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Richard Couto, Ph.D.
Richard A. Couto is a professor and founding faculty member of the Antioch University PhD program in Leadership and Change. Previously he was a founding faculty member of Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond where he held the George M. and Virginia B. Modlin Chair.
He has published books and articles on leadership in community health, community change efforts, the Appalachian region, and civil rights. His book, Making Democracy Work Better, deals with community-based organizations in the Appalachian region, an area that he has studied and worked in extensively. His book on community health leadership, To Give Their Gifts, discusses the connection of health and leadership to a sense of community.
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Alma Cunningham, R.N.
Alma Cunningham has been Director of Health Ministry at the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston since October 2005. As the first Director of the new Health Ministry Department she is working with Parishes to develop Health Ministries and Parish Nursing. Prior to this she was a Nurse with Right From the Start coordinated by Catholic Community Services consisting of visiting and educating pregnant women and babies in their homes. She has taught nursing and nursing assistant classes at Northern community College. Much of her career was focused in long term care or skilled nursing units in hospitals as either Director of Nursing or as a Nursing Home Administrator She is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University. Alma is serving on a Task Force with the Rural Ministries Initiative with the Health Ministries Association.
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Jill Kriesky, Ph.D.
Jill Kriesky has served as the Executive Director of the Clifford M. Lewis, S.J., Appalachian Institute and Director of the Service for Social Action Center at Wheeling Jesuit University since 2004. Prior to that she held the position of Director of the Office of Service Learning Programs at West Virginia University and taught and conducted research a labor educator at the WVU, the University of Oregon, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kriesky has published research on the role of organized labor in community development, union organizing procedures, and labor-management cooperation practices; and on university-community partnerships based on service learning. A native of St. Louis, MO, she holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in Economics.Her dissertation was on Management Resistance to Union Organizing of Nurses in Hospitals. She has a strong commitment to change in Appalachia to preserve its strengths and eliminate economic and social challenges facing its citizens.
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Rev. Eugene Ostrowski
Fr. Eugene Ostrowski has been serving the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston for many years. As a Marist Brother of the Schools for 23 years, he did his graduate work in Mathematics, majoring in Abstract Algebra and taught Math on the High School and College level. He was a member of the Provincial Council and a Director of Formation for the Marist Brothers. He was ordained to the Priesthood for the Diocese of Wheeling Charleston in 1977. As a priest, he served as an Associate Pastor in St. Anthony Parish, Follansbee, WV, Director of the Office of Sacraments, Worship and Spirituality, Director of the Office of Pastoral Planning. Presently, he is Pastor of Corpus Christi Parish, Wheeling, WV where the Parish Health Ministry Committee is a very active and integral part of the community life.
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Bill Reger-Nash, Ed. D.
Dr. Bill Reger-Nash is a professor in the WVU Department of Community Medicine. His personal and professional interests include holistic wellness and community-wide health behavioral change. He has served as the director of wellness for the Ohio Valley Health Medical Center, the Wheeling Hospital, the Bayer Wellness Program, and West Virginia University. His work includes the development of Wheeling Walks, a targeted media-based physical activity campaign that promotes 30+ minutes of daily walking. He earned his doctoral degree in Exercise Physiology (WVU 1984), and has two master's degrees from the University of Hawaii (Educational Psychology 1973, Political Science 1974). He was an undergraduate French major (Marist College, 1965). During the mid 1980s, he represented Wheeling-Ohio County in the WV House of Delegates. As a Marist Brother, he taught French, Spanish, physical science, and religion at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Barbara Sutton, D. Min.
Barbara Sutton is the Executive Director of the Department of Diocesan Pastoral Services for the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. Previously she served the diocese as the Director of the Office of Parish Care and Empowerment. Prior to her ministry in West Virginia, she served in parish ministry for thirteen years in Florida. In addition to her ministry formation, her background in health and nutrition has also prepared her for to be a member of the steering committee. She holds a M. S. in Nutrition Science from Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX (1980) and has worked in clinical dietetics, nutrition research, nursing education and as a hospital chaplain. Barbara holds a Doctorate of Ministry from St. Paul School of Divinity in St. Paul, MN (2005).
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