Disruptive technology award faculty

2026 DTAC committee

Khushbu Patel, PhD, DABCC, FADLM (Chair)
Director, Clinical Chemistry and Point-of-Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Susan Evans, PhD, FADLM
Principal
BioDecisions Consulting
Los Gatos, California

Michaela Miller, MBA
Senior Director, Strategy & Marketing
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Boston, Massachusetts

Vincent Ricchiuti, PhD, HCLD(ABB), FADLM
Laboratory Director and Discipline Director in Immunology
LabCorp
Dublin, Ohio

Alicja Santos, PhD
CEO
Polonium Foundation
Los Angeles, California

Arejas (Jim) Uzgiris, PhD
Senior Director, R&D
Siemens Healthcare DIagnostics
Berkeley, California

2026 Finalist Judges

Trevor Hawkins, PhD
Chairman, Genomtec S.A
Board Member & Audit Chair, Blue Water Acquisition Corp IV
Greenwich, CT

Donna Hochberg, PhD
Partner and Managing Director
Head of Dx, PM, and LST & Services
Health Advances
Boston, MA

Robert H. Raynor, PhD, MBA
Consultant: Clinical Diagnostics, Technical and Market Diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions
Pismo Beach, CA

2026 Reviewers

Chris Farnsworth, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri

Laura Filkins, PhD, D(ABMM)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Dianne Keen-Kim, PhD
Natera
San Carlos, CA

David Ledden, PhD
Siemens Healthineers
Elkhart, Indiana

Giles Sanders, PhD
TTP plc
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Manfred Scholz, PhD
Scholz Consulting Partners LLC
Medford, Massachusetts