Agenda

Thursday, April 9, 2015

8:30 AM Introduction and Welcome

Mary Ann Sondrini, EdM, Executive Director, Eagleson Institute

Monica Bell, President, Think Tank Marketing, LLC

Jon Crane, FAIA, LEED AP, Senior Vice President, Director, Translational Health Sciences, HDR

Opening Keynote Address
8:45 AM Taking a Proactive Approach to Clinical Care, Research and Education to Support the Response to Highly Pathogenic Emergency Diseases

Jeffrey Gold, MD, Chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Issues and Risks Related to Handling Highly Pathogenic Infectious Diseases
9:45 AM

Lessons Learned from Handling Animal Models

• Patient Care Rooms and Similarities to Research Animal Facilities

• Experience with Ebola Reston – Be Ready for Surprises!

Jerry Jaax, DVM, Associate Vice President for Research Compliance, Kansas State University

10:15 AM Break
10:45 AM Translating the Issues and Risks from the Laboratory to the Healthcare Environment

Natasha Griffith, MS, Director, High Containment Facilities, University of California Los Angeles

11:15 AM Perspective of Hospital Infection Control on How Ebola is Changing the Way Hospitals Look at Handling Patients with Highly Infectious Diseases

Linda Dickey, RN, MPH, CIC, Director, Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, UC Irvine Health and Advisory member, APIC Practice Guidance Committee

11:45 AM Rationale and Planning Principles Behind Design Considerations

Jon Crane, FAIA, LEED AP, Senior Vice President, Director, Translational Health Sciences, HDR

Mark Fitzgerald, Director of Containment Planning, HDR

12:15 PM Lunch
Working with Ebola Patients
1:15 PM Lessons Learned from the Physicians on the Frontline

Steven Lisco, MD, FCCM, FCCP, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Aneesh Mehta, MD, Special Pathogens ID Physician, Emory University

2:45 PM Break
Facility Design – Patient Rooms
3:15 PM Lessons Learned at Emory

Patricia Olinger, RBP, Assistant Vice President, Office of Research Administration, Emory University

Sharon Vanairsdale, MS, APRN, A CNS-BC, NP-C, CEN, Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Emergency Department and Serious Communicable Disease Unit, Emory University

Kalpana Regarajan, PhD, MPH, RBP, Associate Director/Biosafety Officer, Emory University

4:15 PM Design Considerations Related to Patient Isolation and Containment

Cyndi McCullough, EDAC, RN, MSN, Director of Evidence Based Design, HDR

Shawn Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH, Research Director, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, University of Nebraska Medical Center

5:00 PM Discussion of Today’s Topics
5:30 PM Conclusion

Friday, April 10, 2015

Keynote Address
8:30 AM Shifting the Paradigm of Infection Surveillance and Prevention in the Era of Ebola; Lessons from Healthcare – Associated Infections

Daniel A. Pollock, MD, Surveillance Branch Chief, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Facility Design – Emergency Department Intake
9:30 AM

Design Considerations Related to Emergency Department Intake

Mike Lawyer, AIA, Regional Project Principal, HDR

Greg Koll, PE, LEED-AP BD+C, Senior Mechanical Engineer, HDR

Carl Gaborik, Director of Corporate Design and Construction, Sentara Healthcare

10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM

Discussion

• Protocols for Personal Healthcare Worker Protection

• Mapping Protocols to Plans

Jeff Owens, MPH, CSP, SM(NRCM), CBSP, Public Health Specialist, HDR

Natasha Griffith, MS, Director, High Containment Facilities, University of California Los Angeles

Mark Fitzgerald, Director of Containment Planning, HDR

Cyndi McCullough, EDAC, RN, MSN, Director of Evidence Based Design, HDR

Shawn Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH, Research Director, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Patricia Olinger, RBP, Assistant Vice President, Office of Research Administration, Emory University Hospital

12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Discussion Continued
2:00 PM Break
2:20 PM Guidelines for Infectious Disease Facilities

Mark Fitzgerald, Director of Containment Planning, HDR

Jeff Owens, MPH, CSP, SM(NRCM), CBSP, Public Health Specialist, HDR

Jon Crane, FAIA, LEED AP, Senior Vice President, Director, Translational Health Sciences, HDR

3:20 PM Architectural and Engineering Barriers for Containment of Highly Pathogenic Infectious Diseases

Mark Fitzgerald, Director of Containment Planning, HDR

William Zavatkay, PE, LEED-AP BD+C, Senior Mechanical Engineer, HDR

Ovi Muresan, CPD, LEED BD+C, Senior Plumbing Engineer, HDR

4:20 PM Discussion
5:00 PM Conclusion