Director	Trainers and Content Specialists	Adminstrative Staff
Jane McGrath, MD	Kirsten Bennett, MS, RD, LD	Vickie Cordova
	John M. Booker, PhD	Kristine Gonzales
Program Operations Director	Carole Conley, MSW	Sean McDougle
Kris Carrillo, LISW	Suzanne Gagnon, CFNP	Janette Schluter
	Paula LeSueur, CFNP	Clancey Tarbox
	Dan Rifkin, MD
	Chenoa Bah Stilwell-Jensen, MS

 

Jane McGrath, MD, FAAP - Director of Envision

Jane McGrath is a Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is the director of Envision New Mexico: The Initiative for Child Healthcare Quality which she started in 2004. A long time resident of New Mexico, Dr. McGrath was formerly the School Health Officer for the New Mexico Department of Health and spent many years visiting rural school districts and helping develop school health policy for the state. She spends as much time as she can in the outdoors and loves to garden, cycle and dabble in fiber arts.

Kris Carrillo, LISW - Progam Operations Director

Kris Carrillo, LISW, is the Program Operations Director for Envision NM. She received her MSW from University of California/Berkeley in 1982 and has spent the last 26 years working in New Mexico in the field of children’s mental health as a clinician, program manager, and trainer. She has a particular interest in quality improvement of SBHCs in the area of behavioral health best practices, and in addition to spending 8 years working for the Office of School Health, she spent three years as a trainer for the National Assembly of School-based Health Care (NASBHC) in their Mental Health Education and Training Initiative. That was before she took two years off to go to Italy, and has recently returned with a whole new skill set (Italian language, Italian hand gestures, and Italian cooking)!

Kirsten Bennett, MS, RD, LD

Kirsten Bennett MS, RD, LD is a registered dietitian who specializes in the nutritional care of children. Her background includes over 15 years of hospital-based clinical nutrition experience working with families and children and 3 years of teaching at the university level. She is the mother of three children. As a member of the Envision New Mexico staff she has continued her contribution to the nutrition education of the pediatric community in New Mexico through participation in the education and support of pediatric health-care providers statewide.

John M. Booker

John M. Booker, PhD, is Senior Scientist and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine and acts as the Director of Research for Envison. Previously, he was Principal Investigator for the Southwest Diabetes Prevention Center sponsored by the CDC, providing training and community-based research support to tribal communities in the region. He also served a Chief of Injury and Behavioral Epidemiology for the New Mexico Department of Health. He was Director of the North Carolina Center for Health Statistics and a member of the faculty for the Public Health Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His professional work with Native American health issues began in the 1970’s as Project Director for the American Indian School of Medicine and as Director of Health Statistics and Research for the Navajo Health Authority. He spent 15 years in Alaska as the Coordinator of Cross-Cultural Education Development and Director of the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies with the University of Alaska.

 

Carole Conley, MSW

Carole Conley, MSW, has over ten years experience working with children and families in New Mexico. Locally grown and educated, her passion is to improve the health and wellness of all children throughout the state. She is the mother of three boys and battles the media and fast food frenzy daily to encourage habits at home that match the habits she teaches. Since joining Envision New Mexico, she has devoted her energies to understanding the obesity epidemic facing our youth and to finding ways to tackle it in the schools that are both informative and fun. She is active with New Mexico’s School-based Health Centers, the Office of School and Adolescent Health and EnvisionNM to build quality partnerships that supports the needs of students around the state. In her free time, she enjoys all kinds of activities with her husband, Dave, her three boys, and their two dogs.

 

Vickie Cordova

Vickie has been with UNM since 1989. As an Administrative Assistant she brings many years of UNM experience to Envision New Mexico and graciously assists all the staff in their needs of organization, reimbursment, ordering of supplies and promotional incentives.

