School-Based Health Centers Grant Program

Medical School Participation
July 1, 2002- June 30, 2005

Overview

This initiative builds upon the partnership and established working relationships between the New York Medical College Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at St. Joseph’s Medical Center and the Yonkers Spectrum School Health Program. This grant is designed to expand this collaboration to provide medical students and residents with new training experiences. The goal is to increase medical students and resident understanding of the challenges and opportunities of using school-based health centers to serve children in underserved areas. We want them to understand and appreciate the vital community structures and influences that exist and prosper among less than ideal living conditions. We want our learners to understand that schools in poor neighborhoods do not mean poor schools.

- Casimir Pulaski School
- Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts 
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos MicroSociety School 
- Martin Luther King, Jr. School 
- Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School 
- Student information
- Additional information

Participants

Joseph L. Halbach, MD, MPH	Project Director
Karen Edwards, MD, MPH	Co-Project Director
Catherine Hopkins, FNP	Nurse Practitioner Coordinator
Ingrid Allard, MD	Pediatric Clerkship Coordinator
Lori Weir, MD	Family Medicine Physician
Brendan Bligh, MD	Family Medicine Physician
Laurie Sullivan, CSW	Medical Educator
Sally Schwab, PhD	Medical Educator