Return to the leadership page.

Director

Susan A. Dolan, RN, MS, CIC
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado

Susan is currently hospital epidemiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and has been an infection preventionist since 1994 while serving in various positions for the Mile High (Colorado) APIC chapter including president, board of directors, program committee legislative representative, nominating committee and membership. She spearheaded the crafting and passage of Colorado’s first HAI reporting bill in 2006. Since 2007, she has served on APIC’s Public Policy Committee and went on to chair the committee in 2010 and 2011.

Susan has been a speaker at numerous local and national meetings and conferences and continues to publish her work in peer-reviewed journals. She was lead author on the APIC position paper: Safe Injection, Infusion, and Medication Vial Practices in Healthcare, published in AJIC April 2010. In July 2012, ICHE published her outbreak investigation of Bacillus infections that uncovered the contamination of alcohol pads resulting in an international recall. She received Infection Control Today’s Educator of the year award in 2002, was an APIC Hero of Infection Prevention in 2006 and recently was awarded the APIC President’s Distinguished Service Award at the 2012 APIC 2012 annual conference in San Antonio as well as the 2012 SHEA Advanced Practic Infection Preventionist Award. Susan’s passion for infection prevention and her leadership skills provide her the opportunity to collaborate with various organizations while she continues to network with fellow APIC colleagues both which she highly values for her own professional growth.