Troy E. Cowan is the owner and founder of Vision Based Consulting, LLC, supporting clients in Federal program development, business development, marketing and regulatory compliance tasks. Troy has worked both in and outside of multiple Government Agencies to include DOE and NNSA, DoD (USAF, DTRA, Army), NASA, HUD, GSA, DHS (FEMA, USCG), as well as several State and Local agencies. While supporting a UV commercial client on regulatory issues, Troy became an advocate for UV-C’s potential to save lives by reducing the risk of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs), and the need for standards to demonstrate efficacy to healthcare providers. Over the last five plus years, Troy has met with several Senate and House Committee staffers to promote the development of UV-C efficacy standards, presented to IUVA, SPIE and ISO, organized workshops and panels on using UV-C to combat HAIs, established the IUVA Healthcare/UV Working Group, and has published related articles in the Journals of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the SPIE Journal and UV Solutions on this critical issue.

Dr. Kreitenberg is a Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery with extensive experience and 14 US patents in UV Disinfection for healthcare, aerospace and other applications. He serves on the Aerospace Medical Association Air Transport Committee, the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Life Sciences Technical Committee and IUVA task forces. He serves as the Chief Innovation and Technical Officer for Dimer LLC.

Steve Reinecke is the Vice President of Business Development at Proximity Systems in Houston, Texas and is responsible for implementing new ideas and tools for the company. His career started as a Medical Technologist, and following college his Healthcare journey began by working at his small hometown hospital. Steve’s professional training is in Microbiology, Immunohematology, Chemistry, Pathology and Hematology. He also spent time working within a Transplant Unit at a Cardiac Investigation Lab. In the mid 90’s Steve moved from Medicine to IT and worked on two large HIS implementations in Ontario at two different facilities. His career in the late 90’s took him into sales of point-of-care computing equipment and he worked for 17 years travelling to over 30 countries as the one of premier experts in Healthcare IT Point-of-care Technologies World Wide. Steve has is HIMSS certification CPHIMS (Certified Professional of Health Information Management Systems).

Dr. Dianne L. Poster is a Senior Advisor at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the Director’s Office of the Materials Measurement Laboratory. Dr. Poster supports scientific programs in emerging measurements, standards, technology, and data. In a prior assignment, as Deputy Associate Director for Technology and Environmental Policy at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Dr. Poster administered the environmental federal regulatory portfolio and advised on policy and strategy issues related to protecting the environment.

Brian Rodgers, Principal Engineer, HVAC/R, has more than 31 years of experience in standards and holds numerous leadership roles with multiple standards developing organizations including a voting member of ASHRAE 15, 15.2, 37, MTG.LowGWP, and corresponding member of ASHRAE TC 2.9 and TC 8.11. Convener of IEC 61CMT1 for (IEC 60335-2-34 for motor compressors), member of IEC SC 61C WG4 (IEC 60335-2-89), member of IEC SC 61D, WG21, and WG22 (IEC 60335-2-40), member of the US TAG for SC61D and TAG Advisor for SC61C, member of CANENA SC61D WG14 for UL/CSA 60335-2-40 and SC61C WG 12 for UL 60355-2-89. William henry Merrill Society member (DTMS). Brian has extensiv experience in the development of US, regional and international safety standards and was recognized with the "1906 Award" for work his work on IEC SC61CMT for motor compressors.

Dr. Stephen Yates is a fellow for Honeywell Aerospace Advanced Technology. His original training was as an organic chemist and photochemist, but his 36 year career has focused on new product development in the areas of air purification, air separation and disinfection. He has 60 U.S. patents and many publications.

Mr. Alberts is the Director of Safety at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) where he leads all safety policy and standards work for the association. He is the staff advisor for the Rail Safety, Bus Safety, and Safety Coordinating Committees as well as the Commuter Rail Safety and Security Subcommittee. Brian has led safety audits and peer reviews at MTR Hong Kong, TTC Toronto, STM Montreal, RTD Denver, CDTA Albany, UC San Francisco, SEPTA Philadelphia, and numerous other properties throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia. P Brian has over 15 years of experience in the transportation, safety, and environmental policy fields and received his Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from George Washington University.

