BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bill Whitmar, MS
President
Missouri Public Health Laboratory
Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
President-elect
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Daphne Ware, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory
Timothy Southern, PhD, D(ABMM)
Member-At-Large
South Dakota Public Health Laboratory
Richard S. Steece, PhD, D(ABMM)
Member-At-Large
Tennessee Department of Health, Laboratory Services
Anthony “Tony” Tran, DrPH, MPH, D(ABMM)
Member-at-Large
District of Columbia Public Health Laboratory
Sally Flowers, PhD
Associate Institutional Member Representative
Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Laboratories
Sanjib Bhattacharyya, PhD
Local Institutional Member Representative
Milwaukee Department of Health Public Health Laboratory
Megan Crumpler, PhD
Local Institutional Member Representative
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Grace E. Kubin, PhD
Past President
Texas Department of State Health Services, Laboratory Services Section
Scott J. Becker, MS
Ex officio, Chief Executive Officer
APHL
STANDING COMMITTEES
STANDING COMMITTEES
Biosafety & Biosecurity
Michael Pentella, Chair
Andrew Cannons
Christina Egan
Drew Fayram
Leah Gillis
David Hill
Edgar Kopp
Anna Liddicoat
Brenna McGruder Rawson
Michael Perry
Jill Power
Michael Stevenson
Joey Stringer
Maureen Sullivan
Sarah Totten
Tim Southern, Board Liaison
Michael Marsico, Staff Liaison
Environmental Health
Paul Moyer, Chair
Kenneth Aldous
Eric Bind
Amanda Cosser
Louis Marchetti
Jason Mihalic
Teresa Ann Miller
Patrick Parsons
Robert Rej
Mark Rumpler
Karen Stiles
Jed Waldman
Michael Wichman
Shane Wyatt
Megan Crumpler, Board Liaison
Jennifer Liebreich, Staff Liaison
Environmental Laboratory Science
Kathryn Wangsness, Chair
Hunter Adams
Lucio Barinelli
Jack Bennett
Pamela Higgins
Christopher Judd
Peixue Ma
Martina McGarvey
Paul Moyer
Shane Olund
Enoma Omoregie
Mary Robinson
Patsy Root
Tamara Theisen
Sally Flowers, Board Liaison
Sarah Wright & Erin Morin, Staff Liaison
Finance
Daphne Ware, Chair
Anna Callender
Myra Lee Kunas
Godfred Masinde
Larry Seigler
Norma Tavakoli
Leslie Wolf
Michelle Shanahan, Staff Liaison
Food Safety
David Boxrud, Chair
Stephen Gladbach, Vice-chair
Christopher Carlson
Alyssa Dickey
Ryan Jepson
Patty Lewandowski
Mike McDermott
Kelly Oakeson
Enoma Omoregie
Joel Sevinsky
Bryanne Shaw
Kenneth Yeh
Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Kirsten Larson, Staff Liaison
Global Health
Frances Downes, Chair
May Chu
Edward Desmond
Nicolas Epie
Christy Harrison
Warren Hendrickson
Godfred Masinde
Kimberly Petro
Anthony Sambol
Haynes Sheppard
Katlyn Wainwright
Stephen White
Burton Wilcke
Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Board Liaison
Palmira Mangae, Staff Liaison
Infectious Disease
Marie-Claire Rowlinson, Chair
Wade Aldous
Allen Bateman
Fengxiang Gao
William Glover II
Mindy Leelawong
Lixia Liu
Shannon Matzinger
Kelly Oakeson
Tonia Parrott
Marty Soehnlen
Sara Vetter
Megan Crumpler and Richard Steece, Board Liaison
Kelly Wroblewski, Staff Liaison
Informatics
Shondra Johnson, Chair
Mark Conde
Susanne Crowe
Frank Delin
Donny Dila
Ivan Dudik
Megan Hahn
Keith Higginbotham
Emily Hopkins
Bernadette Matthis
Matthew McCarroll
Mary Wedig
Elizabeth White
Dongxiang Xia
Bill Whitmar, Board Liaison
Rachel Shepherd, Staff Liaison
Knowledge Management
Amanda Hughes, Chair
Ellen Basinger
Jack Bennett
Suanne Crowe
S. Terence Dunn
Angie Schooley
Shelly Matheson
Larry Seigler
Tamara Theisen
Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Board Liaison
Andrea Wright, Staff Liaison
Laboratory Systems & Standards
Deborah Severson, Chair
Ona Adair
Thomas Bannon
Crystal Barrett
Colleen Courtney
Marilyn Freeman
Jeffrey Groff
Denise Heaney
Melissa Maxwell-Stropes
Marco Munoz
Katie Rinker
Kristin Schieble
Allison Treloar
Tim Southern, Board Liaison
Tina Su, Staff Liaison
Newborn Screening & Genetics
Michelle Caggana, Chair
Mei Baker
Stanton Berberich
Christine Biggs
Neena Champaigne
George Dizikes
Amy Gaviglio
R. Rodney Howell
Patricia Hunt
Tracy Klug
Rachel Lee
Valerie Ragland
Bonita Taffe
Susan Tanksley
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Guisou Zarbalian, Staff Liaison
Public Health Preparedness & Response
Andrew Cannons, Chair
Nandhakumar Balakrishnan
Gregory Hovan
Twila Kunde
Lydia Mikhail
Robert Nickla
Michael Perry
Shannon Sharpe
Joey Stringer
Erin Swaney
A Christian Whelen
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Samuel Abrams & Jill Sutton, Staff Liaison
Workforce Development
Leah Gillis, Chair
Roxanne Alter
Tammy Bannerman
Erin Bowles
Kacie Flaherty
Sharon Massingale
Marty Soehnlen
Kim Smith
Anna Strain
Emily Travanty
Teresa Wolf
Jamie Yeadon-Fagbohun
Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Heather Roney, Staff Liaison