Suzanne Gagnon, CFNP

Suzanne is a Family Nurse practitioner with 10 years of experience in family and pediatric care in New Mexico. Her role with Envision, as the Provider Outreach & Training Coordinator, allows her to train primary care providers to identify, prevent and treat pediatric overweight. She also has a strong interest in helping providers find, create and utilize community resources. Her vision is to enable students, patients and families to live healthier lives through access to fresh fruits and vegetables and areas to be physically active. She spends her free time with her husband and two children hiking, biking and skiing.

 

Kristine Gonzales - Accountant

Kristine is the accountant for Envision New Mexico. She was born and raised in New Mexico and received her degree from UNM. She has been at UNM for five years and enjoys providing accounting support to Envision. She loves being a mama to her two year old son and spending time with her family.

 

Paula Le Sueur, CFNP

Paula Le Sueur is the SBHC Medicaid Consultant for Envision. She received her MSN and nurse practitioner training at the University of California/Los Angeles as an OB-GYN nurse practitioner and then as a family nurse practitioner. She has spent the last 14 years in the field of School Based Health Care and worked as a contract monitor with the DOH, Office of School and Adolescent Health for 8 years. She continues to provide primary care and Medicaid consultation for SBHC programs. Her particular interest is in quality improvement in the area of evidence-based practice for primary care providers in SBHCs.

 

Sean McDougle

Sean McDougle has been with the University of New Mexico since early 2007 working for the Provost of the University, Human Resources, and the Bureau of Business and Economic Research before coming to Envision in April 2008.  He brings his business experience of working with local companies and Federal and State government agencies in the field of economic development, venture capital, technology, municipal finance, and economic impact and fiscal analyses.  He has acquired a bachelors in Economics from UNM and is working towards an MBA in Finance.  Sean contributes to various projects by assisting in project planning and execution.  Sean is also in charge of updating and maintaining the Envision website, creating presentations, as well as graphic design and creation.

 

Dan Rifkin, MD - Consulting Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dan Rifkin, MD is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist and assistant professor in UNM Department of Pediatrics, who provides psychiatric services in several school-based health centers (SBHCs) and works with Envision NM and the Office of School and Adolescent Health (NM-DOH) to train and consult with SBHC medical and behavioral health providers. Dr. Rifkin also is the psychiatric consultant for Envision’s COMM-TC (Childhood Overweight Medical Management Telehealth Consultation). He contributes to mental health projects of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care and its affiliate, the New Mexico Alliance on School-Based Health Care. Dr. Rifkin’s practice emphasizes multidisciplinary, collaborative evaluation and treatment of behavioral health problems in school-based and primary care settings.

 

Janette Schluter

Janette Schluter is a graduate of UNM with a BS in Psychology.  She has been a employee at UNM for almost two decades.  She has been with Envision NM since its inception, and has performed many “behind the scenes” roles as the program has developed.  Currently, she is a Program Specialist, and provides technical and administrative support to the program and staff.  She is involved in data tracking and reporting, and provides continuity in a rapidly changing environment. Janette regularly makes use of the tuition waiver benefit and has amassed around 200 credit hours in a wide range of topics, mostly in the sciences and math.  She has had countless computer courses through the Continuing Education Department. Outside of the office, she is a long-term member of the University Chorus, and most importantly, she takes care of formerly neglected cats.

 

Chenoa Bah Stilwell-Jensen, MS

Chenoa Bah Stilwell-Jensen, MS, is the Community Outreach Coordinator for Envision NM. She supports community and school-based health center providers with collaborative approaches to help the adolescents they serve with healthy lifestyle resources in rural, frontier, urban and tribal communities. For the past 12 years, she has applied her collective years of education and research projects into her professional career emphasizing the balance between health and learning. Ultimately, Chenoa enjoys running, cooking and being outdoors with her family.

 

Clancey Tarbox

Clancey Tarbox is an Administrative Assistant III at Envision. She has over 32 years experience in the medical field having provided administrative, accounting, and management services in several venues in Albuquerque, including 9 years working with the Office of School and Adolescent Health and a total of 12 years with the University. In addition to her work, Clancey enjoys spending time with her family and friends and sewing, beading, quilting, knitting, gardening, and traveling.