Regina Wagner, BSN, JD, RN is an Infection Prevention Manager at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Ryan Hospital, University of Pennsylvania. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing, graduating magna cum laude, with induction into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is currently enrolled in both the Health Leadership Master of Science in Nursing and the Master in Healthcare Quality and Safety programs at the University of Pennsylvania. Regina has a diverse background in both law and nursing. She graduated from Catholic University of America with a Juris Doctor degree, was a prosecutor and defense attorney in Washington, D.C. for over ten years, and is a member in good standing of the District of Columbia and State of Maryland bars. Regina has experience in several areas of nursing, including her previous roles as a clinical nurse at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the pediatric neurology unit, a scrub nurse and circulator at the CHOP Main Operating Room specializing in neurosurgery, orthopedics, ophthalmologic surgery, and plastic surgery, clinical research nurse at CHOP, and Infection Prevention Practitioner at CHOP, Penn Medicine, and Virtua Health. Regina recently was a co-presenter with Dr. Stephen Cole at the Penn Annual Conference 2022 of “Big Bad Bugs: Stopping the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms in Veterinary Practice.”Her responsibilities include teaching Penn Vet students and staff the concepts of infection prevention and control in a veterinary hospital setting, as well as designing and leading the hospital’s infection prevention and control program.Regina is a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the District of Columbia Bar, and the State of Maryland Bar.
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