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Robert Garcia is an infection preventionist/consultant and has been a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) since 1980. In 2016, he was selected as a fellow at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), a designation for experienced IPs who have had significant contributions to the field of infection prevention. He is the certification infection preventionist/director at nine hospitals in New York City and the principal researcher on the effectiveness of silver-hydrogel urinary catheters, chlorhexidine skin antisepsis, and comprehensive oral care. Robert is a current or former member of APIC’s National Strategic Planning Board, Education Committee, and/or CBIC, as well as a trainer for APIC’s EPI Clinical Course. He is a contributor to APIC’s Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology; was a reviewer for the 2005 HICPAC Guidelines on Isolation; and since 2001 has been an editorial board member and/or reviewer for the American Journal of Infection Control, where in 2016 he was ranked among the top 25th percentile of reviewers. He has more than 100 publications and media interviews ranging from institutional costs of infection to prevention of HAIs to environmental contamination to microbiology to reducing occupational exposures.