BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES

(July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020)

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

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