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Office
of Health Education Staff
Office of Health Education and
Office of Strategic Initiatives Staff
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Susan Villari
Director
Susan
Villari received her MPH from the University of Michigan’s
School of Public Health in 1984; and, in 1987 was hired by
the university as their first formally trained health educator.
Her
specialty areas include women’s health, interpersonal
violence prevention, body image and sexuality education. She
is co-author of the book Just
Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality
and Activism and currently coordinates Nursing 503: Contemporary
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Matty Lehman
Associate Director
Matty received a B.A. in Psychology from Saint Joseph's University, and a Masters in Social Service from Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social Research. Matty has concentrated on working with, advocating for and educating service providers about l/g/b/t/q youth through work at The Attic and graduate school work. Matty has presented workshops at the DHS conference Educating the Whole Child (2005), the Trans-Health Conference (Philadelphia) and NJ-NASW Annual LGBT Conference. |
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Stephen McCann
Office/Wellness Coordinator
Steve
received his degree in Human Sexualty from Penn State University
in 1998. He began working at the University of Penn in 1999
in the Office of Student Life planning student events on campus.
Later, in 2002, he moved to the Office of Health Education
and took over as Office and Wellness Coordinator. Steve also
coordinates Nursing 503: Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality
Steve
is also active in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Staff
Faculty Association at Penn in supporting the LGBT community
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Tamarah Smith-Dyer
Program Evaluator
Tamarah has joined the University of Pennsylvania to fulfill the Program Evaluator position. Working together with the Alcohol Policy Initiatives and Office of Health Education, the program evaluation will initiate up to date analyses of students’ baseline attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors, and track changes in these figures over the past several years. Tamarah earned her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Cabrini College and is currently completing her M.S. in Applied Statistics at West Chester University. |
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Sandi Herman
Wellness Educator
Sandi offers stress reduction counseling as well as the WholeBreath™ smoking cessation program. Her educational background includes degrees in social work and health education. Before coming to OHE, she worked for 21 years at the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women, as the director of Counseling, Training and Education. During this time, she also studied various healing modalities, including Reiki, mindfulness meditation, guided visualization, qigong, and the use of art as a means of self-discovery. In 2001, she moved to the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent six years counseling individuals and groups on smoking cessation. Sandi is also a Reiki Master Practitioner, and incorporates this form of “hands-on” energy work in both her stress reduction counseling and smoking cessation sessions. Sandi believes in each person’s unique capacity for self-healing, and seeks to empower her clients to discover that source of strength within themselves.
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