Officers & Board of Directors
AIRA Board
The individuals serving on AIRA’s board of directors are elected by AIRA members and provide invaluable leadership and expertise. Directors serve a two-year term. The board plays a crucial role in guiding AIRA in its strategic vision. It is composed of five officers—President, President-Elect, Governance Committee Chair, Treasurer, Secretary—and seven directors. These directors are primarily IIS staff and IIS program managers working for public health agencies across the country. Sign up for the Weekly Update to learn about AIRA’s activities, including board updates.
*Non-IIS directors
Officers/Executive Committee
Term as President: 2025-2026
Marie Hartel is the Program Director for the Tennessee Department of Health Vaccine-Preventable Disease and Immunization Program, overseeing the IIS, data management, and administrative operations of the program. She joined the immunization community in May 2020, previously serving as the IIS Manager and IIS Deputy Manager. Marie has a master’s degree in public health and more than a decade of experience supporting the design, implementation, and management of state data systems. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family.
Term as President-Elect: 2024-2025
Served as IIS Director: 2022-2024
Miriam Muscoplat
President-Elect
Term as President-Elect: 2025-2026
Miriam Muscoplat is the Manager of the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC). Miriam’s role includes supervising MIIC operations staff and overall MIIC program coordination. She is also the MIIC policy lead and data steward. Miriam has been with the immunization program at the Minnesota Department of Health since 2010 and with MIIC since 2014. She has a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a master of public health degree in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. In her spare time, Miriam enjoys cross-stitching snarky sayings, listening to true-crime podcasts, and hiking with her family (husband Jon, and kids Iris (age 13) and Henry (age 7)).
Term as Governance Committee Chair: 2023–2025
Served as IIS Director: 2021–2023
David Crowell
Governance Committee Chair
Term as Governance Chair: 2025–2027
David Crowell is a member of the AIRA Board of Directors. With five years serving on the board, he has most recently been in the role of secretary for the 2023–2025 term. Demonstrating his commitment to advancing the organization’s mission, David has assumed his position as Governance Chair for the 2025–2027 term. As the HL7 Interface Manager for the Nevada State Immunization Program (NSIP), he has been leading HL7 interoperability projects for NSIP since 2015. In this capacity, he oversees the registry help desk and assists both the training and data quality units for the Nevada WebIZ program. David is a dedicated family man. The favorite thing for him and his wife, children, and dog to do is enjoy the beauty of Lake Tahoe together. Along with his family, David enjoys skiing, camping, and exploring the outdoors of his home state, Nevada.
Term as Secretary: 2023–2025
Served as IIS Director: 2021–2023
Kim Gulliver
Secretary
Term as Secretary: 2025–2027
Kim Gulliver joined the AIRA board in 2024. Kim is the Manager of the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS). In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations, providing strategic direction, and supervising employees of the CIIS program and the Immunization Data Unit. Kim has worked in the IIS field for the last 19 years. During this time, she has had many duties, including training and outreach, provider enrollment, interoperability, data quality monitoring, meaningful use coordinator, and IIS program management (including fiscal, vendor, and grant management). In her spare time, Kim enjoys spending time with her family, camping, hiking, and traveling. Her family has a goal of visiting all US states (achieved this goal in 2025) and national parks.
Served as IIS Director: 2024–2025
Steve Murchie
Treasurer
Term as Treasurer: 2022–2026
Steve Murchie is serving his fourth term on the AIRA Board. He is active on the Finance and Executive Committees and holds the Treasurer position. Steve spends his non-AIRA time as a consultant for Envision Technology Partners and trying to figure out what retirement is all about. He makes his home in Evergreen, Colorado, with his wife, Claire. Steve has worked on a number of nonprofit boards and enjoys giving back to the community. When attempting to relax, Steve enjoys a variety of outdoor sports and is rekindling his love for flying small aircraft. Steve holds a BA in economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Served as Non-IIS Director: 2018–2022
Directors
Laura Barrett
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2026
Laura Barrett joined the AIRA board in 2024. Laura is the Immunization Registry Manager at the Kentucky Department for Public Health. She has worked in the Kentucky Immunization Registry (KYIR) section since 2015. Laura was instrumental in the IIS implementation in 2015 and the implementation of the IIS public portal in 2022. In her current role, she is responsible for developing, tracking, and supporting the completion of IIS-related CDC Cooperative Agreement activities. Laura has extensive experience with IIS implementation, training, help desk support, data quality analysis, and project management. She found a home in public health after three years of serving as an AmeriCorps member supporting Kentuckians through various nonprofits throughout the commonwealth. In her free time, she enjoys participating in the Kentucky Immunization Branch book club, playing Dungeons and Dragons with her husband, friends, and co-workers, and spoiling her many pets.
