Brenda Helms, RN, BSN, MBA/HCM, CIC, CPHQ, is the regional director of clinical compliance and accreditation at Baylor Medical Center in McKinney, Texas. Brenda is a past president of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Association of Infection Prevention, Control, and Epidemiology (APIC) and of the Texas Society of Infection Control and Prevention (TSICP). In 2015, She received the Gerry Haynes award for excellence in infection prevention from the TSICP.