{"5a2e2469-7074-4656-bbb3-413707c0d5bb": "Council Co-Chair", "847d6cd4-1aba-40c7-872b-9908642833ea": "CSTE Representative", "b9f3ce9d-0b04-423d-96e6-e7c61c70b996": "Dr. Epson is Medical Director and Chief of the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program at the California Department of Health. She is clinically trained and board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and completed medical epidemiology training as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In her role with the CDPH HAI Program, Dr. Epson is responsible for ensuring the HAI Program fulfills its legislative mandates by interpreting HAI data reported by California hospitals, determining HAI and antimicrobial resistance (AR) prevention priorities, and publishing these data on an annual basis. Dr. Epson oversees HAI Program operations and communications, data management and epidemiologic analysis, investigation and response to HAI/AR outbreaks and infection control breaches, and facility- and regionally-based HAI/AR prevention initiatives.", "e2448e70-cace-41e7-b1e7-bd812d8dd695": "MD", "f0fd4501-d7ee-49bc-9904-223cfe002011": "California Department of Health"}