Presentations include:

• Check Your Title at the Door

• Who Packs Your Parachute?

• SPD Leadership: What leaders need to do in order to achieve success

Presentations include:

• Vendor Managed Inventory: Rethinking Healthcare Management and Economics

• Occam’s razor and the OR: the simplest solution for reducing bio-burden on surgical tools

• Re-thinking and Re-organizing Sterile Processing

Presentations include:

• The Real Life Dangers of CJD in Your Sterile Processing

• The Dirty Truth of Loaner Decontamination

• Inside Out: Surgical Quality Starts With Us

Presentations include:

• The Positive Impact of Social Media on Learning and Professional Growth

• Don't Reinvent the Wheel: How to Operationalize SPD Excellence

• The 9 Marks of a Marketable Sterile Processing Professional

Presentations include:

• Decontamination Excellence from A to Z

• Bacterial Warriors & Families Prefer Biofilm Housing: How to Prevent & Evict

• Residues After Reprocessing & Their Associated Complications

Presentations include:

• Integrated Leadership: The SPD Leaders Role in Building and Sustaining Exceptional Outcomes Through Cultural Transformation

• How to Perfect Your Central Sterile Supply Department

• Reality Check: Material Management’s Impact on Surgical Services

Presentations include:

• Autoclave Testing & Validation: The Science of Sterile

• Fundamentals of Steam

• Principals & Science of Sterility

• Sterilization Monitoring

Presentations include:

• Pitfalls and Vulnerabilities in the SPD Department

• Murder in the 190th Degree – Effective Steam Sterilization  

• Are your Endoscopes Patient Safe?

• The Role of SPD in Patient Safety and Infection Prevention

Presentations include:

• Speaking the Right Language: When and How to Have the Single-Use Conversion Conversation

• X-Ray Vision for SPD: Making the Case for Enhanced Visual Inspection

• Burn Notice: Protecting Your Patients from Laparoscopic Burns

Presentations include:

• Sterile Scopes - The Final Frontier of Endoscope Reprocessing

• Breaking the Mold: Building Trust and Support for New SPD Technologies

• Competency Saves Lives: Developing SPD Teams Who Know What they are Doing and Why

Presentations include:

• Mastering the Art of Sterile Processing with Informatics

• Surgical Assets: Solving the Unsolvable

• Get the investment you need to Advance your Sterile Processing: How to construct a Rock Solid Business Proposal

Presentations include:

• Sustaining a Reduced IUSS Rate

• Creating Customer-Centric Experiences in Sterile Processing

• Interpersonal Communication in the Perioperative Setting

• Point-of-Use Cleaning

Presentations include:

• Let’s Talk About the Big “C” – Competency

• CE Should Not Be A Commodity

• The Twin Threats to Knowledge

• It Takes Will and Skill – Succession Planning in the OR

Presentations include:

• The Importance of Water in the Reprocessing of Medical Devices

• Steam Sterilization: What do you Know?

• Surveying and What You Need to Know

• AAMI ST79: An Update

Presentations include:​

• IFU Challenges, Technology, and Real World Compliance

• Insights into Sterile Processing Management

• Tackling the Complexity of Instrument Repair

• Instrument Management 101

Presentations include:

• Cleaning Indicators: What are they telling you and how do you use them?

• Steam and Water Quality: The missing links in sterile processing success

Presentations include:

• Validation vs Verification

• Sterilization Demystified

• Low Temperature Sterilization

• To BI or not to BI

 Presentations include:

• Journey inside lumens of medical devices : Reveal the invisible  

• Biofilm accumulation on medical devices: How to Detect, Prevent and Treat

• Good endoscope reprocessing practices to avoid biofilm contamination

Presentations include:

• CS/SPD Salary Survey - Trends and Highlights on Industry Compensation

• Healthcare Writing: Becoming the Author of your Sterile Processing Future

• - Let Your Voice Be Heard: Tips for Providing Stellar Article Commentary

Presentations include:

• Optimization of cleaning processes for complex surgical instruments

• Process challenge Devices simulating of complex surgical instruments including hollow instruments

• Cleaning systems for complex surgical instruments – challenges and solutions

• Future Technologies for Sterile Services Departments

Presentations include:

• A Winning Approach to Professional Relationships  -Service Agreements, Scripting, and Rounding

• Making Sense of Point of Use Cleaning

• Continuous Improvement for Everyday Processing

Presentations include:

• Managing Surgeon preferences related to Vendor-managed inventory (VMI)

• Consignment vs. Loaner optimization

• Comparison of inventory tagging methodologies

Presentations include:

• Communication between the OR and SPD, Bridging the Gap & Improving Processes

• Terminal Manual Cleaning. Are you following best practice?

Presentations include:

• Root Causes of Instrument Damage

• Custom Trays and Making the  Case for Justification 

• The Dangers of "Business as Usual"

Presentations include:

• Why doesn’t the voice of SPD get through to Medical Device Designers? Confessions of a Laparoscopic OEM

• Laparoscopic instrument repairs: Confessions of an OEM

• OEM & 3rd party repair entities: A case study of cooperation

Presentations include:

• The new design horizons in surgical instruments

• Water quality v surgical instruments - who wins?

• Surgical instruments - a beginners guide. From steels to Spencer Wells

Presentations include:

• Lean process & Instrument Management 

• ROI Analysis for Removing Instruments from Trays

• Digital Management of Orthopedic Sets and Trays

• Point of Use Scanning and Digital Record of Implant Usage

Presentations include:

• Gaining consensus and making the right sterile packaging systems selection for your facility

• The SPD of the future: How flexible design solutions in the hospital can increase efficiency and savings

• How medical manufacturers can make an impact on hospital and SPD design

• How product choice and on-going risk assessments in the SPD impact the patient experience

Presentations include:

• Silos are for Farmers

• Trust, respect, and collaboration the trifecta for creating high performance teams

• How to lead when you're not in charge 

• From competition to camaraderie

Presentations include:

• SSI prevention in the OR/CSS Setting

• Quality Assurance in Sterilization and Disinfection

• Challenges in TJC HLD Compliance: Building a community of Practice

Presentations include:

• SSI prevention in the OR/CSS Setting

• Quality Assurance in Sterilization and Disinfection

• Challenges in TJC HLD Compliance: Building a community of Practice

Presentations include:

• Important Considerations in the Third-Party Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices 

• New Trends in Cleaning Validations

• Water Quality for CSSD 101

Presentations include:

• Instructions for use and their importance

• CSS@War

• Wet Packs: Time to Reprocess

• The Challenge of BIOfilms

• Cleaning Verification

• Inspection and Testing of Laparoscopic Instruments

Presentations include:

• High Reliability in Sterile Processing

• Cross-training vs. Specialization

• Lean Concepts for SPD

Presentations include:

• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing:  Patient Safety in Sterile Processing

• Why do they act that way?:  Applied Psychology in the Sterile Processing Department

• Streamlining the Work Through Instrument Set Standardization