Ashley is the Director of the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet) Coordinating Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has directed multiple NIH-funded projects on bronchiolitis, a NIMH-funded study on suicide prevention, and an AHRQ-funded project of patient safety in emergency departments. She works on a variety of EMNet research projects, from large multicenter studies to brief patient surveys. As Director of the EMNet Coordinating Center, Ashley oversees all EMNet staff and operations.