A powerful four-part ISSA session for professionals committed to safer, smarter healthcare environments.
In healthcare and long-term care settings, cleaning isn’t just operational—it’s lifesaving. This dynamic ISSA session brings together innovators, thought leaders, and frontline experts to explore how the cleaning profession is evolving to protect patients, residents, and staff like never before.
Across four focused micro‑sessions, attendees will dive into the latest breakthroughs, standards, and technologies shaping the future of healthcare hygiene. Whether you work in facility management, infection prevention, cleaning operations, or healthcare leadership, this program will equip you with fresh insights, concrete strategies, and inspiration to elevate your practice.
What’s included:
Join us to gain practical insights, connect with industry leaders, and discover how cleaning excellence is transforming healthcare every day.
Organised by ISSA.
About Linda Lybert
Linda Lybert is a nationally recognized leader in surface safety and infection prevention in healthcare environments. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute, now a division of ISSA – The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association. The Institute was established to bring together key stakeholders from diverse areas of expertise—microbiology, materials science, clinical care, manufacturing, and infection prevention—to collaboratively develop sustainable solutions for mitigating the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
With over 27 years of experience, Linda has dedicated her career to addressing the critical role surfaces play in the transmission of pathogens. She has been a vocal advocate for establishing industry-wide validation standards and best practices for designing and maintaining safe surfaces in complex healthcare settings.
Her unique approach integrates science, human behavior, and environmental conditions to improve surface disinfection protocols and create safer healthcare environments. Linda has also held strategic roles with companies such as Prolitec Inc. and DuPont Building Innovations, where her leadership contributed to notable advancements in healthcare safety and innovation.
An accomplished speaker, author, and advisor, Linda continues to influence national and global policy, guidelines, and thought leadership in the field of infection prevention, with a strong focus on practical, long-term change.
Peter E. Gordon is an executive in the global photonics industry. He works in nano additive manufacturing of optical assemblies used in AI data center communications, illumination, and sensing and driving deployment of germicidal ultraviolet light solutions used for purifying room air, sanitizing hospital surfaces, and localized disinfecting of water in distressed areas due to famine, drought, war, and natural disasters.
He is very active in education and training, providing guidance to UV4good, a non for profit in the UV ecosystem, and as an elected member of the Weston, CT Public School District Board of Education, where he champions 21st century STEM curriculum and green, energy efficient buildings.
He holds an MS in History of Technology and Innovation from Edinburgh University, an MSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara focusing on iii -v photonic devices, and a BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania.
