March 2016 Speakers

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Speakers' Biographies

 

Nicole Coffin

Deputy Associate Director for Communication Science, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

Nicole Coffin is the Deputy Associate Director for Communications Science in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion and leads antibiotic resistance communications. Most recently, she coordinated CDC communications around this year’s Vital Signs, the White House Antibiotic Stewardship Forum, the launch of the National Action Plan to Combat Antibiotic Resistance, and CDC’s FY16 AR Solutions Budget Initiative. She has been with the agency since 1999 and has largely focused on risk communications and media. Her field work includes deployments during SARS and the 2001 Anthrax attacks.

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Carolyn Gould, MD, MSCR

Medical Epidemiologist and Team Lead for Hospital Infection Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

Dr. Carolyn Gould is a medical epidemiologist and team lead for hospital infection prevention in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After joining the faculty at Emory University in 2003, she served as associate hospital epidemiologist and co-director of the Antimicrobial Management Program at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. Dr. Gould joined CDC and the Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service in December 2006. Her primary roles involve responding to and preventing healthcare-associated infectious diseases. She is the primary author of the updated 2009 CDC/HICPAC Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections and is involved in a number of C. difficile prevention initiatives. She received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ashley Fell, MPH

Epidemiologist and Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Coordinator, Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program, Tennessee Department of Health

Ashley Fell is an epidemiologist in the Healthcare-Associated Infections Program at the Tennessee Department of Health and Tennessee’s healthcare-associated infection prevention coordinator. She provides support and education to facilities performing surveillance of healthcare-associated infections through the National Healthcare Safety Network, and she supports prevention initiatives through analysis and presentation of Tennessee’s healthcare-associated infections data. Ashley earned her master of public health degree in epidemiology from Emory University and is a member of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE).

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Ashlie Dowdell

Adjunct Instructor and Program Facilitator, New Surveillance Coordinator, Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention Program, Division of Public Health, Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Ashlie Dowdell joined the Wisconsin Healthcare-Associated Infections Prevention Program team in January 2010 as the surveillance coordinator with responsibilities that include recruiting facilities to join the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), CDC’s infection surveillance database; supporting the enrollment, training, and technical assistance needs of NHSN users in Wisconsin across all healthcare settings; and monitoring and presenting NHSN HAI surveillance data on selected topics. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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