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Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH
Chief Wellness Officer
Community Wellness Officer |
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
07/08 -
Director, The Center for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention, Windber Research Institute and Windber
Medical Center, Windber, PA
01/07 – present
Project
Coordinator (US-based), International HPH Network,
World Health Organization-Collaborative Centre (WHO-CC),
Copenhagen Denmark
05/03 – 07/08
Vice-President, Conemaugh Health System/Memorial Medical
Center
Director, Office of Community Health.
05/03 – 07/08
Vice-President, Conemaugh Health System/Memorial Medical
Center
Director, Office of Community Health.
11/96
– 07/08
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Memorial Medical Center
1086 Franklin Street
Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15905
9/07 – Present
Adjunct Professor, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
6/07 – Present
President, Health Promoting Hospital Consultants, LLC
9/02 - Present
Public Health Advisor – Cambria County, PA
11/96 – 2/07
Private Practice – “KIDS CARE” & The Laurel Highland
Clinic for Children With
Special Needs
01/98 – 2001
Medical Director, Woman/Child Services
Memorial Medical Center
1086 Franklin Street
Johnstown, PA 15905
1992 – 10/96
Director, Pediatric Critical Care Services
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1987 - 1992
Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts
1984 – 1987
Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
Patterson, New Jersey
EDUCATION
1999 -2004
MPH Degree - The George Washington University School of
Public Health and
Health Services
1974 – 1979
Autonomous University of Guadalajara Medical School,
Guadalajara, Mexico, M.D. Degree.
1971 – 1974
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, B.A. Degree.
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Internships and Residencies
1983 – 1984
Fellow in Pediatric Intensive Care, The Children’s
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts
1982 – 1983
Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Bridgeport Hospital,
Bridgeport, Connecticut
1981 -
1982 Junior
Resident in Pediatrics, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport,
Connecticut
1980 – 1981
Intern in Pediatrics, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport,
Connecticut
1979 – 1980
Fifth Pathway, New York Medical College, New York, New
York
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
1994-2000
Course Director, Pediatric Advanced Life Support
1990-Present
Instructor, Advanced Pediatric Life Support
1988
Board Certified, Pediatrics; Re-certified 2002-2009
1980
FLEX, New York State Board, #01125
LICENSURE
1992-present
Pennsylvania License Registration #MD-048546-L
1987
Massachusetts License Registration #58679 (Expired)
1984
New Jersey License Registration #42548 (Expired)
1982
Connecticut License Registration #24235 (Expired)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
World Health Organization-Health Promoting Hospital
Network
American Academy of Pediatrics
¨
Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
¨
Community and International Child Health
¨
Children with Disabilities
Pennsylvania
and Cambria County Medical Society
American Public Health Association
Irish American Pediatric Society
STAFF AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
4/99 – 2002
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
u Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Department
of Pediatrics
11/1996 – 07/08
Memorial Medical Center, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
¨
Vice-President, Office of Community Health
u Chairman, Department of
Pediatrics Committee
u Medical Executive Committee
u Ethics Committee (Chairman
1998-1999)
u Medical Staff Clinical Council
u CMO Advisory Committee
State
u Child Death Review Team
u
AAP – Pa. Chapter Firearm Safety Educator
u
AAP – Pa. Chapter Child Abuse Educator
u Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Committee
u Chairman, Pediatric CPR
Committee
u Co-Chairman, Pediatric
Critical Care/Trauma QA Committee
u Coordinator, Pediatric Mock
Code Program
u Coordinator, Pediatric
Rotation - Emergency Medicine Program
2004-2005
Board Member – American Cancer Society of Cambria County
2000 – Present
President, Board of Directors, Professional Family Care
Services Inc., Johnstown,
Pennsylvania ( Board member 7/08)
2000 – 2003
Board of Directors, Beginnings Early Intervention
Program, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
1999 – 2001
Treasurer/Member, CHADD of Johnstown(Children & Adults
with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
1994 – 1996
Big Brother Program, Health Ranger Mentor, Allegheny
General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1994 – 1997
Chairman & Founder, Goods for Guns Coalition,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Parents Against Violence, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Board of Education Committee for Gun Safety
and Awareness Advisory Group to the Assistant
Superintendent of Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983 – 1992
Honorary Member, United Cerebral Palsy Center of Greater
Fairfield County, Connecticut
1981 – 1983
Executive Board Member, United Cerebral Palsy Center of
Greater Fairfield County, Connecticut
1982 – 1983
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Services to Handicapped
Children, Bridgeport Board of Education, Connecticut
ABSTRACTS/PUBLICATIONS
·
Pittsburgh Gun Buy Back Program
Coalition for Injury Prevention,
National Trauma Conference, American Trauma Society,
Arlington, Virginia, May, 1995.
