SHIELD Member List
Name | Organization | Perspective / Experience | Desired level of involvement | Membership type | Stakeholder Group |
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Aaron Green | Labgnostic, Inc. | Laboratory Information System Vendor, orders/results messaging transformation, test code mapping, multi-scale infrastructure deployment, ground-level standards adoption and implementation | Steering Committee |
| Industry Entity |
Dan Rutz | Epic | EHR Vendor, LIS Vendor | Steering Committee |
| Industry Entity |
Xavier Gansel | Biomerieux | IVD vendor | Steering Committee |
| Industry Entity |
Cornelia Felder | Roche | IVD vendor | Official member | organization | Industry Entity |
Nick Decker | Roche | IVD vendor/ Regulatory Program Lead for Roche Dia Regulatory Policy team + Interoperability Lead from the Reg Policy & Intelligence team/ Broad background in MedDevice / IVD industry (Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Experienced leader of highly complex MD/IVD regulatory reform initiatives (e.g. EU MDR & IVDR, Brexit, etc) + developing expertise in interoperability | Steering Committee | organization | Industry Entity |
Jack Bloom | Scientific Advisory Committees for pharmaceutical, diagnostic and pharmaceutical services companies | Lab testing for pharmaceutical research | Steering Committee | individual | Industry Entity |
Mehdi Nassiri, MD | Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology | Pathologist-Laboratory director, Molecular pathology, Informatics | Steering Committee | Individual | Healthcare Provider |
Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, FAMIA | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 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. | Steering Committee | Individual | Healthcare Provider |
Hung Luu | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Pathologist, Lab Director, Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hematopathology, HITAC, CLIAC | Steering Committee | Individual | Healthcare Provider |
Scott Campbell | UNMC |
| Steering Committee | Individual | Healthcare Provider |
Nanguneri Nirmala | Tufts Medical Center | Evidence-based Medicine, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Learning Health Systems, Real World Data analysis, Bioinformatics. | Steering Committee | Individual | Healthcare Provider |
Eric Crugnale | Sonic Health | Commercial Laboratory, IT perspective, CIO, Interoperability Director, lab-to-HIS/EHR connectivity, LIS development and management | Steering Committee |
| Healthcare Provider |
Craig Collom, | Quest Diagnostics | Commercial Laboratory, IT perspective, Software Engineer Senior Manager, Interoperability leader | Steering Committee |
| Healthcare Provider |
James T. Case | SNOMED International | Terminology and data exchange standards; standards implementation; data quality analytics | Steering Committee | organization | Standards Development Organization |
Marjorie Rallins | Regenstrief Institute | 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 | Steering Committee | organization | Standards Development Organization |
Eza Hafeza | Regenstrief Institute | Health Information Exchange, Change management process, and Implementation | Steering Committee | organization | Standards Development Organization |
Julia Skapic | HL7 | Health Data Exchange Standard Development Organization / physician, informaticist and interoperability rep | Steering Committee | organization | Standards Development Organization |
Riki Merrick | Association of Public Health Laboratories | Public Health Laboratory Member organizaton / Standards/Mapper, Implementation experience | Steering Committee | organization | Professional Organization |
Dari Shirazi | Association of Public Health Laboratories | Steering Committee | organization | Professional Organization | |
Stan Huff | Graphite Health | Clinical Pathologist, active in standards development and medical terminology development | Steering Committee | organization | Professional Organization |
Raj Dash | College of American Pathologists (CAP) | 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. | Steering Committee | organization | Professional Organization |
Robyn Temple-Smolkin, MBA, PhD, HCLD(ABB) | AMP | 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 | Steering Committee | organization | Professional Organization |
Serafina Brea | CMS / CLIA | CMS regulations, CLIA regulations | non-voting Steering Committee member | organization | Government |
Mary Kennedy | College of American Pathologists | pathology / laboratory medicine expertise/interest; also policy and regulations interest | offical member | organization | Professional Association |
Gyan Penrose-Kafka | Hologic | IVD devices, Software development, IoT Communication | offical member | organization | Industry |
Hubert Vesper | CDC/DDNID/NCEH/DLS | 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 | Steering Committee representative for CDC | organization | Government |
Raymonde Uy | NACHC |
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Steve Powell | Synensys | Doctor of Health Administration, System Safety expertise, Quality Improvement, Certified Change Management Practitioner | official member (BAA recepient) | organization | Industry |
Pam Banning | 3M | implementer of lab data, standards developer, terminology service provider | offical member | organization | industry |
Andrew Quinn | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | Expertise: pathologist, clinical informatics (board certified in both) -Interest: member of effectiveness committee, but happy to take on any role | official member | individual | Healthcare provider |
Samantha Spencer | College of American Pathologists (CAP) |
| official member | organization | Professional organization |
Bill Murray | Deloitte | Interested broadly with emphasis on IVD devices/regulatory | member (BAA recepient) | organization | Industry |
Laurent Lardin | Biomerieux | IVD vendor area of expertise is on IVD devices especially how to connect them to a middleware or LIS and bioMerieux representative in the IICC board. | official member | organization | Industry |
Lawrence Callahan | FDA | contributing from a substance perspective on what is actually being tested for and also critical reagents. | official member | organization | government |
Muktha Natrajan | CDC | Policy/regulatory, public health | official member | organization | government |
Carolyn HIller | Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA | Sr Advisor, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships | official member | organization | Public-Private Partnership |
Alana Keller | Synensys |
| offical member | organization | industry |
Marti Velezis | Sonrisa/FDA | UDI, Regulatory, RWE, HL7 | official member | organization | government |
Ray Zhang, MD, PhD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Standards development | official member | individual | Healthcare Provider |
Andrea Englund | University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) | Biomedical Informatics lab manager and I am also a PhD student in Biomedical Informatics / clinical informatics roles in large multi-facility organizations to small clinic practices / MBA in Healthcare Leadership / MSN in Nursing informatics / public health lab / cancer pathology informatics | official member | individual | healthcare provider? |
Edwin Heierman | IICC | IVD Instrument informatics | offical member | organization | industry |
Imran Mujawar | Thermo Fisher Scientific | senior staff epidemiologist/data scientist with Clinical Software, Genetic Sciences Division / physician-epidemiologist, and my area of expertise is RWD/RWE, public health, and IVD devices | offical member | organization | industry |