Panelists for WFI's "Air Filtration for Hospitals" hospital air quality testing webinar on September 1, 2026, including Dr. John McKeon of Airmid/iAIR Group — Instructors and panelists for the World Filtration Institutes hospital air quality testing course Air Filtration for Hospitals September 1 2026 including Airmids Dr John McKeon iAIR Group

Healthcare facilities face a unique challenge when it comes to indoor air: the air itself can be a vector for infection, and the consequences of poor filtration can be catastrophic.

On September 1^st, 2026, the World Filtration Institute (WFI) will bring together a panel of international experts to tackle exactly that challenge in a live online course, Air Filtration for Hospitals. Airmid’s Medical Director Dr. John McKeon will be among the panelists, bringing a perspective drawn from hospital air quality testing and clinical practice.

The Event

Course: Air Filtration for Hospitals
Date: Tuesday, September 1^st, 2026
Time: 8:00–10:00 AM ET (1:00–3:00 PM Irish time)
Format: Live online course, hosted by the World Filtration Institute
Cost: $350 USD general admission / $175 USD for WFI members
Registration: Register online

What the Course Covers

The session is built for anyone responsible for indoor air quality, infection control, or facilities management in a healthcare setting. Over two hours, instructors Mark Davidson (Camfil Americas) and Stephen Nicholas (past president, National Air Filtration Association) will walk through the practical fundamentals of hospital air filtration and hospital air quality testing, including:

How airborne contaminants move through healthcare facilities, and why hospital environments demand a different filtration standard than typical commercial buildings
Key standards and guidelines, including ASHRAE 170, MERV and HEPA efficiency ratings, and requirements for critical spaces such as operating rooms, isolation rooms, and pharmacies
Filtration technologies in use today, from prefilters and HEPA/ULPA systems to gas-phase filtration and portable air cleaners
Practical guidance on filter selection, system design, installation quality, and total cost of ownership
In-situ testing, performance verification, and troubleshooting lessons drawn directly from hospital applications

The course closes with a panel discussion on emerging developments and trends in healthcare air quality.

Dr. McKeon on the Panel

As Medical Director at Airmid and CEO of the iAIR Group, Dr. McKeon brings a perspective that few others on the panel can: he trained and practiced as an Emergency Room doctor before turning his focus to how the built environment shapes respiratory and allergic health. That “upstream” view (treating hospital air quality testing and prevention as inseparable from patient care) has shaped his work ever since, from founding Allergy Standards to building the iAIR Institute’s research into aerobiology and indoor air.

He’ll be joined on the panel by a strong lineup of fellow IAQ specialists, including Dr. Stephanie Taylor (ThinkLite, WFI Advisory Board), Nick Agopian (Reviveaire), Dr. Mehdi Shirmohammadi (Termeh Filtration), and Dr. Christine Sun, President of the World Filtration Institute. This is a genuinely global cross-section of clinical, engineering, and filtration expertise all focused on the same question: how do we make hospital air safer?

How Airmid Approaches Hospital Air Quality Testing

Hospital air quality testing forms a core part of Airmid’s own work. Through its aerobiology labs, Airmid evaluates how airborne pathogens, bioaerosols, and antimicrobial surfaces behave in real-world healthcare conditions, the same variables the WFI course addresses from a filtration-design perspective. Pairing that lab-based evidence with field expertise like Dr. McKeon’s is how filtration standards move from theory into practice. After all, a filter is only as effective as the testing that verifies it’s performing as designed, in the spaces where it really matters.

Join Dr. McKeon and the rest of the panel on September 1^st.