Buffy Lloyd-Krejci
Buffy Lloyd-Krejci has always had a passion for mitigating infectious diseases through a data-driven approach. Utilizing her degrees in Applied Mathematics and Bio-Medical Informatics, she participated in a national CDC and CMS pilot study supporting long-term care facilities enroll and report Clostridioides difficile infection into the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network—the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. Buffy realized how infections impact this vulnerable patient population with national estimates of 1-3 million infections leading to 380,000 deaths every year. Drawn to action to improve the infection prevention landscape, she founded Lloyd-Krejci Consulting—now called IPCWell.