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Ashley Petrolino, MPH, CHES, CPH, AE-C

Martinsburg,WV

Summary

Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health

Salisbury University
07.2019 - Current

Remote Faculty

SU
  • Lead various community, professional, and institutional committees to collaboratively develop and manage diverse projects
  • Develop schedules, agendas, and progress reports on multiple project activities
  • Chair of the Eastern Shore Collaborative for Interprofessional Education (ESCIPE) made up of health professions faculty from two institutions to provide evidence-based interprofessional education opportunities to students
  • Develop schedules and timelines for interprofessional learning experiences across twelve health science programs
  • Facilitate remote group discussions for institutional conferences focused in interprofessional education (IPE) opportunities and anti-racism and intercultural communication workshops
  • Advisory committee Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee liaison for the College of Health and Human Services
  • Chair of the Membership Engagement Committee for the Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) section of the APHA
  • Provide reports to APHA and PHEHP leaders on engagement activities, successes, and improvements
  • Vice-chair of the L&PD committee for the PHEHP section of the APHA
  • Manage and facilitate virtual workshops for American Public Health Association (APHA) members across the globe
  • Steering committee for the wellness subcommittee of the Healthy Washington County health coalition
  • Develop engaging and interactive displays to provide nutrition and physical activity health education during various community events
  • Proactively engage peers and students in formative and summative course evaluations and apply course adjustments based on the analysis of evaluations obtained
  • Proficiently use multiple web-based technologies and learning management systems (LMS) (e.g., iMovie, video teleconferencing, Zoom, Microsoft Office, Blackboard & Canvas) to facilitate engaging classroom discussions
  • Actively engage in professional development and research opportunities
  • Develop course curriculum, schedules, assessments, and facilitate didactic public health courses
  • Create new course curriculum proposal focused on environmental health aligning with new general education requirements adopted by the University
  • Merge personal teaching theory, evidenced pedagogy, and learning technologies to facilitate engaging and meaningful classroom experiences
  • Integrate systems thinking and current best-practices into public health courses focused on U.S
  • Healthcare and Health policy, public health preparedness, and community nutrition to address community needs
  • Develop course content which aligns with the eight areas of responsibility for health education specialists and the public health program accreditation standards and goals
  • Collaborate with internal colleagues to develop graduate-level curriculum for a graduate-level public health program proposal
  • Serve as Internal Unit Peer Reviewer for internal Quality online learning standards review (Maryland University Systems’ gold standard for online learning standards).

Site Coordinator

Salisbury University (SU), University System of Maryland at Hagerstown (USM
07.2019 - 06.2023
  • Bridge program, satellite campus, and university leaders to ensure practical and innovative pedagogical and technologically supported course delivery, engagement, and equity across the program
  • Develop and submit reports to university leaders on student and recruitment successes, developments, and engagement activities
  • Lead the USMH wellness committee
  • Actively Facilitate USMH in being designated as a 2020 Healthy Business by the Washington County Health Department
  • Manage annual flu shot clinic for students, staff, faculty, and local government agencies
  • Advise and mentor current and prospective public health satellite students to set and meet academic goals
  • Coordinate between recruitment specialists and academic advisors to ensure prospective students have a clear pathway into the program, including creating articulation agreements with local community colleges
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure experiential learning opportunities for underserved and first-generation college students and advancement of community-based programming, including multi-level grant-funded projects
  • Develop and facilitate new student orientations and ensure retention and work placement for diverse non-traditional students
  • Ensure student access to university and USMH services as needed
  • Serve as a faculty member of Eta Sigma Gamma Epsilon Xi chapter, the health education honor society
  • Manage the public health program social media pages, including creating appropriate online marketing material
  • Facilitate classroom visit and table information sessions for the program at community events and local community colleges
  • Ensure appropriate instructional and marketing materials are purchased and maintained
  • Collaborate with internal and external marketing professional to develop
  • Public health program marketing materials
  • Collaborate with internal partners to develop and manage the program budget
  • Volunteer within the community to support various activities and projects aimed at improving health and wellbeing
  • Develop, distribute, and evaluate optional course evaluations for each course, each semester and adjust course delivery to best meet learners’ needs
  • Enthusiastically engage in professional development opportunities at the local, state, and national level, to hone and develop instructional and professional knowledge and skills.

