PDI Perspective Podcast: ATP Testing in Healthcare

Author: Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC

PDI’s Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC, interviews Russell N. Olmsted, MPH, CIC, FAPIC – Director, Infection Prevention Management, Integrated Clinical Services, Trinity Health, Livonia, MI in this podcast ATP Testing in Healthcare. 

In this interview, Russell and Marc discuss what ATP testing is and how it has been incorporated into the healthcare setting to date.

About the Speaker: Russell N. Olmsted

Russell N. Olmsted, MPH, CIC, has over 38 years of experience in the fields of infection prevention and control and healthcare epidemiology. Russ serves as the Director of Infection Prevention Management for Trinity Health’s Integrated Clinical Services headquartered in Livonia, MI. Trinity Health is an integrated network of hospitals and other sites of care with locations in 22 states across the U.S.

He is involved in several activities related to infection prevention and control on a state, national, and international basis. These include a reviewer for the American Journal of Infection Control, prior service as 2011 President of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC), and prior membership in CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee from 2006-2010. He is currently a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) 170 Committee that oversees standard 170, Ventilation of Healthcare Facilities.