Healthcare Council Members
IHC council members are vetted for their credentials, understanding, and desire to connect cleaning to public health outcomes. They are listed alphabetically.
Council Members Do Not Support or Endorse Third-Party Products or Services
Biographies
J. Darrel Hicks
J. Darrel Hicks, BA, MESRE, Certificate of Mastery in Infection Prevention (for Environmental Services Professionals) is the Past President of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute.
Darrell is a proven Housekeeping/Environmental Services leader in hospitals of 110 beds to 650 beds over his 34-year career before retiring in 2015.
Hicks is nationally recognized as a subject matter expert in infection prevention and control as it relates to cleaning. He has written and published numerous articles in professional and healthcare related journals as part of his commitment to providing a cleaner, safer, and healthier indoor environment.
Hicks is the owner/principal of Safe, Clean and Disinfected. His enterprise specializes in B2B consulting, webinar presentations, seminars and facility consulting services related to cleaning and disinfection. Contact him at 314-956-1177 or darrel@darrelhicks.com.
Malcolm Smith
Malcolm Smith is Founder and CEO of Victory Lab / Micro-Clean (VLMC), a TX-based building services firm providing hygiene solutions for environments where health is more important than aesthetics. He pioneered Others Guess. We Test.™ methods, high-performance hygiene and 360 communications through the Victory Lab Clean System and Micro-View Portal™ — a graphically rich high-impact platform to inform customers at-a-glance of the state of their indoor spaces.
VLMC is a Founding Corporate Member of the 501c3 [pending] Indoor Exposure Index (INDEX) and participant in the nonprofit’s Bioload Exposure Metric Index (BEMI), Indoor Air Quality Exposure Index (IAQEI), and Evidence-based Cleaning for Health (EB-CFH) pilots in the Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) and surrounding areas.
Malcolm also works with INDEX’s sister organization, Indoor Health Council, to further VLMC’s interactive staff training in advancing EB-CFH practice based on cognitive research.
Malcolm comes from an entrepreneurial and network engineering background, having started his first successful cleaning venture (MVP – Malcolm’s Vacuum Power) at age 8, founded, operated and sold GrimeGetters LLC commercial cleaning (2013-2018). He is also an Accomplished Network Engineer, former Cisco Dream Team Member, and Graduate of Tulsa Community College with an Associate Degree in Computer Science.
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