BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AND COMMITTEES

(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

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