Kristen Bueby
Kristen Bueby is a board-certified Infection Preventionist and Master Prepared in Public Health with over 15 years of experience in healthcare. She started her clinical career working as a Registered and Licensed Dietitian in acute care and transitioned to Infection Prevention upon completion of her Master in Public Health degree. Kristen has worked in Infection Prevention for nearly 10 years. Her areas of interest are in NHSN surveillance and reporting, outbreak investigation and quality improvement. She assists TheraDoc members with surveillance, training and issue resolution.

Anne Kithcart
Anne Kithcart works as a Clinical Consultant for Premier Inc. She has been board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology for over twenty years, working in the acute care and in-patient rehabilitation settings. Anne received her bachelor’s degree in nursing at West Texas A&M University and her master’s degree in nursing from American Sentinel University. Anne has experience working with multiple electronic medical record and surveillance systems.

Eileen Yaeger
Eileen Yaeger is a board-certified Infection Preventionist and has 40 years of experience in clinic and hospital laboratory science, reference laboratory science, clinical healthcare management, infection prevention, public health and clinical consulting. She has a Doctoral degree in Public Health-Epidemiology, a master’s degree in Public Health (Epidemiology) and a bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology.

Jennifer Hernandez
Jennifer Hernandez is board-certified in Infection Prevention (CIC®) and has a master’s degree in Epidemiology from Michigan State University. She has over 20 years of experience in healthcare. She has been with Premier since 2012, providing clinical consulting to TheraDoc Infection Prevention and Pharmacy members in addition to performing remote surveillance and teaching eUniversity courses.

Elizabeth Curnow
Elizabeth Curnow has worked in healthcare for over 20 years and has experience in Epidemiology and Infection Prevention across the spectrum including public health, academia and research. She has a Doctoral degree in Public Health from the University of Texas, School of Public Health, a master’s degree in Public Health (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from George Washington University and a Master of Education degree from Wayland Baptist University. She is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

Susan Hudson
Susan Hudson has worked in healthcare for more than 20 years, starting as a volunteer in high school and continuing to pursue her passion to provide better patient and community outcomes by pursuing a Bachelor of Nursing to become a Registered Nurse, Master of Public Health with some time in law school at Nova Southeastern in Florida. She was licensed in Healthcare Risk Management in Florida and is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She has varied patient care experience in neurology, home health, nurse recruitment, long-term care as well as appeals nurse and medical malpractice defense legal nurse consulting.

Karen Kistner
Karen Kistner is board-certified in Infection Control and Epidemiology and a certified health education specialist. Karen received bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Psychology from the University of Rochester and a Master of Public Health from the George Washington University. Her career has taken her from working as an epidemiologist in state health departments, infection prevention at acute care hospitals, and most recently, as a Clinical Consultant with Premier Inc. working to support infection practitioners, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in optimizing workflows and improving patient care and outcomes via utilization of clinical surveillance tools.