***CANCELED***: 61st Annual PAAOHN Conference Connections - Past, Present, Future

1.) Belle Vernon Area School District teacher for thirty years. 2.) Intermediate Unit #1 California, Pa. Act 48 Credit Instructor. 3.) California University of Pa. Adjunct. Introductory American History Courses. 4.) California University of Pa. Digital Storytelling Program. 5.) Worked with authors, writers, students, documentary producers, filmmakers, bloggers, podcasters, webinars, environmentalist, creating content and researching smog disaster for thirty years. 6.) Archivist, Curator, Educator, of Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum. 7.) Library of Congress Teaching With Primary Resources Program at California U University of Pa. Speaker/Presenter. Act 48 Credits instructor. 8.) University of Pittsburgh Osher Program speaker and presenter. 9.) Heinz History Center HCAP speaker and presenter. 10.) The 1948 Donora Smog Disaster presentation recorded and broadcast by CSPAN3. 11.) Presented at Appalachian Studies Conference

Mr. Guillory oversees an Occupational Medicine Division that conducts in-clinic drug screens for over 400 local/regional clients, completes drug screen collections for multi-state organizations across 6 states, and collaboratively oversee TPA, MRO, and Compliance groups with over 1500 clients across the united states.

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Dr. Kronk is a tenured Professor at Duquesne University School of Nursing. Her contributions to nursing span 40 years and integrate practice, research, and educational innovations affecting the health care of families whose children have genetic conditions and developmental disabilities.

CAOHC Course Director Occupational Health Consultant

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Dr. Cardenas has over 39 years of nursing experience. Clinical experience includes medical-surgical, critical care and the pre-surgical area in Endoscopy. Her interest in medical legal issues for nurses began when she was employed at a physician malpractice insurance company.

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Dr. Mohannad Kusti is a global physician executive and healthcare consultant with unique expertise and experience related to corporate healthcare benefits serving a variety of employers as their consulting corporate medical director and chief medical officer through Optimal Workplace & Environmental Wellness Corporation. Most recently, Dr. Kusti completed successful tenure as Corporate Medical Director at United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) at the Pittsburgh, PA location. Prior to that role at U.S. Steel, he had been a U.S. Steel Plant Medical Director for several years at the Mon Valley Works Plant. Dr. Kusti recently joined Pivot Onsite-Innovations as a Medical Director. He also serves Floss Bar Inc. as its consulting CMO, and has joined the “CMO on Demand” and “Corporate Medical Advisors” consulting firms. Dr. Kusti served as an Associate Service Fellow at the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) at the CDC for a year following the completion of an occupational medicine residency at West Virginia University School of Medicine and the School of Public Health in Morgantown, WV. He completed his master’s degree in Public Health at West Virginia School of Public Health. Dr. Kusti is Board certified as a specialist in Occupational Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and is a certified Medical Review Officer, a Certified Professional Supervisor for Audiometric Monitoring Program, as well as a Certified Medical Examiner for the FMCSA.

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Dr. Berry is a member of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and the ANA-Ohio chapter of ANA. As a member of the Ohio Nurses Association, she founded and chaired the Environmental and Public Health Caucus for ONA.

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As an assistant professor at DeSales University, she teaches nursing students (graduate and undergraduate) courses including community/public health; population health and clinical prevention; the chronically ill adult; research; health policy, organization, and financing; health informatics, quality, and safety; and clinical prevention in population health.

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Senior Policy Advisor for the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Practice & Work Environment department as well as for ANA’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation program.

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Dr. Ruth Francis has over 30 years of international, corporate, association, government and community health education and promotion experience and works for the American Nurses Association (ANA) where she is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Nursing Practice & Work Environment Department. Ruth is the co-staff lead for the Racism in Nursing work and manages ANA’s COVID Education and Occupational Health Initiatives – Workplace Violence/#End Nurse Abuse Initiative, Safe Patient Handling and Mobility, Precision Health, AI in Nursing, Opioids Prevention, and Gun Violence Prevention, representing ANA at national and federal stakeholder meetings. Ruth also represents ANA on CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice Workgroup related to COVID-19 vaccine education.