Carol Vance, MSN, RN, PHN, CIC, is multi-site director for infection prevention at Advocate Aurora Children’s Hospital and Interim Christ Medical Center in Park Ridge, Illinois. Vance has 16 years of nursing experience in critical care, infection prevention, diabetes education, and kidney transplant. She won the APIC Hero Award in 2015 for her program “Plastic Rounds” to decrease central line-associated infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Vance serves on the board of directors for the for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). She received her BSN and RN California State University Long Beach and her MSN from Webster University.