The IPC Nurses Corner is a new European initiative dedicated to connecting, empowering, and supporting infection prevention and control (IPC) nurses across all healthcare settings. Developed under the umbrella of EUCIC and aligned with the goals of EU-JAMRAI 2, the network offers a professional space where nurses can grow, share, and lead — together. Participation is open to IPC nurses from Europe and beyond — working in hospitals, long-term care, ambulatory care, or community settings. Whether you are new to the role or highly experienced, this network is for you.
Every three months, the network organizes a 60-minute interactive online session to share reflection, experiences, challenges, find practical solutions to daily questions/issues, build guidance, and bring mutual support in IPC. These peer exchange sessions in English languages include short IPC professionals-led presentations, altogether or breakout discussions.
Examples of General Topics:
Dates for the next online sessions are shown below. All registered members will receive a Teams invitation for the webinars.
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Date |
Theme |
Practical Topic |
Focus/Key Discussion Topic |
Link to Meeting |
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19 January 2027 15:00-16:00 |
Outbreak Recognition & Management |
From the First Signal to Outbreak Control |
When should a cluster trigger concern, and what should IPC nurses do first? Share short case studies, compare approaches across countries and explore opportunities for collaboration within the network. |
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30 March 2027 15:00-16:00 |
Device-Associated Infection Prevention |
Why? Which? Still? Preventing Device-Associated Infections |
How can IPC nurses support decisions about device insertion, continued need and removal? Share practical approaches and explore behavioural insights from ENGAGE-IPC. |
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22 June 2026 15:00-16:00 |
IPC in Emergency Care |
IPC in the Emergency Department: Making It Work Under Pressure |
How can teams integrate IPC into triage, urgent care and patient transfers? Discuss practical challenges, workable routines and communication between departments. |
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5 October 2027 15:00-16:00 |
Surgical Site Infection Prevention |
SSI Prevention Across the Patient Journey |
How can IPC nurses strengthen prevention before, during and after surgery? Share approaches to multidisciplinary collaboration, patient education and follow-up after discharge. |
The network facilitates an informal voluntary peer system, where nurses can establish collaboration with colleagues from another countries or setting to:
Matching is flexible and based on shared interest areas or IPC roles.
Interested in joining the network and receiving:
We are working to create a list of local IPC nurses open for P2P collaborations which will appear here. All participating nurses will be added to a dedicated emailing list, where relevant topics are regularly shared for discussion, helping members to connect with colleagues facing similar challenges or working on shared priorities. Register and join our P2P collaboration.
The network currently counts 136 members in total. This is the list of current 118 IPC nurse network members who have agreed to be publicly listed.
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Name |
Country of practice |
Current Role in IPC |
Additional details |
Organisation (optional) |
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Ahmed Essam El-Sobky |
Egypt |
Certified Infection Preventionist |
Airport Hospital |
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Alessia Arcangeli |
Italy and LMIC |
IPC nurse |
National Institute of Infection Disease "Lazzaro Spallanzani" Roma |
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Alexander Jóhönnuson |
Iceland |
CEO of Eirr Medical |
Eirr Medical |
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Alexandra Fernandes |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
ULSSA |
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Amanda Daniel |
Wales, UK |
Strategic National Lead for IPC in Primary and Community Care in Wales |
Reservist with the UKHSA Rapid Support Team (RST) supporting global outbreaks |
Public Health Wales |
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Amira Abdelfattah |
Egypt |
Infection control instructor and manager |
Private hospital |
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Ana Geada |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULS S.JOSÉ |
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Anastassia Pent |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Regional hospital |
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Anita Johansson |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg Sweden |
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Annie Uwineza |
Luxembourg |
Surveillances HCAI (ICU, BSI, SSI), audits and training |
In charge of cleaning team |
Hôpitaux Robert Schuman Luxembourg |
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Annika Lemetsar |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
ESC |
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Anouk Devolder |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Zeno (Knokke) |
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Aristotelis Papadimitriou |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
Saint Savvas Athens Oncology Hospital |
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Bourru David |
France |
IPC nurse |
Assistance publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM) |
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Brett Mitchell |
Australia |
Professor in nursing and IPC |
Klinik Vincentinum Augsburg |
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Camelia Bogaert |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Gent |
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Candice Bonaconsa |
South Africa |
Research and QI in Nurse AMS |
University of Cape Town |
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Carmela Lupo |
Italy |
Head nurse IPC |
ASL Roma 2 Public Hospital |
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Caroline Haesebroek |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
Regionaal Ziekenhuis Heilig Hart Leuven |
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Carre Yolene |
France |
IPC nurse |
Scientific Committee Chair, Research Coordinator |
CHU Bordeaux |
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Carry Meel |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Brugge |
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Cecilio Ottoniel Aranda Arriaza El Salvador |
El Salvador |
Public Health & IPC Nurse |
MINSAL |
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Cisse Ousmane Aboubacar |
Mali |
IPC coaching, audits and action plan development |
Médecin sans frontières Belgique |
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Clarisse De Block |
Switzerland |
Epidemiologist (Infectious Diseases) |
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Cláudia Patrícia Rodrigues Pereira |
