Community Core: Health and Wellness Evidence for Everyone

Latisha Chastang is the Deputy Chief of the Office of Community Assistance at the Ohio Department of Development (Development), overseeing client services, quality assurance, operations, energy assistance, and community service programs. Latisha also serves as the first Advisory Board Chair for the Community Core at the Fuld Institute. Prior to joining Development, Latisha served as the Director of Emergency Assistance of IMPACT Community Action, serving Columbus and Franklin County, where she managed a $70 million budget and 45 employees.

She secured over $15 million in new funding to the agency and assisted in creating innovative services and programs with over 15 years of service. Latisha has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Human Resources from Franklin University and a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Capella University. She is active in her community, currently serving on the Board of Health for Franklin County Public Health, Focus Learning Academy, and The Women’s Business Center Advisory Board. Latisha and her husband, Carl, reside in Columbus, Ohio, with their two children, Xavier and Danielle, and two dogs, Dashie and Brian.

Dr. Cornett was Program Manager for Patient/Consumer Health Education at OSU Medical Center for 21 years, where she established a comprehensive patient / health education system across The Ohio State University Medical Center. Under her direction over 3,000 titles of patient education handouts were written by OSU staff. She also developed a consumer health education library within the medical center with easy-to-read materials.

For 13 years, Dr. Cornett was Director of the OSU/AHEC Clear Health Communication Program, where she implemented a statewide program to raise awareness about health literacy issues, train students and practitioners in the health professions, provide consultation for organizations, and research low health literacy issues. She developed computer-based CE modules for professional education, and presented over 500 workshops, training more than 10,000 health care professionals in patient education and health literacy. In 2014 Dr. Cornett founded a 501C3 statewide collaborative for health literacy (Ohio Health Literacy Partners, Inc.). Dr. Cornett has a BS and MS in Nursing, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education

Missy Creed is a librarian at the Library for Health Information (LHI) at The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library. Missy earned a Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University and a Master of Arts in Applied Behavioral Science from Wright State University. Missy also received a CHIS (Consumer Health Information Specialization), level 2, from the Medical Library Association. As a librarian in the LHI, Missy provides free, reliable, easy to read, and easy to understand health information on any health topic to patients, their families, staff, and the community. Missy also serves on the Fuld Institute’s Community Core Advisory Board.

A native of eastern Ohio, Lori Criss has been engaged in the behavioral health field since 1992. Her experience includes working for the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and Amethyst, Inc. Prior to coming to OhioMHAS, Lori served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Services Providers. Ms. Criss holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from The Ohio State University. She graduated from SAMHSA’s 2010-2011 Women's Addiction Services Leadership Institute, a year-long nationally selective, intensive program designed to build leaders for the nation’s behavioral health field.

Lori has most recently served on the Advisory Board to Ohio’s Criminal Sentencing Commission, the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Addiction Policy Committee, and Ohio’s Housing and Homeless Collaborative. She is a former board member for the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and served as the Principal Advisor for Ohio Recovery Housing.

Deborah Danner-Gulley, BSN, RN, has been employed at Area Agency on Aging, District 7 for 30 years. She has worked in multiple Medicaid waiver programs including PASSPORT, Assisted Living, Residential State Supplement and the Ohio Home Care Waiver. Currently she serves as the Director of Case Management Services at AAA7. Deborah is a graduate of Holzer Medical Center School of Nursing and Ohio University. She holds Care Management Certification (CMC) through National Academy of Certified Care Managers and is a member of the National Association of Certified Geriatric Care Managers/Aging Life Care Association.

Autumn Glover serves as the Senior Director of Community Health Partnerships at OhioHealth. She is an accomplished and passionate leader in community engagement, health equity, and urban planning. She provides executive leadership for OhioHealth’s community health programs that provide access to healthcare and education for populations made vulnerable to health disparities. Autumn completed both her undergraduate and graduate studies at The Ohio State University.

She earned both a Master of City and Regional Planning from Knowlton School of Architecture and an MPA in public policy and management from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on local government and community engagement. Autumn spent more than fifteen years in leadership roles at Ohio State and Wexner Medical Center. She served as President of PACT, a place-based nonprofit focused on addressing social determinants of health through strategic project and program investments for over ten years.

Dr. Amy Headings is the Director of Research and Nutrition at Mid-Ohio Food Collective, a role she has held since 2011. She collaborates with local and state health care partners to address food insecurity and healthy food access for the treatment and prevention of chronic disease. Amy has worked with Feeding America, The Ohio State University, and others on initiatives to understand the impact of emergency feeding on dietary intake and health outcomes in food-insecure populations.

As the leader of Mid-Ohio Farmacy, nearly 30,000 patients have been screened and provided the opportunity to connect to the fresh food they need every week. The program has resulted in lower primary care costs and improvements in health outcomes. Amy sits on several local, state, and national advisory committees including the State Nutrition Action Committee and the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare Community Core, and has been an expert panel member for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research program. She also worked with OSU Extension to write Pantry Panic, an Ohio 4-H project book that helps students gain a clearer picture of hunger in their communities. Amy is a registered and licensed dietitian and holds a doctorate in human nutrition from The Ohio State University.

Jerry Revish delivered the nightly news as anchor of the 5, 6 and 11 o’clock editions of 10TV News in Columbus, Ohio until his retirement on November 26, 2019. He enjoyed a 45-year career in radio and television with the Dispatch Broadcast Group. Among his reporting honors: 13 Emmy Awards, 4 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and the Best International Reporting Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Jerry is a 2005 inductee into the Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Jerry is also the founder and senior Pastor of Unity Temple Church of God in Christ in South Columbus. Jerry and his wife Danielle, a fashion show producer, image consultant and former model, have two children, Nicole and Jerome and four grandchildren, Samuel, Madison, Sydney and Ashton.