Kathy J. Eklund RDH, MHP

Ms. Eklund is the Director of Occupational Health and Safety, and the Forsyth Research Subject and Patient Safety Advocate at The Forsyth Institute. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Adjunct Faculty at the Mount Ida College School of Dental Hygiene, where she teaches senior-level courses in Oral Health Research and Evidence-Based Decision Making. Ms. Eklund serves as faculty for the New England AIDS Education and Training Center and HIVdent .org. She is a member and past Chair of the Organization for Safety Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) and current member of the OSAP Board of Directors. Ms. Eklund is an author of the CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings- 2003. Over the past 29 years, Ms. Eklund has published papers and contributed to several texts on infection control and safety and has lectured nationally and internationally on these topics.