·
C. Barber, M. Masiello, Oral Rehydration Therapy,
Topics in Emergency Medicine 1996; 18(3):21-26.
·
D. Bishop-Kurylo, Matthew Masiello, MD. Pediatric
Resuscitation: Development of a Mock Code
Program and Evaluation Tool. Pediatric Nursing.
July/August 1995/Vol.21/No.4
·
Pittsburgh Gun Buy Back Program.
Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan,
Washington, D.C., November, 1995.
·
Firearm Injury Prevention Program – Pittsburgh, PA
Irish-American Pediatric Society – Killarney Meeting –
1998
·
Pittsburgh Goods For Guns Antiviolence Coalition: A
Successful Four Year Expanded Gun Buy-Back Program
Matthew Masiello, MD, FAAP; James Friend; Michael Hirsh,
MD, FACS, FAAP and Kay Snyder, American Academy of
Pediatrics Annual Meeting – San Francisco, October 1999
·
Health Promotion and Disaster Preparedness: A Role
for the Community Hospital
Matthew Masiello, MD, Irish-American Paediatric Society,
Cork, Ireland, Sept. 2002
Annual Meeting American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston,
MA, October 2002
·
A School Based Injury Prevention Program: A Public
Health Partnership Between The Community and Health care
System.
Lisa Drennen, RN and Matthew Masiello, MD. American
Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
November 2003
·
The Establishment of a Formal Public Health Office
in A Regional Health Care System.
Matthew Masiello, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2003
·
Bullying Prevention and Cessation: A Collaborative
Community Based Public Health Initiative.
Diana Schroeder, RN and Matthew Masiello, MD. American
Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
November 2003
·
Health Promoting Hospitals – A Lesson Learned From
the European Initiative.
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH, Spring
Training for Health Champions. 2007 Annual Conference,
Phoenix, Arizona. March 7-9, 2006
·
A Health Promoting System in Rural America.
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH.
WHO-HPH Conference, Palanga, Lithuania. May 2006
·
A Partnership Between A Health Care System and the
Regional School Systems.
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH.
WHO-HPH Conference, Palanga, Lithuania. May 2006
·
Cost Benefit of a Hospital Worksite Wellness
Program.
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH. WHO-HPF
Conference, Vienna Austria, April 2007
·
Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating a Child
Passenger Safety Seat Clinic with a Second Hand Smoking
Educational Component.
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH. WHO-HPF
Conference, Vienna Austria, April 2007
·
Establishment of Regional Centers of Excellence to
Prevent School Based Bullying
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH. WHO-HPF
Conference, Vienna Austria, April 2007
·
Actual Cost Benefit to A Hospital Employee Worksite
Wellness Coaching Program
Matthew Masiello, MD, MPH. WHO-HPH
Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 2008
INVITED LECTURER/INSTRUCTOR
2006
Translational Medicine, Obesity and a Health Promoting
Hospital: The Road to
Redemption or an Oxymoron. Windber Research Institute.
August 15, 2006
Spring Training for Health Champions. 2007 Annual
Conference, Phoenix, Arizona. March 7-
9, 2006. Health Promoting Hospitals – A Lesson
Learned From the European Initiative
2005
Children’s
Hospital, Pittsburgh, The Public Health Role of
Hospitals- Oct.
