Staff

Administration

Michelle Neeshan FNP
michelle.neeshan@slcc.edu

Acting Director, Health & Wellness Services








Sandy Helm
sandy.helm@slcc.edu

  • Salt Lake Community College, Desktop Publishing – 1992
  • Salt Lake Community College, Secretarial Training Certificate – 1991

Sandy is a Utah native, married, has one daughter and instead of grand babies has three kitties and two dogs. Her hobbies are gardening, photography and using Photoshop to create photographic items for her family and friends. She has worked for SLCC in various departments since 1992.


Health Education


Tricia Bishop
tricia.bishop@slcc.edu

  • Tuberculosis PPD Skin Test Administrator
  • Trainer-BASICS Brief Alcohol Screening Interventions for College Students
  • Stress Management Facilitator
  • University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse, Bachelor of Science Health Promotion & Education – 1997
  • Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling Workshop - 2003
  • Partner Counseling Referral Services Workshop - 2003

After graduation Tricia worked with the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin as a Prevention Specialist for 1 year. In 1999 she ventured across the US, 1500 miles away from home, to the great state of Utah (long story). Since living in Utah, she has worked at the American Red Cross Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter as their Youth HIV/AIDS Education Coordinator, the University of Utah Student Health Services as their Health Educator in the Office of Health Promotions. Since 2003, she has been the Program Coordinator at SLCC Health and Wellness Services. This position allows her to wear many hats i.e., coordinates special events and presentation in cooperation with peer leaders and HWS staff, creates and present classroom presentations and provides resources to faculty and staff, Advisor for SHAC, and Health and Wellness Advisor for Peer Leadership Council at Redwood and South City Campus.

Tricia loves running, road and mountain biking, hiking, backpacking, camping, swimming, the Green Bay Packers, and playing with her dogs.

Tatiana Burton-Health Promotion Specialist CHES
tatiana.burton@slcc.edu

• Brigham Young University, B.S. in Public Health Education – 2008
• Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling Workshop – 2008
• Tuberculosis PPD Skin Test Administrator
• Stress Management Facilitator
• Health Educators Association of Utah – Records Committee Chair
• HEAU Rookie of the Year Award – 2009
After Tatiana’s internship at the University of Utah Student Health Services in the Office of Health Promotion, she was hired as the Health Promotion Specialist at SLCC Health and Wellness Services. Tatiana also serves as an advisor for SHAC and supervises the Health and Wellness PALs. Her interests include health promotion, cardiovascular disease prevention (focusing on prevention in young adults), and stress management.


Counseling

Alexander Smith
alexander.smith@slcc.edu
Interim Director Counseling Services

  • Certified Social Worker – State of Utah
  • University of Utah, Master of Social Work - 2003
  • Brigham Young University, Bachelor of Science in Family Sciences, Emphasis in Human Development – 1999
  • Evolution of Psychotherapy – 2005
  • Breakthroughs in Healing Trauma – 2005
  • Living Well with HIV – 2005
  • The Process of Seeking Sexual Reorientation – 2005
  • 30th Annual National Wellness Conference – 2005
  • Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociation – 2005
  • Utah University and College Counseling Centers Annual Conference – 2004 & 2005
  • Domestic Violence Basic Knowledge and Skills Training – 2004
  • Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling Workshop
  • Partner Counseling Referral Services Workshop
  • Affiliate Provider for Sex Offender Treatment

David has worked for Wasatch Mental Health, Intermountain Specialized Abuse Treatment Center, and Pride Counseling. During his graduate studies, David spent a semester working in Easter Europe. In Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, at the American University, David assisted in restructuring the on-campus Student Counseling Center (the only University Counseling Center in Bulgaria). His findings were reported at the 13th Annual Conference for Alliances of Universities for Democracy in November of 2002. David also donates time to the Utah AIDS Foundation working in prevention, education, and support services for those living with HIV/AIDS.

David is experienced in working with couples, anger management, grief and loss, addiction and recovery, trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder, while assisting clients as they create and manifest the life they want to live. David’s professional interests include working with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community, and people living with HIV.

