Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, MS E-55
Atlanta
GAUSA
30333
Biographical Sketch: Ms. Horan joined CDC in 1984 as Surveillance Coordinator in the Hospital Infections Program (now the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion or DHQP). During her 25 years at CDC, she has played an integral role in the development of national surveillance systems for healthcare-associated infections. Ms. Horan has spent her career promoting the value of surveillance data as a local and national performance improvement tool through her lectures, consults, and publications. From 2000 - 2009, Ms. Horan lead the development team that integrated and expanded the Division’s existing surveillance systems into a single Internet-based system called the National Healthcare Safety Network, or NHSN. Currently, she leads the NHSN Training and User Support Team. Ms. Horan is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is also a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.