Super Conference – A
Conference for Student Leaders – Mt Aloysius College,
May
International Health and
the Tsunami Relief Effort –
·
Family
Medicine Conference, Memorial Medical Center, March
·
Westmont
Middle School, April
2004
The New
Role of A Health Care System in the
National Public Health
Structure - Memorial Medical Center Trauma Meeting
Safety and Health
Symposium - University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
2003
Building a
Healthy Community and the Obesity Issue
Chamber of Commerce,
Cambria County
November, 2003, Holiday
Inn
Building a Healthy
Community – Annual Trauma Symposium
Memorial Medical Center – November, 2003, UPJ Living and Learning
Public Health in A
Community – A Model Program Health
Pittsburgh Highmark BC/BS
– June 20, 2003
Visiting Professor –
Autonomous Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
May, 2003
Promotion and Disaster
Preparedness
School Nurse Forum –
January 2002
2002
Keynote
Speaker – Rotary Club of Cambria County
Kiwanis
of Cambria County
Topic:
Children of Cambria County
May,
2002
Head Start – Rashes in
Children – February, 2002
Family Medicine Center –
Memorial Medical Center – August, 2002
Gastroenteritis and ORT
2001
Maternal/Child Conference – University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
Thinking Outside the
Box:: A New Public Health Agenda
October 2001
Memorial Medical Center -
School of Nursing
Neonatal Examination
October 2001
Professional Family Care,
Inc. – Johnstown, PA
Keynote Speaker – Annual
Foster Parent Recognition
October 2001
Memorial Medical Center – Internal Medicine Residency
Meningococcemia
September 2001
Cambria County Children & Youth Services – Johnstown, PA
Keynote Speaker – Annual
Foster Parent Recognition
September 2001
Memorial Medical Center – Family Medicine Residency
Immunization Update
July 2001
Autonomous University of
Guadalajara, Mexico
Visiting Professor
May 2001
2000 Memorial
Medical Center - Family Medicine Residency
Pediatric Airway
January 2000
School Health Symposium - University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Croup,
Pneumonia & More
March 2000
2nd Annual Treatment Across
the Lifespan Conference - University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
Firearm
Injuries in the Pediatric/Adolescent Population
March
2000
Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics
Teleconference: Practice Tools to
Prevent Firearm Injury Among Children and Adolescents
June 2000
Memorial Medical Center - Family Medicine Residency
Bullying
September 2000
Marist
College – Purghkeepsie, NY
Guns and Violence: Urban and Rural Initiatives
November 2000
1999
Memorial Medical Center - Family Medicine Residency
Pediatric Airway Management
January 1999
Pennsylvania Department of Health, District Injury
Prevention Coordinators and County/Municipal Health
Departments
Youth Violence Prevention
April 1999
Memorial Medical Center - Pediatric Grand Rounds
The Pediatric P’s: Pull, Pee & Poop
May 1999
Mount
Aloysius College – Cresson, PA
A Comprehensive
School Violence Prevention and Awareness Program
August 1999
Memorial
Medical Center - Family Medicine Residency
Lead Intoxication –
Case Presentations
July 1999
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Campus
Asthma
Camp- Physician Panel
July 1999
Maternal/Child Conference
Otitis
Media
September 1999
Hospital
Council of Western Pennsylvania
Firearm
Safety/Injury Prevention
September 1999
1998 British
Virgin Islands
Sponsor:
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Pediatric Asthma Update
January 1998
Virgin
Islands
Pain
Management
January 1998
Pennsylvania Society for Respiratory Care, Inc. - Seven
Springs
Pediatric Asthma
February 1998
Memorial
Medical Center - Pediatric/Trauma Update
Firearm Injuries in the
Pediatric/Adolescent Population
April 1998
School Health Symposium - University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Firearm Injuries in the
Pediatric/Adolescent Population
April, 1998
Johnstown School District – Johnstown, PA
Firearm Injuries in the
Pediatric/Adolescent Population
May 1998
Bridgeport Hospital - Bridgeport, Connecticut
Pediatric Grand Rounds - Firearm Injury
Prevention
August 1998
Irish-American Paediatric Society Annual Meeting,
Killarney, Ireland
Pittsburgh Goods for Guns Antiviolence Coalition: A
Successful Four Year Expanded Gun Buy Back Program
September 1998
American
Academy of Pediatrics National Meeting, San Franciso,
California
Pittsburgh Goods for Guns Antiviolence Coalition: A
Successful Four Year Expanded Gun Buy Back Program
October 1998
1997
Safe Kids Conference - Harrisburg, PA
Water Safety
January 1997
Memorial Medical Center - Internal Medicine Residency
Pediatric Airway
February 1997
17th
Annual Cambria County Child Abuse Workshop – University
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Children and Violence
April 1997
Memorial
Medical Center - Trauma Services
Pediatric Concerns
April 1997
Western
Pennsylvania Chapter of Pennsylvania Safe Kids Press
Conference
National Child Safety Trigger Lock
April 1997
4th
National HELP Conference - Washington, D.C.