Dr. Lukas Oudejans is a Research Physical Scientist with the US EPA Office of Research and Development’s Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response. Over the past twelve years, he has gained vast experience in homeland security programs related to research, development and evaluation of innovative technologies for the decontamination of materials contaminated with chemical or biological agents. Currently, he is leading research efforts to assess alternative disinfection technologies including UV light, ozone and steam to clean surfaces contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Dr. Oudejans holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Warren Merkel serves as Leader of the Standards Services Group in the Standards Coordination Office of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Programs under his responsibility include engagement with government agencies on standards and conformity assessment issues, and operation of the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade Inquiry Point for the United States. Mr. Merkel also served as co-convener of ISO/CASCO Working Group 44 on the revision of ISO/IEC 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Prior to his current position, Mr. Merkel was Chief of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) at NIST from 2003 to 2006. After leaving NIST for six years to teach chemistry, he returned to serve as Chief of NVLAP from 2012 to 2015. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Merkel was employed by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), most recently as Technical Manager. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as an Investigative Chemist in the Defense Logistics Agency Analytical Product Testing Center in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Merkel holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Temple University and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Bloomsburg University.

CAPT Stephen B. Martin, Jr. (Steve) is a Senior Research Engineer Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service assigned to the Field Studies Branch of the Respiratory Health Division at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown, West Virginia. Since joining NIOSH in 1997, he has been involved with research into respirator filter and unit performance, ventilation systems and other engineering controls, environmental tractor cab filter performance and cab integrity testing, indoor air quality investigations, and air/surface disinfection studies using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). He works extensively on tuberculosis (TB) outbreak investigations and prevention studies in jails, prisons, and homeless shelters. Steve is one of two NIOSH engineers responsible for the bulk of the CDC ventilation guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, he was involved with the NIOSH response to the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and preparing US hospitals to receive Ebola patients during the recent outbreaks in western Africa. Steve is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of West Virginia. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia and earned a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, where he developed a microbiologically-based rating system for in-duct UVGI devices. Steve is a founding member and past-chairperson of the ASHRAE Technical Committee on Ultraviolet Air and Surface Disinfection (TC 2.9) and a voting member of the ASHRAE Standards Project Committee (SPC 185) that developed standard testing methods for in-duct UVGI air and surface disinfection devices. He is an invited member on the Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Health Guidelines Revision Committee responsible for updating the “Guidelines for Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities,” which over 40 states use or reference as code for the construction and renovation of healthcare facilities. He also serves as a NIOSH representative on the Federal TB Task Force and as the NIOSH ex officio member of the CDC Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis.

Warren Merkel serves as Leader of the Standards Services Group in the Standards Coordination Office of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Programs under his responsibility include engagement with government agencies on standards and conformity assessment issues, and operation of the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade Inquiry Point for the United States. Mr. Merkel also served as co-convener of ISO/CASCO Working Group 44 on the revision of ISO/IEC 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Prior to his current position, Mr. Merkel was Chief of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) at NIST from 2003 to 2006. After leaving NIST for six years to teach chemistry, he returned to serve as Chief of NVLAP from 2012 to 2015. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Merkel was employed by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), most recently as Technical Manager. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as an Investigative Chemist in the Defense Logistics Agency Analytical Product Testing Center in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Merkel holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Temple University and a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Bloomsburg University.

CAPT Stephen B. Martin, Jr. (Steve) is a Senior Research Engineer Officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service assigned to the Field Studies Branch of the Respiratory Health Division at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Morgantown, West Virginia. Since joining NIOSH in 1997, he has been involved with research into respirator filter and unit performance, ventilation systems and other engineering controls, environmental tractor cab filter performance and cab integrity testing, indoor air quality investigations, and air/surface disinfection studies using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). He works extensively on tuberculosis (TB) outbreak investigations and prevention studies in jails, prisons, and homeless shelters. Steve is one of two NIOSH engineers responsible for the bulk of the CDC ventilation guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, he was involved with the NIOSH response to the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in Asia, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and preparing US hospitals to receive Ebola patients during the recent outbreaks in western Africa. Steve is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of West Virginia. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia and earned a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, where he developed a microbiologically-based rating system for in-duct UVGI devices. Steve is a founding member and past-chairperson of the ASHRAE Technical Committee on Ultraviolet Air and Surface Disinfection (TC 2.9) and a voting member of the ASHRAE Standards Project Committee (SPC 185) that developed standard testing methods for in-duct UVGI air and surface disinfection devices. He is an invited member on the Facility Guidelines Institute’s (FGI) Health Guidelines Revision Committee responsible for updating the “Guidelines for Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities,” which over 40 states use or reference as code for the construction and renovation of healthcare facilities. He also serves as a NIOSH representative on the Federal TB Task Force and as the NIOSH ex officio member of the CDC Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis.

