works in the dermatology clinic at HSC.

He continues to give CME lectures to both family doctors, pediatricians and medical trainees at all levels.


Heather Hague
Manager, Infectious Diseases Program
Regional Niagara Health Services

Heather Hague worked in the acute care setting for 18 years as an Infection Control Practitioner and in the Public Health domain for 12 years. Currently is the Manager if the Infection Disease Program at the Niagara Region Public Health. Heather is a Registered Nurse (Wellesley Hospital School of Nursing) and has a MEd and BA from Brock University. Heather is a Past President of HANDIC, and was on the CHICA-Canada Board of Directors from 1988 - 1991. She has been certified in Infection Prevention and Control since 1985.


Dr. Jay S. Keystone
Staff Physician, Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine
Toronto General Hospital

Jay S. Keystone, MD. is a professor of medicine, Department of Medicine and Immediate Past-President, Medical Alumni Association at the University of Toronto. He is also a senior staff physician (and former director) at the Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine, at the Toronto General Hospital.

Dr. Keystone received his medical degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine where he was awarded the Cody gold medal in 1969. He completed his internship at Toronto General Hospital and his residency at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, as well as the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor. He later completed postgraduate work, receiving his Master's degree in clinical tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He carried out his field work in sub-Saharan Africa and South America before returning to Toronto to become the Director of the Tropical Disease Unit at Toronto General Hospital. He carried out his field research on leprosy and typhoid fever in South India.

Dr. Keystone has received numerous honours and has held medical society positions worldwide. He is a past president of: i. the International Society of Travel Medicine ,ii. the clinical division of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, and iii. the Canadian Society of International Health. Dr. Keystone is a renowned lecturer in the fields of travel and tropical medicine. He has spoken on several different continents and on incontinence. He has won University and hospital awards for his excellence in large group teaching.

His research interests are in leprosy, travellers' diarrhea, intestinal parasites and travellers' health. He has more than 150 publications to his credit and is the senior author of a recently published textbook on travel medicine.

His claim to fame is being the first and last attending physician to make rounds at the Toronto General Hospital...on rollerblades.


Dr. Ian Kitai
Staff Physician, TB Specialist
The Hospital for Sick Children
Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Ian Kitai trained in medicine in South Africa, in pediatrics in the UK and Toronto, and in pediatric infectious diseases in Toronto. He worked for 3 years in rural Zimbabwe for Oxfam(UK), and for 2 years in Northern Manitoba with the Northern Medical Unit of the University of Manitoba.

Since 1997 he has been the TB specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a staff member in the division of infectious diseases there. From 2003 he also served as medical consultant to the infection control department at the Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS). In 2004 he received the Council Award form the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in part for his work at RVHS during SARS.

Dr. Kitai has a consulting practice in pediatrics and infectious diseases in Ajax, Ontario and is a member of Department of Pediatrics at the Rouge Valley Health System. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto.


Faron Kolbe
Manager, Control of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control
Toronto Public Health

Faron Kolbe has worked in public health at the local level since 1990 and is Manager of the Communicable Disease Control program at Toronto Public Health. Mr. Kolbe graduated from McMaster University in 1998 with a M.Sc. in Health Research Methodolgy from the Faculty of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Most recently, he worked collaboratively with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Public Health Division on the iPHIS Project to replace Ontario's current Reportable Disease Information System (RDIS).


Dr. Colin Lee
Associate Medical Officer of Public Health
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Staff Emergency Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital of Barrie

Colin Lee is an Associate Medical Officer of Health at the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit and public health physician at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion. He also has served as an emergency physician in Toronto and Barrie. He received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1998, and subsequently pursued postgraduate training at the University of Toronto and McGill University. Dr. Lee is a fellow/certificant with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in community medicine and with the College of Family Physicians of Canada in family medicine and emergency medicine. He also holds a Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England.

Dr. Lee has a long-standing interest in infectious disease that extends beyond Simcoe-Muskoka's borders, as he provides public health consultancies to international agencies and Ministries of Health in developing countries in communicable disease control, particularly in malaria and HIV/AIDS. He has worked in a number of countries in Africa and Asia, including India, South Africa, Bénin, Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Dr. Lee's career in local and international public health and emergency medicine, experience in infectious disease prevention and control provide him with invaluable opportunities to strengthen the working relationships between the public health department and health care workers in both hospital and community settings.