Workshop on “Understanding the Costs of
Handgun Injuries
April 1997
Memorial Medical Center - Family Medicine Residency
Child Abuse
May 1997
Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course
- University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Respiratory Failure and Shock
May 1997
Memorial Medical Center - Pediatric Grand Rounds
Presentation
Oral Rehydration
June 1997
Memorial Medical Center
Pre-Hospital Case Presentation
June 1997
Memorial Medical Center
Child Care for Children with Special
Needs
June 1997
Maternal/Child Update - University of
Pittsburgh at Johnstown,
Conscious Sedation
September 1997
Maternal/Child Update - University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
Oral Rehydration
September 1997
Mercy
Children’s Medical Center - Grand Rounds Presentation
Firearm Injuries
December 1997
1996
Allegheny General Hospital
Medical Emergencies of the Pediatric Patient
Allegheny General Hospital
- Emergency Medicine Residents
Seizures and Status Epilepticus
Allegheny General Hospital - Orthopedic Grand Rounds
Firearm Violence
Steel Valley Alliance Against Crime - Homestead,
Pennsylvania
Goods for Guns Anti-Violence Coalition
Allegheny General Hospital - Psychiatric Grand Rounds
Firearm Injuries in Children
Pediatric Society
Firearm Injuries in Children
1995
Allegheny General Hospital - Emergency Medicine, Child
Advocacy Team
Tracheitis/Pediatric Airway
Allegheny General Hospital - Medical Student Lectures
Care of the Critically Ill Child (6
sessions)
10th
Annual Trauma Tactics - Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Pediatric Airway and Evaluation of
Cardiopulmonary Status of Pediatric Patients
Frick
Hospital - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Violence and Firearms
Allegheny General Hospital - Pediatric Grand Rounds
Child Abuse
Allegheny General Hospital - Women’s Health Education
Expectant Fathers
Franciscan Child Day Care - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Water Safety
Pennsylvania Injury Prevention Conference - Allegheny
County Health Department
Highlights of Pittsburgh Anti-Violence
Projects
The Rehabilitation Institute -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Violence in our Community – A Public
Health Response
Sharon Regional Hospital - Sharon, Pennsylvania
Child Abuse
Sewickley Valley Hospital - Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Child Abuse
Allegheny General Hospital - Nursing Continuing
Education
Pediatric Mock Arrest and Child Abuse
Focus on Pediatrics - Clearfield,
Pennsylvania,
Multidisciplinary Team Approach to
Pediatric Trauma, Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric
Patient, and Recognition of Child Abuse
3rd Annual HELP Network
Conference - Washington, D. C.
