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, PhD, PHLD(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 |