Erica Susky, MSc, CIC, is a certified infection control practitioner at St. Michael’s Hospital at Unity Health Toronto in Canada, an instructor at Infection Prevention and Control Canada (IPAC), an Infection Control Coordinator at Practice Health Check, an infection control consulting firm in Ontario, Canada, and an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Infection Control.
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