Beth Martino is the senior vice president of public affairs for the American Health Care Association. In this position, she is responsible for the association’s media relations, social media and multimedia communication. Beth provides counsel to executive leadership on communication, as well as cultivating and managing the public affairs team of the association.

Before assuming her current position, Beth was President and CEO of the Maryland Food Bank, where she led the organization’s important mission to end hunger in Maryland. Martino served as associate commissioner for external affairs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and was director of communications and press secretary for Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson and Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

Beth has a bachelor’s degree from Washburn University in political science and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. She and her husband, Stephen live in Las Vegas and have a 17-year-old daughter, Cate, and a 14-year-old son, Keaton.