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.