Maryanne McGuckin, Dr. ScEd, FSHEA
Dr. McGuckin is the founder and President of MMI which was established in 1984 and was a PSO from 2009-2016. She had over forty years of experience as a health service researcher, faculty and staff member of University of Pennsylvania,. She was also a member of the Senior Scholar / Senior Fellows program with the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in
Philadelphia from 2004 to 2014.
In 1998-1999 she was a visiting researcher at Oxford University, UK and in 2002 a faculty exchange professor at Katholiecke University, Leuven, Belgium. Dr. McGuckin’s specialty is infection control and hospital epidemiology,
patient safety and empowerment.
Dr. McGuckin created Partners In Your Care, a hand hygiene program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and is used in several hundred hospitals. Dr. McGuckin served on the 2002 Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) task force that developed Hand Hygiene Guidelines for Healthcare Workers and is a member of the World Health Organization task force on developing a global patient empowerment model.
Dr. McGuckin is highly regarded in the medical field and has been a featured speaker at medical seminars and scientific meetings such as the CDC, Joint Commission, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
An accomplished author of countless original and peer-reviewed articles, Dr. McGuckin’s work has appeared in such publications as the American Journal of Infection Control, American Journal of Medical Technology, Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, The American Journal of Infection Control
and Epidemiology, The American Journal of Surgery and The Journal of Urology.
She is the author of The Patient Survival Guide: Eight Simple Solutions to Prevent Hospital and Healthcare Associated Infections. Winner of Gold Award Book of the Year in Health. Demos Publishers. Dr. McGuckin is an expert source for national print and broadcast media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dateline, 60 Minutes, and MSNBC News. Dr. McGuckin is an alumni
of the University of Pennsylvania.