Abstract Presentation: Goods for Guns
Anti-Violence Coalition
Allegheny General Hospital - Surgical Grand Rounds
Firearm Violence in Children
1994
Allegheny General Hospital - Pediatric Grand
Rounds
Severe Upper Airway Obstruction
Allegheny General Hospital - Department of Pulmonary
Medicine
Assisted Ventilation
Allegheny General Hospital - Anesthesia Grand Rounds
Epiglottis/Tracheitis
Allegheny General Hospital - Medical Student Lectures
Care of the Critically Ill Child (2
sessions)
Uniontown Hospital
Upper Airway Complications in Pediatric Patients
Frick
Hospital - Medical Staff Lecture
Management of the Upper Airway in
Pediatrics
St.
Barnabas Medical Center - Livingston, New Jersey -
Medical Staff Lecture
Fourth Annual Abdol H. Islami, MD -
Memorial Symposium
The Critically Ill Pediatric Patient
Cranberry Township Emergency Services
Preventing Pediatric Trauma
Copper Mountain Resort - Denver, Colorado
Trauma Tactics: Pediatric Trauma in the
ICU, Considerations in Pediatric Airway Management,
Pediatric Case Reviews, and Child Abuse
The
Irish and American Pediatric Society - Galway, Ireland
Development of a Data Collection Tool
to Evaluate Pediatric Advanced Life Support Skills in a
Mock Code Program
1993
Allegheny General Hospital -Trauma Conference
Respiratory Failure
Allegheny General Hospital - Pediatric Critical Care
Nurses
Respiratory Failure,
Arrhythmias, Cerebral Insult/Head Trauma, Ingestion,
Mock Arrest/ Arrhythmias, Respiratory Therapy and
Arrhythmias, and PALS Update
Allegheny General Hospital - Pediatric Grand Rounds
The Approach to Children in Acute
Respiratory Failure
Allegheny General Hospital - Trauma/ICU Staff
Head Trauma
Passavant Hospital
- Pediatric Staff
Office Management of Pediatric
Emergencies
Allegheny General Hospital - Medical Student Lectures
The Approach to the Critically Ill
Child, Asthma, Near Drowning, and Near Drowning and
Hypothermia
Allegheny General Hospital - Pre-Hospital EMT Conference
Airway Management
Allegheny General Hospital - Emergency Medicine Grand
Rounds
Review of New AHA Recommendations on
Pediatric Resuscitation
Clarion
Hospital
Submersion Injuries
Allegheny Valley Hospital
Respiratory Crisis in Pediatrics
Patients
California University/Brownsville
Hospital,
Management of Respiratory Crisis in
Pediatrics
1992
Allegheny General Hospital - Emergency Medical
Technician Workshop
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Allegheny Campus
Allegheny General Hospital - Trauma Conference
An Intensivist’s View
1991
Pediatric Trauma Symposium - University of Massachusetts
Medical Center
The Role of Pediatric Critical Care in Trauma
Pediatric Critical Care Nurses Seminar
Respiratory Physiology and Pediatric
Ventilation
University of Massachusetts Medical
Center – Pediatric Grand Rounds
Intensive Care International Health,
Critical Issues from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Perspective,
Pediatric Nursing Symposium - Royal Plaza Hotel,
Marlboro, MA
Care of the Critically Injured
Pediatric Critical
Care/Emergency Medicine Conference - University of
Massachusetts Medical Center
Shock
University of Massachusetts - Pediatric Core Lecture
Series
Respiratory Failure, Critical Care
University of Massachusetts Medical Center -
Neurosurgery
Special Problems in Pediatric Intensive
Care
1990
Burbank Hospital - Resident Lecture
Introduction to Pediatric Advanced Life Support”
Fallon Clinic - Resident Lecture
Introduction to Pediatric Advanced Life
Support
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Resident
Lecture
Drowning and Near Drowning
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Emergency