Dr. Allison McGeer
Director, Infection Control
Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. McGeer received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto, before entering medical school. She trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto, and completed a fellowship in hospital epidemiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1989-1990. She is now a Microbiologist and the Director of Infection Control at the Mount Sinai Hospital, and a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include antimicrobial resistance, infection prevention in hospitals and nursing homes, and adult vaccination. During the SARS outbreak in Toronto, she was a member of the SARS Scientific Advisory Committee, she is also the principal investigator of the hospital section of the Ontario outbreak investigation.


Dr. Chris O'Callaghan
Project Coordinator, NCIC Clinical Trials Group, National Cancer Institute of Canada
Assistant Professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University

Dr. Chris O'Callaghan received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Guelph. After two years in mixed-animal practice, he returned to undertake research in tropical veterinary medicine. Supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), he completed a preliminary assessment of the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases on smallholder dairy farms in the central Kenyan highlands. This work formed the basis of his Master of Science degree in Veterinary Epidemiology. He was awarded a Medical Research Council (MRC) of Canada Fellowship to continue his research and training and returned to the smallholder farms of Kenya to complete a yearlong study of the epidemiology of Theileriosis, conducting laboratory analyses at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD) in Nairobi.

In 1994 he joined the Ecology & Epidemiology Group of the University of Warwick as a visiting researcher to undertake further training in analytical methods and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and became a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons the same year. Under a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project, he expanded his research on tick-borne diseases to include Heartwater in Zimbabwe and was appointed a joint University of Warwick/International Livestock Research Institute Research Fellow. After completing his PhD in Analytical Epidemiology and becoming a British Citizen, he accepted a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship and was promoted to Senior Research Fellow. In 2000, he was seconded to Queen's University as an adjunct professor. Dr. O'Callaghan accepted a position as Assistant Professor and joined the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group, where, in addition to his duties as Project Co-coordinator, he continues his research on the epidemiology of tick-borne diseases of human and livestock.


Pat Piaskowski
Network Coordinator
Northwestern Ontario Infection Control Network

Pat Piaskowski is the Network Coordinator for the Northwestern Ontario Infection Control Network. Prior to assuming this position she was the Infection Control Coordinator at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre for over 9 years. Her previous roles include responsibility for infection control programs in long term care facilities for over 10 years. Following a diploma in nursing in 1979, she has maintained certification in infection control (CIC) since 1990 and completed an Honours Bachelor of Science in Nursing (HBScN) at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in 1993.

Pat Piaskowski has served as Board member (1991-1998) and President of CHICA (Community and Hospital Infection Control Association)-Canada (1997). Since February 2003 she has been the Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Infection Control (CJIC). She has served on numerous local, provincial and national committees and task forces and is currently a founding and core member of the International Infection Control Council. In 2003, she was the Scientific Program Chair for the CHICA-Canada annual conference held in Thunder Bay. She has been a long time member and past-president of CHICA- Northwestern Ontario. She is also a member of the Public Health E-Health Advisory Council and Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the Ontario Hospital Association.

Pat Piaskowski is co-author of the Infection Control Toolkit on Strategies for Pandemics and Disasters (2002) and ESBL Toolkit (2006) and other articles published in the CJIC. Pat has presented at various local, provincial and national infection control conferences and seminars.


Dr. Virginia Roth
Director, Infection Prevention and Control Program
The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa

Dr. Virginia Roth completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases (1998) at the University of Ottawa and furthered her training at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (2000). She is currently the Director of the Infection Prevention and Control Program and Hospital Epidemiologist at the Ottawa Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.


Dr. Doug Sider
Associate Medical Officer of Health
Regional Niagara Public Health Department

Dr. Doug Sider graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1977, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada with a specialty in Community Medicine in 1992. He has substantial public health experience at local, regional and provincial levels, with his main interests being communicable disease prevention and control and environmental health. He is the Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Regional Niagara Public Health Department, is presently serving as Interim Chair of the Niagara Health System's Infection Control Committee, and has a part-time Assistant Professor faculty appointment with McMaster University's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.


Lee Sieswerda
Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit

Lee Sieswerda holds a Master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Alberta. He has been Epidemiologist at the Thunder Bay District Health Unit since 2001. His particular interest in communicable disease stems from his secondment to the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care during the 2003 SARS epidemic where he played a key role in epidemiological data collection and liaising between the Ministry and Toronto Public Health. He currently is Chair of the Pandemic Influenza Surveillance Committee for the District of Thunder Bay and Professional Associate in the Master of Public Health program at Lakehead University. His current interest is in agent-based modeling of communicable disease outbreaks.


