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

 

 

Andy Harris

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

 

 

Yue Jin

Roche

 

alternate

 

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

Evidence-based Medicine, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Learning Health Systems, Real World Data analysis, Bioinformatics.

Nanguneri Nirmala

Tufts Medical Center

Individual

primary

12/20/2025

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

 

Patient Advocate

former volunteer on Patient Advisory Council for Grady Health

Instructional Designer & Trainer with leadership and team building experience, communication and presentation skills and experience training groups and individuals

Stacy Lange

 

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

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

alternate

 

Professional Organization

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

Riki Merrick

Association of Public Health Laboratories

organization

primary

12/20/2025

Dari Shirazi

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

 

 

 Victoria Derbyshire

 

alternate

 

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

 

 

Jasmine Chaitram

CDC

organization

alternate

 

 

Sara Armson

ONC

organization

primary

 

 

 

 

alternate

 

 

OPEN

CMS (CLIA preferred)

organization

primary

 

 

 

 

alternate

 

 

John Snyder

NLM

 

primary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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