Conference Chairs

Megan Crumpler, PhD, HCLDLaboratory Director Orange County Public Health LaboratoryOrange County Health Care Agency
S. Michele Owen, PhD
Associate Director for Laboratory Science
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Barbara (Bobbie) Van Der Pol, PhD
President-Elect, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Scientific Steering Committee Members

Pradip Akolkar
Team Lead, Division of Transfusion Transmitted and Emerging Disease
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
S. Berry Bennett, MPH
Technical Consultant
Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories
Bernard Branson, MD
Principal Consultant
Scientific Affairs, LLC
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Pollyanna R. Chávez, PhD
Acting Lead, Special Studies Team
Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch
Division of HIV Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kelly Curtis, PhD
Deputy Associate Director for Laboratory Science
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kevin Delaney, PhD, MPH
Acting Lead, Testing and Diagnostics Research Team
HIV Research Branch
Division of HIV Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
María Ines García, PhD
Branch Chief, OHT7: Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
Anne M. Gaynor, PhD
Manager, HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Programs
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Jill K. Hacker, PHD, MPH  
Chief, Vaccine Preventable Diseases Section
Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory California Department of Public Health
Tonya Hayden, PhD
Deputy Branch Chief, Laboratory Branch
Division of Viral Hepatitis
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard L. Hodinka
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey A. Johnson, MS PhD
Lead, HIV Diagnostics Team 
Laboratory Branch
Division of HIV Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ellen N. Kersh, PhD
Branch Chief, STD Laboratory Reference and Research Branch
Division of STD Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Julia T. Lathrop, PhD
Associate Deputy Director, Division of Emerging and Transfusion-Transmitted DiseasesOffice of Blood Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
Kara Levinson, PhD, MPH, D(ABMM)
Deputy DirectorDivision of Laboratory Services
State of Tennessee Department of Health
Jenny R. McFarlane, BA
Prevention Manager, HIV/STD/HCV Prevention and Care Services (retired)
Texas Department of State Health Services
William A. Meyer III, Ph.D., D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)
Director, Medical Science Liaison, Infectious Diseases/Immunology
Quest Diagnostics
Mindy Nye, PhD, MT(ASCP), D(ABMM)
Vice President, Esoteric Business Units
Laboratory Corporation of America
Monica M. Parker, PhD
Laboratory Chief of Bloodborne and Parasitic Diseases
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Liisa M. Randall, PhD
Director of Health Care Planning
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Brian H. Raphael, PhD
Lead, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Mycoplasma genitalium Team
STD Laboratory Reference and Research BranchDivision of STD Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Marty Soehnlen, PhDPHLD(ABB)
Director of Infectious Disease Division
Bureau of Laboratories
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Eyasu H. Teshale, MD
Lead, Epidemiology Research Team
Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch
Division of Viral Hepatitis
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Laura G. Wesolowski, PhD
Lead, Prevention Science Application Team
HIV Prevention Capacity Development Branch
Division of HIV Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Joseph D.C. Yao, MD
Division of Clinical Microbiology
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic & Mayo Medical Laboratories