NECHA News - Fall 2014

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2013-14 Board of Directors
2014 Fall Issue
PRESIDENT
Denise McGoldrick, MS, MCHES
Assistant Dean of Students; Director, Health Education
Amherst College
413 542-2760 dmcgoldrick@amherst.edu
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Mark Reed, MD
Co-Director, Student Health Services
Dartmouth College
603 646-1442 mark.reed@dartmouth.edu
PAST PRESIDENT
Geraldine S. Taylor, MS, ANP-BC
Associate Dean for Health & Wellness; Director, Center for Health & Wellness Bentley University
781 891-2222 gtaylor@bentley.edu
TREASURER
Margaret Higham, MD
Medical Director, Student Health Services
Tufts University
617 627-3350 Margaret.Higham@tufts.edu
SECRETARY
Director, Dept. of Health Promotion & Education; Director, Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services Harvard University
617 496-0133 RTravia@uhs.harvard.edu
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE *yearone,2-yrterm; ** year two, 2-yr term; *** one year term
Martha Coulter, MEd **
Director, Wellness Center
Castleton State College
802 468-1314 martha.coulter@castleton.edu Jessica Greher Traue, MEd *
Senior Assistant Director, Wellness & Prevention Bentley University
781 891-2222 jtraue@bentley.edu Cate Moffett, APRN *
Director, Student Health Services Connecticut College
860 439-2275 cmof@conncoll.edu Catherine Kelleher, RN *
Director, Student Health Services Providence College
401 865-2423 ckellehe@providence.edu
Peter Davis Smith, MD ***
Staff Physician
Trinity College
Director, Health Services
Westminster School
Ph: 860 408-3080
dsmith@westminster-school.org
REGION V REPRESENTATIVE TO
ACHA NOMINATING COMMITTEE (14-16)
Christine Burke, MEd, MCHES 603 358-2926 cburke1@keene.edu
ACHA REGION V REPRESENTATIVE (14-16) Shelly Sloan, MS, CHES
SUNY Oswego
860 486-2263 shelly.sloan@oswego.edu
ADMIN. DIRECTOR; NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Julie Nelson Basol JNB Marketing, LLC 741 Hand Road N. Ferrisburgh, VT 05473 802 598-7424 Julie@NECHAonline.org
Ryan M. Travia, MEd
Welcome back to another exciting year in college health! I hope you got a chance to get a bit of a summer break and are starting the semester with renewed energy. Our new students and their parents have already arrived and soon the returning students will fill the campus with their overflowing energy and enthusiasm.
The NECHA Board has been busy as well. We revised our Memorandum of Understanding with the New York State College Health Association (NYSCHA) to confirm our existing relationship around the ACHA Region V Representative and the Region V Representative for ACHA’s Nominating Committee. (NECHA and NYSCHA will still alternate these two-year positions) The memorandum documents our historical relationship and our continued interest to work together to alternate sponsoring the annual meetings on a four year rotation and to share the nominating and representative roles. We have also been soliciting interest for folks to join our board and conducting a review of this
year’s grants and award submissions.
President-elect, Mark Reed, and his program planning committee have been hard at work on the Annual Meeting, Making Waves in College Health. The meeting will be held October 29-31 at Wentworth by the Sea on the island of New Castle, New Hampshire. We’ve planned 4 pre-meeting and 50 additional concurrent sessions. One hundred people have already registered! We hope to see many of you there at this historic and breathtaking location for some exciting continuing education and networking possibilities.
I wish you all a wonderful start to fall semester.
Denise McGoldrick, MS, MCHES
President, NECHA 2013-14
Assistant Dean of Students Director, Health Education Amherst College
NECHA Board Election Update: NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE period extended through Saturday, September 20.
For more info, click here to my President’s Message on our Web site.
ACHA’s Edward Hitchcock award commemorates the work of Edward C. Hitchcock Jr., MD, who founded the first college health service at Amherst College in 1861. Established in 1961, the
centennial year of college health, the award honors ACHA members who have made outstanding contributions to advancing the health of all college students.
For more information on awards presented through ACHA, click here.