Board of Directors
Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM)
President
Minnesota Public Health Laboratory
Grace E. Kubin, PhD
President-Elect
Texas Department of State Health Services, Laboratory Services Section
Bill Whitmar, MS
Secretary-Treasurer
Missouri Public Health Laboratory
Richard S. Steece, PhD, D(ABMM)
Member-At-Large (April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019)
Tennessee Department of Health, Laboratory Services
Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
Member-At-Large
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Scott J. Zimmerman, DrPH, MPH, HCLD(ABB)
Member-At-Large (July 1, 2018 – April 1, 2019)
North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health
Maria Lucia Ishida, PhD
Associate Institutional Member Representative
New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
Tamara Theisen, MT(ASCP)
Local Institutional Member Representative
Saginaw County Department of Public Health
Mark Wade
Local Institutional Member Representative
San Antonio Metro Health District Laboratory
Ewa King, PhD
Immediate Past President
Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
Scott J. Becker, MS
ex officio, Chief Executive Officer
APHL
Standing Committees
Biosafety & Biosecurity
Michael Pentella, Chair
Andrew Cannons
Christina Egan
Drew Fayram
David Hill
Edgar Kopp
Brenna McGruder Rawson
Susan Marie Orton
Jill Power
Cao Shi-Nian
Michael Stevenson
Mark Wade, Board Liaison
Michael Marsico, Staff Liaison
Environmental Health
Paul Moyer, Chair
Amanda Cosser
Louis Marchetti
Amy Miles
Teresa Ann Miller
Patrick Parsons
Robert Rej
Jed Waldman
Michael Wichman
Shane Wyatt
Ewa King, Board Liaison
Jennifer Liebreich, Staff Liaison
Environmental Laboratory Science
Kathryn Wangsness, Chair
Hunter Adams
Akin Babatola
Lucio Barinelli
Christopher Judd
Henry Leibovitz
Audrey Levine
Martina McGarvey
Shane Olund
Enoma Omoregie
Eric Petty
Bob Read
Steve Rhode
Patsy Root
Scott Zimmerman, Board Liaison
Sarah Wright, Staff Liaison
Finance
Bill Whitmar, Chair
David Butcher
Anna Callender
Myra Lee Kunas
Norma Tavakoli
Anthony Tran
Daphne Ware
Leslie Wolf
Michelle Shanahan, Staff Liaison
Food Safety
David Boxrud, Chair
Stephen Gladbach, Co-chair
Robyn Atkinson-Dunn
Christopher Carlson
Nellie Beth Dumas
Nicole Green
Ryan Jepson
Patty Lewandowski
Michael Lytle
Cynthia Mangione
Joel Sevinsky
Bryanne Shaw
Kenneth Yeh
Maria Ishida and Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Kirsten Larson, Staff Liaison
Global Health
Frances Downes, Chair
Susan Madison-Antenucci
Sanjib Bhattacharyya
Jack Chen
May Chu
Nicolas Epie
Warren Hendrickson
Brandon Leader
Jennifer Ostrowski
Anthony Tran
Katlyn Wainwright
Stephen White
Burton Wilcke, Jr.
Maria Ishida, Board Liaison
Palmira Mangae, Staff Liaison
Infectious Disease
Marie-Claire Rowlinson, Chair
Wade Aldous
James Beebe
Sara Blosser
Megan Crumpler
Randal Fowler
Fengxiang Gao
William Glover II
Lixia Liu
Shannon Matzinger
Michael Pentella
Erik Reisdorf
Marty Soehnlen
Kirsten St. George
Tonia Parrott
Richard Steece, Board Liaison
Kevin Bradley, Staff Liaison
Informatics
Keith Higginbotham, Chair
Reynolds Cone Marshall
Frank Delin
Margaret Dennis
Ivan Dudik
Emily Hopkins
Shondra Johnson
Bernadette Matthis
Nagarajan Sankrithi
Mary Wedig
Bill Whitmar, Board Liaison
Vanessa Holley, Staff Liaison
Knowledge Management
Amanda Hughes, Chair
Jack Bennett
Mary Celotti
Suanne Crowe
Lauren Farnsworth
Robert Rej
Larry Seigler
Victor Waddell
Dongxiang Xia
Tamara Theisen, Board Liaison
Andrea Wright, Staff Liaison
Laboratory Systems & Standards
Twila Kunde, Chair
Ona Adair
Thomas Bannon
Amada Bruesch
Colleen Courtney
Marilyn Freeman
Denise Heaney
Denise Lopez
Marco Munoz
Deborah Severson
Tim Southern
Allison Treloar
Scott Zimmerman, Board Liaison
Bertina Su, Staff Liaison
Newborn Screening & Genetics
Michelle Caggana, Chair
Mei Baker
Stanton Berberich
Christine Biggs
Neena Champaigne
George Dizikes
Amy Gaviglio
Fizza Gulamali-Majid
Patrice Held
Patrick Hopkins
Patricia Hunt
Rachel Lee
Darren Michael
Bonita Taffe
Susan Tanksley
Joanne Bartkus, Board Liaison
Guisou Zarbalian, Staff Liaison
Public Health Preparedness & Response
Andrew Cannons, Chair
Patricia Blevins
James Chithalen
Christina Egan
Scott Hughes
Wanda Sue Reiter Kintz
Cecelia Kretz
Robert Nickla
Larry Sater
Joey Stringer
Cindy Vanner
Victor Waddell
A Christian Whelen
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Samuel Abrams, Staff Liaison
Workforce Development
Leah Gillis, Chair
Roxanne Alter
Phil Amuso
Erin Bowles
Mark Conde
Debbie Hernandez
Denise Kay
Paul Kimsey
Sharon Massingale
Marty Soehnlen
Anna Strain
Graham Tipples
Jamie Yeadon-Fagbohun
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Laura Siegel, Staff Liaison
