Seven Aghdassi on promoting novel approaches in infection prevention (Germany)

On the podcast is Seven Aghdassi.

Seven works at the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the recognized Charité University Hospital in Berlin. Seven has a particular interest and specialized knowledge in automated cluster detection and automated surveillance systems. He has worked with the World Health Organization to develop the Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPACF).

Additionally, Seven recently won 3rd place in the German award for patient safety for the cluster detection system “CLAR” alongside his colleagues from Charité. He participates in the Charité Digital Clinician Scientist Program funded by the DFG, Charité, and the Berlin Institute of Health.

On digitalization
"The ultimate goal with the automation and digitalization should be to spend less time in front of a computer and more time doing actual patient care."

On surveillance
"Automated surveillance is certainly a target for optimization."

On infection control
"Good advice in life in general but specifically in healthcare and infection control is to be resilient and to see problems as not only problems but as the first step towards a solution."

Seven Aghdassi on ResearchGate

Affiliations
1) Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Berlin, Germany

2) National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

3) Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy, BIH Charité Digital Clinician Scientist Program, Berlin, Germany