Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of elected officers, section chairs, committee chairs, appointed positions, and ACHA representatives. The Board meets four times a year to discuss policies, budget, and other issues affecting the organization and to plan the annual conference.
NYSCHA Executive Board (pdf, updated January, 2012)
Welcome from Anne Kearney, NYSCHA President
Dear NYSCHA Membership,
Welcome! I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and to thank all of you who are members of NYSCHA. Many of you are active in our organization at the regional and state levels, and many of you participate by presenting and/or attending our annual meetings. Your input helps us to be the vibrant and dynamic organization that we are! I look forward to serving as your president this year.
I want to reach out to those of you who have not yet been involved and invite you to take some steps to become more acquainted with NYSCHA this year! One of the Executive Board’s goals for this year is to broaden and deepen our “touch” across the state by strengthening our NYSCHA network to support you and your campus. Please consider getting involved. You can become a representative for your district, present at our annual meeting, or simply email any one of the Board members with your suggestions or feedback.
Our Executive Board convened in December with the newly elected officers. There is excitement about the forward momentum and renewed commitment to support college health across the state. In this increasingly complex society we live in, with the ever increasing challenges that all of our students are faced with, college health plays a more vital role than ever. Health care reform, proposed changes to immunization laws, the increasing level of violence on our campuses, and the closing and out-sourcing of health offices are just a few of the major challenges we face. The Board is committed to fully supporting our membership in whatever ways we can.
The NYSCHA Executive Board is here to serve you. Please let us know how we can support you. We look forward to your involvement!
In good health,
Anne Kearney, LCSW-R
LeMoyne College
315-445-4195
kearneae@lemoyne.edu
Welcome from NYSCHA Section Chairs
NYSCHA section chairs are elected by members of their section. They represent their section at Executive Board meetings and on the NYSCHA Annual Meeting planning committee. We encourage you to check out your section by clicking on the letters linked below.
NYSCHA SECTIONS:
- Administration – Melinda DuBois, SUNY Geneseo
- Clinical Medicine – Alexandra Hall, MD, Cornell University
- Health Promotion – Melissa Kelley, University of Rochester
- Mental Health – Marcus Hotaling, Union College
- Nursing – This position is open. Please contact Anne Kearney if interested.
- Students – Sara Gleisle, University of Rochester
- Community College Representative– Paula Snyder, RN, BSN, Jamestown Community College
NYSCHA Administrative Section
Melinda DuBois, LMSW
Chair, Administrative Section
Dear Members,
It is a pleasure to be involved in NYSCHA as the chair of the Administrative Section. I am the Administrative Director of Student Health and Counseling at SUNY Geneseo. We are an integrated center, health, counseling, health promotion, and AOD programs all under one roof. I have been in this role for 2 1/2 years and before joining SUNY Geneseo, I was the Executive Director of a women's reproductive health clinic is Buffalo, NY for 15 years. As a social worker, my background has helped influence my passion for quality, holistic health (and mind) care as well as social justice. We have made many changes at Student Health and Counseling in the past year including implementing an EMR system, renovating our space, and reorganizing staff to help us develop more integrated care.
I love this work and feel strongly that as administrators, we can help and support each other is our goals. I have many NYSCHA members to thank for helping during my transition to this community and would like to give back. In my role as Administrative Section Chair, I hope I can help us to connect, communicate, and partner. I provide representation for members interested in management, supervision, program development, and quality assurance.
I encourage you to submit proposals and/or ideas for topics for the NYSCHA Annual Meeting, October 24-26, 2012 in Syracuse. You can visit the NYSCHA Website for details. Please contact me if you have any concerns, networking ideas, or topics of interest for the annual meeting.
I look forward to hearing from you and working with you in the future.
