authors

Nancy B. Bjerke, BSN, RN, MPH, CIC, Infection Control Consultant, Infection Control Associates, San Antonio, TX

Susan Dolan, RN, MS, CIC, Hospital Epidemiologist, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO

Jack Donaldson< is the Nurse Manager of Sterile Processing at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, CA

Terri Goodman, RN, MA, PhD, Manager, Worldwide Professional Education, Infection Prevention, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Arlington, TX

J.-H. James Ou, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Associate Director of the Hepatitis C Cooperative Research Center at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Attending Physician specializing in Infectious Diseases, and Hospital Epidemiologist, Duke University Medical Center, Durham. N.C.

Farrah Lee, RN, BSN, Meritcare Hospital, Fargo, ND

Rita McCormick, RN, CIC and Laura Rutledge, RN, MN, CRNI, Infection Control Practitioners, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

Carolyn A. Ramsey, RN, MSN, CNOR, Staff Development Educator, Preoperative Area, Trinity Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler, TX

Melba Rhodes, BSN, Infection Control Consultant, Pineville, LA

Laura Rutledge, RN, MNCRNI, Senior Technical Service Engineer, 3M, St. Paul, MN

Eileen Young, Gynecology Clinical Specialist, Circon Corporation, Stamford, CT

Martha Young, BS, MS, CSPDT, International Technical Service Specialist, Sterilization Products, for 3M Health Care St. Paul, MN

Pat Tydell, RN, MSN, MPH, Risk Manager, the North Chicago Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Sharon Lesser, RN, is a senior clinical nurse 1 in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Aldo Iacono, MD, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Susan Machones, RN, BSN, CGRN, CNIII, is a staff nurse at Waukesha Memorial Hospital in Waukesha, Wisc., and is an MSN student at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisc.