BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AND COMMITTEES

(July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
President
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services

Daphne Ware, PhD
President-elect
Mississippi Public Health Laboratory

Godfred Masinde, PhD, MBA, HCLD(ABB)
Secretary-treasurer
San Francisco Public Health Laboratory

Michael Pentella, PhD, D(ABMM)
Member-at-large
State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa

Scott Shone, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
Member-at-large
North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health

Tim Southern, PhD
Member-at-large
South Dakota Public Health Laboratory

Sally Flowers, PhD
Associate Institutional Member Representative
Nebraska 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

Christina Egan, Chair

Carrie Anglewicz
Peter Davis
Drew Fayram
Leah Gillis
Peter Iwen
Edgar Kopp
Anna Liddicoat
Brenna McGruder

Michael Perry
Jill Power
Michael Stevenson
Maureen Sullivan
Sarah Totten
Tim Southern, Board Liaison
Michael Marsico, Staff Liaison

Environmental Health

Paul Moyer, Chair
Shane Wyatt, Vice Chair

Kenneth Aldous
Eric Bind
Amanda Cosser
Keri Fisher
Louis Marchetti
Teresa Ann Miller
Patrick Parsons

Mark Rumpler
Jed Waldman
Caroline West
Michael Pentella and Daphne Ware, Board Liaisons
Jennifer Liebreich, Staff Liaison

Environmental Laboratory Science

Shane Olund, Chair
Enoma Omoregie, Vice Chair

Hunter Adams
Jack Bennett
Cody Danielson
Pamela Higgins
Mui Koltunov
Abidat Lawal
Peixue Ma
Lori Pillsbury

Mary Robinson
Michael Schueller
Tamara Theisen
Sinisa Urban
Sally Flowers, Board Liaison
Sarah Wright & Erin Morin, Staff Liaison

Finance

Godfred Masinde, Chair

Anna Callender
Myra Lee Kunas
Michelle Rodemeyer
Larry Seigler

Norma Tavakoli
Leslie Wolf
Michelle Shanahan, Staff Liaison

Food Safety

Christopher Carlson, Chair
Alyssa Dickey, Vice Chair

Nicholas Epie
Jocelyn Hauser
Ryan Jepson
Lisa Mingle
Kelly Oakeson

Joel Sevinsky
Eugene Yeboah
Kenneth Yeh
Sally Flowers, Board Liaison
Kirsten Larson, Staff Liaison

Global Health

Frances Downes, Chair

May Chu
Christy Clutter
Edward Desmond
Nicolas Epie
Fengxiang Gao
Warren Hendrickson
Agnes Marfo
Godfred Masinde

PushkerRaj
Anthony Sambol
Kate Wainwright
Stephen White
Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Board Liaison
Palmira Mangae, Staff Liaison

Infectious Disease

Marie-Claire Rowlinson, Chair

Wade Aldous
Vaneet Arora
Allen Bateman
Emily Craig
Fengxiang Gao
William Glover II
Peera Hemarajata
Shannon Matzinger

Kimberlee Musser
Kelly Oakeson
Marty Soehnlen
Sara Vetter
Megan Crumpler & Michael Pentella, Board Liaisons
Iman Abdulmalek, Staff Liaison

Informatics

Matthew McCarroll, Chair (July 2021 – March 2022)
Ivan Dudik (March 2022 – June 2022)

Laurel Boyd
Mark Conde
Susanne Crowe
Donny Dila
Keith Higginbotham
Emily Hopkins

Bernadette Matthis
Shanna West
Elizabeth White
Dongxiang Xia
Megan Crumpler, Board Liaison
Rachel Shepherd, Staff Liaison

Knowledge Management

Tamara Theisen, Chair
Ellen Basinger, Vice Chair

Jack Bennett
Susanne Crowe
Christine Harrelson
Amanda Hughes
Emma Levings
Shammeka Maynard-Hewlett
Shelley Rogina
Angie Schooley

Larry Seigler
Richard Tulley
Burton Wilcke
Tamara Theisen
Sanjib Bhattacharyya, Board Liaison
Andrea Wright, Staff Liaison

Laboratory Systems & Standards

Deborah Severson, Chair
Crystal Barrett, Vice Chair

Thomas Bannon
Mary Bonifas
Colleen Courtney
Jeffrey Groff
Denise Heaney
Melissa Maxwell-Stropes
Kara Mitchell

Laura Naught
Susan Orton
Katie Rinker
Kristin Schieble
Kathryn Wangsness
Tim Southern, Board Liaison
Tina Su, Staff Liaison

Newborn Screening

Michele Caggana, Chair

Elizabeth Bair
Mei Baker
Stanton Berberich
Neena Champaigne
George Dizikes
Nicole Galloway
Amy Gaviglio
R. Rodney Howell

Tracy Klug
Rachel Lee
Joseph Orsini
Valerie Ragland
Susan Tanksley
Scott Shone, Board Liaison
Guisou Zarbalian, Staff Liaison

Public Health Preparedness & Response

Andrew Cannons, Chair

Nandhakumar Balakrishnan
James Chithalen
Russell Drury
Gregory Hovan
Scott Hughes
Twila Kunde
Lydia Mikhail
Robert Nickla

Michael Perry
Joey Stringer
Maureen Sullivan
Erin Swaney
A. Christian Whelen
Grace Kubin, Board Liaison
Jill Sutton, Staff Liaison

Workforce Development

Leah Gillis, Chair

Roxanne Alter
Tammy Bannerman
Erin Bowles
Kacie Flaherty
Lixia Liu
Sharon Massingale
Adam Perkins
Kim Smith

Marty Soehnlen
Anna Strain
Emily Travanty
Leslie Wolf
Teresa Wolfe
Denise Toney, Board Liaison
Heather Roney, Staff Liaison

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