Portugal |
IPC team - in charge of the community care |
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Danel Meno |
United Kingdom |
IPC Lead Nurse |
University/academic hospital |
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Debbie Xuereb |
Malta |
IPC nurse |
National role to support IPC nurses across Malta |
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Dieter Vereecke |
Belgium |
IPC nurse, bridging rol between hospital setting and LTCF |
Helse Bergrb |
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Dragomir Ivanov |
Bulgaria |
IPC trainer and consultant |
Chairman of the ONE HEALTH Bulgaria |
Liaison officer for EU JAMRAI2 for Bulgaria |
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Duke Jae Sheen |
Canada |
RN |
Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain |
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Efthymia Spyrakou |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
CLEO |
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Eirini Astrinaki |
Greece |
IPC nurse |
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Ekaterina Madzharova |
Bulgaria |
Inspector at the anti-epidemic control department |
RHI Varna |
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Emma Franklin |
Scotland, UK |
IPC nurse |
NHS Highland |
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Emma Fransen |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint-Jan Brugge |
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Enrique Castro-Sanchez |
Spain, UK |
Advanced IPC Clinical Specialist Nurse |
UK Health Security Agency in London |
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) |
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Erik Mihelj |
Slovenia |
Infectious Disease Clinic Nurse |
UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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Eva Cappelli |
Italy |
PhD researcher - Surveillance systems and data use |
Surveillance IPC MDRO (Europe Study) |
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Eveline Coemans |
Belgium |
IPC Specialist and epidemiologist involved in healthcare-associated infection surveillance, outbreak management, IPC policy development, staff education, and quality improvement initiatives. |
PhD researcher at Hasselt University, conducting research on infection prevention and outbreak management in healthcare and long-term care settings, with a particular focus on implementation, quality improvement and leadership. |
Hasselt University & Jessa |
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Flora Sourri |
Greece |
IPC head nurse |
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Gema Martinez Garcia |
United Kingdom |
International Clinical Director & IPC Consultant |
Clinical support in executing IPC protocols and improvement projects. Global networking and collaboration with NHS organizations. |
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Gloria Koglbauer |
Austria |
IPC nurse |
UK Wiener Neustadt |
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Gwen Regan |
Ireland |
Guideline development, project management, implementation of Irelands NAP strategy as it relates to nursing. Extensive experience prior to this post in community IPC |
HSE Ireland |
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Helen Carpenter |
Ireland |
Clinical Nurse Manager 3 in IPC |
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin |
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Helle Boelsmand |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen |
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Ilse De Cock |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Sint Lucas Gent |
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Ivana Arnaudeau Novakova |
France |
Nurse manager at the social services center - Paris |
Member of the SF2H Board of Directors; Member of Training and International Relations Committees. |
CASVP - SEHPAD |
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Jasmin Männer |
Switzerland |
IPC head nurse |
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Jeanne Badino |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Rigshospitalet Copenhagen |
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Jette Holt |
Denmark |
National advisor in IPC; Master of Arts (education) phd. |
SSI |
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Jo Grootaerd |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Oostende |
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Jose Carlos Andrade |
Portugal |
Member of Commission on Infection Control and Antimicrobial Resistance |
Unidade Local de Saude de Santo Antonio - Hospital Magalhaes Lemos |
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Jules Storr |
United Kingdom |
IPC consultancy to international and national organisations & IPC subject matter expert to a number of research projects |
S3 Global Health |
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Julie Gowland |
United Kingdom |
Clinical implementation manager |
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Kafilat Abiola Oginni |
Nigeria |
IPC Nurse |
LUTH |
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Karen Sales Espanola |
United Arab Emirates |
IPC nurse and quality in charge |
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Karolin Eklund |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg |
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Katrien Latour |
Belgium |
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities |
Sciensano |
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La Moeller |
Denmark |
Infection consultant |
Municipality of Aarhus |
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Lena Lambaa |
Faroe Islands |
IPC nurse |
Landssygehuset |
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Lena Rosenkrantz Bennekov |
Denmark |
Hygiene coordinator for the hemodialysis unit |
Sygehus Sønderjylland, Sønderborg |
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Lidiya Encheva |
United Kingdom |
IPC Link Nurse (operating theatre) |
ANTT Lead |
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Liesbeth De pauw |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
Sint-Jozefskliniek Izegem |
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Liliana Deleva |
Bulgaria |
Chief Nurse ICU, IPC Nurse |
Executive Board Member of Bulgarian Association of Prevention and Infection Control (BULNOSO) Lecturer in the CME System-Training Courses for nurses and doctors in the field of HAI IPC and Intensive Medical Care |
University Hospital St Anna Sofia Bulgaria |
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Lieve Blommaert |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
UZ Brussel |
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Maria O’ Shea |
Ireland |
Assistant Director of Nursing Infection Prevention and Control |
HSE ireland |
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Mahmoud |
Jordan |
IPC professional |
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Manal |
Saudi Arabia |
IPC Deputy Coordinator |
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Maria |
Netherlands |
Researcher in nurse-led Antimicrobial Stewardship |
