Board of Directors
Grace E. Kubin, PhD
President
Texas Department of State Health Services, Laboratory Services Section
Bill Whitmar, MS
President-Elect
Missouri Public Health Laboratory
Daphne Ware, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory
Richard S. Steece, PhD, D(ABMM)
Member-At-Large
Tennessee Department of Health, Laboratory Services
Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
Member-At-Large
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Anthony “Tony” Tran, DrPH, MPH, D(ABMM)
Member-at-Large
District of Columbia Public Health Laboratory
Maria Lucia Ishida, PhD
Associate Institutional Member Representative
New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
Megan Crumpler, PhD
Local Institutional Member Representative
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Mark Wade
Local Institutional Member Representative
San Antonio Metro Health District Laboratory
Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM)
Immediate Past President (July 1, 2019 – April 30, 2020)
Minnesota Public Health Laboratory
Scott J. Becker, MS
Ex officio, Chief Executive Officer
APHL
Standing Committees
Biosafety & Biosecurity
Michael Pentella, Chair
Andrew Cannons
Christina Egan
Drew Fayram
Leah Gillis
David Hill
Edgar Kopp
Anna Liddicoat
Brenna McGruder Rawson
Susan Marie Orton
Jill Power
Michael Stevenson
Joey Stringer
Maureen Sullivan
Sarah Totten
Mark Wade, Board Liaison
Michael Marsico, Staff Liaison
Environmental Health
Paul Moyer, Chair
Kenneth Aldous
Eric Bind
Amanda Cosser
Louis Marchetti
Amy Miles
Teresa Ann Miller
Patrick Parsons
Robert Rej
James Schauer
Karen Stiles
Kathryn Wangsness
Jed Waldman
Michael Wichman
Shane Wyatt
Joanne Bartkus, Board Liaison
Jennifer Liebreich, Staff Liaison
Environmental Laboratory Science
Kathryn Wangsness, Chair
Hunter Adams
Lucio Barinelli
Jack Bennett
Christopher Judd
Peixue Ma
Martina McGarvey
Shane Olund
Enoma Omoregie
Mary Robinson
Patsy Root
Tamara Theisen
Sally Flowers, Board Liaison
Sarah Wright, Staff Liaison
Finance
Daphne Ware, Chair
David Butcher
Anna Callender
Myra Lee Kunas
Godfred Masinde
Larry Seigler
Norma Tavakoli
Leslie Wolf
Michelle Shanahan, Staff Liaison
Food Safety
David Boxrud, Chair
Stephen Gladbach, Co-chair
Mike McDermott
Robyn Atkinson-Dunn
Christopher Carlson
Ryan Jepson
Patty Lewandowski
Michael Lytle
Cynthia Mangione
Kelly Oakeson
Enoma Omoregie
Joel Sevinsky
Bryanne Shaw
Kenneth Yeh
Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Kirsten Larson, Staff Liaison
Global Health
Frances Downes, Chair
Sanjib Bhattacharyya
May Chu
Nicolas Epie
Warren Hendrickson
Noah Hull
Godfred Masinde
Anthony Sambol
Haynes Sheppard
Katlyn Wainwright
Stephen White
Anthony Tran, Board Liaison
Palmira Mangae, Staff Liaison
Infectious Disease
Marie-Claire Rowlinson, Chair
Wade Aldous
Allen Bateman
Sara Blosser
Fengxiang Gao
William Glover II
Stephen LaVoie
Shannon Matzinger
Kelly Oakeson
Jennifer Rakeman
Erik Reisdorf
Marty Soehnlen
Tonia Parrott
Megan Crumpler and Richard Steece, Board Liaison
Kelly Wroblewski, Staff Liaison
Informatics
Frank Delin, Co-Chair
Shondra Johnson, Chair
Margaret Dennis
Ivan Dudik
Emily Hopkins
Bernadette Matthis
Matthew McCarroll
Mary Wedig
Dongxiang Xia
Bill Whitmar, Board Liaison
Rachel Shepherd, Staff Liaison
Knowledge Management
Amanda Hughes, Chair
Tamara Theisen
Ellen Basinger
Jack Bennett
Suanne Crowe
Angie Schooley
Shelly Matheson
Robert Rej
Larry Seigler
Emily Travanty
Victor Waddell
Joanne Bartkus, Board Liaison
Andrea Wright, Staff Liaison
Laboratory Systems & Standards
Deborah Severson, Chair
Ona Adair
Thomas Bannon
Colleen Courtney
Marilyn Freeman
Jeffrey Groff
Denise Heaney
Melissa Maxwell-Stropes
Marco Munoz
Katie Rinker
Kristin Schieble
Tim Southern
Allison Treloar
Megan Crumpler, 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
Patrick Hopkins
R. Rodney Howell
Patricia Hunt
Rachel Lee
Joe Orsini
Bonita Taffe
Susan Tanksley
Bill Whitmar, Board Liaison
Guisou Zarbalian, Staff Liaison
Public Health Preparedness & Response
Andrew Cannons, Chair
Nandhakumar Balakrishnan
James Chithalen
Gregory Hovan
Scott Hughes
Lydia Mikhail
Robert Nickla
Michael Perry
Wanda Sue Reiter Kintz
Joey Stringer
Erin Swaney
Cindy Vanner
Victor Waddell
A Christian Whelen
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Samuel Abrams, Staff Liaison
Workforce Development
Leah Gillis, Chair
Roxanne Alter
Erin Bowles
Kerry Buchs
Mark Conde
Kacie Flaherty
Paul Kimsey
Sharon Massingale
Marty Soehnlen
Anna Strain
Emily Travanty
Teresa Wolf
Jamie Yeadon-Fagbohun
Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Heather Roney, Staff Liaison
