Julie Yang

MPH Health Care Management, University of Maryland, College Park

Julie Yang graduated last year with her Master of Public Health from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a concentration in Health Care Management. Her capstone project, “Is There a Seasonal Pattern of Surgical Site Infections at a Large Community Hospital?”, examined potential seasonal trends in SSIs and identified contributing procedural and patient-related factors.

Danielle Jamerson

Doctoral Student/Communicable Disease Supervisor, Georgia Southern University/Southern Nevada Health District

Danielle Jamerson is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student and Communicable Disease Supervisor at the Southern Nevada Health District, where she oversees healthcare-associated infection investigations and supports outbreak response across healthcare settings. She is Certified in Infection Control (CIC) and is passionate about public health practice, particularly the opportunity to improve health systems, strengthen prevention efforts, and protect communities through collaborative work.

Christina Chommanard

DrPH Candidate/Epidemiologist , Johns Hopkins University/Alexandria Health Department

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Rebecca Crapanzano-Sigafoos

Exec Dir, Center for Research, Practice, and Innovation, APIC

Rebecca (Becca) Bartles is the Executive Director of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Prevention (APIC)’s Center for Infection Prevention and Control Research, Practice, and Innovation (CIPCRPI). Becca has practiced Infection Prevention and Infectious Disease Epidemiology for the last 21 years in a variety of healthcare settings and has numerous publications focused on infection prevention staffing and endoscope safety. She received both her BS in Public Health, Health Education and her MPH in Epidemiology from East TN State University. She completed her Doctorate in Public Health in 2021 with a dissertation topic of “Assessing efficacy of an evidence-based Clostridiodes difficile screening tool using electronic medical record data”. She has been CIC certified since 2008 and is an APIC fellow. Most notably, though, Becca is the mother of six amazing daughters, ages 11-28.