Yvette McCarter, Ph.D., director of the clinical microbiology laboratory in University of Florida’s pathology department in Jacksonville, has been appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
A federal advisory committee comprising 14 infection control experts, HICPAC advises the CDC and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on infection control, surveillance and prevention and control of health care associated infections in health care facilities. McCarter will serve a four-year term on the committee.