Leadership Series: Employing Leadership and Team-Building Skills to Improve Outcomes

Ms. Kim Cahill possesses over 37 years of registered nursing experience in various healthcare settings including, acute and long-term care, acute psychiatry, hospice care and community education, intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) medical education and consulting, healthcare quality improvement, and patient safety. She has worked on national healthcare quality improvement initiatives in cooperation with providers across all care settings to achieve goals established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as aligned with the National Healthcare Quality Strategy. She currently serves as the Operations Manager for Infection Prevention and Control and Healthcare Safety Consulting at ECRI. 

Dr. Ericka Kalp has more than 20 years of experience in epidemiology and infection prevention and control across acute care, long-term care, ambulatory care, and specialty clinic segments. She is currently the Director of Infection Prevention and Control and Consulting at ECRI.  Dr. Kalp also serves as an Associate Clinical Professor and is Co-Director of the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH) Infection Prevention and Control academic programs.