Lecturer in Nursing |
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Mariana |
Ukraine |
Prevention of healthcare-associated infections |
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Margarida Dinis |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
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Maria José dos Santos Maia |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULS S. José |
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Maria Tseroni |
Greece |
Assistant Professor of Infection Prevention and Control |
Department of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
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Marie Vandamme |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ West |
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Marita Wallevik |
Norway |
Regional-Level Advisor |
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Matilda Hellström |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg |
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Melanie Alexandra Kalweit Dietsche |
Switzerland |
Infection Prevention Link Nurse, Critical Care Nursing Specialist (Postgraduate HF Diploma) |
University Hospital Basel |
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Melissa Farragher |
United Kingdom |
Lead Nurse for IPC |
UCLH |
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Merlin Wilson |
Ireland |
IPC CNS |
The Royal Hospital Donnybrook |
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Miglena todorova Grigorova |
Bulgaria |
Head nurse - planning, organizing and controlling VBI-ISMO-IPC |
Center for complehensive services for children with disabilities and chronic conditions |
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Mireille Dekker |
Netherlands |
Post doc researcher / IPC nurse |
Amsterdam UMC |
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Mohmed Melouk |
Egypt |
Infection prevention and control manager |
Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre |
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Monica Kloster Larsen |
Denmark |
Development consultant with responsibility of infection control |
Ikast-Brande Kommune |
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Nicolai Kirkegaard |
Denmark |
Infection Control Specialist |
Infection Control Specialist MRSA-unit, Infection Control Division |
Aalborg University Hospital |
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Nicole Verbraeken |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
UZ Brussel |
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Niluefer Karabal |
Germany |
Infection Prevention and Control Specialist |
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Noel Abela |
Malta |
IPC nurse |
Mater Dei Hospital |
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Olga Tomberg |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation |
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Ouattara Ally |
Burkina Faso |
IPC Officer |
Coordinates IPC across multiple hospitals in the city |
CHU Tengandogo |
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Pascal De Waegemaeker |
Belgium |
Lead Infection Control Practitioner |
Ghent University Hospital |
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Patricia Domene |
Switzerland |
Infection Prevention Specialist in Training |
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Patrícia Maria Cortez Dias |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
Champalimaud Foundation |
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Paula Brito |
Portugal |
IPC head nurse |
ULS Cova da Beira |
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Paulo Jorge Marques Brois |
Portugal |
IPC Link Nurse (operating theatre) |
Unidade Local de Saúde do Baixo Alentejo |
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Petra Bosmans |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
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Raquel Melo |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
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Rebecca Rüdlinger |
Switzerland |
IPC nurse |
Fachexpertin für Infektionsprävention im Gesundheitswesen |
HOCH Health Ostschweiz |
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Rosa Maria Fernandes Oliveira |
Portugal |
IPC nurse |
ULSGE |
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Rossitza Vatcheva-Dobrevska |
Bulgaria |
IPC national level consultant |
Lecturer (Public Health & CME – IPC/AMR/AMS); AMS consultant; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Nosocomial Infections; President, BULNOSO; National Coordinator, EU JAMRAI 2 coordinator |
University Hospital Queen Joanna Sofia; BAPIC BULNOSO |
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Roswitha Schmadel |
Switzerland |
Link Nurse |
Zentrum Pflege und Betreuung Mülimatt in Sissach |
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Sanaz Karimi Moghaddam |
Switzerland |
Surgical IPC Specialist |
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Santiago Letona |
Spain |
Research work, antibiotic stewardship and outbreaks work |
UZ Gent/HOST ZNG |
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Sandra Scholze |
Switzerland |
IPC head nurse |
Hirslanden |
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Sara Alexandra Teixeira Magalhães |
Portugal |
Promoting infection prevention |
Epidemiological surveillance, professional training |
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Silvana Gastaldi |
Italy |
IPC specialist |
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Sofia Zerva |
Greece |
IPC Nurse - Study Nurse |
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Sofie Lindberg |
Sweden |
IPC nurse |
Region Gävleborg, Sweden |
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Sofie Van Belle |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
University Hospital Gent |
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Stamataki Petroula |
Greece |
IPC head nurse |
Naval Hospital of Athena |
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Sümeyye Kemik |
Turkey |
infection control nurse |
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Tatjana Maloštan |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
Children’s Hospital |
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Teele Ruzitš |
Estonia |
IPC nurse |
North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) |
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Tiina Teder |
Estonia |
Nurse manager of Infection Control |
Estonian Society of Infection Control |
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Tina De Beer |
Belgium |
Coordinator of the Hospital Outbreak Support Team network CUROZ |
UZ Brussel |
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Tom De Vos |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZORG |
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Veronique Blomme |
Belgium |
IPC nurse |
AZ Oostende |
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Vibeke Vestergaard |
Denmark |
IPC nurse |
Aalborg Universitets Hospital |
This initiative is coordinated by a dedicated team of IPC nurses:
Contact IPC Nurses Network coordination for more information or any inquiries you might have.