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Mr. Polarine is a Principal Consultant, Technical Services at STERIS Corporation. He has been with STERIS Corporation for twenty two years. He is the PDA's 2019 Michael S. Korczynski Award recipient. His current technical focus is microbial control in cleanrooms and other critical environments. He has lectured in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America on issues related to cleaning and disinfection in cleanrooms. Mr. Polarine is a frequent industry speaker and published several PDA book chapters and articles related to cleaning and disinfection and contamination control. He is active as co-chair on the PDA’s microbial investigations task force. He was a co-authored PDA’s Technical Report #70 on Cleaning and Disinfection and PDA Technical Report #88 on Microbial Deviations. He is a member of the PDA’s Environmental Monitoring Group, Contamination Control Group, and Biotech Interest Group. He is the current PDA Missouri Valley Chapter President and the IEST Technical Coordinator. He is part of the faculty at the University of Tennessee Parenteral Medication course. He has presented at key industry venues for NASA, USP, PDA, ISPE, FDA, SIMB, IPA, AALAS, IVT, IEST, University of Tennessee, ECA, SMi, KENX, and IVT on cleaning and disinfection, disinfectant validation, and contamination control. Mr. Polarine frequently presents global industry webinars on Cleaning and Disinfection for several industry seminar circuits including Executive Conferences Corp, STERIS, and FDANews. Mr. Polarine graduated from the University of Illinois with a Master of Arts in Biology. He previously worked as a clinical research coordinator with the Department of Veterans Affairs in St. Louis, MO and as a biology and microbiology instructor at the University of Illinois. His main hobby is storm chasing and is very active in tornado research and tornado safety. Specialties: His specialties include sanitizers, disinfectants and sporicidal technologies, cleaning and disinfection, environmental monitoring, contamination control, and troubleshooting microbial excursions.