The Truth About Testing: Addressing the Inconsistencies of Healthcare Surface Materials

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Date

Sep 23 2025
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(Eastern)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Online

EVENT PRICING

ISSA Members: $95 USD
Nonmembers: $135 USD

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In the world of healthcare, surface materials play a critical role in infection prevention, but how can we trust the data if the testing methods themselves are inconsistent?

Join the Healthcare Surfaces Institute for a powerful 45-minute panel discussion that pulls back the curtain on the inconsistencies plaguing current testing practices. From shifting standard test methods to the use of unreliable microbes and surrogates, this session will explore why comparing materials across different studies often leads to misleading conclusions.

Our panel features the scientists behind HSI’s patented test method, designed to bring consistency, reliability, and transparency to surface material testing.

You’ll gain insights into:
  • The limitations of current standard test methods
  • How microbial variability skews results
  • Why consistent testing is essential for meaningful comparisons
  • The development of a new test method for assemblies of materials used in medical devices

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, manufacturer, or infection prevention specialist, this session will equip you with the knowledge to make more informed decisions about surface materials and their role in patient safety.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from the experts shaping the future of healthcare surface testing.

Hear from our expert panel of speakers: 

  • Barbara Strain, Principal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLC
  • Ray Paxton, Executive Director of BioMedical Engineering, Piedmont Healthcare
  • Mark Lamont, Director of Mechanical Engineering, Zebra Technologies
  • Jada Lindo, Mechanical Engineer, Zebra Technologies
  • Ellen Turner, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Andronaco

 

Interested in registering a large group?
For inquries about group ordering, please contact the event organizer.

Organizer

ISSA Healthcare
ISSA Healthcare
Email
[email protected]
Website
https://www.issa.com/healthcare

Speaker

  • Barbara Strain
    Barbara Strain Principal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLC
    Barbara Strain
    Barbara Strain
    Principal, Barbara Strain Consulting LLC

    Barbara Strain, MA, CVAHP is an independent healthcare value consultant specializing in new, emerging, and disruptive technology and established medical modalities and is often a thought partner for provider hospital organizations to reimagine their value analysis programs. She spent more than 20 years as the Director of Value Management at the University of Virginia Health. Earlier in her 40-year career, she focused on clinical laboratory operations, microbiology, disinfection, sterilization, and infection control in provider hospital organizations. She is a founding member and past president of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP). Barbara is an inductee of the 2021 Bellwether League Foundation’s Hall of Fame for Healthcare Supply Chain Leadership and currently serves at its Chairman.

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