Samia Nidal Naccache, PhD

Dr. Naccache earned her PhD from the University at California, San Diego and completed postdoctoral fellowships in virology at The Scripps Research Institute, laboratory medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and in medical and public health microbiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM). She is also a board-certified medical technologist and public health microbiologist.

Rita Stainback

Ms Stainback holds certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Registry in the following categories: medical technologist (MT), microbiology (SM), and diplomate in laboratory medicine (DLM). She earned a master of science degree in microbiology from the University of Rochester.

Ms Stainback has 40 years of experience in the clinical laboratory industry, including 20 years of hospital-based microbiology experience. She is the manager of Labcorp’s microbiology and kidney stone laboratories.

Howard David Engler, PhD, D(ABMM)

Dr Engler is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical and Public Health Microbiology. He earned his PhD in medical microbiology and immunology from The Ohio State University. He completed postdoctoral fellowship training in medical and public health microbiology at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York.