Board Members & Executive Director
Janet Garth, MPH
Alliance Board Chair
Janet Garth is the Director of Ambulatory Care Services at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Ms. Garth oversees NYPHs network of 7 SBHCs serving 23 NYC public schools as well as a continuum of ambulatory practice sites and health programming including OBGYN, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Title X Family Planning program, HIV primary care, care coordination and prevention, Adult and Pediatric Psychiatry including 12 school-based mental health sites. Ms. Garth holds a Master of Public Health from Hunter College and has over 20 years of experience in NYPH’s Division of Community and Population Health.
Kim Utech, MSN, FNP-C, AE-C
Alliance Board Chair-Elect
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 Treasurer
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.
Rosy Chhabra, Psy.D.
Alliance Board Secretary
Stephen Marshall, DDS, MPH
Alliance Board
Past 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
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.
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.
Rachel Evans, LCSW
Rachel currently serves as the Associate Program Director for the School Based Health Program at the Institute for Family Health in New York City. Rachel has worked in School-Based Health for the past 8 years, first as a Health Educator and later joining the leadership team. During this time, Rachel has worked to grow the Institute’s School-Based Health Program and managed the operations of the program’s seven SBHCs. Rachel earned an LMSW in Organizational Management and Leadership at Hunter College.
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
Marcy Savage, Partner and Kayla Bogdanowicz, Associate
Reid, McNally & Savage LLC
www.lobbywr.com
Steven Ellwanger, CPA
Steven Ellwanger, CPA, PLLC
ellwanger.us
