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Envision Staff

Director
Trainers and Content Specialists
Adminstrative Staff
Jane McGrath, MD Sherri Alderman, MD, MPH Lisa Cashion
Program Operations Director Kirsten Bennett, MS, RD, LD Vickie Cordova
Kris Carrillo, LISW John M. Booker, PhD Erin Damour
  Carole Conley, MSW Janette Schluter
  Jane Epstein, CPNP Clancey Tarbox
  Suzanne Gagnon, CFNP  
  Paula LeSueur, CFNP  
  Keri Bolton Oetzel, PhD, MPH, LPC  
  Dan Rifkin, MD  
  Chenoa Bah Stilwell-Jensen, MS  

Jane McGrath, MD, FAAP - Director of Envision

jane mJane 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

KrisKris 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)!


Staff

Sherri Alderman, MD, MPH

Sherri Sherri L. Alderman, MD, MPH, IMH-E (2008), FAAP, is Assistant Professor and Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Pediatric Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has a dual position at the Center for Development and Disability and Envision New Mexico as Project Director of the Developmental Screening Initiative New Mexico (DSI), a statewide initiative promoting community-base, systems-oriented, evidence-based practice regarding developmental screening for young children. Dr. Alderman can be reached atsalderman@salud.unm.edu.





Kirsten Bennett, MS, RD, LD

kirsten 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.

Lisa Cashion

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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.

Erin Damour

Erin Damour works with Envision as its liaison with the New Mexico Pediatric Society. She is our in-house graphic designer, webmaster and copy editor. Erin has been the Executive Director of the New Mexico Pediatric Society since 2001 and has a background in anthropology, sociology and photography. In her spare time, Erin enjoys teaching Nia, playing volleyball and traveling.

Jane Epstein, CPNP

Jane EJane Epstein is the Telehealth Program Manager for Envision, where she coordinates the pediatric obesity telehealth service. She completed a nurse practitioner program and a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine in 1990. In her spare time she enjoys being with her family, practicing yoga and Wushu, cooking and playing the piano.






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 NM is as the Provider Outreach and Training Coordinator. Her main objective is 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. When not at work she spends her time with her husband and two children hiking, biking and skiing.

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.

Keri Bolton Oetzel, PhD, MPH, LPC

Keri Bolton Oetzel, Ph.D, MPH is a licensed clinical psychotherapist and has worked extensively with children, adolescents, and families. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the University of New Mexico, she works with Envision NM, as the Research, Evaluation, and Communication Director, and provides Motivational Interviewing training and consultation to the pediatric overweight quality improvement initiatives. Her professional interests include dialoguing with patients about behavior change, bridging the gap between physical and mental health outcomes, and working with New Mexican communities to improve the quality of healthcare. In her spare time, she loves playing outdoors with her husband John and their two children, Spencer and Ethan.

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

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

clanceyClancey 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.


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