Overview

Gender

female

Barb DeBaun has over 35 years of experience in the field of infection prevention and quality improvement. In addition to her role at Vestagen, she is currently an Improvement Advisor for Cynosure Health. In this role, she provides vision and leadership in the development, implementation and facilitation of performance improvement initiatives for healthcare organizations. Previously, Barb was an improvement advisor for BEACON, the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative, and was the director of patient safety and infection control at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She is an adjunct faculty member at Dominican University of California.
Barb is an active member of APIC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, having served as the chair of the 2012 APIC Annual Conference Committee and as a member of the APIC Education Committee and the APIC Practice Guidance Council. She recently served as an elected member of APIC Board of Directors and as APIC’s liaison to the CDC’s Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Barb is also a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). She has lectured both nationally and internationally on a variety of patient safety and infection control topics and has published over a dozen articles and several book chapters. In 2008, she was selected as Infection Control Today’s Educator of the Year.

Ms. DeBaun earned a BSN from Pace University and MSN from San Francisco State University. She is a Certified Infection Control Practitioner.