Gwen Borlaug, MPH, CIC, FAPIC, worked at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health (DPH) as the Director of the Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Program and infection prevention epidemiologist.
As the subject matter expert for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), she revised the DPH guidelines for managing patients with MRSA in healthcare settings, presented numerous educational offerings to local public health officials and healthcare personnel across the state, and served on the Metastar (Wisconsin quality improvement organization) advisory committee for their MRSA prevention project. She launched a statewide public health initiative to reduce surgical site infections, using a surgical care champion to provide peer-to-peer learnings to surgeons and surgical teams in Wisconsin hospitals. She also established statewide mandatory hospital and skilled nursing facility surveillance for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) using the National Healthcare Safety Network, developed and taught a surveillance training workshop for hundreds of long-term care infection preventionists, conducted onsite evaluations of healthcare infection prevention programs, investigated numerous outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections, and served on the DPH team that investigated the 2016 Elizabethkingia outbreak. She also served as safety officer for DPH during public health responses to communicable disease crises such as the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, ensuring appropriate use of personal protective equipment for DPH employees as well as assessing private health sector readiness and response capacity.
She has been an infection preventionist for 22 years and obtained her certification in infection control in 2002. She received an APIC Heroes of Infection Prevention Award and a Chapter Leadership award in 2010 and became an APIC Fellow in 2017.
Borlaug is currently an independent infection prevention consultant, with special interest in offering HAI surveillance data validation services, evaluating hospital infection prevention programs, providing surgical site infection prevention consultation, and offering educational presentations regarding outbreak management, surveillance in long-term care settings, and reducing transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms.
Gwen Borlaug
[email protected]
Home: 515-379-1057
Mobile: 608-212-7170
As the subject matter expert for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), she revised the DPH guidelines for managing patients with MRSA in healthcare settings, presented numerous educational offerings to local public health officials and healthcare personnel across the state, and served on the Metastar (Wisconsin quality improvement organization) advisory committee for their MRSA prevention project. She launched a statewide public health initiative to reduce surgical site infections, using a surgical care champion to provide peer-to-peer learnings to surgeons and surgical teams in Wisconsin hospitals. She also established statewide mandatory hospital and skilled nursing facility surveillance for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) using the National Healthcare Safety Network, developed and taught a surveillance training workshop for hundreds of long-term care infection preventionists, conducted onsite evaluations of healthcare infection prevention programs, investigated numerous outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections, and served on the DPH team that investigated the 2016 Elizabethkingia outbreak. She also served as safety officer for DPH during public health responses to communicable disease crises such as the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, ensuring appropriate use of personal protective equipment for DPH employees as well as assessing private health sector readiness and response capacity.
She has been an infection preventionist for 22 years and obtained her certification in infection control in 2002. She received an APIC Heroes of Infection Prevention Award and a Chapter Leadership award in 2010 and became an APIC Fellow in 2017.
Borlaug is currently an independent infection prevention consultant, with special interest in offering HAI surveillance data validation services, evaluating hospital infection prevention programs, providing surgical site infection prevention consultation, and offering educational presentations regarding outbreak management, surveillance in long-term care settings, and reducing transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms.
Gwen Borlaug
[email protected]
Home: 515-379-1057
Mobile: 608-212-7170
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