HFES needs to run a special election for the position of Chair-Elect of the Council of Technical Groups. The person elected to this position will serve as COTG Chair-Elect through December 31, 2026 and will then serve as COTG Chair from January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2028. They will then serve as Immediate Past COTG Chair through the end of 2028 – a three year volunteer experience.
As a Technical Group Chair and member of the HFES Council of Technical Groups (COTG), you are requested to nominate individuals to serve as the next COTG Chair-Elect. Note: the terms of the COTG officers are one year in each position, and terms will follow the calendar year – just as the individual Technical Group Chairs will over time.
Here is the process of electing the COTG chair-elect as written in the HFES Operating Rules:
15.16.1
A call for nominations for COTG chair-elect shall be distributed to the COTG by email. Self-nominations and the names of other individuals who consent to nomination shall be returned not later than 4 weeks from the posted date of the Call for Nominations. At least 2 individuals so nominated shall be required to hold an election. If more than 3 qualified individuals accept nominations, only the 3 most frequently nominated shall be included on the chair-elect ballot. Ties for the third position on the ballot shall be resolved by random selection. Election ties shall be resolved by a vote at the COTG business meeting.
15.16.2
Chair-elect ballots shall be distributed to the COTG not less than 2 months prior to the annual COTG business meeting. These ballots shall include nominee-supplied biographical sketches and, if desired by a nominee, a brief position statement. The time limit for return of election ballots shall not be less than 3 weeks from the posted date of ballot distribution. The chair-elect shall be elected by a simple majority of the COTG members casting ballots.
15.16.2
For ballot proposals, the chair shall solicit and include on each ballot arguments in favor of and in opposition to the proposal under consideration.
A list of those persons who are eligible for nomination appears below. Please review it and use the attached ballot to nominate individuals for the position specified above.
As required by the operating rule, please check to be sure that the person you nominate is willing to run for the position.
Enter your nomination data via this submission form
THE DEADLINE FOR THE RETURN OF NOMINATIONS IS January 16, 2026
Duties of Office (from HFES Operating Rules, 15.15.1.1 and 15.15.3)
All COTG officers shall have served 1 full year as a technical group chair and shall be a Full Member in good standing of the Society. The COTG chair cannot concurrently serve as an officer in any technical group.
The chair-elect shall act as the understudy to the chair in order to become acquainted with the business and operation of the COTG in preparation for assuming the duties of the chair. In the event that the chair does not serve a full term, the chair-elect shall succeed to the remainder thereof and continue through his/her own term. The COTG chair-elect shall also serve as the chair of the COTG Budget and Finance Committee and, as such, is responsible for the day-to-day handling of COTG finances.
Members Eligible for Nomination (Past TG Chairs)
This is not an exhaustive list. If you know a past TG Chair who is a Full member of HFES you feel would make a strong candidate, please email us at info@hfes.org so that we can verify eligibility before your nomination of them. Thank you.
Membership Directory (login to your HFES member account required
