2026-07-14 Steering Committee Meeting Notes
Date
Jul 14, 2026
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 - regrets | primary | |
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| alternate | |
OPEN | OPEN | primary | |
OPEN | OPEN | alternate | |
Healthcare Provider | Quest Diagnostics, Seattle, WA | Mehdi Nassiri, MD | primary |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM, FAMIA | primary | |
UT Southwestern Medical Center | Hung Luu | primary | |
OPEN | OPEN | primary | |
Longtime Lab Professional | Carmen Pugh | primary | |
Sonic Healthcare / ACLA | Eric Crugnale | primary | |
Harvard | Li Zha | primary | |
Patient Advocate | OPEN | OPEN | individual |
Standards Organization | SNOMED International
| Jim Case | 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 | primary |
Christina Gallegos | alternate | ||
Logica
| Stan Huff | primary | |
| alternate | ||
CAP
| Raj Dash - regrets | primary | |
Scott Campbell - regrets | alternate | ||
AMP
| Robyn Temple | primary | |
| alternate | ||
Governmental - non Voting | CMS | Michael Smalara | primary |
Open | alternate | ||
ONC | Sara Armson | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
CDC | Hubert Vesper (/DDNID/NCEH/DLS) | primary | |
Jasmine Chaitram | alternate | ||
NLM | OPEN | primary | |
OPEN | alternate | ||
FDA | OPEN | primary | |
alternate |
Agenda and Notes
Item | Notes |
|---|---|
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 17 named members (1 open slot, future 3 openings), so 2/3 = 11 is quorum (excluding chair and government members). # of voting member per charter: 13 - 21 # of non-voting members per charter: 7 |
Open Meeting | 12:09 PM ET |
Vision 2030 work | Follow up from last call when discussed see minutes: last time we talked with Serge: Serge is available Aug 11, 2026 Discussion today: Focus on the vision statement covering Serge’s questions in a coherent manner For Aug 11, 2026 call get more insights on Serge’s plan of dissemiation of the vison statement - what is his desired outcome for this effort We should add the Problem statement then have a goals session and then how we would get to the goals Maybe ask Scott Campbell about reaching out to OHDSI if they can share info on lab data that is part of their reserach that commons - they map data elements to OHDSI OMOP data elements from across different organizations worldwide - this mapping can be automated, if the data uses standards in the EHR-s, else that mapping would be manual and take more time and might end up with differnt mapings potentially for some OHDSI OMOP data elements with nuanced differences (all terminologies can be seen here: ) Can we articluate SMART goals in this vision document made changes directly in the document - will pick this back on tomorrow’s SC call |
Call adjourned | 12:57 PM ET |
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