
Beyond Clean has developed one of the largest networks of thought-leaders and subject matter experts in the Sterile Processing industry. The Beyond Clean Speakers Bureau is your opportunity to bring these innovators, disruptors, and educators into your personal network and in front of your conference audiences to help Sterile Processing and Perioperative teams #FightDirty across the globe. From international conference settings to regional education seminars, we give you access to the passion and expertise of high quality speakers who can equip and inspire your teams.

Consultant / Entrepreneur / Inventor
Manager Sterile Processing
CRCST, CIS, CHL
Shawn Flynn
Presentations include:
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Check Your Title at the Door
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Who Packs Your Parachute?
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SPD Leadership: What leaders need to do in order to achieve success

VP, Organizational Development
Beyond Clean
BA, ST, CRCST, CIS, CHL
Bob Marrs
Presentations include:
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The Real Life Dangers of CJD in Your Sterile Processing
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The Dirty Truth of Loaner Decontamination
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Inside Out: Surgical Quality Starts With Us

Pediatric Surgeon
Chief Medical Officer Beyond Clean
Peter Nichol, MD
Presentations include:
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Vendor Managed Inventory: Rethinking Healthcare Management and Economics
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Occam’s razor and the OR: the simplest solution for reducing bio-burden on surgical tools
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Re-thinking and Re-organizing Sterile Processing

Founder & CEO Beyond Clean
RN, CCSVP
Justin Poulin
Presentations include:
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The Positive Impact of Social Media on Learning and Professional Growth
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Don't Reinvent the Wheel: How to Operationalize SPD Excellence
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The 9 Marks of a Marketable Sterile Processing Professional

President, Truscott MedSci Associates
MBA, PhD
Wava Truscott
Presentations include:
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Decontamination Excellence from A to Z
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Bacterial Warriors & Families Prefer Biofilm Housing: How to Prevent & Evict
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Residues After Reprocessing & Their Associated Complications

VP Analytics & Resource Development Beyond Clean
MBA, CRCST, CER, CIS, CHL
Michael Matthews
Presentations include:
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Speaking the Right Language: When and How to Have the Single-Use Conversion Conversation
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X-Ray Vision for SPD: Making the Case for Enhanced Visual Inspection
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Burn Notice: Protecting Your Patients from Laparoscopic Burns

Executive Healthcare Consultant
MSN, RN, CNOR
David Taylor III
Presentations include:
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Integrated Leadership: The SPD Leaders Role in Building and Sustaining Exceptional Outcomes Through Cultural Transformation
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How to Perfect Your Central Sterile Supply Department
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Reality Check: Material Management’s Impact on Surgical Services
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VP of Engineering and Product Development for Sterile Services, LLC., CRCST
Joel Schafer
Presentations include:
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Autoclave Testing & Validation: The Science of Sterile
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Fundamentals of Steam
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Principals & Science of Sterility
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Sterilization Monitoring

President, Sterile Processing University
RN, AAS, ACSP, CSPM, CFER
Nancy Chobin
Presentations include:
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Pitfalls and Vulnerabilities in the SPD Department
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Murder in the 190th Degree – Effective Steam Sterilization
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Are your Endoscopes Patient Safe?
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The Role of SPD in Patient Safety and Infection Prevention

Manager, Central Sterile
Altru Health System
Jenni Gibbs
Presentations include:
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Sterile Scopes - The Final Frontier of Endoscope Reprocessing
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Breaking the Mold: Building Trust and Support for New SPD Technologies
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Competency Saves Lives: Developing SPD Teams Who Know What they are Doing and Why

Founder & CEO, Ascendco Health
Brian Reed
Presentations include:
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Mastering the Art of Sterile Processing with Informatics
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Surgical Assets: Solving the Unsolvable
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Get the investment you need to Advance your Sterile Processing: How to construct a Rock Solid Business Proposal

Sterile Processing Education & Quality Coordinator, IU Health
MBA, CRCST, CIS, CHL, MBTI
Lisa Wakeman
Presentations include:
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Sustaining a Reduced IUSS Rate
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Creating Customer-Centric Experiences in Sterile Processing
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Interpersonal Communication in the Perioperative Setting
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Point-of-Use Cleaning

CEO, Competency and Credentialing Institute (CCI) & CCI Research Foundation
BSN, MSN, PhD
Jim Stobinski
Presentations include:
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Let’s Talk About the Big “C” – Competency
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CE Should Not Be A Commodity
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The Twin Threats to Knowledge
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It Takes Will and Skill – Succession Planning in the OR

Director of Clinical Services,
Innovative Sterilization Technologies
MHA, BSN, RN
Barbara Harmer
Presentations include:
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The Importance of Water in the Reprocessing of Medical Devices
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Steam Sterilization: What do you Know?
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Surveying and What You Need to Know
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AAMI ST79: An Update

President & CEO, Petriss
Andy Petrovich
Presentations include:
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IFU Challenges, Technology, and Real World Compliance
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Insights into Sterile Processing Management
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Tackling the Complexity of Instrument Repair
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Instrument Management 101

Managing Director, Quality Processing Resource Group
MBA, PhD
Jonathan Wilder
Presentations include:
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Cleaning Indicators: What are they telling you and how do you use them?
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Steam and Water Quality: The missing links in sterile processing success