Deb Stark, DVM
Chief Veterinarian for Ontario
Assistant Deputy Minister
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Deb Stark graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, in l982 and spent five years in a mixed veterinary practice.

Deb joined the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) in 1987 as an extension veterinarian for dairy and beef. She served as Ontario's provincial veterinarian and the Director of the province's diagnostic laboratory system from 1991-1997.

Deb has been Assistant Deputy Minister for the Research and Corporate Services and the Agriculture and Rural Divisions of OMAFRA, with responsibilities for management of all Ministry-funded research programs, emergency planning for OMAFRA, the delivery of field programs to the agri-food sector and contributed to policy development in agriculture related issues, including animal health.

Dr. Stark previously served as President of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Board member of the Veterinary Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO), and Ontario representative on the Council of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association.

Dr. Stark was appointed to her current position as Chief Veterinarian for Ontario on May 2, 2005.


Dr. Mary Vearncombe
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women's College Hospital

Dr. Vearncombe is a medical microbiologist and is Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women's College Hospital. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She holds the following posts :

  • Chair of the OHA/OMA Joint Committee for development of Communicable Disease Surveillance Protocols for Ontario Hospitals;
  • Chair of the Expert Panel on Infection Control for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto;
  • Member of the Steering Committee on Infection Control Guidelines of Health Canada
  • Chair of the Health Canada working group on Infection Prevention and Control and Occupational Health Guidelines for Pandemic Influenza.
  • Co-Medical Coordinator of the Central Region Infection Control Network.

She has over 20 years experience in Infection Control, with specific areas of interest in perinatal infection control and infection control issues in occupational health.


Dr. Bryna Warshawsky
Associate Medical Officer of Health
Middlesex-London Health Unit

Dr. Bryna Warshawsky is the Associate Medical Officer of Health and Director, Communicable Disease and Sexual Health Services for the Middlesex-London Health Unit. She graduated from McGill University in Medicine in 1986. After working as a family practitioner for three years, she returned to the University of Toronto and obtained a Masters of Health Science Degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Community Medicine. She joined the Middlesex-London Health Unit in September 1994 where her main areas of responsibilities are the prevention and control of communicable diseases and development of sexual health programming. Her areas of interest include vaccine preventable diseases and outbreak management. She is currently a member of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization. Dr. Warshawsky is cross-appointed in both the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario.


Dr. Barbara Yaffe
Director of Communicable Disease Control and Associate Medical Officer of Health
Toronto Public Health

Dr. Barbara Yaffe is the Director of Communicable Disease Control and Associate Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine with a Masters degree in Community Health and Epidemiology and a Fellowship in Community Medicine. She is also an Assistant Professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Yaffe was a key leader in the investigation and management of the SARS outbreak in Toronto. She is a member of the OHA/OMA/MOHLTC Communicable Disease Protocol Committee and the Ontario Public Health e-Health Council.


Dr. Dick Eric Zoutman
Professor and Chair,
Divisions of Medical Microbiology and of Infectious Diseases, Queen's University
Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control Services,
University Hospitals Kingston, Kingston, Ontario

Dr. Dick Zoutman has been practicing medicine for over 20 years and specializes in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at Queen's University at Kingston. A primary focus of his investigative work has been understanding the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections and related medical errors. Using a systems analysis approach to examine healthcare operations, Dr. Zoutman has evaluated antibiotic prescribing and utilization in the community, acute care and long term care sectors. He has shed light on the factors that lead to the over-prescribing of antibiotics in family practice, as well as the failure of hospitals to successfully prevent surgical wound infections by properly prescribing antibiotics to patients undergoing major surgery. Dr. Zoutman continues to examine the impact of hospital resource allocation and infectious adverse events, as well as the use of information systems to improve the quality of patient care and to reduce hospital acquired infections. Dr. Zoutman's work and collaborations have spanned the globe from North America, South America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa.

He is Physician-Director of the Board of the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association of Canada. During the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Toronto Dr. Zoutman chaired the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee responsible for advising the Ontario government on outbreak management strategies.

Dr. Zoutman is Chair of the National Bioterrorism Contingency Task Force for Hospitals; and a member of the Infection Control Guidelines Steering Committee and the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program. Dr. Zoutman is also Chief of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the South Eastern Ontario Health Sciences Center in Kingston. Dr. Zoutman is professor of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, of Community Health and Epidemiology, and of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's University.


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