HAI Advisory Committee Members
VOTING MEMBERS
Health Care Consumer
Alicia Cole
Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients
Michele M. Ramos, BA
Consumer's Union California Safe Patient Network
Marian Hollingsworth
Patient Safety Advocate
Consumer's Union California Safe Patient Network
Health Care Provider
Jeremiah Darnell, RN, BSN, CCRN, CNRN
Clinical Mentor, Neuro Surgical Trauma ICU
Scrips Memorial Hospital
Deborah Wiechman, RN
Nurse Infection Preventionist
Vibra Hospital of Northern California
Nancy Waters, MD
Private Practice, Multispecialty
Los Angeles County
Hospital Administrator
Michael L. Langberg, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Patricia S. Kassab, RN, MS, CPHQ, HACP
Vice President
Enterprise Quality
Tim Clark, RN BSN, MBA
Chief Nursing Officer
Glen Medical Center
Infection Preventionists
Salah E. Fouad, MS, CIC
Manager, Infection Control
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center
Roy Sarmen Boukidjian, RN, MSN, PHN, CIC, NE-BC
Manager, Infection Prevention and Patient Safety
Dignity Health
Jacqueline Daley, HBSc, MLT, CIC, CSPDS
Manager, Infection Prevention Clinical Epidemiology and Vascular Access Service
Sharp Metropolitan Medical campus
Integrated Health Care Systems Expert or Representative
Jeffrey H. Silvers, MD - Committee Chair
Medical Director of Quality, Pharmacy/Therapeutics and Infection Prevention
Sutter Health Castro Valley
John P. Culver, MD, CPHQ
Regional Quality Director
Sutter Health West Bay Region
Theresa Caughlin, RN, MHA, CIC
Practice Specialist, Infection Prevention and Regulatory Compliance
Kaiser Southern California Region
Local Health Department
Erica Pan, MD, MPH, FAAP
Director, Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention
Alameda County Department of Public Health
Dawn Terashita, MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist and Supervisor, Healthcare Outreach Unit
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Matthew Zahn, MD MPH
Medical Director, Epidemiology
Orange County Health Care Agency
Physician with Expertise in Infectious Disease or Hospital Epidemiology
Sarah Doernberg, MD MAS
Medical Director, Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship
University of California, San Francisco
Marisa Holubar, MD, MS
Associate Medical Director, Stanford Antimicrobial Safety and Sustainability Program
Stanford University School of Medicine
Kim Erlich, MD
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
Mills Peninsula Health Services
NON-VOTING LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES
California Academy of Physician Assistants
Jeremy Elkins, MBA, PA-C
California Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology āā
Mary Virgallito, RN, MSN, CIC
California Association of Communicable Disease Controllers
Ying-Ying Goh,, MD
California Hospital Association
Debby Rogers, RN, MS, FAEN
California Medical Association
Michael Butera, MD
California Nurses Association
Kathy Dennis, RN
Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) of California
Howard Pitluk, MD, MPH, FACS
Infectious Disease Association of California
Phillip Robinson, MD