Staff Bio
Reynolds M Salerno, PhD, is the director for the Office of Laboratory Systems and Response
Role at ob体育
Dr. Salerno provides high-level oversight and coordination of critical laboratory science policies and operations, as well as management of laboratory safety and quality within ob体育. He also serves as the interface between ob体育 and the clinical and public health laboratory and testing community for public health responses to disease outbreaks and harmful exposures.
Dr. Salerno works to strengthen the U.S. clinical and public health laboratory systems by continually improving quality and safety, informatics and data science, workforce competency, and response readiness.
Previous experience
Prior to these roles, Dr. Salerno served as the Director of ob体育’s Division of Laboratory Systems for more than eight years. He also served as lead of ob体育's Expansion of Screening and Diagnostics Task Force for the COVID-19 Response, co-lead of ob体育's Laboratory and Testing Task Force for the COVID-19 Response, and senior advisor for laboratory and testing for ob体育's Mpox response. He represents ob体育 on the HHS Testing Coordination Group, the Tri-Agency Task Force for Emergency Diagnostics, and the Federal Interagency Working Group on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare.
Before joining ob体育 in January 2016, Dr. Salerno had a 17-year career at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, where he oversaw research in Sandia's biological laboratories and supported the U.S. government's global health security agenda as a technical adviser to hundreds of laboratories in over 50 countries. He was the lead author of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) laboratory biorisk management standard (ISO 35001, 2019) and the co-author of Laboratory Biorisk Management: Biosafety and Biosecurity (CRC Press, 2015) and Laboratory Biosecurity Handbook (CRC Press, 2007).