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Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Stakeholder group

Professional experience / perspective

Name of SHIELD member

Organization

Membership type

organization designation

Term ends

Industry Entity

 

Steve Box

Labgnostic, Inc.

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

Labgnostic, Inc.

 

alternate

 

EHR Vendor, LIS Vendor

Dan Rutz

Epic

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

 

alternate

 

IVD vendor

Xavier Gansel

Biomerieux

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

 

alternate

 

IVD vendor - IVD Regulations & global standards, interoperability policy

Nick Decker

Roche

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

Yue Jin

Roche

 

alternate

12/20/2025

Healthcare Provider

Pathologist-Laboratory director, Molecular pathology, Informatics

Mehdi Nassiri, MD

Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology

Individual

primary

12/20/2025

Laboratory Professional / Informaticist, standards/term mapper. Experience with lab/ health it regulations, usability/ implementation (LIS, EHR), ELR, cancer (CAP eCC, mCode, registries), lab areas/settings (chem, hem, micro, bb, consumer testing, poct, clinic to academic med ctr), research, RWD/RWE, Common Data Models.

Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, FAMIA

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Individual

primary

12/20/2025

Pathologist, Lab Director, Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hematopathology, HITAC, CLIAC

Hung Luu

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Individual

primary

12/20/2025

PhD, Terminologist

Scott Campbell

UNMC

Individual

primary

12/20/2025

OPEN

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Laboratory, IT perspective, CIO, Interoperability Director, lab-to-HIS/EHR connectivity, LIS development and management

Eric Crugnale

Sonic Health (recuited via ACLA)

individual

primary

12/20/2025

Commercial Laboratory, IT perspective, Software Engineer Senior Manager, Interoperability leader

Craig Collom,

formerly Quest Diagnostics (recuited via ACLA)

individual

primary

12/20/2025

Patient Advocate

 

OPEN

 

individual

primary

 

Standards Organization

Terminology Standard Development Organization

Terminology and data exchange standards; standards implementation; data quality analytics

James T. Case

SNOMED International

organization

primary

12/20/2025

Monica Harry

 

alternate

12/20/2025

Terminology Standard Development Organization

Rallins: Vocabulary standards: reference, interface, administrative;

Standards related policy and regulations-HITSC, HITSP leadership and participation

Mapping; value set development; quality measurement

Quality measurement and clinical registries

Informaticist, clinician and laboratory professional

C-level executive management

______________________

Eza Hafeza:

Terminology Standard Development Organization

Health Information Exchange, Change management process, and Implementation

 

Marjorie Rallins

Regenstrief Institute

organization

primary

12/20/2025

Eza Hafeza

organization

alternate

12/20/2025

Health Data Exchange Standard Development Organization. physician

Julia Skapic

HL7

organization

primary

1/17/2026

 

 

alternate

 

Professional Organization

Public Health Laboratory Member organization / Standards/Mapper, Implementation experience

Riki Merrick

Association of Public Health Laboratories

organization

primary

12/20/2025

Christina Gallegos

alternate

12/20/2025

Clinical Pathologist, active in standards development and medical terminology development

Stan Huff

Graphite Health

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

 

alternate

 

Duke Health Pathologist representing the CAP (ex-Board member, current chair of AI committee) with experience in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and clinical informatics. Current co-chair of IHE-PALM and CAP Informatics Committee liaison to SNOMED International. Member of USCDI v4 WG.

Raj Dash

College of American Pathologists (CAP)

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

alternate

 

Molecular & genomic laboratory medicine professional organization staff member; clinical practice guidelines developer; molecular laboratory director with experience in academic medical center, independent, & reference laboratory practice settings

Robyn Temple-Smolkin, MBA, PhD, HCLD(ABB)

AMP

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

alternate

 

Governmental - non Voting

 

 Keith Campbell

FDA

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

 Victoria Derbyshire

 

alternate

12/20/2025

As part of my work, I generate lab data, use them and also ensure that the actual test results are comparable. For the latter, we develop, implement and maintain standards

Hubert Vesper

CDC/DDNID/NCEH/DLS

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

Jasmine Chaitram

CDC

organization

alternate

12/20/2025

 

Sara Armson

ONC

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

alternate

 

 

Michael Smalara

CMS (CLIA preferred)

organization

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

alternate

 

 

John Snyder

NLM

 

primary

12/20/2025

 

 

 

alternate

 


Steering Commitee membership was approved 12/20/2022.

Meetings

Call Schedule:

First and Third Tuesdays of the month 12 - 1 PM ET - attendance for members and by invitation

Agendas and Notes

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