Melinda DuBois
Administrative Director of Student Health and Counseling
Lauderdale Center, SUNY Geneseo
1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454
585-245-5716
dubois@geneseo.edu
NYSCHA Clinical Medicine Section
Alexandra Hall, MD
Chair, NYSCHA Clinical Medicine Section
I was elected the Section Chair for Clinical Medicine at the 2008 NYSCHA Annual Meeting. After a brief stint as a high school teacher, I became a family doc, graduating from Mount Sinai SOM in 1999 and University of Vermont Family Practice Residency in 2002. After a couple of years of full-scope practice in Wisconsin, I moved to Ithaca, NY to be closer to family, initially working in the urgent care center there before coming to work for Gannett Health Center at Cornell in 2005.
I am really excited to be working in student health, as I have a huge interest in patient education. I also have keen interests in evidence-based care and advocacy and see NYSCHA and ACHA as potential avenues for support, networking, and investigating and sharing best practices. I am also currently heading the LGBT Coalition’s Subcommittee for Transgender Health.
NYSCHA is currently looking for ways to enhance the benefits of membership, and I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. Some possibilities might include a clearinghouse for topic information (perhaps current guidelines and important, sentinel studies) and presentations (i.e. sharing PowerPoint presentations that we think are useful as well as administrative and protocol information). Should we use the listserv to debate clinical topics and share info that way as well? (e.g., just how many CFU do YOU consider to indicate a UTI?!)
The NYSCHA Planning Committee has begun their work for the 2012 Annual Meeting. I would like to encourage you to consider submitting a proposal to present. The Call for Proposals is now on the web site. The deadline is February 15, 2012. If you have suggestions for topics and/or speakers you would like to recommend we consider, please let me know and I will share your ideas at the next meeting of the planning committee.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please share your ideas with me, and we can work together to support each other and our students. Thanks!
Alexandra Hall, MD
Cornell University
amh89@cornell.edu
607-255-5155
NYSCHA Health Promotion Section
Melissa A. Kelley, MS, CHES
Chair, NYSCHA Health Promotion Section
Welcome to the Health Promotion Section! I am the new chair of the Health Promotion Section and am looking forward to this new role. I am the Health Educator at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY and joined the NYSCHA Board in 2011. As the Health Educator, I provide educational programs and workshops for the University community, teach courses in the undergraduate Public Health program, and serve as a BASICS practitioner, sexual assault advocate, and hearing board advisor. I have a BS in Health Science and Community Health Education from SUNY Cortland and a MS in Human Service Administration from St. John Fisher College. I am currently a doctoral student in the Human Development program at the Warner School at the University of Rochester. I am a Certified Health Education Specialist and also currently serve as a member on Answer’s Sexual Health Review Board.
I am interested in working collaboratively with other health educators and health promotion professionals and value the contributions of others in the field. As the chair of the Health Promotion Section, I will be involved in the program planning for our NYSCHA Annual Meeting in October. We can use your help as we select programs.
If you are thinking about submitting a proposal, now is the time to do so. The link to the online Call for Programs is on the annual meeting page of this web site. The deadline is February 15, 2012. We welcome your suggestions for topics and/or speakers, too. Please feel free to contact me with any ideas you would like to share. I look forward to hearing from you.
Melissa A. Kelley, MS, CHES
University of Rochester
738 Library Road, Box 270472
Rochester, NY 14627-0472
(585) 273-5772 office, (585) 461-4637 fax
mkelley@uhs.rochester.edu
NYSCHA Mental Health Section
Marcus Hotaling, PhD
Chair, NYSCHA Mental Health Section
Hello and welcome to the Mental Health Section introduction. My name is Marcus Hotaling and I have been the Mental Health Section Chair since March of 2011. I am the Director of the Union College Counseling Center, a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, NY. Over the past 4 years, I have been rebuilding the Counseling Center, moving it from a private practiced-based model, to be more proactive in nature. Much of our work at Union over the past few years has been on addressing sexual assault and eating disorder treatment and prevention. I am a member of AUCCCD, (Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors), ACHA (American College Health Association), and NYSCHA (New York State College Health Association).
I am interested in working collaboratively with all members interested in mental health topics, and look forwards with advancing the ideas and contributions of the great clinicians we have working in New York colleges.
Please feel free to contact me at any time.
