Toni Marie Rudisill, PhD, MS

Dr. Toni Marie Rudisill is an injury epidemiologist. Her areas of specialty are in transportation safety, substance use, and health policy. She enjoys studying injuries in rural and medically underserved populations.

Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Public Health

Department:

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Faculty

• PhD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 2015
• MS, West Chester University, 2007
• BS, Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Tang Y, Kirk B, Olanrewaju F, Abildso CG, Winstanley EL, Lilly CL, Rudisill TM. Cannabis use among adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports. 2024 Apr 16:100232.

Tang Y, Abildso CG, Lilly CL, Winstanley EL, Rudisill TM. Risk factors associated with driving after marijuana use among West Virginia college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Traffic Inj Prev. 2024;25(4):579-588. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2024.2333906. Epub 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38572915.

Rudisill TM, Innes KK, Wen S, Haggerty T, Smith GS. The effects of cannabidiol on subjective states, cognition, and psychomotor function in healthy adults: A randomized clinical trial. Fundam Clin Pharmacol. 2023 Jan 10. doi: 10.1111/fcp.12868. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36625844.

Rudisill TM, Steinmetz L, Bardes, JM. Substance use in rural trauma patients admitted for motor vehicle injuries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2023. Inj. Epidemiol. 10 (5). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-023-00415-y.

Rudisill TM, Innes K, Wen S, Haggerty T, Smith GS. The effects of cannabidiol on the driving performance of healthy adults: a randomized clinical trial.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus. 2023 2(1),100053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2022.100053.

Tang Y, Abildso CG, Lilly CL, Winstanley EL, Rudisill TM. Risk Factors Associated With Driving After Marijuana Use Among US College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Adolesc Health. 2022 Nov 7:S1054-139X(22)00731-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.10.027. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36549978; PMCID: PMC9637518.

Rudisill TM, Ashraf AJ, Linn HI, Sayres S, Jeffries JE, Gurka KK. Facilitators, barriers, and lessons learnt from the first state-wide naloxone distribution conducted in West Virginia. Inj Prev. 2020 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043666. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32873604.

Rudisill TM, Baus A, Jarrett T.  Challenges of enforcing cell phone use while driving laws among police: a qualitative study. Injury Prevention, 2018 Oct 5. pii: injuryprev-2018-042931. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-042931. [Epub ahead of print]

Rudisill TM, Chu H, Zhu M. Cell phone use while driving laws and motor vehicle driver fatalities: differences in population sub-groups and location. Annals of Epidemiology. 2018 Oct;28(10):730-735. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.07.015. Epub 2018 Jul 31.

Rudisill TM, Zhu M, Kelley G, Pilkerton C, Rudisill B.  Medication use and the risk of motor vehicle collision among licensed drivers: a systematic review.  Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2016 Nov;255-270.

For a full publication list, see:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1fYQCu3XUhDkt/bibliography/42580366/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Research Scholar, West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Morgantown, WV; 2020

Invited Speaker, topic: challenges enforcing distracted driving laws; KJZZ NPR affiliate station, Phoenix, Arizona; 2019

Invited Lecturer, topic: drugged driving; American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety and Transportation Research Board Workshop, Washington, DC; 2018

Dr. Toni Marie Rudisill is an epidemiologist who is immensely passionate about injury research.  Her research is focused primarily on transportation-related injuries and emergency care, substance use, and health policy often in rural and medically underserved populations.  Her research focuses on the intersection between medical conditions, prescription, and non-prescription drug use, driving performance, and motor vehicle collision risk.  She is also particularly interested in how public policies influence injuries and deaths in populations (e.g. passage of marijuana use laws, distracted driving laws, etc.).  Her research program is diverse as she conducts both experimental and observational studies along with mixed methods research. She collaborates often with healthcare providers at WVU Medicine.  She is the Principal Investigator of the Driving Simulation Laboratory located at the WVU Health Sciences Center.  She has also conducted numerous, statewide program evaluations. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, American Thoracic Society, and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Her work has been presented nationally and published in >40 well-respected, peer-reviewed journals.

In addition to her research, Dr. Rudisill is a passionate educator.  She teaches several graduate-level courses and one undergraduate course in the School of Public Health.  She is also currently the Department’s PhD Program Advisor.  She currently mentors numerous graduate and undergraduate students and is excited to see them gain new methodological and statistical skills and develop as researchers. 

Outside of work, Dr. Rudisill spends her time recreating in the great outdoors with her spouse and pets and can often be found hiking/backpacking trails, boating, fly fishing, golfing, horseback riding, and enjoying winter sports in the beautiful Appalachian mountains.