Room Lecture
Near Drowning
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Pediatric
Core Lecture Series
Critical Care (3 sessions), Respiratory
Failure, Drowning and Near Drowning
1989
University of Massachusetts Medical Center -
Medical Student Lecture
Control of Increased Intracranial Pressure
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Medical
Student Lecture
Critical Care
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Medical
Student Lecture
Respiratory Failure
1988
Bay State Hospital
Shock
University of Massachusetts Medical Center - Emergency
Room Lecture
Near Drowning
1987
University of Massachusetts Medical Center -
Pediatric Grand Rounds
Pediatric Head Injury
MEDIA INTERVIEWS/ SEGMENTS
2008 Guns,
Obesity and Bullying – local venues
Screening for Congenital Diseases
Windber
Research Institute – Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention
2007 Radon
Hospitals & Health Networks – HPH - David Weber
Bullying prevention-
Pittsburgh WQED and local venues
Firearm
Injuries Local TV News
2006 World Health
Organization-Health Promoting Hospital
Highmark
Healthy High Five Bullying Prevention Program
Firearm
Injuries
2005
“Where Does it Hurt” – Tribune Democrat, July
Tsunami Relief Mission – Tribune Democrat and radio
Enuresis
Firearm Injuries
Summer Nutrition – Tribune Democrat
Backpack Safety – Tribune democrat
Appropriate Sleep for Children –WJAC-
Oct
2004 WJAC and
Tribune –Democrat – Multiple interviews on the Flu
vaccine and Flu season
Obesity in Children - WJAC News, February, 2004
Teen Issues – WJAC
Obesity Initiative - Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
Poverty – WJAC News, June
2003 Flu vaccine
editorial – Trib-Dem.
Childhood Obesity – Tribune-Democrat,
Sept., 2003
Altoona Radio
Public Health - Trib.-Democrat, June 22, 2003
Child Abuse
Heroin Use in Cambria County
2002
Self Defense
Courses for Children
MVA
Bullying Prevention
Rash Outbreaks in Schools
WJAC – TV – February, 2002
Obesity
in Children
WJAC-TV
– February, 2002
2001 WJAC-TV – January
17, 2001
“Violence & Video Games”
Multiple Media Press Conference “
Pa. Youth Survey”
Multiple Media Interviews - “Bullying”
2000 USA Today,
April 25, 2000
“Gun Buybacks Do Make Impact”
WJAC-TV – October 4, 2000
“ASK Gun Campaign”
1999 WJAC-TV
– March 25, 1998
“Lifting
Rules on Kid’s PJs
WWCP-TV –
March 30, 1998
Passive
Smoke – Children”
WJAC-TV –
April 9, 1998
“Bottle
Feeding/Tooth Decay”
WWCP-TV –
January 7, 1999
“Sledding
Safety”
Multiple
media interviews
“Community Reaction to Colorado Violence”
“Cambria County Collaborative Advisory Group on School
and Community Violence”
1997 WJAC-TV – March
29, 1997
“Children’s
Fears of Doctors”
WJAC-TV –
May 15, 1997
“Breastfeeding Benefits”
Tribune
Democrat – June 19, 1997
“Asthma”
WJAC-TV –
June 19, 1997
“Donor
Day/St. Andrews Hall”
WWCP-TV –
August 19, 1997
“Childhood
Obesity”
WWCP-TV –
August 26, 1997
“Hearing
Screening”
Tribune
Democrat – August 27, 1997
“Hearing
Screening”
WJAC-TV –
August 27, 1997
“Hearing
Screening”
WJAC-TV – November 29, 1997
“Lead
Poisoning”
Tribune
Democrat – December 29, 1997
“Bosnia”
WJAC-TV –
December 30, 1997
“Sled Riding
Safety”
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
2008 PA Chapter
AAP Teleconference (Moderator) – Car Seat Safety,
February
WHO-HPH
Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 2008
2007
WHO-HPH
Conference, Vienna, Austria, April
Bullying
Prevention Institute , Hershey, PA Oct. (Host)
2006
WHO-HPH
Conference, Palanga, Lithuania
Pediatric Infectious
Disease-Boston, Nov.
2005 Obesity –
PA. Medical Society
2004.
