Steering Committee
Stakeholder group | Professional experience / perspective | Name of SHIELD member | Organization | Membership type | organization designation | Term ends |
Industry Entity |
| Steve Box | Labgnostic, Inc. |
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| Andy Harris | Labgnostic, Inc. |
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EHR Vendor, LIS Vendor | Dan Rutz | Epic |
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IVD vendor | Xavier Gansel | Biomerieux |
| primary | 12/20/2025 | |
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IVD vendor - IVD Regulations & global standards, interoperability policy | Nick Decker | Roche |
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| Yue Jin | Roche |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Governmental - non Voting |
| Keith Campbell | FDA |
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| Victoria Derbyshire |
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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 |
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| Jasmine Chaitram | CDC | organization | alternate |
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| Sara Armson | ONC | organization | primary |
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| OPEN | CMS (CLIA preferred) | organization | primary |
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| John Snyder | NLM |
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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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