Members & Operation

• The network will schedule a web conference twice a year (February/March, and September) plus plan an onsite meeting during the ASM Microbe annual meeting (usually in June) to discuss research projects business items.

• An inaugural meeting was held in June 2019 during the ASM Microbe meeting in San Francisco, CA.

• Directors of laboratories that diagnose a significant amount of fungal diseases were initially queried for interest. Membership is open but will initially be limited.

• Members will be asked to contribute to the goals of the group, including participation in projects/working groups and contributions to a biorepository.

Co-chairs

Esther Babady Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Shawn Lockhart CDC Myotic Diseases Branch

Sean Zhang The Johns Hopkins Hospital

FDLC Member Center	Location	Contact Person
American Board of Pathology	Tampa, Florida, USA	Gary Procop
ARUP	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA	Kimberly Hanson
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Stefan Riedel
CDC Mycotic Diseases Branch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Shawn Lockhart
Center for Innovative Therapeutics and Diagnostics (CITD)	Richmond Hill, Virginia, USA	Thomas Walsh
Children’s National Hospital	Washington, DC, USA	Benjamin Liu
Cleveland Clinic	Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Anisha Misra
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA	Isabella Martin/Nicole Loeven
Duke University Medical Center	Durham, North Carolina, USA	Barbara Alexander
ECU Health Medical Center	Greenville, North Carolina, USA	John Markantonis
Fungus Testing Laboratory	San Antonia, Texas, USA	Nathan Wiederhold
The Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Sean Zhang
Laboratoire de sante publique du Quebec	Quebec, Canada	Philippe Dufresne
London Health Sciences Centre, Vitorial Hospital	London, Ontario, Canada	Jeff Fuller
Loyola University Medical Center	Chicago, Illinois, USA	Amanda Harrington
Mayo Clinic, Arizona	Phoenix, Arizona, USA	Tom Grys
Mayo Clinic, Rochester	Rochester, Minnesota, USA	Nancy Wengenack/Paschalis Vergidis
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York City, New York, USA	Esther Babady
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine	New York City, New York, USA	Lars Westblade
NIH Microbiology Service	Bethesda, Maryland, USA	Amir Seyedmousavi/Adrian Zelazny
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	Columbus, Ohio, USA	Joan-Miquel Balada/Preeti Pancholi
Public Health Laboratory (ProvLab), Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL)	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	Tanis Dingle
Public Health Ontario Laboratory	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Julianne Kus
Quest Diagnostics	San Juan Capistrano, California, USA	Kamran Azad
Shared Hospital Laboratory / Sunnybrook Health Sciences	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Xena Li
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	Memphis, Tennessee, USA	Heather Glasgow/Randy Hayden
Stanford Medical Center	Stanford, California, USA	Niaz Banaei
Temple University Health System	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Kaede Sullivan
TriCore Lab	Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA	John Fissel
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham, Alabama, USA	Sixto Leal
University of Maryland Medical Center	Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Paul Luethy/Kristi (Jennifer) Johnson
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	M. Hong Nguyen/Bryan Stevens
University of Texas Southwestern	Dallas, Texas, USA	Francesca Lee/Andrew Clark
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville, Tennessee, USA	Lili Tao
Wake Forest Medical Center	Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA	Elizabeth Palavecino
Wardsworth Center, New York State Department of Health	Albany, New York, USA	Sudha Chaturvedi