Academic Program Managers

Dru Holehan, BS
Administrative Manager

Dru Holehan has fifteen years experience as an integral member of the Johns Hopkins administrative staff. During her tenure she has been instrumental in the development and implementation of several innovative and exciting programs, the most recent of which is the state of the art Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. As Academic Program Manager, Holehan is responsible for much of the day-to-day operations of the Center including, but not limited to staffing, promotion, acquisition of high-fidelity medical training equipment, and fulfilling Johns Hopkins' commitment to education, research, and patient safety.

Carol Fleishman, MS, CAS-Ed, PE
Academic Program Manager, SP & Teaching Associate Programs

Carol Fleishman develops, designs, and delivers Standardized Patient Program activities for teaching and assessing medical students, nursing students, fellows, and residents. She recruits and trains standardized patients to portray patients for simulations of clinician and patient interactions. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Carol was the Standardized Patient Educator at Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine. Carol has worked in the field of adult learning and development for twenty years, including the development of workplace educational programs, and teaching at universities and colleges. Carol graduated from University of Southern Maine with a Post Masters Certificate of Advanced Studies in Adult Learning, University of Wisconsin with a MS degree in Chemical Engineering, and Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. She is a State of Maine Professional Engineer and is a candidate in the PhD in Education program at Leslie University. Carol was a recipient of a Tufts University School of Medicine Innovations in Education Grant in 2009.

Julianne S. Perretta MSEd, RRT-NPS
Simulation Educator

Julianne Perretta is the Simulation Educator for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. Julianne completed her Baccalaureate Degree in Respiratory Therapy from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania/West Penn Hospital’s School of Respiratory Care Services in 2001. As a native Marylander, she returned to the Baltimore area after graduation to begin her career as a neonatal respiratory therapist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In her five years working in the level 4 NICU, she began taking an active role in nursing, physician, and RT education. In 2005 she accepted a position as the Coordinator of Staff and Programs Development for the Respiratory Care Services division of Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine.  While in that role, Julianne developed and implemented online and traditional learning for multiple departments within the Johns Hopkins health care community. She was also co-chair of the Respiratory Care Service Performance Improvement Committee, which oversees patient safety, clinical effectiveness and quality improvement for the division. In 2006, she completed her Master of Science degree in Education, with focuses in Adult Learning and Multimedia & Internet-based Instruction from the Johns Hopkins University.  Subsequently, Julianne became an adjunct faculty member for the Towson University School of Allied Health.  She is an assistant editor for the 2009 edition of Oakes’ Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care: A critical care pocket guide.  Julianne assists new and current simulation center customers with curriculum development, scenario building and testing, and debriefing skills. She is a Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) instructor as well as a BLS instructor.  Julianne’s current research interests include using patient simulations for staff training and evaluation, and disaster preparedness team training, and improving the quality of respiratory simulations.