World Conference
on Disabilities, Orlando, Florida
PA. AAP - Immunization &
Influenza Review, Hershey, PA
Teleconference – ADHD
National
Rural Women’s Health Conference, Hershey, PA
Cambria
County Public Health Forum and Nurse Education Symposium
2008
Institute of
Health – Harrisburgh, PA, Sept., 2003
Acute Care Pediatrics –
Hilton Head, June, 2003
PA. Chapter of the AAP
Teleconference on Obesity – March
2002
Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston, MA, October,
2002
Complex Humanitarium
Emergencies – Rainbow Children’s Hospital, May, 2002
American Academy of
Pediatrics, Pennsylvania Chapter. Child Abuse EPIC
Program
April, 2002
2000
American Academy of Pediatrics, PREP The Course: An
Intensive Review of Pediatrics,
May 2001
2000 Society of
Critical Care Medicine, Current Concepts in Pediatric
Critical Care, Orlando, Florida, February 2000
1999 The
University of Pittsburgh – Consortium Ethics Program,
Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, Warrendale,
Pennsylvania, January 1999
Pediatric Academic Societies and The American Academy of
Pediatrics,
Advancing Children’s Health 2000,
Boston, Massachusetts, May 2000
1998 American
Academy of Pediatrics Conference, Pediatric Asthma,
Virgin Islands, January 1998
AIC Conference, Redesigning Pediatric Services Under
Managed Care
Washington, DC, January 1998
American
Academy of Pediatrics Conference, Firearms Injury
Prevention Training, Chicago, Illinois, March 1998
Snowmass
Institute Conference, Succeeding in Women’s Health,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1998
Irish-American Paediatric Society, Annual Meeting,
Killarney, Ireland, September 1998
American
Academy of Pediatrics, National Conference, San
Francisco, California, October 1998
1997 Fourth
National HELP Conference, Washington, D.C., April, 1997
1996 American
Academy of Pediatrics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts,
October, 1996
1995 Tenth Annual
Trauma Tactics, Pediatric Airway and Evaluation of
Cardiopulmonary Status of Pediatric Patient, Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, March, 1995
Patient
Care Conference on Current Emergency, Trauma and
Psychosocial Issues, Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona
Heights, Pennsylvania, October, 1995
1993 Pediatric
Critical Care Nursing Conference, Allegheny General
Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1993
Trauma
Conference, Recent Changes in Pediatric BLS/ACLS
Guidelines, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, January, 1993
ASPEN 17th Clinical
Congress, San Diego, California, February, 1993
Sixth
Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, March, 1993
Winter
Update on Emergency Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March, 1993
Trauma Conference, Near Drowning and Hypothermia,
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
June, 1993
Emergency Medical Conference, Upper
Airway Obstruction, Allegheny General Hospital,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September, 1993
1991 Pediatric
Critical Care Review Series, Part III, Washington, D.
C., May, 1991
American
Academy of Pediatrics CME Conference, Washington, D.C.,
June, 1997
1990 Pediatric
Critical Care Review Series, Part II, San Francisco,
California, May, 1990
Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium, Waterville Valley,
New Hampshire, October, 1990
1988 Pediatric
Critical Care Colloquium, Washington, D.C., April, 1988
Pediatric Critical Care Review Series, Part I, New
Orleans, Louisiana, June, 1988
Specialty Review in Pediatrics, Chicago, Illinois, July,
1988
LANGUAGES
Spanish
RESEARCH INTERESTS
¨
Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
¨
Violence in the Community
¨
Injuries
¨
Injury Prevention
¨
Child Abuse
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
2006
-2008
Presentations at WHO-HPH Conferences – Lithuania,
Vienna, Berlin
2005
Project Hope/U.S.Navy -Tsunami Relief Mission - February
Hurricane Katrina - September
2003
Visiting Professor – Autonomous Universidad de
Guadalajara, Mexico –
May
2001
Visiting Professor – Autonomous University of
Guadalajara, Mexico – May 2001
1989 –
Present
Huichol Indian Survival Project – Volunteer
1995
Nicaraguan Nursing Program
1991 –
1996
AMISTAD – Advisory Board
1987 –
1988
Indonesia – Rockefeller Foundation
– Project Hope
Establishing a PICU and clinical format to evaluate
hemodynamic parameters in children with Grade IV Dengue
RECOGNITION
2007
Hospitals & Health Networks. “American Exceptionalism.
