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The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

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The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) is a collaborative effort of the Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee (CHEC), a subcommittee of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AMMI) Canada and the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (CIDPC) of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

Established in 1994, the objectives of CNISP are to provide rates and trends of healthcare-associated infections at Canadian healthcare facilities, thus enabling comparison of rates (benchmarks), and to provide data that can be used in the development of national guidelines on clinical issues related to healthcare-associated infections. At present, 49 sentinel hospitals from 9 provinces participate in the CNISP network.

Location of CNISP Hospitals

Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee (CHEC) Members 2007

Dr. Pamela Kibsey Victoria General Hospital Victoria	Dr. Michael John London Health Sciences Centre London
Dr. Eva Thomas Children’s and Women’s Health Center Vancouver	Dr. Mark Loeb McMaster University Hamilton
Dr. Elizabeth Bryce Vancouver General Hospital Vancouver	Dr. Anne Matlow The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto
Dr. John Conly Calgary Health Region Foothills Medical Centre Calgary	Dr. Allison McGeer Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto
Dr. Elizabeth Henderson Calgary Health Region Calgary	Dr. Michael Gardam Toronto General Hospital Toronto
Dr. Sarah Forgie Stollery Children's Hospital Edmonton	Dr. Andrew Simor Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto
Dr. Geoffrey Taylor University of Alberta Hospital Edmonton	Dr. Mary Vearncombe Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital Toronto
Dr. Alice Wong Royal University Hospital Saskatoon	Dr. Dick Zoutman Kingston General Hospital Kingston
Dr. John Embil Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg	Dr. Virginia Roth The Ottawa Hospital Ottawa
Dr. Joanne Embree University of Manitoba Winnipeg	Dr. Kathryn Suh Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Ottawa
Dr. Mark Miller SMBD–Jewish General Hospital Montreal	Dr. Charles Frenette McGill University Health Centre Montreal General Hospital
Dr. Karl Weiss Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Montreal	Dr. Sophie Michaud CHUS – Hopital Fleurimont Sherbrooke
Dr. Dorothy Moore Montreal Children’s Hospital Montreal	Dr. Nathalie Turgeon Hôtel-Dieu de Québec du CHUQ Québec
Dr Magdalena Kuhn S.E. Regional Health Authority The Moncton Hospital Moncton	Dr. Lynn Johnston QEll Health Sciences Centre Halifax
Dr. Jim Hutchinson Health Care Corp. of St. John’s St. John’s	Dr. Joanne Langley IWK Health Centre Halifax

Contact:

Nosocomial and Occupational Infections
Public Health Agency of Canada
Address Locator 0601E2
Bldg. #6 Tunney’s Pasture
100 L’Eglantine
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9
(613) 952-9875