Work and Education:
Professor Marino is a Clinical Associate Professor and Track Coordinator for the DNP Executive Leadership Program. She is an educator, clinician, entrepreneur and innovator. Her doctoral degree is in executive leadership with an emphasis on business and entrepreneurship. A nurse practitioner since 1997, she is dual certified in family practice and gerontology. She is the owner of The Concierge NP, LLC, a direct access, primary care, and house calls practice. She is also the founder of the Aila Accad Center for Nurse Entrepreneurship, a business development center supporting nurses who own health related businesses. Her research interests include health policy, particularly policy around increasing access to and reimbursement for nursing care, nurse entrepreneurship, leadership and community re-integration for persons in recovery from Substance Use Disorder.

Committees:
Dr. Marino serves on numerous school committees including Program Effectiveness and Graduate Curriculum.

Articles and Presentations:
Outside the classroom, Professor Marino contributes to both nursing publications and nursing associations. She is a member of AANP, AONL and ANA. She is currently serving as the Vice Chair of the Individual Member Division of ANA. She has served the Future of Nursing WV as Executive Director and Chair of the Leadership Team. Under her leadership, the FONWV was awarded $1.5 million dollars for the FONWV from federal, state, and local entities to develop programming in support of nurse entrepreneurship, creating the only nurse business development center in the nation. She co-authored the chapter “Leadership through Entrepreneurship” published in 2020 In Advanced Practice Nursing Leadership: A Global Perspective, Editors, Sue Hassmiller, PhD and Joyce Pulcini, PhD. With Springer Publishing. This publication will be translated in French for publication in 2024. She is widely sought after as a speaker on nurse entrepreneurship and the nurse’s role in health policy.

Community:
Finally, Laure Marino is involved in her local community. Aside from spending time with her husband and their six children, she is a volunteer with several United Way initiatives including the Gabriel Project, the Warming Station and the homeless count. She volunteers with the Kanawha Cares Coalition and SOAR (Solutions Oriented Addiction Recovery) as a street medicine provider. She has also served on the board of WV 211 and ABLE Families, and as an RCIA sponsor and Coordinator of the Thanksgiving Food Project with Blessed Sacrament Parish and was the Eagle Scout Project Manager for Troop 2 with the Buckskin Council for many years. She has served as a Camp Nurse with Camp Dogwood (AnBryce Foundation) and on medical mission trips to Haiti.