VICTORIA ONLY – Save the Date Evening with Dr William Jarvis (CDC – USA) – with RSVP details

[Tim Spencer]

This is for Victorian clinicians wanting to attend the Jarvis dinner
meeting being held in Melbourne.

Previous was for NSW only.

Forward on behalf of ASP/Johnson & Johnson.

SAVE THE DATE

Proudly supported by ASP – A division of Johnson & Johnson.

Join us for an exciting opportunity to hear about strategies for
reducing Catheter Related Blood

Stream Infections (CRBSI) from Dr William Jarvis. With over 25 years’
experience at the CDC in a

number of roles developing guidelines for the prevention of infection in
healthcare settings and a

prolific author with over 400 peer-reviewed publications, Dr Jarvis is a
recognised thought leader in

HAI’s, including CRBSI.

RSVP directly to: Rosalyn Harcourt – mailto:rharcour@its.jnj.com

Dinner included. Spaces are strictly limited

Please reply directly to Rosalyn Harcourt, not through the listserver.

William Robert Jarvis, MD – Bio:

Dr. William Jarvis is President of Jason and Jarvis Associates, private
consultants in

Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, located in Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina.

He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious
Diseases, Immunology

and Epidemiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta,
Georgia, and an

Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of
Public Health.

Previous roles and achievements include Acting Director for 17 years for
the CDC

developing guidelines for the prevention of infection in healthcare
settings, a contributor

to 2009 WHO Guidelines, 2010 winner of the CDC Lifetime Achievement
Award, over

400 peer-reviewed publications, editor of 3 books and over 50 CDC
surveillance

reports.

After earning his medical degree from the University of Texas Health
Science Center

(UTHSC) School of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Jarvis completed his Straight
Pediatrics

Internship at UTHSC. He then completed his Pediatrics Residency at the
Children’s

Hospital of Los Angeles, in conjunction with the University of Southern
California.

Subsequently, he was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in Pediatric
Infectious Diseases

at the Hospital for Sick Children-University of Toronto, in Ontario,
Canada, followed by

a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases (Virology) at the Yale
University

School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Public
Health in New

Haven, Connecticut. He then served as the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Officer at the

Hospital Infections Branch of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta,
Georgia, where

he remained to complete a Preventive Medicine Residency. He is board
certified in

Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Preventive Medicine, and is licensed
to practice in

California, Georgia and Texas.

Dr. Jarvis is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
(IDSA), the Society

for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the American Academy of
Pediatrics, and

a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the Association for
Professions in

Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the Pediatric Infectious
Diseases Society. In

addition, he has served on countless committees and boards. A prolific
writer, Dr.

Jarvis has published his work in numerous journals, including the New
England Journal

of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Seminars in
Pediatric Infectious

Diseases, and he has given many presentations internationally.

Timothy R. Spencer, RN, APN, DipAppSci, Bach.Health, ICCert.
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Central Venous Access & Parenteral Nutrition
Service

Conjoint Lecturer, South West Sydney Clinical School | Faculty of
Medicine | University of NSW
Dept of Intensive Care, Level 2, Clinical Building, Liverpool Hospital,
Elizabeth Street, Liverpool, 2170, NSW, Australia
Tel (+61) 2 8738 3603 | Fax (+61) 2 8738 3551 | Mob +61 (0)409 463 428 |
Tim.Spencer@sswahs.nsw.gov.au | Timothy.Spencer@unsw.edu.au

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