SignatureKeynote, 30–45 min
Protocols rarely fail. Implementation does.
Why infection-prevention rules drift on the ward, and the small, practical moves that bring them back.
Speaking
Talks that move rooms from knowing to doing.
Evidence from real wards, told with clarity and warmth. Keynotes, panels, guest lectures and masterclasses in Italian, English and Polish.
NewKeynote or panel, 20–40 min
AI will not wash your hands
What digital surveillance and AI can really do for infection prevention, what they cannot, and how to get a hospital ready for them.
SystemsTalk, 30 min
The hospital as one risk system
Water, air, surfaces, devices and hands, seen the way patients meet them: all at once, and through one stream of data.
ResearchTalk or workshop opener, 25 min
Knowing is not doing
What a hospital-wide hand hygiene survey revealed about knowledge gaps, and what to change in training.
ResearchBriefing, 30 min
Building work without the outbreak
Keeping construction dust and fungal spores away from vulnerable patients while the hospital keeps running.
Where I speak
Audiences I work with.
- 01Hospital leadership days
- 02Infection-prevention and patient-safety conferences
- 03Universities and Master’s programmes
- 04Healthcare and med-tech company events
- 05Digital health and AI forums
- 06Nursing and allied-health education
Speaker kit
Bio for your programme.
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Short bio
Małgorzata Wachocka is a hospital infection prevention specialist in Rome. Since 2009 she has worked in hospital hygiene and infection control at a leading Italian university hospital, and since 2008 she has taught prevention professionals at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Her research covers Legionella and water safety, construction risk, device reprocessing and hand hygiene.
Long bio
Małgorzata Wachocka helps hospitals turn infection-prevention rules into daily practice, and get ready for the digital and AI tools that will support it. For seventeen years she has worked in hospital hygiene and infection control: surveillance of healthcare-associated infections, environmental audit, Legionella and water safety, indoor air, controlled rooms and construction risk. She co-authored a proactive environmental surveillance model, an expert-built checklist for endoscope reprocessing and a hospital-wide study of hand hygiene knowledge. She has taught on the prevention health professions degree at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore since 2008 and is teaching coordinator of its first-level Master’s in Safety and Risk Management for Public Health. She speaks Italian, Polish and English.
University teaching since 2008
Environmental and applied hygieneHealth education and promotionChemical risk and occupational exposureSafety in living and working environmentsResearch methods and applied statisticsProfessional practice labs for prevention technicians