Marcus Hotaling, PhD
Union College, 807 Union St., Schenectady, NY 12308
hotalinm@union.edu
518-388-6161
NYSCHA Nursing Section
The position of NYSCHA Nursing Section Chair is currently unfilled. If you are interested in this position, please contact Anne Kearney, NYSCHA President, at kearneae@lemoyne.edu.
NYSCHA Student Section
Sara Gleisle
Chair, NYSCHA Student Section
Hello. My name is Sara Gleisle. I am a current graduate of SUNY Cortland, where I majored in Health Education. I will be pursuing my master’s degree at the University of Rochester. There, I will be enrolled in the Higher Education program with a concentration in Student Affairs. I am currently working at the University Health Service’s Health Promotion office with Melissa Kelly and Linda Dudman. Come fall, I will be their full time graduate assistant, adding a specialty in college health to my credentials. I am eager to learn more about NYSCHA and make the most out of this experience.
I look forward to meeting and working with all of you. Please feel free to e-mail or call me with any suggestions, comments, questions, or concerns. I look forward to connecting with students from other campuses. If you are a student or if you know students who might be interested in learning more about NYSCHA and college health, please send them my way.
Sara Gleisle
University of Rochester
sara.gleisle@cortland.edu
585-943-3763
NYSCHA Community College Representative
Paula Snyder, RN, BSN
NYSCHA Community College Representative
I am delighted to be a member of the NYSCHA Executive Board member of NYSCHA and even more excited to have the opportunity to begin a dialogue about the uniqueness of the role of the community college health services that are as different as our geography and our student populations across New York State.
After spending almost 13 years as an ICCU nurse to home care and hospice nursing I chose college health and have been here learning from an amazing population of students for over 17 years. In meeting others in the community college health arenas, from the Long Island sound, to the shores of Lake Champlain, to the Finger Lakes and furthest west where you find Lake Erie and Lake Chautauqua, our college campuses are nestled among hills and mountains and in the middle of bustling downtowns and quiet bucolic communities.
College Health in poor rural communities at best can be challenging, as many people are unfamiliar with the varying demographics that make up our student populations in these areas. Some community college students come to higher education with many variables that may differ from the traditional 4 year university students and often are commuter students as well. Their lives consist of a constant balancing act of managing full time family responsibilities, part time and in some cases full time work responsibilities and full time academic loads. Or, they are often veterans returning from serving for years away from the US and find the community college the best place to begin to live a civilian life again, at a pace that can allow them to re-adapt to home in surroundings as they continue a private battle of readjustment to everyday life.
The result of all these life issues can be the lowering of their personal health and wellness to a record low priority and with many students having no health insurance at all, the college health and wellness centers are on the front lines in intervention. These centers may often be the only health care students have access to. And we do some amazing things in two short years for these students.
I would like to connect with sister community colleges in our NYSCHA network to share ideas, and successes on the practices that serve this very amazing group of students who come from very different backgrounds and who often face many adversities to obtain their degrees, and careers. We are a very “different lot” on so many fronts, and our resources and lack thereof, can also be very different. From nurse directed health centers to centers that do have providers on site, to commuter campuses only to campuses that have multiple sites in multiple counties and regions, we encounter a diverse set of health care challenges, and many of our staff members wear multiple hats in serving our students.
I look forward to sharing the wealth of information that I know exists within the community college networks and I am delighted to be part of this strong NYSCHA organization.
The NYSCHA 2012 Annual Meeting will be held October 24-26, 2012 in Syracuse. The planning committee has begun their work for the annual meeting. I would like to encourage you to consider submitting a proposal to present. The Call for Proposals is now on the web site. The deadline is February 15, 2012. If you have suggestions for topics and/or speakers you would like to recommend we consider, please let me know and I will share your ideas at the next meeting of the planning committee. This is an excellent opportunity for those of us in community college settings to work together to suggest topics that will address our needs and our students’ needs.
I would love to hear from colleagues. Feel free to e-mail me at PaulaSnyder@mail.sunyjcc.edu, so we can begin to formulate some ways to address our unique opportunities in the future together.
Paula Snyder, RN, BSN
Jamestown Community College
PaulaSnyder@mail.sunyjcc.edu
716-376-7569