Advisory Boards

Employer advisory boards help us keep our curriculum current and relevant.

Our graduate programs partner with employers in the region, which also often serve on our program advisory boards and provide invaluable industry-relevant input on our evolving degrees.  

  1. Lisheng Dai - Leidos Biomedical Research
  2. Bianca Hoch, M.S.'19 - Prefect, Inc
  3. Thomas Luginbill - Pinkney Innovation Center for Science and Technology
  4. Praba Ponraj - Consultant
  5. Arti Santhanam - Emerging Technologies Center (ETC), Baltimore 
  6. Dan Vogel, M.S.'22 - Battelle National Biodefense Institute
  1. Alysia Birkholz - Texcell
  2. John Brognard - NIH
  3. Karen Buckheit - ImQuest BioSciences
  4. Robert Buckheit - ImQuest BioSciences
  5. Diana Castiblanco - Seventh Balance
  6. Jim Cherry - NIH
  7. Alex Compton - NIH
  8. Mike Dean - NIH
  9. Rebecca Erwin-Cohen - NIH
  10. Dom Esposito - NIH
  11. Pam Glass - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
  12. Scott Hammonds - Medimmune
  13. Mary Kearney - NIH
  14. Susan Lea - NIH
  15. Gene Olinger - MRI Global  
  16. Kerry Pedley - USDA  
  17. Roger Ptak - Southern Research, Inc.
  18. Peter Pushko - Medigen
  19. John Schneekloth - NIH  
  20. Katherine Schneider - National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
  21. Amy Shurtleff - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
  22. Brian Stamper - AstraZeneca  
  23. Esta Sterneck - NIH
  24. Howard Young - NIH 
  1. Anna Brisbane - Lockheed Martin
  2. Nicholas Duafala - SoFin Ventures
  3. Wael Emara - Entegra Procurement Services
  4. Christopher Guidry - Brown University
  5. Derrick Harrigan - Montgomery County Office of Management and Budget
  6. Rebecca Kruse - Operations at ICBA Bancard
  7. Lauren Lesko - Withum
  8. Irene Mihalache - Cambridge Associates
  9. Rhiannon Myers - CICONIX
  10. Zach Payne - PlanVest Financial
  11. M. J. Swicegood - AstraZeneca
  12. Amber Tavenner - Hildebrand, Limpairs & Associates  
  13. Cherian Thomas - Octopus Interactive, Spotluck
  14. David Weiner - Omnyon
  15. Stephanie White - JACS Solutions 
  1. Aaron Angello - Hood College
  2. Robert Eversz - UCLA Extention Writers' Program
  3. Amy Gottfried - Hood College
  4. James Allen Hall - Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House
  5. Elizabeth Knapp - Hood College 
  6. Steven Leyva - University of Baltimore
  1. Judith Apshago - US Sillica
  2. Blossom Baker - Microsoft Federal
  3. Kevin Bryant- NSA
  4. Jack Collins - NIH
  5. William Crum - Hood College
  6. Eric Gallagher - NIH
  7. Ray Gilden - Retired
  8. Theresa Harrison - George Street
  9. James Hatch - Frederick Community College
  10. Todd Heckman - FireEye
  11. Randall Johnson - Hood College
  12. Heather Lageman - Maryland CEASOM Code.org
  13. Rich Lucente - Red Hat
  14. Melissa McCoy - Kaizen Approach
  15. Norm McGaughey – Frederick County Public Schools
  16. Sarangan Ravichandran - Leidos
  17. Jaques Reifman - US Army Medical Command
  18. Vaughn Thurman - High Gear  
  1. Jason Barth - The Ranch
  2. Andrew Bock - Montgomery County Public Schools
  3. Ryan Defibaugh - Frederick County Public Schools
  4. Dave Evason - Brook Lane
  5. Taylor Hahn - Hood College
  6. Rachel Harrison - Trauma Specialists of Maryland
  7. Laura Jones - Kemptown Elementary School
  8. Alice Kinsey - Washington County Public Schools
  9. Vera Kurdian - Advanced Behavioral Health
  10. Ikenna Lughna - Ikenna Gray Counseling Services
