Influencing for Infection Prevention: APIC Round-Table with Social Media's most influential IPs

Chaz earned a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Florida and began his career as an Infection Preventionist in 2007. He is currently the Assistant Vice President of Infection Prevention at HCA Healthcare North Florida Division and serves as co-chair of the APIC Academic Pathway Steering Committee. His professional passions include advancing the field of IP through leadership development of IPs and advocating for MPH-ers as equally qualified candidates for IP positions.

Dr. Saskia Popescu is an internationally recognized infectious disease epidemiologist and global health security leader with expertise in outbreak response and bioresilience. Her work focuses on biopreparedness and strategic readiness, biosecurity and biothreat analysis, infection prevention, AMR, and community interventions to One Health vulnerabilities and spillover risks. She is a skilled communicator directing progress through policy development, project management/team leadership, and providing pragmatic and real-world insight from experiences in leading international/domestic outbreak field response, biosurveillance initiatives, and healthcare biopreparedness programs. In addition to work in strengthening the prevention/response/recovery from biological risks, she concentrates on the intersection of science and policy to build capacity and support implementation of policies and collaboration across key stakeholders. 

Frankie helps to connect the dots. Learning how to connect the dots to help identify causes and risk factors is the core function of an epidemiologist. From the global HIV epidemic to the threat of multi-drug resistant bacteria, all agents prompt the need for effective prevention and control measures to promote public health. His goal as an infectious disease epidemiologist is to reduce and prevent the spread of disease by explaining the complex relationships between a host and a pathogen.

Specialties: epidemiologic investigations, sterile processing, high-level disinfection, hospital epidemiology, outbreak management, mock surveys, patient safety, quality improvement, emergency management, incident command operations, teaching/educating healthcare workers, and public speaking.

Dr. Devin Jopp joined APIC as CEO on December 7, 2020. He brings to APIC more than two decades of association leadership with a wide array of experience and accomplishments from across the healthcare and nonprofit sectors. He has been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential healthcare leaders by Healthcare Management International Magazine and one of the top 50 healthcare IT experts by Health Data Management Magazine. Prior to APIC, he served as CEO for the American College Health Association, the principal leadership organization for advancing the health and well-being of the nation’s 20 million college students and their campus communities through advocacy, education, and research.  He has also previously served as president and CEO for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a national nonprofit advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services focused on enhancing the exchange of healthcare information.  Before joining WEDI, he served as chief operating officer for the Service Corp of Retired Executives, a national nonprofit organization that provides business mentoring and training to American entrepreneurs.