2025-12-17 Steering Committee Meeting Notes
Date
Dec 17, 2025
Attendees
(bolded names indicate attendance)
Stakeholder group | SHIELD organization | Name of SHIELD member | organization designation |
Industry Entity | Labgnostic, Inc. | Steve Box | primary |
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| alternate | |
Epic | Dan Rutz | primary | |
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| alternate | |
Biomerieux | Xavier Gansel | primary | |
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| alternate | |
Roche | Nick Decker | primary | |
Roche | Open | alternate | |
Healthcare Provider | Indiana University/Indiana University Health/Association for Molecular Pathology | Mehdi Nassiri, MD | 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 | primary |
Monica Harry | alternate | ||
Regenstrief Institute
| Marjorie Rallins - regrets | primary | |
Eza Hafeza | alternate | ||
HL7
| Julia Skapik | primary | |
| alternate | ||
Professional Organization | Association of Public Health Laboratories
| Riki Merrick | primary |
Christina Gallegos | alternate | ||
Logica
| Stan Huff | primary | |
| alternate | ||
CAP
| Raj Dash - regrets | primary | |
| alternate | ||
AMP
| Robyn Temple | primary | |
| alternate | ||
ADLM | Li Zha | primary | |
Governmental - non Voting | CMS | Michael Smalara | primary |
Open | alternate | ||
ASTP/ONC | Sara Armson - regrets | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
CDC | Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS) | primary | |
Jasmine Chaitram | alternate | ||
NLM | OPEN | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
FDA | Keith Campbell | primary | |
Victoria Derbyshire | alternate |
Agenda and Notes
Item | Notes |
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Quorum evaluation (two-thirds (2/3) of the Voting Representatives shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business) | Currently we have 18 named members (1 open slot), so 2/3 = 12 is quorum (excluding chair and government members). # of voting member per charter: 13 - 21 # of non-voting members per charter: 7
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Open Meeting | 12:10 PM ET - no quorum |
Conferences/Webinars | not discussed |
Next calls
| All SHIELD Calls
General Updates: 2024 - WG Chairs please make sure we have material for updates (at least notes we can link to) Special Topic: Jan 13, 2026 - Any Topic? Steering Committee: Jan 7, 2026 - Riki + Christina not available, but Andrea can chair and Jan 21, 2026 CDC Forum Call in January 2026 would have been January 8th, so now looking for a date in February Topic: UDI in HL7 |
Membership | #1 Waiting for official NLM representative since John Snyders departure from NLM - Raja Cholan is still working on getting a new representatives, asked to keep informed on any feedback that is NLM related #2 Announced the open Steering Committee slots on the ALL SHIELD calls since July |
Serge’s proposals for raising awareness | What the message to HHS Leadership should/could be - review the Lab Report and find those things where we can connect the dots to get traction on standards adoption (given a vision for 2030) Reviewed the email Serge sent to Eric and Riki - will incorporate points from it in the brainstorming document Note that CAP is working on Performance Monitoring Workflow IHE profile, which will include checking data quality created as part of proficiency testing Next steps:
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THANK YOU to all the WG Chairs for their effort in moving SHIELD work forward!!! - will review again in January | |
eVote was approved - so we will now lock the page and folks can use it as reference in articles Suggestion was to create a pdf that could be shared - will be uploaded to the page so folks can download just the text, not everything that is on the page | |
Standards WG Vocab Follow up |
Discussion for today: How to distill this document and what to do with it
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Placeholder to get back to later |
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From Chat:
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