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Shelly Purser, MSH
Director
The department’s mission is to promote the health and well-being of the university community. Through our services, we foster physical, emotional, and intellectual development within others, which will lead to learning, healthier living, and student retention
"If you have the courage to begin you have the courage to finish"
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Location:
Building 3, Room 1201
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Testing Hours:
Monday - Thursday
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Telephone:
(904) 620-1570
E-mail:
dhplife@unf.edu
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Healthy Osprey Spotlight
Ashley Ballard, MPH discusses the new Paul Shirley Assesment Center
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Mike Kennedy, M.Ed
Assistant Director
Responsible for providing a comprehensive programming to assist UNF’s diverse student population in achieving maximum health. The Assistant Director is also responsible for coordinating departmental surveys, evaluations, assessments, and intervention services.
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Ashley Ballard, MPH
Coordinator of Health Education
Responsible for operations of the Paul Shirley Assessment Center (PSAC), the LIFE peer education team, and on and off campus health education programming and training. Certified as an American Red Cross instructor and HIV Counselor, the Coordinator also assists with coordination and marketing of health promotion programming, special events and activities.
“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” -Bayard Rustin |
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Rebekah Bell, MS, RMHCI
Mental Health and Intervention Counselor
Rebekah provides counseling services in a confidential and supportive environment where student concerns can be shared and explored to enhance personal development and academic success.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~Marcel Proust
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Alexia Lewis, MS, RD, LD/N
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Nutrition and Dietetics
Alexia is a registered dietition who works with the Department of Health Promotions. Her goal is to lead the university community in their efforts to learn about and live a healthier lifestyle through food and nutrition. Alexia provides nutrition counseling to individuals, leads lunch-n-learn education sessions, gives cooking demonstrations, and is available for specialized group sessions upon request.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." –Winston Churchill |
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Charlene Dawston
Office Manager
The Office Manager responsibilities includes: monitoring and creating budgetary reports, verifying and approving timesheets, and other employment concerns.
"A smile is a light in the window of a soul indicating that the heart is at home" -Anonymous
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Michael Hines, BSH
Health Educator
Michael has earned his BS in Health Science and works as a health educator in the Dept of Health Promotion. Among his diverse interests are Fishing, music, bike riding, paintball, cars, the beach, movies, and swimming.
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" - Mark Twain
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Katie Patterson, BSH
Health Educator
Katie has her BS in Health Sciences with a focus on community health and health education. She enjoys spending time at the beach, arts and crafts, surfing and running.
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jamie Diersing, Student
Health Educator
Jamie graduates this summer with her BS in Health Science with a major in Health Education. She works as a health educator in the Dept of Health Promotion where she concentrates on helping incoming freshmen become involved with health programs. She likes to reading, horseback riding and baking.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of thier dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Melissa Bart, Student
Health educator
Melissa will graduate with her BS in Public Health in the fall. She works in the Dept. of Health Promotion as a health educator.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" - Winston Churchill
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Amanda Francis, Student
Health educator
Amanda is a senior in the Brooks College of Health, working toward her BS in Health Science. She is a health educator in the Dept of Health Promotion. Amanda likes the beach, cooking, zumba, and spending time with friends and family.
"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live"
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Natasha Khan, Student
Health educator
Natasha is a senior in the college of nursing. She is one of the newest members of the staff at Health Promotion. Natasha is passionate about her studies and loves to read. When she is not studying she spends her time with friends and family.
"The man who said it can't be done... should not interrupt the woman doing it." - Anonymous
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Tahli Talavera, Student
Health educator
A new addition to the Department, Tahli is a junior in the Brooks College of Health majoring in public health. She enjpys finding new ways to cook health, delicious meals, working out and being an inspiration to people looking to adopt a healthier lifestyle. In her spare time Tahli likes gardening, walking her dog, and spending time in the sun.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
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Naga Wasserman
Health Educator
Naga is a communuity health major in the Brooks College of Health. She enjoys arts and crafts, National Geographic documentaries, cooking, baking and hula hooping.
"Worry is a misuse of imagination" - Dan Zadra
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Chris Wayant, Student
Health Educator
Chris is a student in the Brooks College of health majoring in Public Health. Chris is a fitness buff and enjoys all manner of sports as well as rock climbing and working out. Look for him in the new gym running the Pros vs. Joes program. Chris also enjoys piano and guitar.
"Our attitude towards life determines life's attitude toward us."
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Evan Waters, Student
Health Educator
Evan is currently working on a BS in Health Science. He works in the Dept of Health Promotion as a health educator and IT support. His interests include spending time with his family, motorcycles, nutrition and is an avid cook.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -Confucius
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Carmen Franz
Ogier Gardens Coordinator
Certified Master Gardener and returned Peace Corps volunteer, responsible for the Ogier Gardens, student staff and volunteers. Also assists with the planning and implementation of Health Promotion’s programs, activities and special events.
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." —Thomas Edison
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Taylor Gordon, Student
Health Educator - Ogier Gardens
Graduate student studying food and nutrition. Loves gardening and teaching people about the importance of farming and self-sufficiency. Enjoys doing Crossfit, running and being a personal trainer/nutrition counselor.
“Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.” Proverbs 12:11
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Emily Jaudon, Student
Health Educator - Ogier Gardens
Will be completing her BS in Nutrition and Dietetics in the spring of 2013. Likes gardening because everyone has to eat! Enjoys learning about where food comes from and how to create and maintain her own organic garden. Likes to attend workout classes, go on outdoor adventures with her husband, bargain shopping, getting lost in a good book, dancing the night away, and spending time with her three brothers (2 of which happen to be her triplet brothers).
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Mattie LeDew, Student
Health Educator - Ogier Gardens
A junior majoring in the Fine Arts, Mattie enjoys painting, printmaking, ceramics and metalworking. When she is not losing sleep over creative pursuits, Mattie can be found getting lost in the woods, attending tea parties with friends and collecting more heirloom tomato varieties than is hardly considered necessary or practical. Mattie is interested in outdoor artwork that interacts with its environment, demonstration gardens as an educational resource and edible landscaping as the ultimate blend of aesthetic and utilitarian principals. Upon graduation, she hopes to be involved in historical garden restoration, urban garden design, and community garden management.
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Ross Keen, Student
Health Educator - Ogier Gardens
A sophomore studying Anthropology, with a focus on hunter-gatherer/agrarian societies, Ross enjoys the simplicity and the peace-of-mind that self-sufficiency brings. He loves nature and being outdoors, riding his bike, building things, old cars, making music, and sharing ideas, among many other things!
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert
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