Other Committees

Committee Description Members
Annual Meeting Program Committee
This committee is responsible for planning and organizing the Annual Meeting program.

Pamela Kaliski, Co-Chair
Stefanie Wind, Co-Chair

Archives & History Committee
This committee is responsible for documenting and archiving the history of NCME, and the people, organizations, and trends (e.g., policies, legislation, litigation, societal changes) that have influenced, and have been influenced by, NCME.

Ben Domingue, Chair

Sanford Student

Won-Chan Lee

Ying (Alison) Cheng

Merve Sarac

David Torres Irribarra

Vafa Alakbarova, Student Member

Amy Hendrickson, Board Liaison

                                                                                                              

                                                      

Budget & Finance Committee
This committee is responsible for monitoring NCME budgets, finances, and investments.

Sonya Powers, Chair

David Rutkowski

Sarah Quesen

Nathan Wall

Chunyan Liu

Amy Hendrickson, Board Liaison

Membership Committee
This committee is responsible for monitoring, recruiting, retaining, and recognizing NCME members.

Laurie Davis, Chair

Shalini Kapoor

Barbara Donahue

Chris Brandt

Melinda Taylor

Jordan Wheeler

Andrew Krist, Student Member

Rochelle Michel, Board Liaison

Nominations & Elections Committee
This committee is responsible for preparing the slate of candidates for the yearly election of two new Board of Directors and the new Vice President.

Michael Walker, Chair

Publications Committee
This committee is responsible for providing oversight for all NCME publications. Activities of this committee include evaluating and improving existing procedures and policies, coordinating searches for new editors, and initiating proposals for new publications.

Chris Runyon, Co-Chair
Hong Jiao, Co-Chair
Fusun Sahin
Ronli Diakow
Jinghua Liu
Xinya Liang
Maggie Beiting
Yiting Yao, Student Member
Andrew Ho, Board Liaison

Social Media Committee
This committee is responsible for developing social media policies and practice, creating and managing strong NCME messaging and promotion on social media platforms, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, auditing social media engagement, and making necessary revisions to the NCME presence to the NCME social media platforms.

Kylie Gorney, Chair

Liam Duffy

Seyedahmad (Ahmad) Rahimi

Fernanda Gandara

Xin Qiao

Xinhui (Maggie) Xiong

Sneha Roy

Yaxi Guo, Student Member

Leslie Keng, Board Liaison

Training & Professional Development Committee
This committee is responsible for planning and organizing training sessions for the Annual Meeting, as well as at other times and for other conferences, on an as-needed basis.

Joe Grochowalski, Co-Char

Wenchao Ma, Co-Chair

Amy Hendrickson, President

Kadriye Ercikan, President Elect

Website Committee
This committee is responsible for developing website policies and procedures, oversees updates, monitors traffic, ensures compliance, evaluates and updates design.

Michael Peabody, Chair
Cheng Hua
Luciana Cancado
Ying Lu
Kelley Stethen
Amy Clark
Sergio G. Araneda
Erin Banjanovic & Nathan Dadey, Technical Advisors
Zachary Warner, Board Liaison 

About the Other Committees

A number of additional committees exist that help to support the internal operations of NCME. A brief description of each committee and a list of the committee members is provided below.