Assistant Professor of Respiratory Care, Site Coordinator

Shenandoah University
08.2015 - 08.2019
  • Faculty with 12-month responsibilities in areas of teaching, service, and scholarship
  • Develop course curriculum content aligning with national respiratory standards, including assignments, scheduling, and grading criteria for laboratory and didactic courses that meet accreditation standards
  • Strive for continued improvement through analysis of formative and summative student and peer evaluations and proactively engage in professional development opportunities
  • Collaborate with colleagues in the program and across the school of nursing to ensure alignment of laboratory coursework and content between the satellite and main campuses to meet program accreditation standards
  • Facilitate didactic and laboratory concurrent courses focused on evidence-based clinical respiratory techniques and interventions which include infection control best practices, respiratory pharmacology, and pathophysiology
  • Employ appropriate classroom technologies and learning management systems (iMovie, video teleconferencing, Zoom, Microsoft Office, augmented reality, & Canvas) to facilitate student engagement
  • Introduce and facilitate tobacco cessation counseling training into the respiratory care curriculum
  • Plan and facilitate interprofessional simulations across two campuses using virtual classroom technologies using evidence-based simulation and pedagogical techniques
  • Actively participate in various university and program committees including faculty senate, the intercultural working group, faculty affairs, and the program advisory committee
  • Faculty Senate Secretary on the university faculty senate
  • Facilitate interprofessional education activities with students in health profession studies such as physician assistant, pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy, and athletic training
  • Collaborate with Shenandoah Immersive Learning (SCIL) to create virtual reality videos to be used as experiential learning tools
  • Coordinate and manage volunteer opportunities to serve community needs
  • Serve as faculty advisor for the respiratory care student association (RCSA), facilitate fundraising opportunities, and manage budget
  • Faculty advisor to respiratory care students at Scholar Plaza, coordinating of classroom, video teleconferencing, and student events for the respiratory care program
  • Facilitate various student engagement activities to bring awareness of respiratory conditions and the profession, including lung cancer awareness week, the cystic fibrosis Great Strides walk, and respiratory care week
  • Advise prospective students on program requirements, expectations, and support retention and work placement for diverse non-traditional students
  • Counsel respiratory care students regarding study habits
  • Counsel students enrolled in the respiratory care program in career exploration
  • Develop and facilitate new student orientation.

Threat Preparedness Contractor

Morgan County Health Department
08.2014 - 08.2015
  • Develop schedules, facilitate staff trainings, and local and state partnerships to complete preparedness deliverables on time and build response capacity for the health department
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including community and state-wide, to meet grant deliverable requirements related to local agency preparedness and health coalitions
  • Lead and engage in state-wide meetings with health department preparedness coordinators within our region to communicate our county’s public health preparedness capacity and collaborate on regional resources
  • Develop and submit all threat preparedness grant progress reports and deliverables to the state liaison
  • Provide professional project reports to the county department of health and county commission and routinely discuss health department initiatives on local radio stations.

Threat Preparedness grant coordinator, Volunteer coordinator

Berkeley County Health Department
12.2013 - 08.2015
  • Health promotions specialist
  • Lead the progress of threat preparedness and health promotion focused grants to increase community resilience and health department capacity
  • Create and facilitate first drive thru point of dispensing (POD) exercise which offered free flu shots to test the capacity of local health department to respond to an emergency requiring a POD setup
  • Develop schedules, facilitate staff trainings, and local and state partnerships to complete deliverables on time
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including community and state-wide, to meet grant deliverable requirements which strengthened local agency preparedness and health coalitions
  • Lead and engage in state-wide meetings with health department preparedness coordinators within our region to communicate our county’s public health preparedness capacity and collaborate on regional resources
  • Develop and submit all threat preparedness grant progress reports and deliverables to the state liaison
  • Coordinate preparedness exercises with the local hospitals, Veterans Affairs hospital, state-wide preparedness and emergency management partners, and federal preparedness liaisons
  • Provide professional project reports to the county department of health and county commission and routinely discuss health department initiatives on local radio stations
  • Collaborate with local tobacco coalition, community members, other local stakeholders, and state tobacco to advance and pass a whole county smoking ban within 20 feet of any business establishment
  • Engage and support sustainability efforts for community gardens in downtown food desert areas
  • Collaborate with local partners including health agencies and local businesses to create Healthy Berkeley: It’s Up to Us health coalition and support writing grants which have led to sustainable initiatives to support health and wellness events for the community
  • Coordinate grants to support sustainability of wellness programs begun under the Change the Future WV grant, including, scheduling and facilitator training for the Living Well, Living Well with Chronic Disease, National Diabetes Prevention Program, and adult tobacco cessation workshops
  • Manage and train Medical Reserve Corps volunteers for the county and facilitate engagement activities.

Berkeley County Health Department
12.2012 - 12.2013
  • Change the Future WV grant Region 2 coordinator
  • Facilitate evidence-based health education opportunities focused on increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and the incidence of physical activity in six rural counties in West Virginia to address established health needs
  • Manage scheduling, facilitator training, and facilitate Living Well, Living Well with Chronic Disease, National Diabetes Prevention Program, and adult tobacco cessation workshops in six county area
  • Support and promote local health coalition activities and initiatives
  • Coordinate fresh fruits and vegetable delivery to local rural markets known to serve areas deemed as food deserts
  • Manage healthy checkout lanes in rural Wal-Mart stores in the six-county area
  • Collaborate with local health department administrators and staff to educate on health promotion best practices
  • Collaborate with and support local farmers markets to accept Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT)
  • Facilitate sustainable farmers markets in rural town centers.

