AOAC OMB Meeting Book 2-10-16
AOAC OMB Meeting
MEMORANDUM
February 10, 2016
Date:
AOAC INTERNATIONAL Official Methods Board
To:
From:
Krystyna McIver, SPADA Project Lead
Item IV.b. AOAC Stakeholder Panel Co‐Chairs
Subject:
AOAC SPADA has been active since February 2007. Since its inception, it has developed standard method performance requirements for the Department of Homeland Security and currently for the Department of Defense. It has also revised the sampling standard and developed implementation guidance used by first response teams as well developed validation guidance that is used in conjunction with the standard method performance requirements. Overall it has developed 17 different products across ten (10) biological threat agents. Four (4) methods have been evaluated and approved as a result. While Dr. Matthew Davenport has done a remarkable job as chair of SPADA, he appreciates the leadership some key stakeholders have demonstrated in and outside of the meeting. One stakeholder in particular is Dr. Linda Beck, formerly with the BioWatch program in the Office of Health Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security and currently Lead Scientist/Microbiologist with the CBR and Defense Concepts and Experimentation Branch of the Navel Surface Warfare Center. Linda has been instrumental providing leads that have led to sponsorship of SPADA activities. When she was at BioWatch, she assisted AOAC in securing the funding to develop SMPRs for Variola that reinvigorated SPADA in 2013. In her role in the Department of Defense, she has been invaluable in networking the merits of AOAC and SPADA’s work to secure our current contract with DoD as well as looking at new threat agents for SPADA’s consideration. In addition, she has been a voice of reason during SPADA meetings and during each working group meeting/teleconference allowing everyone to reach consensus and still meeting the goals of the contract. At first, the consideration was for vice chair of SPADA; however after further consideration and with the support of Dr. Davenport, Dr. Linda Beck is being nominated, for your approval, to serve as co‐chair of AOAC SPADA.
RECOMMENDATION : Approve Dr. Linda Beck as co‐chair of AOAC SPADA.
ENCLOSURES : None.
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