Jamie Gentille received her BS in Biobehavioral Health from Penn State University and her Masters in Public Health from Walden University.  She also completed a Child Life internship at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth and became a Certified Child Life Specialist in 2002.  She is currently System Director of Child Life Services and Community Engagement at Inova Children’s Hospital, where she has worked since 2002.  Jamie is also an adjunct professor at George Mason University.  She serves as an Ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and has published a memoir, Surviving HIV: Growing Up a Secret and Being Positive, and is an accomplished speaker on the topic. Jamie sits on the Board of Directors for both The Meg Foundation for Pain and The Children’s Inn at NIH.