Tiffany Wiksten, DNP, RN, CIC

Date first certified: December 2014

Date joined CBIC Board of Directors: 2021

Work/APIC: Dr. Tiffany Wiksten, DNP, RN, CIC has been a nurse for over 20 years and has worked as an Infection Preventionist for over 10 years. In her current role, she is an Infection Control Subject Matter Expert for an accrediting organization. Prior to joining her current organization, Dr. Wiksten was most recently the Manager of Infection Prevention at a major metropolitan medical center in Chicago and she has led infection prevention and control efforts in a variety of healthcare settings including large academic medical centers, a community medical center with associated long term care facility as well as various ambulatory healthcare sites. 

She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Transformational Leadership from Rush University and her Master of Science in Nursing from Loyola University, with a focus on Population Based Infection Control and Environmental Safety. She is certified in infection control and has her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt