CHICAGO — Michael Bell, M.D., deputy director of division of healthcare quality promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be the general session speaker for the annual conference of the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE), of the American Hospital Association.
The conference, which is titled EXCHANGE, is scheduled for Sept. 21-23 in Grapevine, Texas.
Bell’s scheduled Sept. 23 lecture is titled A State of the State on HAIs from the CDC: An Environmental Perspective.
A 20-year agency veteran and expert in drug-resistant pathogens and healthcare-associated infections, Bell has focused on investigating and preventing transmission of healthcare-associated illnesses for hospital patients and staff, as well as developing evidence-based infection control guidelines.
AHE’s EXCHANGE 2015 will cover issues in infection prevention, environmental hygiene, management and leadership.
To learn more about the conference, visit the AHE website.
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