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The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

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

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