Dr. Allread is the Program Director of SRI-Ergonomics at The Ohio State University. In this position, Gary works extensively with companies and organizations nationwide, to provide a variety of ergonomics technical support services. This includes: conducting ergonomics worksite assessments and guiding improvement efforts; training employee groups about ergonomics principles; and developing and helping to manage companies’ ergonomics initiatives. A Certified Professional Ergonomist, he has lent his expertise to a wide range of industry sectors, including hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, automotive assembly, transportation, warehousing, all with the mission to improve work practices, reduce injuries, and improve productivity among employees. Gary also coordinates Ohio State’s popular Ergonomics Short Course, offered bi-annually, in both on-site and remote formats.

As a professional who works in both industrial and academic settings, Dr. Allread works closely with Ohio State’s ergonomics faculty and staff to translate research to useable formats for the benefit of industry. He has been a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for 35 years and is currently President of the Applied Ergonomics Society (March 2022-March 2023.)

https://ergonomics.osu.edu/

Cass Contreras is a Leader and Executive Consultant who works with Janitorial and Sanitation Supply Companies, Building Service Contractors and Educational organizations. Cass specializes in recruiting, training, new business development, and major market expansion. After spending more than two decades in sales and leadership for multimillion dollar organizations, Cass knows that spending time listening to what her clients’ needs are and gaining understanding of their business goals and initiatives is what is required to help provide solutions, so her clients achieve the success they seek. Cass is passionate about green cleaning and the environment and has been a
LEED A.P. since 2007.

Cass has consistently motivated and led teammates to achieve their highest potential and was awarded Home Depot Pro Sales Leader of the Year in 2018!

Cass has over 20 years’ experience working in sales, supply chain, distribution and in technology sales as well. She has won multiple awards for sales excellence include Home Depot’s Circle of Excellence six years in a row. In her capacity as a LEED Accredited Professional, she has assisted on over 20 projects including the LEED for Existing Buildings Platinum Aventine project in La Jolla, CA.

Cass holds a BA in Psychology from San Jose State University.

Charles P. Gerba Ph.D. – Professor of Environmental Microbiology, University of Arizona.

Charles P. Gerba, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized environmental microbiologist and Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Soil, Water and Environmental Science, at the University of Arizona. His credentials include a B.A. in Microbiology, Arizona State University, 1969, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Miami, Florida, 1973. He is also a member of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Dr. Gerba has authored more than over 700 articles – 16 on coronaviruses as of January, 2022 – and on behalf of the Departments of Environmental Science (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), Biosystems Engineering (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), and Community and Environmental Health (College of Public Health) at the University of Arizona.

His efforts are largely focused on quantifying the benefits of interventions such as disinfection and cleaning for reducing risk of infection.

His articles include several text books in environmental microbiology and pollution science. He actively conducts research on the development of new disinfectants and drinking water treatment processes, new methods for the detection of pathogens, and microbial risk assessment. He was a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Committee on the development of the “Guide Standard and Protocol for Testing Microbiological Water Purifiers,” which forms the basis for testing the performance of water treatment devices used for outdoor recreation. He is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board Committees on Drinking
Water and Research Strategies.

The public knows Dr. Gerba best for his crusading on behalf of household hygiene. He has made frequent media appearances, including Good Morning America, Today, and Dateline, and has been quoted numerous times in international and national reports, magazines and newspapers.

Mark McDaniel is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Director of the Center for Integrative Research in Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE). He received his Ph.D. from University of Colorado in 1980. His research is in the general area of human learning and memory, with an emphasis on prospective memory, encoding and retrieval processes in memory and applications to educational contexts. His educationally relevant research includes a series of studies on elaborative study techniques, learning of science categories, and enhancing learning through testing (repeated retrieval), with much of this latter work being conducted in college and middle school classrooms. His research has been sponsored by the Institute of Educational Sciences, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

McDaniel has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and as president of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and of Division 3 (Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science) of the American Psychological Association. He has published over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and edited books on human learning and memory, and is the co-author with Peter Brown and Henry Roediger of the book: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Henry L. (Roddy) Roediger, III is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated with a BA in Psychology from Washington & Lee University (1969) and received his PhD from Yale University (1973) in cognitive psychology. He previously taught at Purdue University, the University of Toronto, and Rice University. Roediger’s research has centered on human learning and memory, and he has published over 350 articles and chapters on various aspects of remembering. He also co-authored four books and has co-edited ten more. Roediger served as President of the Association of Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychology, the Psychonomic Society and several other associations of psychologists. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and honorary doctorates from Purdue University and Southern Illinois University. Roediger has also received the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the John P. McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the William James Fellow Award from the Association of Psychological Science, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Perry Shimanoff is a Certified Master Custodial Trainer with ISSA’s Cleaning Management Institute (CMI). He is the founder and president of MC2 Management and Communication Consultants, and has been involved in training both managers and front-line cleaning staff for more than 40 years. He has designed several computer applications for maintenance management, facility scheduling, and custodial operations; has served on the International Custodial Advisors Network (ICAN) Board of Directors; and is a current member of both ICAN and the IICRC standards committee. He has conducted more than 300 training seminars at more than 800 school districts, taught nearly 20,000 custodians nationally, written more than 90 articles requested by journals, and is a successful author.

Bob has more than twenty-five years of industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, scientific investigative, environmental risk assessment, and environmental management systems consulting experience.

He is Founder and President of QUEST Management International.

Bob lectures and publishes extensively, including his co-authored book International Environmental Risk Management: ISO 14000 and the Systems Approach. He has qualified and served in numerous jurisdictions as an expert in industrial hygiene, environmental monitoring, microflora/mold, meth, indoor air quality, environmental sampling, and risk management, for dozens of environmental contamination cases. Bob has a Bachelor’s degree in geology from Middlebury College and a Master of Science degree in Marine Geology and Geophysics from the Rosensteil School of Marine & Atmospheric Science.