Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology/Karen
K. Hoffmann
Karen K. Hoffmann, R.N., M.S., C.I.C.
Karen K. Hoffmann is the Associate Director of the Statewide Program for
Infection Control and Epidemiology and Clinical Instructor in the Division
of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine. Her responsibilities include education, research, and
consulting to health care institutions throughout North Carolina. She
received her MS from the University of Virginia and her BSN from Indiana
University. Ms. Hoffmann has over 20 years of experience in infection
control
epidemiology. In 1993 Ms. Hoffmann was named one of the Great 100 Nurses
of North Carolina and in the same year was chosen by APIC-NC Chapter as
Infection Control Practitioner of the Year. In 1999 Ms. Hoffmann was the
first recipient of the Infection Control Today Educator of the Year
Award. She has participated in and served as a consultant for the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention National Nosocomial Infections
Surveillance Evaluation Project. Currently she serves as an editorial
board member for the journal, Infection Control and Hospital
Epidemiology.