Sr. Technical Manager, Client Services
HIGHPOWER Validation Testing & Lab Services
Don Tumminelli
Presentations include:
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Validation vs Verification
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Sterilization Demystified
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Low Temperature Sterilization
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To BI or not to BI

Ph.D. Scientific Director, OneLife s.a.
Thomas Vanzieleghem
Presentations include:
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Journey inside lumens of medical devices : Reveal the invisible
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Biofilm accumulation on medical devices: How to Detect, Prevent and Treat
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Good endoscope reprocessing practices to avoid biofilm contamination

President & Founder
KLN Communications, Inc.
Kara Nadeau
Presentations include:
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CS/SPD Salary Survey - Trends and Highlights on Industry Compensation
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Healthcare Writing: Becoming the Author of your Sterile Processing Future
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- Let Your Voice Be Heard: Tips for Providing Stellar Article Commentary
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Supply Chain Operations Manager
CHL, CRCST
Alison Sonstelie
Presentations include:
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A Winning Approach to Professional Relationships -Service Agreements, Scripting, and Rounding
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Making Sense of Point of Use Cleaning
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Continuous Improvement for Everyday Processing

Managing Director
Central Sterilization Solutions
CRCST, CIS, CHL, CER
Harry Mullen
Presentations include:
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Communication between the OR and SPD, Bridging the Gap & Improving Processes
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Terminal Manual Cleaning. Are you following best practice?

President & CEO, Endoplus
Matthew Gudeman
Presentations include:
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Why doesn’t the voice of SPD get through to Medical Device Designers? Confessions of a Laparoscopic OEM
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Laparoscopic instrument repairs: Confessions of an OEM
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OEM & 3rd party repair entities: A case study of cooperation

Managing Director, Surgical Holdings
Daniel Coole
Presentations include:
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The new design horizons in surgical instruments
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Water quality v surgical instruments - who wins?
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Surgical instruments - a beginners guide. From steels to Spencer Wells

Founder & Managing Director, Aseptium
Pawel de Sternberg Stojalowski
Presentations include:
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Optimization of cleaning processes for complex surgical instruments
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Process challenge Devices simulating of complex surgical instruments including hollow instruments
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Cleaning systems for complex surgical instruments – challenges and solutions
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Future Technologies for Sterile Services Departments

Founder & CEO, ReadySet Surgical
Keerthi Kanubaddi
Presentations include:
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Managing Surgeon preferences related to Vendor-managed inventory (VMI)
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Consignment vs. Loaner optimization
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Comparison of inventory tagging methodologies

President, SolutionWells, LLC
Rick Wells
Presentations include:
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Root Causes of Instrument Damage
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Custom Trays and Making the Case for Justification
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The Dangers of "Business as Usual"

President, Summate Technologies, Inc
Phil Sayles
Presentations include:
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Lean process & Instrument Management
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ROI Analysis for Removing Instruments from Trays
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Digital Management of Orthopedic Sets and Trays
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Point of Use Scanning and Digital Record of Implant Usage

Marketing Director for Sterilization, Surgical and Infection Prevention,
Halyard Health
Joseph Hannibal
Presentations include:
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Gaining consensus and making the right sterile packaging systems selection for your facility
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The SPD of the future: How flexible design solutions in the hospital can increase efficiency and savings
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How medical manufacturers can make an impact on hospital and SPD design
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How product choice and on-going risk assessments in the SPD impact the patient experience

Founder & CEO, Circle of Care
BS, MHA
Kisha Miller
Presentations include:
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Silos are for Farmers
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Trust, respect, and collaboration the trifecta for creating high performance teams
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How to lead when you're not in charge
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From competition to camaraderie

Independent Consultant
CST, MEd, FAST
Julia Jackson
Presentations include:
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SSI prevention in the OR/CSS Setting
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Quality Assurance in Sterilization and Disinfection
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Challenges in TJC HLD Compliance: Building a community of Practice

Director Sterile Processing
CRCST, CHL, CSSBB
Marjorie Wall
Presentations include:
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SSI prevention in the OR/CSS Setting
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Quality Assurance in Sterilization and Disinfection
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Challenges in TJC HLD Compliance: Building a community of Practice

Technical Consulting Manager Sr. Scientist, Nelson Laboratories
MS, BS
Emily Mitzel
Presentations include:
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Important Considerations in the Third-Party Reprocessing of Single-Use Medical Devices
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New Trends in Cleaning Validations
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Water Quality for CSSD 101

President, David Jagrosse Consulting
CRCST CHL
David Jagrosse
Presentations include:
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Instructions for use and their importance
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CSS@War
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Wet Packs: Time to Reprocess
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The Challenge of BIOfilms
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Cleaning Verification
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Inspection and Testing of Laparoscopic Instruments

Logistics Manager Americas, Nutrace
Gus Vargas
Presentations include:
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High Reliability in Sterile Processing
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Cross-training vs. Specialization
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Lean Concepts for SPD

New Speaker applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis.
Additional Speakers
Stay tuned as the Beyond Clean Speakers Bureau continues to grow our all-star talent.

Director Central Sterile Processing
CRCST, MBA, CPHQ, CSSLBBP
James Carlock
Presentations include:
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing: Patient Safety in Sterile Processing
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Why do they act that way?: Applied Psychology in the Sterile Processing Department
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Streamlining the Work Through Instrument Set Standardization