Lillian A. Burns, BS, MT, MPH, CIC
Ms. Burns is the recipient of the Sims-Portex Award for work that resulted in the reduction of employee needle stick injuries and exposures to bloodborne pathogens. In 2005. Ms. Burns was the recipient of the Yale-New Haven Quality Award for her work “Increasing Employee Hand Hygiene Compliance.Ms. Burns is the author of “Phlebotomy: Must it be a High-risk Procedure? which appeared in Infection Control Resource.  She is also co-author of “Protecting your Patients from VRE” which appeared in the American Journal of Nursing, and co-authored “Predictive Value of Susceptibility Tests for the Outcome of Antibacterial” Therapy which appeared in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Ms. Burns is on the Board of Directors at the Association for Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), is a faculty member of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).

Denise Marie Murphy, RN, MPH, CIC
Ms. Murphy is Vice President, Quality at Main Line Health System in Bryn Mawr, PA. She obtained her RN at St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing/La Salle College in Philadelphia, PA and earned her MPH from the School of Public Health at St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO, where she is on the adjunct faculty. In addition to her duties at Main Line Health System, Ms. Murphy also consults independently in hospital epidemiology and patient safety. She is active on the National Quality Forum Technical Advisory Committee and is a past president of the board of directors of APIC.

Russell N. Olmsted, MPH, CIC
Mr. Olmsted is an epidemiologist in Infection Control Services at Saint Joseph Mercy Health System and is the president of Applied Epidemiology Solutions, both in Ann Arbor, MI. He earned his MPH in general epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. Mr. Olmsted recently chaired the external peer review panel for the National Healthcare Safety Network at the CDC. He is also active on the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the APIC Practice Guidance Council, and he is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Infection Control and the Journal of Hospital Infection.

Shannon Oriola, RN, CIC, COHN
Ms. Oriola is a graduate of the University of Nevada – Reno and is currently the lead infection-control practitioner in the department of infection prevention and clinical epidemiology at Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus in San Diego, CA. She is a past member of the board of directors of APIC, a past president of the California APIC Coordinating Council, and recently contributed to the CDC/DHQP Infection Control Assistance Project and the HAI Advisory Committee of the  California Department of Public Health.