James RenolaJames
james.renola@slcc.edu

Certified Social Worker
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Boston College-1996
Master of Social Worker, University of Utah-2007

Previous to joining SLCC James worked in hospice care and in a residential treatment facility for troubled youth.  He also spent a year as a therapist intern in the SLCC Health and Wellness Center while pursuing his MSW at the University of Utah.  James is an enthusiastic reader of resources in the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences as it is his belief that therapists have a diverse knowledge base concerning all aspects of the human condition.  He believes that the students at SLCC are afforded a unique opportunity to access first rate health services at a very reasonable price and encourages all students to come in for a chat.  After all, we all have something we can learn about ourselves!        

Massage

Tiffany Anderson
tiffany.anderson@slcc.edu

  • Licensed Massage Therapist – State of Utah
  • Self-Help Leader – Arthritis Foundation
  • Smoking Cessation Instructor – American Cancer Society
  • Guided Imagery Certification – Association for Humanistic Psychology
  • University of Utah, Bachelor of Science Health Promotion and Education – 2005
  • Myotherapy College of Utah – 1995
  • Upledger Institute, CranialSacral Level I – 2006

Tiffany is certified in numerous modalities including Touch for Health, pre-natal and most recently CrainalSacral work. Her signature massage is one that focuses on balance and restoring the body to its most optimal condition.

Clinic

Michelle Neeshan FNP
michelle.neeshan@slcc.edu

  • Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
  • Member Sigma Theta Tau – Nursing Honors Society
  • University of Utah, Master of Science Nursing – 1999
  • Salt Lake Community College, LPN – 1989

Michelle has a keen interest in health promotion and disease prevention across the life span, as well as community and evidence based nursing and medicine.


Anne Daly FNP
anne.daly@slcc.edu

  • Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Member Association of Clinicians for the  Underserved
  • University of Utah, Master of Science Nursing – 1996
  • University of Northern Colorado, Bachelor of Science Nursing – 1985

Anne's specialty is Women’s Health and Preventive Medicine/Family Practice. Anne loves to travel to off-the-beaten path kinds of places, particularly to places where she can practice her Spanish.


Chris Thurber MAA
christ.thurber@slcc.edu

  • Tuberculin Testing Certified
  • CPR Certified
  • Salt Lake Community College, Medical Administration Assistant – 2005
  • University of Utah, Bachelor of Science Sociology/Community Health – 1975

Chris is married and has three grown children with the first grandchild on the way. She enjoys the arts, travel and good food. She has also completed 20 marathons but has moved up to just a walk/run.




Jessica Stoddard MA
jessica.stoddard@slcc.edu
** Medical Assistant graduate/certificate 2005 – Cambridge College, Bellevue WA

** CPR (for health professionals) April 2008

**PPD Tuberculin certified - July 2008

Medical Assistant hired  04/16/2008, moved from Seattle Washington where I resided for sixteen years.  Love working at the college and enjoy the hustle of student life.

1 of 4 siblings all of whom live in Pocatello Idaho (including my mom). Seeking a career as an RN & looking forward to applying to the program SLCC provides.

Absolutely love the ocean & a huge fan of city life!  I enjoy writing on my spare time & spend most of my free hours with my family in Pocatello ID.

2 years experience working in a Dermatology setting, where I helped patients with acne, eczema, psoriasis, moles, skin cancer, wrinkles & numerous other skin conditions.



Lorraine A. Christensen MA

Graduate of Salt Lake Community College, 5/2005 as a Medical Assistant.  Certified Medical Assistant, 1/2006.

Graduate of Stevens Henager College, 6/1982 in Legal Secretarial Science.

Certified in CPR in 4/2007.

Certificate of achievement for Mantoux skin test for Tuberculosis, 7/2008.

I was hired at SLCC as a medical assistant in 10/2006.  I worked in the SLCC Incoming Transcripts department from 2002 thru 5/2005.

I am originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I have lived here in Salt Lake City for the past 15 years.

In my spare time I do embroidery, and I love the outdoors!!

Angela Volner MA

Graduated from Stevens Henager in 2000 in  Medical Assisting.

CPR Certified.

PPD Certified.

I have 7 plus years experience in family practice

I have lived in Utah my whole life.  Mother of 2 wonderful children.  Just started having the freedom to travel which I enjoy.  Started at the SLCC Health and Wellness in May of 2008.