  11. Joe Morrissette - Mount St. Mary's Counseling Center
  12. Aryana Nikpora - current student in the program
  13. Amanda Pinchot - Advanced Behavioral Health
  14. Ken Saad - Laurel Hall School
  15. Cory Shives - Brook Lane
  16. Kendra Speicher Eisenstark - current student in the program
  17. Amanda Tapscott - current student in the program 
  1. Linda Chambers - Frederick County Public Schools
  2. DeVeda Coley - Frederick County Public Schools
  3. Leslie Frei - Frederick County Public Schools
  4. Mike Lucido - Frederick County Public Schools
  5. Jaime Manahan - Frederick County Public Schools
  6. Andrea Robinson - Montgomery County Public Schools
  7. Colleen Roux - Palm Beach County Public Schools
  8. Shari Scher - Retired teacher; Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership
  9. Ann Wagner - The Banner School 
  1. Barbara Brookmyer - Frederick County Health Department
  2. Elizabeth Chung - Asian American Center of Frederick  
  3. Tracey Koehlmoos - Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
  4. Hazuki Miwa - FAES@NIH
  5. Anil Rajpal - FDA
  6. Nawar Shara - Medstar
  1. Colleen Bernard - Frederick County Public Schools
  2. Adam Rudy - Washington County Public Schools 
  1. Sheila Berlinger - Montgomery County Public Schools  
  2. Chip Boling - Howard County Public Schools
  3. Jenni Clausen - Frederick County Public Schools
  4. Kylena Cross - Frederick Community College
  5. Wendi Cyford - Frederick County Public Schools
  6. Gary Hull - Frederick Community College
  7. Jared Mielke - Carroll County Public Schools
  8. Debbie Myers - Frederick County Public Schools
  9. Milton Nash - Montgomery College
  10. Allison Partner - Frederick County Public Schools
  11. Karine Ptak - Hood College, Program Graduate
  12. Danny Rumpf - Frederick County Public Schools
  13. Carl Seward - Arlington Public Schools
  14. Amy Seylar - Washington County Public Schools
  15. Stacey Sisler - Frederick County Public Schools
  16. Darren Smith - Montgomery College
  17. Christine Thereault - Frederick County Public Schools
  18. Angela Waltrup - Washington County Public Schools
  19. Heather Wurster - Frederick County Public Schools 
  1. Clifford Barr - Lehigh Carbon Community College
  2. Philip Brown - Phoenix Mecano, Inc.
  3. Edna Diez - World Bank
  4. Ethan Dmitrovsky - Frederick National Laboratory / Leidos Biomedical Research
  5. Cheryl Dyson - Frederick County Public Schools
  6. David Esworthy - CNB Bank, Inc.
  7. Brian Gaudet - Battelle National Biodefense Institute
  8. Keith Harris - Frederick County Public Schools
  9. Michael Markoe - Frederick County Public Schools
  10. James Moore - KPMG
  11. Kathy Weishaar - Frederick Health
  12. Rick Weldon - Frederick County Chamber of Commerce 
  1. Susan Copen - Frederick County Public Schools
  2. Allyson Fachler - Frederick County Public Schools
  3. Lisa Halvis - Frederick County Public Schools
  4. Colleen Roux - Palm Beach County Public Schools 
  1. Michelle (Mickey) Cooper - Shepherd University
  2. Lori Davies - Frederick Health
  3. Sephy Jones - Frederick Health
  4. Ashley Jordan - Frederick Health
  5. Carolyn Melby - The Carl & Enga Melby Charitable Foundation
  6. Sarah Perl - Peds GBMC
  7. Laura Ruse Brosch - Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  8. Melissa Short - Meritus Health
  9. Kathy Troupe - Frederick Health
  10. Jamie White - Frederick Health 

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