Health Promoting
Hospitals are
proliferating globally…except here in America where one
is a lonely number.” By David Weber.
2006
Highmark Healthy High Five Partner
Pennsylvania Business Central Top 100 People 2006, Dec.
2006
World Health Organization
– Health Promoting Hospital Designation
Heart of the Laurel Highlands Award for Childhood
Obesity– American
Heart
Association
Exceptional Parent Award-“Maxwell
J. Schleifer Distinguished Service
Award”,
2005
TOP Physicians of Western Pennsylvania, Western
Pennsylvania Hospital
News
President’s Volunteer
Service Award by the President’s Council on Service
and Civic Participation
1996
SAFE KIDS 1996 Physician of the Year, Allegheny County
Safe Kids Coalition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May, 1996
Champion Award, Hospital Council of Western
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, 1996
1995
Proclamation, City Council of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
for the Goods for Guns Exchange of 1994, February, 1995
American Trauma Society, Pennsylvania Division for Goods
for Guns Program and Injury Prevention, Hershey,
Pennsylvania, May, 1995
Health Education Center, Honorable Mention, Sponsored by
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May,
1995
Proclamation, City of Pittsburgh, Office of the Major,
Second Annual Goods for Guns Exchange Program, October,
1995
Parents Against Violence Award for Community Activity,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October, 1995
GRANTS:
2008
Highmark
Foundation
$45,000
2007
Lee Initiatives,
Inc
$ 23,000
MMC
Auxiliary
$ 7,500
2006
Highmark Healthy High
Five $1.7
million
Highmark challenge
grant
$11,900
Safe Kids Bicycle
Safety
$ 4,915
Safe Kids Bike helmet
grant
$ 750
PA Dept. of
Health
$ 2,746
MMC
Auxiliary
$ 10,000
Early
Intervention
$ 25,000
AAP-Epic
$ 3,000
Community
Foundation
$ 5,000
2005
PA Safe
Kids
$ 4,500
PA Chapter of the ATS
$ 2,000
MMC
Auxiliary
$12,000
AAP-EPIC
$
3,000
2004
Highmark BCBS
$25,000
Safe
Kids
$ 5,000
PA. Chapter
AAP
$10,000
MMC
Auxiliary
$19,000
General Mills
Foundation
$10,000
Conemaugh Health
Foundation $
5,000
Community Foundation of
the Alleghenies $10,000
2003
Highmark BC/BS Public
Health
Obesity Prevention
Grant
$40,000
Community Foundation of
The Alleghenies
Injury Prevention
Grant
$10,000
Glosser Foundation
Community health Grant $ $ 5,000
Glosser Foundation
Community Health Grant $ 5,000
SAFE KIDS of PA. Injury
Prevention Grants $ 5,000
PA. Dept. of Health
Injury Prevention Grant $20,000
Memorial Medical Center Auxiliary – Grant $26,000
American Dental
Association- Grant $
5,000
PA.
Chapter of the AAP – Medical Home grant
$10,000
Community Foundation of the
Alleghenies $10,000
Highmark BC/BS –
grant
$17,000
2002
Community Foundation of The Alleghenies - Grant
Highmark BC/BS Injury Prevention Grant – June, 2002
PA. Chapter of the American Trauma
Society Injury Prevention Grant– July, 2002
PA. SAFE KIDS Grant – July, 2002
2001-2002
American Academy of Pediatric CATCH Grant
January 2001
State of Pennsylvania Safe Kids Injury Prevention Grant
State of Pennsylvania Summer Safety Grant
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Grant
(Community Mobilizer Position)
Conemaugh Health Foundation Grant
Memorial Medical Center Auxiliary – Community Health
Nurse
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