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The HCLOC is advisory to the Chancellor through the Vice Chancellor of Research, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, and Vice Chancellor for Resource Management & Planning. The primary charge to the Committee is to oversee all matters relating to the safe design and use of high-containment laboratory space.
It is the HCLOC’s responsibility to coordinate laboratory operations including:
Review all plans for work conducted in high-containment laboratory facilities
Recommend strategies and guidance for ensuring personnel safety and security among individuals with access to Risk Group 3 biological agents and toxins (RG3), and public safety
Advise, plan and review operations and maintenance
Review an annual high-containment facility risk assessment as advised in the ANSI/ASSE Z9.14 2014 BSL-3/ABSL-3 laboratory performance verification standard
Review and advise on campus plans for high-containment facility permanent equipment repairs, replacement, retrofits, upgrades and design of new facilities
Recommend strategies for funding and sustaining current and new high-containment facilities and effective management programs.
Address any other issues as directed by the UCOP High-Containment Oversight Committee.
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Appoints Representative
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David Smith
VC-OMCP Committee Contact: Marie-Pierre Murry
Committee Chair: Ben A. Croker, Ph.D.
Committee Contact: Aristea A. Lubar
Committee Membership and Recruitment
Appoints Representatives | Representatives | Description | Term |
Operations Management and Capital Programs (in collaboration with applicable departments) | Faculty Responsible for BSL-3 Facility | 2025 | |
Operations Management and Capital Programs (in collaboration with applicable departments) | Clinical Infectious Diseases / Diagnostics Representative |
2022
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Stephen Spector
Chair, Faculty Responsible for BSL-3 Facility
2024
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Ex Officio
Dismas Abelman
EH&S, Emergency Services Manager
Indefinite
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Charles Bryant
Facilities Management, HVAC Superintendent (voting)
Indefinite
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Richard Cota
Facilities Management, Asst. Director/Building Operations. Alternate for Facilities Management, Director
Indefinite
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Marcia Isakari
Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine Representative
Indefinite
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Jeff Kaplan
VC Health Sciences Representative (voting)
Indefinite
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Jason Kayne
Facilities Management, Director (voting)
Indefinite
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Melissa Ly
EH&S, Associate Biosafety Officer
Indefinite
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Sheryl Major
EH&S, High Containment Officer (voting)
Indefinite
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Roberto Meza
Campus Police, Physical Security Program Manager (voting)
Indefinite
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Jason Peterson
EH&S UCSD Medical Center, Director (voting)
Indefinite
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Phil Richter
Animal Care Program, Director (voting)
Indefinite
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Lance Scott
EH&S, Research Safety Manager
Indefinite
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Ken Shafer
Alternate for VC Health Sciences Representative
Indefinite
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Corey Singleton
EH&S, Director; VC Resources Management & Planning Representative
Indefinite
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Brittany Whiting
VC Research Office Representative (voting)
Indefinite
2025 | |||
Operations Management and Capital Programs (in collaboration with applicable departments) | Chair; Animal Biosafety Level 3 Specialist | 2025 | |
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Operations Management and Capital Programs | Dismas B. (Dis) Abelman | Emergency Manager, Environment Health & Safety | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Kevin C. Chou | Executive Director / Business Technology Services, Information Technology Services; Information technology and cybersecurity expert | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Marcia T. Isakari | Medical Director, Occupational / Environmental Medicine | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Jeffrey A. (Jeff) Kaplan | Senior Director, Planning / Space Management, VC Health Sciences | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Jason E. Kayne | Director, Facilities Management | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Sheryl N. Mansour | Biosafety Officer / Program Manager, Environment Health & Safety | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Kent G. Osborn | Associate Director, Animal Care Program | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Jason P. Peterson | Senior Director, EH&S, UC San Diego Medical Center | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Shanda Hunt | Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Compliance, and Integrity; VC Research and Innovation | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Lance M. Scott | Safety Manager, Environment Health & Safety | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Lamine Secka | Chief, Police Department | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Ken G. Shafer | Pr Facilities Manager, VC Health Sciences; Alternate Representative | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Corey L. Singleton | Director, Environment Health & Safety, VC-OMCP Representative | Indefinite |
Operations Management and Capital Programs | Matthew Winklepleck | HVAC Superintendent / Building Operations, Facilities Management | Indefinite |