Per diem Respiratory Care practitioner

Meritus Medical Center
12.2012 - 08.2015

Respiratory Care practitioner

08.2008 - 12.2012

Education

Master of Public Health - Public Health & Disaster Management

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL
12.2012

Bachelor of Science - Respiratory Care

Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA
08.2008

Associate of Arts & Sciences - General Studies

Laurel Ridge Community College, Formerly Lord Fairfax Community College
Middletown, VA
08.2005

Skills

  • Project Support
  • Project Management
  • Oral Presentations
  • Manage Programs
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Accomplishments

  • Organizer and Moderator: American Public Health Association (APHA), Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP), Learning and Professional Development (L&PD) committee virtual workshop, Mentoring Map, April 2023
  • Nobiling, B., D., Long-White, D., & Petrolino, A. (2022). Reported Self-Efficacy of Health Educators During COVID-19. Inquiry: a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing, 59, 469580221139140. Https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221139140
  • Oral presentation: APHA: Annual Meeting 2022, Engaging APHA PHEHP section members through virtual professional development opportunities, Boston, MA, Nov. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEHP, L&PD virtual workshop, Tips for making the most of the APHA annual meeting, Oct. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEHP, L&PD, journal discussion, How to engage in “successful” conversations about race and equity: Developing and evaluating an anti-racism elective for future health professionals, May 2022
  • Nobiling, B., Petrolino, A. Reported self-efficacy of public health professionals during COVID-19, Unpublished poster, Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) 73rd Annual Conference: Health education: The ARCH of an era, virtual, Mar. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEHP, L&PD, journal discussion, Promoting patient empowerment: Discussion of misinformation and application of health literacy principles, Mar. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEPH, L&PD, journal discussion, Vaccine confidence, Mar. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEHP, L&PD, virtual workshop, Mindfulness, self-care, and nutrition, Jan. 2022
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA, PHEHP, L&PD virtual workshop, Best Practices in Online Learning: Academic, Community, and Professional Development, Nov. 2021
  • Organizer and Moderator: APHA PHEHP, L&PD virtual workshop, Vagal love=Self-love, June 2021
  • Maykrantz, S., Gong, T., Petrolino, A., Nobiling, B., Houghton, J.(2021). How trust in information sources influences preventative measures compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(11), 5867. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115867
  • Panelist: IDIS 205 “Climate to COVID: "Seeing the Syndemic”: COVID Basics: Public Health Overview, virtual presentation, Feb. 2021

Certification

Certified in Public Health (CPH) Obtained June 2023 NBPHE Number 20298 Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Obtained Oct. 2020 CHES Number 34161 Certified Asthma Educator Expires: June 2025 National Board of Respiratory Care- Registered Respiratory Therapist Aug. 2008 – Present West Virginia (LRTR1718) Issue Date: May 2014 Expiration Date: Dec. 31, 2022

Affiliations

Maryland Rural Health Association (MRHA) Nov. 2019- Present Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) Aug. 2019- Present American Public Health Association (APHA) Aug. 2019- Present West Virginia Society for Respiratory Care (WVSRC) May 2015- Present American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Aug. 2008- Present National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) Aug. 2008- Present

Additional Information

  • HONORS AND AWARDS , Eta Sigma Gamma; Professional membership Sept. 2021 Lambda Beta, Honor society respiratory care; Faculty Aug. 2018 Delta Omega, Honor society in public health Aug. 2012

Timeline

Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health

Salisbury University
07.2019 - Current

Site Coordinator

Salisbury University (SU), University System of Maryland at Hagerstown (USM
07.2019 - 06.2023

Assistant Professor of Respiratory Care, Site Coordinator

Shenandoah University
08.2015 - 08.2019

Threat Preparedness Contractor

Morgan County Health Department
08.2014 - 08.2015

Threat Preparedness grant coordinator, Volunteer coordinator

Berkeley County Health Department
12.2013 - 08.2015

Berkeley County Health Department
12.2012 - 12.2013

Per diem Respiratory Care practitioner

Meritus Medical Center
12.2012 - 08.2015

Respiratory Care practitioner

08.2008 - 12.2012

Remote Faculty

SU

Master of Public Health - Public Health & Disaster Management

Benedictine University

Bachelor of Science - Respiratory Care

Shenandoah University

Associate of Arts & Sciences - General Studies

Laurel Ridge Community College, Formerly Lord Fairfax Community College

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