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.
Appoints Representative | Name | Description | Term | Status |
Appointed | ||||
David Smith | Clinical Infectious Diseases/Diagnostics Representative | 2022 | CURRENT | |
Stephen Spector | Chair, Faculty Responsible for BSL-3 Facility | 2021 | CURRENT | |
Ex Officio | ||||
Dismas Abelman | EH&S, Emergency Services Manager | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Charles Bryant | Facilities Management, HVAC Superintendent (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Richard Cota | Facilities Management, Asst. Director/Building Operations. Alternate for Facilities Management, Director | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Marcia Isakari | Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine Representative | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Jeff Kaplan | VC Health Sciences Representative (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Jason Kayne | Facilities Management, Director (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Melissa Ly | EH&S, Associate Biosafety Officer | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Sheryl Major | EH&S, High Containment Officer (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Roberto Meza | Campus Police, Physical Security Program Manager (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Jason Peterson | EH&S UCSD Medical Center, Director (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Phil Richter | Animal Care Program, Director (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Lance Scott | EH&S, Research Safety Manager | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Ken Shafer | Alternate for VC Health Sciences Representative | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Corey Singleton | EH&S, Director; VC Resources Management & Planning Representative | Indefinite | CURRENT | |
Brittany Whiting | VC Research Office Representative (voting) | Indefinite | CURRENT |