Sepsis Alliance Summit Day 1 Opening Remarks
Includes a Live Web Event on 09/24/2025 at 7:00 AM (PDT)
Description:
This session is part of Sepsis Alliance Summit 2025.
During these opening remarks, Sepsis Alliance will introduce this year’s 2025 Erin Kay Flatley Spirit Award Winner. Attendees will hear remarks from both Dr. Carl Flatley, the founder of Sepsis Alliance, and our 2025 award recipient.
The Erin Kay Flatley Spirit Award recognizes outstanding dedication, sacrifice, and contribution to improving sepsis awareness and reducing the suffering caused by sepsis. The award was named for Dr. Flatley’s daughter, Erin, who died from sepsis in 2002.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Carl Flatley, DDS, MSD
Founder
Sepsis Alliance
On April 30, 2002, Carl Flatley’s life changed. It was the day his daughter, Erin, died from septic shock, something Carl Flatley, DDS, MSD, a retired endodontist, had never heard of. After Erin’s death, Dr. Flatley learned everything he could about sepsis, and was astounded by what he – and millions of other Americans – didn’t know about the condition. He was shocked to learn that, at the time, sepsis killed well over 200,000 people in the U.S. every year and even survivors were often left with serious after-effects. In 2004, Dr. Flatley founded the American Sepsis Alliance, which became Sepsis Alliance in 2007. It became his mission to make sepsis as well-known as cancer, diabetes, and other illnesses. His catchphrase became “So More Survive,” encapsulating his commitment to seeing fewer lives and limbs lost to sepsis. This unending devotion to Erin’s memory has had a significant impact on many people.