School of Public Health Administrative Grand Rounds to focus on community emergency preparedness
West Virginia University School of Public Health Master of Health Administration program and the WVU Graduate Chapter of Upsilon Phi Delta will host a virtual Administrative Grand Rounds titled “Ensuring Your Community's Successful Emergency Preparedness” on Friday, April 4, from noon to 1 p.m. ET.
Moderated by Sarah Woodrum, DrPH, MS, FACHE, interim co-dean and senior associate dean for the WVU School of Public Health, this expert panel, featuring Heather Cosgrove, Jamie Moore and Samantha Stamper, will explore healthcare emergency preparedness.
The event is free and registration is required.
As an independent chartered chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the West Virginia ACHE, is authorized to award 1.0 hour of ACHE Qualifying Education credits toward advancement or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program who wish to have it considered for ACHE Qualifying Education credit should list their attendance when they apply to the American College of Healthcare Executives for advancement or recertification.
About the Panelists
Heather Cosgrove | Enterprise Director, Resiliency and Clinical Preparedness, WVU Medicine
Heather Cosgrove is the enterprise director of resiliency and clinical preparedness at WVU Medicine. The Office of Resiliency and Clinical Preparedness was created after the COVID pandemic to enhance the organization's preparedness for acute and ongoing operational readiness, integrating the health system with public health agencies and managing emerging issues across the WVU Health System.
Cosgrove has been instrumental in strategic planning for WVU Hospitals and assisted in the creation and implementation of various programs and processes, such as the WVU Medicine Critical Care and Trauma Signature Program, the Memory Health Clinician and Movement Disorder Clinic at the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, graduate medical education expansion and the WVU Medicine Center for Integrated Pain Management.
During the pandemic, Cosgrove played a key part in both the WVU Medicine System Incident Command and J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital Incident Command. She ensured collaboration across Pharmacy, Ambulatory Operations, Information Technology and the county health department in both the planning and execution of the Greater Monongalia County Community Vaccination Clinic. Using the lessons learned from the pandemic, Cosgrove helped create the Office of Resiliency and Clinical Preparedness for the WVU Health System, where she now serves in her current role.
Cosgrove is a certified associate in project management and a class of 2024 graduate of the West Virginia Hospital Association Leadership Academy. She holds an associate’s degree in medical office administration, a bachelor’s degree in health services administration and an MBA in healthcare administration.
Jamie Moore | Threat Preparedness Program Manager, Monongalia County Health Department
James (Jamie) Moore serves as the threat preparedness program manager for the Monongalia County Health Department and the Preparedness Action Coalition Team, a six-county collaborative public health emergency planning and response region in North Central West Virginia comprised of Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Taylor and Preston counties.
Moore provides leadership with the West Virginia Northern Radiation Response Team, holds an adjunct appointment with the WVU School of Public Health, serves as president of the West Virginia Public Health Emergency Management Association and is chair of National Association of County and City Health Officials’ Surge Management Workgroup.
With more than 22 years of experience working in the West Virginia public health system at the local level, Moore has covered program areas of threat preparedness, environmental health and epidemiology. He serves on the National Association of County and City Health Officials Surge Management Workgroup and Radiation Workgroup, West Virginia Public Health Association’s Executive Council and WVU Institutional Biosafety Committee. In addition, he is a registered sanitarian with the state of West Virginia and an FBI Citizens Academy graduate.
Moore holds a master’s degree in public administration with a specialization in health care management and a bachelor’s degree in agriculture education, both from WVU.
Samantha Stamper | Emergency Preparedness Director, West Virginia Hospital Association
Since 2010, Samantha Stamper has been the director of emergency preparedness at the West Virginia Hospital Association, the Healthcare Education Foundation coordinates activities for the federal to state Hospital Preparedness grant program. Stamper works with the hospital system and state and local response partners, such as emergency management and public health, to improve preparedness across the healthcare system in West Virginia.
Her professional career began in 1991 at a Charleston health clinic providing women’s health services. She then moved to program administration with the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health in 2000. While there, she became the first women’s health coordinator at the Office of Maternal Child and Family Health, where she coordinated health initiatives, chaired committees and administered health programs. In 2003, she changed career directions to enter the new and emerging field of emergency preparedness that arose from the events of the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and became the first emergency planner at the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health Center for Threat Preparedness.
Stamper has worked with school systems on emergency planning and pandemic influenza preparedness at the West Virginia Department of Education. In addition, she was involved with the startup of the West Virginia Health Information Exchange of electronic health records through the West Virginia Health Care Authority.
A West Virginia native from Charleston, Stamper holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from WVU, and a master’s degree in health education and promotion from WVU School of Medicine.
Sarah Woodrum, DrPH, MS, FACHE (Moderator) | Interim Co-dean/Senior Associate Dean for Administration, WVU School of Public Health
Sarah Woodrum, DrPH, MS, FACHE serves as the senior associate dean for administration at the WVU School of Public Health in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she oversees the day-to-day and strategic administration and operations. She leads projects and programs in direct consultation with University leadership, participates in policy development and problem resolution, and provides administrative oversight and direction to the school’s areas of finance, research, information technology, development, marketing, communications, and talent and culture. Woodrum teaches leadership courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Leadership.
She is also a WVU liaison with many community organizations. Some notable leadership positions on prominent community boards include the Morgantown Area Partnership (chair, 2020 and 2023), United Way of Mon and Preston County (president, 2024-2025), Rotary Club of Morgantown (president, 2020-2021) and current assistant district governor for Rotary District 7545. She is also a board member for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Monongalia County Child Advocacy Center. Woodrum has been an interim dean for the WVU School of Public Health since March 2020. She has more than three decades of healthcare management and strategic operations experience.
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