Served as IIS Director: 2024–2025
Iris Cheng
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2027
Iris Cheng joined the AIRA board in 2025. She has been with the Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR), New York City’s immunization information system, as a City Research Scientist since 2015. Her work focuses on data analysis and research, data quality, deduplication, geocoding, dashboard development, advanced report automation, and machine learning applications. Iris received a bachelor of engineering from Stony Brook University, where she double-majored in biomedical engineering and applied mathematics and statistics. She also holds a master of science in statistics from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York. At the CIR, Iris is known for her knack for finding solutions to complex data problems. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new things, gardening, and doing small home projects.
Mandy Harris
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2027
Amanda (Mandy) Harris has worked for the Nevada State Immunization Program for 19 years supporting the statewide IIS, NV WebIZ, and has served as the NV WebIZ Integration Manager since 2011. The many hats she wore in her early IIS years gave her a broad perspective and solid foundation that supports her work today. Mandy is beginning her third adventure with the AIRA Board, having previously served as Secretary and President. When not saving the world through the power of IIS, she enjoys growing veggies in her greenhouse, serving as “official video game navigator and strategist” for her husband, and snapping photos any chance she gets.
Term as President: 2018–2019
Term as President-Elect: 2017–2018
Term as Secretary: 2012–2013
Mary Woinarowicz
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2027
Mary Woinarowicz is the Immunization Unit Director at the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. She previously served as the manager of the North Dakota Immunization Information System (NDIIS) from 2014 to 2025 and as the IIS Coordinator from 2011 to 2014. Mary has a master of arts degree in sociology with a focus on educational foundations and research from the University of North Dakota. She is currently the co-chair of the AIRA Standards and Interoperability Steering Committee and Resource Development Recommendations Workgroup and has previously served on the AIRA Board of Directors. In her free time, Mary enjoys working on jigsaw puzzles and building Lego sets, both of which end up as home décor when complete, and chauffeuring her three kids to all of their activities and sporting events.
Term as President: 2015–2016, 2022–2023
Term as President-Elect: 2014–2015, 2021–2022
Served as IIS Director: 2017–2021
Term as Secretary: 2013–2014
Mike Berry
Non-IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2027
Mike Berry joined the AIRA Board in 2023. Mike is Senior Project Manager at HLN Consulting and has been working with IIS since 2002. He has staffed and managed IIS and other public health information systems projects for HLN in numerous jurisdictions. In addition to IIS, his work is focused on connecting public health to health information exchanges (HIEs), standards-based messaging and interoperability architecture, privacy and security, and person-matching technologies for integrated systems. Mike currently leads HLN’s public health systems projects for the Rhode Island Department of Health and is a developer and relationship manager for HLN projects at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Mike led HLN’s team on the Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security (SHARPS) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, culminating in the release of Decision Support for Data Segmentation (DS2).
Served as Non-IIS Director: 2023–2025
Shannon Coleman
Non-IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2025–2026
Shannon Coleman joined AIRA in 2024. Shannon is a Director of Immunization Programs at STChealth and has been working in the immunization space for over 30 years, with the last 26 being at STChealth. She has held various positions within the company, with experience ranging from application development and product design to implementation. She has a MS in CIS, a CSM (Certified Scrum Master), and a CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner). Shannon has been a member of MACAW since 2018, is involved in various community groups, and is currently guiding the work of the IIS platform at STC.
Served as Non-IIS Director: 2024–2025
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