Posters and Publications

The HEIP team at Northwestern Medicine is is dedicated to advancing the field of infection prevention and epidemiology. Our team has several peer-reviewed publications, posters and presentations at the local, state and national level. Below is a collection of our team's work from the past five years.

• Achieving Survey-Readiness Through Standardized Infection Prevention Rounding Tools


• Applications to Enhance Competency Based Orientation Program


• Antimicrobial Stewardship Improvement Strategy for Isolation and Turnaround Time of Local Molecular Diagnostic Testing


• Can You Hear Me Now?


• Developing IP Program by Leveraging APIC Model


• Describing the Epidemiology of Nosocomial Respiratory Viral Infections (RVIs) at an Academic Medical Center


• High-Level Disinfection Evaluation


• Prevalence of Community-onset Group A Streptococcal Infections across 10 Regional Midwestern Hospitals


• Increased Burden of CLABSI/CAUTI During COVID Pandemic and Recovery Using an "Anatomy" Model of a HAI


• An Outbreak Investigation of Pulmonary Infections Caused by Mycobacterium abscessus in a Cardiothoracic Transplant Population


• The Often-Overlooked Applicant: The Medical Technologist as a Qualified Candidate for Novice Infection Prevention Positions


• Optimization and Standardization of a Surveillance Tool to Identify Patients at Risk for Candida auris across a Health System


• Postoperative Pneumonia Characteristics following Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy (PTE)


• System Wide Implementation of a New Urine Culture to Optimize Diagnostic Stewardship


• Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus outbreak in a pre- and post-cardiothoracic transplant population: Impact of discontinuing multidrug-resistant organism surveillance during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic


• Vancomycinresistant Enterococcus (VRE) Outbreak in a Pre and Post Cardiothoracic Transplant Population: Impact of Discontinuing Multidrug resistant Organism (MDRO) Surveillance during the COVID 19 Pandemic