Board Members & Executive Director
Stephen Marshall, DDS, MPH
Alliance Board Chair
Dr. Stephen Marshall is currently working with Smile New York LLC advising them on matters associated with operating school based dental programs including clinical policies and procedures, quality assurance/ quality improvement, and program operations and logistics. Before this, he worked for the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
from 1988-2015 in a variety of leadership positions including: Senior Associate Dean, Vice President Columbia University HealthCare Inc., Chief Operating Officer Thelma Adair Medical/Dental Center, Chairman Ethics Committee, Chairman Quality Assurance Committee, Chairman Continuing Education Committee, Chairman Managed Care Committee. He was responsible for leading Community DentCare which included a network of school-based dental practices and a mobile dental van.
His academic accomplishments as an Associate Professor of Dentistry include over 40 peer reviewed publications, Fellowship and grant support from multiple governmental and philanthropic entities, and teaching multiple courses. Dr. Marshall earned a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, a D.D.S. from SUNY/Buffalo School of Dental and Oral Medicine, and an M.P.H. from Columbia University School of Public Health. He is licensed to practice dentistry in New York State. He is married and has two grown children.
Janet Garth, MPH
Alliance Board Chair-Elect
Janet Garth is the Manager of the Center for Community Health and Education (CCHE), a department of the New York Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network, which delivers a continuum of care in collaboration with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Ms. Garth oversees a team of 100 employees serving approximately 25,000 individuals annually in nine locations in northern Manhattan including seven school-based health centers serving 23 NYC public schools, a Title X family planning practice and model young men’s clinic.
Ms. Garth’s considerable experience includes positions with the ACLU’s Children’s Rights Project, Community HealthCare Network and fifteen years in NYPH division of community health and education. Ms. Garth holds a Master of Public Health from Hunter College and has extensive experience in clinical practice management, performance improvement, ambulatory billing, program and strategic planning, regulatory compliance, and fiscal management. Ms. Garth is a Board Member of the Family Planning Advocates of New York and a member of the New York City Family Planning Providers Workgroup, New York City Adolescent Health Committee.
Kim Utech, MSN, FNP-C, AE-C
Alliance Board Treasurer
Kim Utech, family nurse practitioner, with 18 years of SBHC experience working in WNY’s Kaleida Health SBHCs. She is a union nurse practitioner chair for 1199SEIU, and has a passion for advancing SBHC in WNY through political advocacy.
Rosy Chhabra, Psy.D.
Alliance Board Secretary
Dr. Rosy Chhabra is Director of the Montefiore School Health Program located in the Bronx, NY. Montefiore’s school health program comprises more than 25 sbhcs and is the largest network of school-based health centers in the country. Exceptionally experienced in her role, Dr. Chhabra is a public health research and program development expert with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing clinical and community-based prevention/health promotion programs for youth, both nationally and internationally.
North Country Family Health School-Based Health Program has six comprehensive health centers and twelve dental only locations. Prior to this role Heather worked for Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization as a Health IT consultant working with many regional healthcare organizations. Heather holds a M.S. in Healthcare Administration from Utica College.
Karla Sargent, MBA, CHFP
Alliance Board
Past Chair
Karla joined Albany Medical Center in October 2016. Prior to AMC, she worked at Whitney Young Health, an Article 28 Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Albany, NY. For nearly 10 years she oversaw the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program; she ran the center’s three School Based Health Centers and provided administrative support to two dental programs.
Karla also purchased and operationalized a mobile health unit that was utilized in the area’s schools and community based organizations.
Karla received her Bachelor’s in Nutrition Science from Russell Sage College and her Master’s in Business Administration from the College of Saint Rose.
Sara Hodgdon, MPH
Heather Lupia, MS
Heather Lupia Heather currently serves as the Administrator for Primary Care Services Director at North Country Family Health Center, in upstate NY. Formerly, Heather was the Administrator for the School-Based Health Center Programs where she was responsible overseeing the day to day operations of the School-Based health center programs. Heather is also responsible for leading the School-Based Health Center Strategic plan and Trauma Informed Care Initiatives.
She is also a Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). She is the medical director for both the School Health Center at New Dorp High School and the School Health & Wellness Center at Port Richmond High School. Under her leadership, there has been expansive growth within the Division of Adolescent Medicine which coordinates several grant funded programs including the Family Grant Program and Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. These programs provide opportunities to increase existing clinical services to underserved populations.
North Country Family Health School-Based Health Program has six comprehensive health centers and twelve dental only locations. Prior to this role Heather worked for Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization as a Health IT consultant working with many regional healthcare organizations. Heather holds a M.S. in Healthcare Administration from Utica College.
April Lee, MD
April C. Lee, M.D. served as Director, Division of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Staten Island University Hospital. She is a dedicated clinician, educator, and researcher in the field of Adolescent Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), involved in the Section of Adolescent Health, Council on School Health and New York Committee of Adolescence.
She is also a Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). She is the medical director for both the School Health Center at New Dorp High School and the School Health & Wellness Center at Port Richmond High School. Under her leadership, there has been expansive growth within the Division of Adolescent Medicine which coordinates several grant funded programs including the Family Grant Program and Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. These programs provide opportunities to increase existing clinical services to underserved populations.
Tiffany Watson - Labbate, LMHC, LPN
Tiffany Watson-Labbate is the Director of School-Based Mental Health Programs at Children’s Aid. She is responsible for managing daily operations and clinical oversight for a team of licensed social workers in four article 28/31 School-Based health centers. Tiffany provides clinical supervision, crisis counseling, intake support and reviews documentation. She has been with Children’s Aid since 2014, beginning her career as a line mental health provider in the article 28/31 Curtis School-Based Health Center. She obtained her undergrad and graduate degrees from The College of Staten Island. Tiffany also holds a license as a Practical Nurse since 2004. She obtained her LPN license after completing the Practical Nursing program at Curtis High School her home base work site and Alma Mata.
Annemarie Goodman, LCSW-R
Annemarie is the Clinical Supervisor/ Coordinator of School-based Mental Health Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine, CCMC, at Northwell Health. She coordinates trauma informed mental health services across all five school- based health sites and provides clinical supervision to LMSW and LCSW team. She also serves as the Director of Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program (CAPP) overseeing the development and Implementation of a NY State funded multi-tiered sexuality education, risk reduction and youth development program throughout our four school-based health center campuses located within Brooklyn and Queens. Additionally, Annemarie provides individual psychotherapy services to adolescents and adults in private practice.
Jane Hamilton, RN
Jane Hamilton is Manager of the Bassett Healthcare School-Based Health, overseeing the administrative, programmatic and community-based work for 21 centers. She has served in this position for over 25 years. Prior to her current position, she spent nine years in Delhi, New York, serving as Program Director for the Delaware Academy Student Health Program, of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital.
Earlier, she served as that O’Connor Hospital’s Prenatal Clinic Manager and Delaware County Prenatal Assistance Program Coordinator (1990-93). Ms. Hamilton worked as grant coordinator for the Community Orientated Primary Care Demonstration Project, Delhi Family Medicine (1989-92), and for the Cardio-vascular Screening Program, O’Connor Hospital (1985-88), both in Delhi, New York.
Sarah Murphy, Alliance Executive Director
Sarah currently serves as the Executive Director for the New York School-Based Health Alliance.
Previously, she was vice president of the Empire State Society of Association Executives, a statewide trade membership organization, as well as an organizational consultant for several associations and societies. She is principal of a management and consulting company, SeventhSister, LLC.
NYSBHA’s Consultants
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