2026-02-10 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

2026-02-10 Steering Committee Meeting Notes

Date

Jan 27, 2026

Attendees

(bolded names indicate attendance)

Stakeholder group

SHIELD organization

Name of SHIELD member

organization designation

Industry Entity

Labgnostic, Inc.

Steve Box

primary

 

 

alternate

Epic

Dan Rutz

primary

 

 

alternate

Biomerieux

Xavier Gansel

primary

 

 

alternate

Roche

Nick Decker

primary

Roche

Open

alternate

Healthcare Provider

Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology

Mehdi Nassiri, MD - regets

primary

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

primary

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Hung Luu

primary

UNMC

Scott Campbell

primary

Longtime Lab Professional

Carmen Pugh

primary

Sonic Healthcare

Eric Crugnale

primary

Former Quest Diagnostics

Collom, Craig D

primary

Patient Advocate

 OPEN

OPEN

individual

Standards Organization

SNOMED International

 

Jim Case - regrets

primary

Monica Harry

alternate

Regenstrief Institute

 

Marjorie Rallins

primary

Eza Hafeza

alternate

HL7

 

Julia Skapik

primary

 

alternate

Professional Organization

Association of Public Health Laboratories

 

Riki Merrick-regret

primary

Christina Gallegos

alternate

Logica

 

Stan Huff- regrets

primary

 

alternate

CAP

 

Raj Dash - regrets

primary

 

alternate

AMP

 

Robyn Temple

primary

 

alternate

Governmental - non Voting

CMS

Michael Smalara

primary

Open

alternate

ASTP/ONC

Sara Armson

primary

 OPEN

alternate

CDC

Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS)

primary

Jasmine Chaitram

alternate

NLM

OPEN

primary

OPEN

alternate

FDA

Keith Campbell?

primary

 

alternate

Agenda and Notes

From Chat:

 

Action items

Robyn and Scott will brainstorm on next steps for creating guidance document around when to use free text vs discrete data vs coded discrete data and other implementation guidance around coding
All review the ASTP/ONC Lab Data Interop report and pull out items that SHIELD can support / identify the order of steps needed to improve adoption
Gather lists of qualitative results from LabCorp (Carmen) ARUP (Jenna), SonicHealth (Eric)

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