Dr. Devin Oller is a primary care and addiction medicine physician at the University of Kentucky. He is a graduate of The College of William and Mary and the Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Oller completed residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Rural Health Leadership at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to his academic appointment at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, he served as faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Devin Oller directs KY-OPEN, the state-wide education series on issues related to the care of people living with substance use disorders. He also serves as the director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at UK. Dr. Oller is well published in peer-reviewed literature, he is a prominent regional, national and international speaker, he leads numerous trainings targeting both students and peers, and he participates in peer review for several prominent publications. Dr. Oller is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the Kentucky Medical Society.

April Schweinhart, PhD, earned her doctorate in Experimental Psychology at the University of Louisville in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in 2015. She continued study as a Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers University in Newark in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Dr. Schweinhart has been working at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) since 2016, where she is now a Research Scientist.

Ashley Simons-Rudolph, PhD, promotes engagement through interdisciplinary, community, and policy-related research. Dr. Simons-Rudolph has expertise in gender and social policy, research-to-practice, community-based participatory research, substance misuse, family formation/stability, and qualitative methodologies. She has worked in diverse communities ranging from townships in sub-Saharan Africa, to Indigenous reservations in the Midwest. She is currently leading/actively contributing to projects in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. She has 25 years of experience conducting research in academic and practice-based settings in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to her role at PIRE, Dr. Simons-Rudolph is the Outreach and Communication Specialist for community-based research with the Society for Community Research and Action and the former Editor in Chief of Gender Issues, a multinational and interdisciplinary research journal published quarterly by Springer Nature.

Dr. Ayesa Hilvano completed her training in anesthesia at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. She was the Director of Anesthesia until 2022 and currently serves a Lead on the Obstetric Anesthesia Team at St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, KY, she is involved in the Respiratory Failure Project, and she is a council member with the Women Health Insititute at St. Elizabeth Healthcare. Dr. Hilvano also serves as the Board Director at Seven Hills Anesthesia in St. Elizabeth Division and chairs the Compliance Committee at Seven Hills Anesthesia. Dr. Hilvano is a Diplomate in the American Board of Anesthesiology. Dr. Hilvano also serves as a KyPQC OB Lead, and she is a member of the KyPQC MM Task Force.

Maggie Schroeder is currently the Program Manager for the Adult Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Services Branch at the Division of Behavioral Health, Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities for the State of Kentucky.  Ms. Schroeder has Master’s Degrees in Clinical Psychology and Political Science and is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC).  She has over 30 years of experience in providing behavioral health and substance abuse services to individuals and their families including case management and therapeutic interventions services as well as providing clinical and administrative supervision.

Hannah Fischer is an Associate Professor in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Louisville. She has completed the Intermediate Improvement Science Series and Advanced Improvement Methods courses through Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and currently serves in the role of Director of Quality Improvement and Safety for the division of neonatology. She has led many quality improvement projects locally and is inspired by the improvement in outcomes that can be achieved. Regionally, she is involved in the Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative to improve maternal and infant outcomes across the state. She aspires to teach others to improve their healthcare systems and has developed the Neonatal Fellows Quality Improvement Curriculum and provides lectures on quality improvement in multiple venues to further this goal.

Laura Eirich, MPH is a graduate from Carroll University Waukesha, WI with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and Psychology. She completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Rutgers School of Public Health Piscataway, NJ. Her current position is the administrator for the Kentucky Office of Community Health Workers (KOCHW. Laura Eirich is responsible for overseeing the Kentucky Office of Community Health Workers (KOCHW), which includes leading, recruiting, training, and supervising staff, managing statewide human resource need. She manages a 2.8-million-dollar CDC grant “Community Health Workers for COVID-19 Response and Resilience.” She also established and administers the statewide Community Health Worker certification process and stablished and manages the CHW Training Organization Certification to ensure that trainings meet set criteria and are competency-based. She maintains engagement and collaboration with Community Health Workers, partners, and stakeholders across the Commonwealth, which involves convening statewide CHW Advisory Workgroup to facilitate conversations around policy updates, resource sharing, and facilitate networking. Laure Eirich represents the Kentucky Department for Public Health Office of Community Health Workers on local, state, regional, and national workgroups.

Dr. Connie White practiced as an OB/GYN physician in Frankfort, Kentucky, for over twenty years. She retired from clinical medicine and first worked at the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) as the Director of the Division of Women’s Health from 2009-2010. She then joined the College of Public Health as a Clinical Professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) from 2011-2012 in the Department for Health Behavior. Dr. White returned to KDPH as Deputy Commissioner in 2014. She has served as the Principal Investigator for several grants that included Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke, Colon Cancer Screening, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for Pregnant and Parenting Women, Obesity/Physical Activity, among others. Dr. White is a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College with a BS degree in Chemistry. She earned an MS in Toxicology from the University of Kentucky and worked as a researcher in Teratology at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Little Rock, Arkansas. She completed medical school training at UK and an OB/GYN residency at University of Louisville. She is certified in OB/GYN by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. White’s professional activities include serving as a District Officer in the American College of OB/GYN (ACOG), her professional organization.