UCL Royal Free Campus
Rowland Hill Street
Hampstead
London
England
NW3 2PF
Biographical Sketch: Sheldon Stone's day job is running the Stroke Unit at the Royal Free Campus, University College London Medical School, as a G.P.O.P. (General Physician for Older People) with a thesis in Stroke Medicine. Told to run an isolation ward in 1995 during outbreaks of CDI and MRSA, he found it so interesting academically and the people in the field so nice, that he abandoned stroke research and joined the Handhygiene Liaison Group! Now co-ordinates a multidisciplinary group that has carried out a systematic review of MRSA Isolation, evaluated the English and Welsh Cleanyourhands campaign, performed the Feedback Intervention Trial (this presentation), and produced the ORION statement and the Handhygiene Observation Tool. The group is carrently working on the MRC funded ISTRAT trial (isolation strategies for MRSA and CDI) and the DoH funded national one week audit of the English MRSA admission screening programme. He was secretary of the national CDI guidlines working party 2007-9. Married to another GPOP, he has 2 daughters (13,10) and one son (9) (whose team has just won their first football little league championship), three guinea pigs, one goldfish and two cats. An Americanophile, who did his medical school elective at Harvard in 1980, he regularly comes to SHEA, and supports Tottenham Hotspur, a life long habit that has taught him patience.