Katja Auer has been in the UVC industry for nearly 15 years holding various leadership roles. She is currently employed by American Ultraviolet Company and serves as Clinical Director Healthcare Solutions. Katja has been a member of ASHRAE’s Technical Committee TC 2.9 Ultraviolet Air and Surface Treatment for nearly 15 years and served as Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair. In addition, she served as Secretary of ASHRAE’s SPC185.1 and SPC185.2 Method of Testing UV-C lights For Use in Air-Handling Units or Air Ducts to Inactivate Airborne Microorganisms and Guideline Project Committee 37 Upper Room Ultraviolet. She has been a contributing author to ASHRAE Handbook chapters for both Fundamentals and Systems & Equipment. Katja is a member of IUVA (International Ultra-Violet Association) and its Healthcare working group plus is a voting member of ISO WG TC 142 and member of APIC, AHE, ACS, and AORN. She holds a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of La Verne.

Dr. Mathur serves as Vice President, Innovation and Technology at Ultraviolet Devices Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of UV products for both air, surface and water disinfection. He received his doctorate and master’s degrees in polymer science from Cornell University, USA. Dr. Mathur has over twenty five years of experience in platform technology development, product innovation, technology transfer, manufacturing and commercialization of products for the UV disinfection and filtration industry. He holds several patents and over thirty publications and conference presentations to his credit. He is an active member of IUVA and ASHRAE, where he currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee for Ultraviolet Disinfection.

Mayor Pro Tem Laurene Weste has served on the City of Santa Clarita City Council since 1998; having served 5 terms as Mayor. She has helped to write and pass numerous pieces of legislation, testifying before several state and federal committees. She is a past Santa Clarita Valley Woman of the Year who is a local business owner and property manager in the City of Santa Clarita. She also serves as a Board Member on the Los Angeles County Sanitation District where she has worked extensively with ultraviolet for Sanitation District projects.

Dr. Jensen is currently an independent consultant and proud member of the End TB Transmission Initiative of the Stop TB Partnership. He is also involved in several IES, ASHRAE, and AIHA committees. On 31 May 2020, Dr Jensen retired from the US Government after a total of 33 years with the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and ten years with the US Coast Guard. His most recent CDC assignment was with the Global TB Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDS & TB, Center for Global Health. He served as the lead for TB infection prevention control and laboratory biosafety. He has extensive experience in sampling and analysis of bioaerosols, design and evaluation of ventilation systems, control of airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis & other diseases, and evaluation of respiratory protective equipment. Served as chair of CDC working group that revised the US CDC Guidelines for Preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities (CDC 2005) and collaborates regularly with WHO and many international partners.

Flávio Asth Dias is a Cabin Engineer at Azul Airlines since 2018. Flávio was previously at Fiat Chrysler and Vale. Flávio has a Mechanical Engineering degree and Project Management MBA, along with Green Belt and Lean Manufacturing certifications and is currently focused on aircraft maintenance, project management, and product development.

Brian Rodgers is Principal Engineer and Primary Designated Engineer (PDE) in the Heating Cooling and Commercial Refrigeration Division at UL. He has more than 31 years of experience in Standards and holds numerous leadership roles with multiple Standards developing organizations including a voting member of ASHRAE 15, 15.2, 37, MTG. LowGWP, and corresponding member of ASHRAE TC 2.9 and TC 8.11. He is Convener of IEC 61CMT1 for (IEC 60335-2-34 for motor compressors), member of IEC SC61D, WG21, and WG22 (IEC 60335-2-40), member for US TAG for SC61D and TAG Advisor for SC61C, member of CANENA SC61DWG14 for UL/CSA60335-2-40 and SC61CWG12 for UL 60335-2-89. Brian is a member of the William Henry Merrill Society (DTMS). He has extensive experience in the development of US, regional and international safety standards and was recognized with the “1906 Award” for his work on IECSC61CMT1 for motor compressors.

Juan Caamaño is Principal in the Heating Cooling and Commercial Refrigeration and Lighting Division at UL. He has more than 26 years of experience in Standards and is the Primary Designated Engineer (PDE) for Luminaries, LEDs and discharge lamps control gear (ballasts). His prior UL work experience includes Energy Star CFL Testing, Emergency Lighting Equipment, Electric Signs and Sign and Luminaire Retrofit Kit.

Larry Scholl serves as an Engineering Specialist for Mechanical Technologies. In his role, Larry provides technical expertise to engineers and owners related to mechanical and control systems including design support, product support and technical training. Larry has over 17 years of industry experience including time as a consulting engineer, commissioning agent and within sales/business development roles. His experience provides a unique perspective in understanding both the design and construction considerations of system design. Larry earned an electrical engineering Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and is a Certified Energy Manager and LEED AP BD+C certified.

HVAC contractor in San Diego specializing in Ground up building, tenant improvements and existing swap out work/IAQ.

