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Director

Mary Lou Manning, PhD, CRNP, CIC
Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson School of Nursing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mary Lou became the director of infection prevention and control and occupational health at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in 1991, a position she has held for 12 years. She joined APIC that same year. At CHOP she later assumed the position of executive director for quality and patient safety. In 2007 she joined the Thomas Jefferson University, School of Nursing as associate professor and director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, a position that provides the ultimate opportunity to utilize a life’s work in healthcare education, practice and scholarship to guide and nurture future clinical leaders in infection prevention. 

Mary Lou served as the energetic 2011 President of the Philadelphia & Delaware Valley chapter, previously serving on the nominating and education committees. She is a member of the APIC Education Committee, an AJIC manuscript reviewer, SHEA fellow, and in 2008 won an APIC  Blue Medal Abstract Award. She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and volunteer on Philadelphia’s Medical Reserve Corporation. Since 1995 Mary Lou has been an ambassador for global infection prevention, conducting education in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Cuba and Indonesia. She is a frequent presenter at professional meetings, co-author of a book on childhood infections and published in numerous nursing and healthcare journals.