Professor Laurie Walsh is the former chair of the ADA Infection Control Committee and is the editor of the 2012 and 2015 ADA Infection Control Guidelines. Laurie has contributed to a range of guidelines, standards, protocols and checklists in infection control. He has worked with the NHMRC and ASQHC as a reviewer of national guidelines, and with the dental boards as an inspector and consultant. Laurie has lectured internationally and published extensively in the areas of clinical microbiology and infection control.