For over 40 years, Steven Sheiner has been at the forefront of technological change. In the ’80s, as an early adopter of marketing technology, he helped hundreds of companies adopt direct selling and marketing programs driven by more sophisticated databases. He was an early entrant on the Internet, advising several top websites, including GeoCities, NetScore, and Tickets.com. He was one of the founders of MP3.com (MPPP) that went public in 1999 and was acquired by Vivendi Universal in 2001, where he served as Chief Revenue officer for their internet division. For the last five years, he has turned his talents to Robotics. As an advisor and VP, he worked with Brain Corporation to develop their licensing and data as a service strategy. More recently, he’s been advising and helping Badger Technologies Inc. leverage its Robotics Platform to serve the security and sanitizing market, leading to a partnership with UVDI to develop the Badger UV-C Disinfect Robot.

Steve is the Chief Scientist and Regulatory Compliance Officer at Proximity Systems / UV-Clean in Houston, Texas, USA. Steve is Canadian and still lives in his small home town of Strathroy, Ontario near Toronto, Canada. His career started as a Medical Technologist / Clinical Scientist, and following college his Healthcare journey began by working at his small hometown hospital and later moving to a major Toronto, Hospital. Steve’s professional training is in Microbiology, Immunohematology, Chemistry, Pathology and Hematology and spent time working within a Cardiac Investigation Lab at a major hospital Transplant Unit. In the mid 90’s Steve moved from Medicine to IT and started his IT management career. Steve worked on two large Electronic Medical Record implementations (Meditech and Cerner) in Canada at two different facilities. His career in the late 90’s took him into sales of point-of-care computing equipment and he worked for 17 years for Ergotron travelling to over 30 countries as the one of premier experts in Healthcare IT Point-of-care Technologies World Wide. Steve left Ergotron in 2015 as the Global AVP of Healthcare and joined Proximity. Steve now works for Proximity Systems in Houston, Texas as a Clinical Scientist. Steve is responsible for everything Safety and Science related to Proximity’s UVC disinfection technologies. In addition to his medical credentials, Steve is a Certified Professional of Health Information Management Systems (HIMSS – CPHIMS) and is working toward his APIC CIC Certification.

Barry Hunt, BSc, is President & CEO of Prescientx a leading manufacturer of infection control products including UV devices. He founded the Coalition for Healthcare Acquired Infection Reduction (CHAIR) and the Canadian Association of PPE Manufacturers (CAPPEM), is a member of IUVA, IPAC, APIC, SHEA, CHES, ASHE and ASHRAE and participates in the development of CSA and ISO Standards for healthcare. His concept of Engineered Infection Prevention was awarded a Top 10 World Patient Safety Innovation.

Mairead Smith is a Senior Project Engineer with ECRI's Device Evaluation group. Since joining ECRI in 2013, she has evaluated laparoscopic and flexible endoscopic video systems, cardiac devices, and ultraviolet disinfection devices. As part of this testing, Mairead has worked closely with infection prevention experts at ECRI, a microbiology lab, and more than ten UV device manufacturers. She has also facilitated testing at local hospitals to assess the effectiveness of UV disinfection implementation in the real world. Prior to her work at ECRI, Mairead studied mechanical engineering at Bucknell University.

Treye Thomas, Ph.D., is a Lead Toxicologist and Program Manager for the Chemicals, Nanotechnology and Emerging Materials Program Area in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction. His duties include establishing priorities and projects to identify and mitigate potential health risks to consumers resulting from chemical exposures during product use. Dr. Thomas has conducted comprehensive exposure assessment studies of chemicals in consumer products and quantified the potential health risks to consumers exposed to various chemicals including flame retardants, nanomaterials, wood preservatives, perfluorintated compounds and heavy metals. Dr. Thomas played a lead role in developing the CPSC nanotechnology research program, and is addressing the health and safety implications of emerging technologies including additive manufacturing/3D printing and wearable technology. Dr. Thomas serves as a CPSC representative in a number of activities including as a federal liaison for the NAS Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions standing committee, the UL 3D Technical Advisory Board, and is the co-chair for the NNI Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI) working group. Dr. Thomas received an MS from UCLA and PhD from the University of Texas, Health Science Center, before completing a post-doctoral fellowship in industrial toxicology.

Dr. Murray is the Acting Assistant Director for the Sterility Devices Team. He is responsible for providing leadership, management, guidance, and regulatory science opinions for sterility devices which include sterilizers and the accessories used with this device in the healthcare setting and postmarket and compliance issues for these specific devices.

Dr. Christina Webber is a Regulatory Science Program Manager currently coordinating the Network of Experts program in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s (CDRH) Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation (OST). She manages this program that leverages organizational partnerships to provide CDRH staff access to external expertise in specific areas of science, engineering, and medicine to supplement existing CDRH knowledge and expertise. Dr. Webber holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Physiology from the Mayo Clinic Graduate School, a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Akron, and a B.S. in Bioengineering from Pennsylvania State University..