AHE CMIP Trainers Ruth Carrico

Ruth M. Carrico PhD, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, FSHEA, CIC

Ruth M. Carrico PhD MSN APRN FNP-C FSHEA CIC is an Associate Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner with the University of Louisville School Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and is the founding Associate Director of the School of Medicine Global Health Initiative.  Dr. Carrico has received training specific for healthcare epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in conjunction with the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).

Dr. Carrico has authored or co-authored numerous peer reviewed manuscripts and served as the editor for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) 2005, 2009 and the 2010 electronic version of the Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology, the primary textbook for infection preventionists used worldwide.   Dr. Carrico has also served on the APIC National Board of Directors.   

As part of her work as an infection preventionist, Dr. Carrico has worked with acute care hospitals, long term care facilities, outpatient surgery centers and clinics, and physician and dental offices.  At present, Dr. Carrico is responsible for the clinical operations at the University of Louisville’s Global Health Center that includes the Vaccine and International Health and Travel clinics as well as the Refugee Health and Immunization program.  

In 2008, Dr. Carrico was appointed to the National Biosurveillance Subcommittee (NBS) Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in 2010 became a SHEA Fellow.  In 2011, Dr. Carrico was appointed by Secretary Sebelius, to the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) for a three year term In 2012, she was presented with the Carole DeMille Achievement Award by APIC, an honor for an Infection Preventionist.  In 2013, Dr. Carrico was appointed to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases as the Board’s Nurse Planner and in 2014 became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow alumna.  Dr. Carrico currently serves as the 2016 president of the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (CBIC), the organization responsible for board certification for infection preventionists worldwide.