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: 2023-2024
Heather Roth joined the AIRA board in 2018. Heather is the immunization branch chief in the Disease Control and Public Health Response Division at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. In this position, she develops strategic direction and policies for the state’s immunization program and is responsible for program operations, grant management, data management, and staff management. She has worked in immunizations for 16 years and specifically within the IIS field for 14 years. During that time, she has filled many IIS positions: training and outreach, interoperability and meaningful use project management, data quality monitoring, and IIS program management (including fiscal, vendor, and grant management).
Served as President-Elect: 2022-2023
Melissa Mickle-Hope
President-Elect
Term as President-Elect: 2023-2024
Melissa Mickle-Hope has worked with the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) for over 18 years. She is the director of the Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR), the immunization information system (IIS) for New York City. The CIR is a mature IIS that started in 1996. Melissa has been on the AIRA board for three years and is currently serving on the Executive Committee as president-elect.
Served as Seretary: 2021-2023
Miriam Muscoplat
Governance Committee Chair
Term as Governance Chair: 2023-2025
Miriam Muscoplat is the manager of the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection. 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 11) and Henry (age 5)).
David Crowell
Secretary
Term as Secretary: 2023-2025
David Crowell is a member of the AIRA board of directors. With two years serving on the board, he is looking forward to taking on the role of secretary for the 2023–2025 term, demonstrating his commitment to advancing the organization’s mission. David currently holds the position of HL7 interface manager for the Nevada State Immunization Program, a role he has held for over eight years. In this capacity, he oversees the registry help desk and serves as a trainer 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.
Steve Murchie
Treasurer
Term as Treasurer: 2022-2024
Steve Murchie first joined the AIRA board in 2018. He is currently the CEO of Envision Technology Partners which he acquired with his wife, Claire, in 2011. Prior to this, Steve spent over 20 years in the computer software industry. He has served on both the Governance and Finance Committees for the AIRA board and is currently serving as Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair.
Directors
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2022-2024
Nancy Sharova is the immunization information system (IIS), CT WiZ, manager at the Connecticut Department of Public Health. In this role, she plans, manages, coordinates, and evaluates programmatic IIS operations. She has a B.S. in family services and counseling and an MPH from the University of Connecticut – Go Huskies! She previously worked in social services and social work. Nancy has been an AIRA board member since October 2022. Being process-oriented, she enjoys that there is always something new to learn in public health work and highly recommends getting involved with AIRA through the repository, workgroups, submitting articles for SnapShots, and participating in the AIRA National Meeting. A 20-year immunization program veteran, she has enjoyed collaborating with partners to modernize IIS and amend state law to make CT WiZ a lifespan IIS. When not working, you will find Nancy spending time with her family or writing her parents’ life story.
Marie Hartel
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2022-2024
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 statewide data systems. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family.
Jeff Chorath
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2023-2025
Jeff Chorath joined the AIRA board in 2023. He is the Immunization Information System Section manager for the Washington Department of Health. Jeff previously served in the military as an intelligence officer, functioned as a program consultant for Starbucks Coffee Company, and worked as a procurement supervisor for Kindred Healthcare. He received a B.S. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Illinois, an M.S. in healthcare administration and management from Rosalind Franklin University, and an MBA from the University of Washington. Originally from Chicago, Jeff resides in the Seattle area with his dog and cat. In his free time, he enjoys racing motorcycles, hiking, and traveling.
David Mattiko
IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2023-2025
David Mattiko joined the AIRA board in 2023. David is the immunization registry manager in the Division of Immunizations in the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In this position, he manages a staff of registry, statistical, and clerical personnel to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate immunization data. David is currently leading the Pennsylvania transition to PIERS, which will utilize Envision’s Technology Partners WebIZ™ platform, set to go live in January 2024. David has worked in the Pennsylvania Department of Health for 24 years with the past four years as the manager of PA-SIIS. Prior to working in immunizations, he worked in the Vital Events Registry for 20 years, where he was also the registry manager.
Mike Berry
Non-IIS Director
Current Board Term: 2023-2025
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).
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