Anthony Andre
Dee H. Andrews
Steven R. Arndt
Thomas J. Ayres
Gary M. Bakken
Aaron W. Bangor
Ellen Bass
ConneMara Bazley
Dennis B. Beringer
Randolph G. Bias
Alvah C. Bittner
Amy M. Bisantz (COTG Chair 2017-2019)
Deborah A. Boehm-Davis
Robert S. Bolia
Brett Borgetti
Russell J. Brannaghan
Curt C. Braun
Michelle Bryant
Christopher Brill
Catherine M. Burns
Kelly Caine
Joyce A. Cameron
Caroline Cao
Shi Cao
Stan H. Caplan
Pascale Carayon
John G. Casali
Don B. Chaffin
Sherry L. Chappell
John P. Chin
Suman Chowdhury
Richard E. Christ
Susan T. Chrysler
David J. Cochran
H. Harvey Cohen
Bruce G. Coury
James Cunningham
William H. Cushman
Sara J. Czaja
Diane L. Damos
Nancy M. Daraiseh
Andy Dattel
Elizabeth T. Davis
David M. DeJoy
Patricia R. DeLucia
Patrick G. Dempsey
Thomas A. Dingus
Shawn Doherty
Igor Dolgov
Cynthia O. Dominguez
Alan L. Dorris
Susan M. Dray
Colin G. Drury
Jerry R. Duncan
Frank T. Durso
F. Thomas Eggemeier
Jay Elkerton
Thomas P. Enderwick
Mica R. Endsley
Jing Feng
Susan A. Ferguson
Robert Feyen
Eric Fichtel
Gregory M.J. Fitch
Andris Freivalds
Glen R. Gallaway
Douglas L. Gardner
Valerie J. Gawron
Kristyna Gielo-Perczak
Juan Gilbert
Stephen Gilbert
Julie Gilpin-McMinn
Richard D. Gilson
Yi Glaser
Barry P. Goettl
Benjamin Goldberg
Joseph H. Goldberg
Brian Gore
Anand Gramopadhye
Wayne D. Gray
Joel S. Greenstein
Sechang Hah
Susan M. Hallbeck
Peter A. Hancock
Amanda Harwood
Paul Havig
Alan Hedge
Lawrence J. Hettinger
Mark S. Hoffman
Richard J. Hornick
William J. Horrey
Lixiao Huang
Andrew S. Imada
Karen Jacobs
Andrea Johnson
Steven L. Johnson
Sharon M.B. Joines
Keith Jones
Michael J. Kalsher
Waldemar Karwowski
Joseph R. Keebler
John Falk Kelley
Nicholas Kelling
Brian M. Kleiner
Rodger J. Koppa
Philip T. Kortum
Jason Kring
Frank C. Lacson
Nancy L.J. Larson
Donald L. Lassiter
Lila F. Laux
Jack I. Laveson
Thomas B. Leamon
John K. Lenneman
David R. Lenorovitz
S. Davis Leonard
Ke Liu
Yili Liu
Bethany Lowndes
Hongzheng (Cindy) Lu
Heather Lum
Rani Lueder
William S. Marras
Justin Mason
Gerald Matthews
Christopher B. Mayhorn
Jason McCarleyrob
Thomas M. McCloy
Daniel V. McGehee
Anne C. McLaughlin
Susan K. Meadows
Stephen C. Merriman
Najmedin Meshkati
Paul R. Michaelis
Anne Miller
Anil Mital
Enid Montague
Claudia Mont’Alvao
Justin F. Morgan
William F. Moroney
Rudolph J. Mortimer
Kathleen L. Mosier
Jason Moss
CS Nam
Lexi Neigel
Lorraine F. Normore
Marita O’Brien
Jennifer J. Ockerman
Dan Odell
Kenneth R. Ohnemus
Patrick E. Patterson
John Brian Peacock
Jay G. Pollack
Carol Pollack-Nelson
Daniel J. Pond
Anuj K. Pradhan
Robert G. Radwin
Prashanth Rajivan
Ed Ramly
Esa Rantanen
Lauren Reinerman-Jones
John M. Reising
David Rempel
Marc L. Resnick
Valerie J. Rice
Jennifer M. Riley
Shannon Roberts
Marie A. Robinson
Michelle L. Rogers
Eduardo Salas
Mark S. Sanders
Farzan Sasangohar
Pamela Savage-Knepshield
Mark W. Scerbo
Frank Schieber
Diana Schwerha
F. Jacob Seagull
John W. Senders
Ronald G. Shapiro
Lawrence G. Shattuck
Randa L. Shehab
Harvey S. Smallman
James L. Smith
Phillip J. Smith
Thomas Smith
Tonya L. Smith-Jackson
Divya Srinivasan
Laura D. Strater
Carol Stuart-Buttle
Robert C. Sugarman
James L. Szalma
Thomas S. Tullis
Thomas Ulrich
Rupa S. Valdez
Dennis A. Vincenzi
Alison G. Vredenburgh
Nicole Werner
Stephanie Whetsel
Ryan Wohleber
Steven F. Wiker
Glenn F. Wilson
Jennifer Winner
Michael S. Wogalter
Heather Wojton
Changxu Wu
Stephen L. Young
Ilene Zackowitz
Han Zhang
Yiqi Zhang
Enter your nomination data via this submission form.
------------------------------
Alex Bianco
Membership and Operations Coordinator
------------------------------