Maryland Assembly on School Based Health Care
Board of Directors 2024-2026
| President: | Patryce Toye, MD | 2024-26 term |
| President-elect: | TBD | |
| Past President: | Tresa M.S. Wiggins, MSN., RN, CPNP-PC | 2024-26 term |
| Treasurer: | Adrienne Coverdale | 2024-26 term |
| Secretary: | TBD | |
| Board Member: | Jerica Knox, PhD | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Carolyn Camacho | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Joanie Glick, MS, CRNP | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Caroline Kemp, DNP, FNP-BC | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Chrissy Bartz PA-C, MMS | 2023-25 term |
| Board Member: | Cathleen Shannon, RN, MSN, CPNP-PC | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Erin Dorrien | 2024-26 term |
| Board Member: | Leigh Weihs, MSN, MPH, FNP | 2023-25 term |
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Board Bios
Chrissy Bartz, PA-C, MMS is the Director of Community Based Programs for Choptank Community Health System. Chrissy has practiced as lead clinician for Choptank’s Community Based Programs since 2012 and assumed the role of the Director of the Community Based Programs in October 2020. Her career as a PA began in 2003 after graduating from St. Francis University with her Masters in Medical Science. Chrissy’s 20+ years of certification as a pre-hospital EMS provider inspired a desire to practice medicine in a community-based setting. The first 10 years of her career were spent as the coordinator and provider of a Public Health funded School Based Health Center in Sussex County, DE. Born and raised in Caroline County, Chrissy’s passion to provide care in her own community lead to her transition to Choptank 9 years ago. Currently Chrissy is the provider at the Greensboro Elementary School Wellness Center, while also supporting patient care in Choptank’s family practice, pediatric and migrant practices. During the initial response to the COVID pandemic, Chrissy was detailed to the Operations Section of Caroline County’s EOC.
Dr. Jerica Knox is an Assistant Professor at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) where she primarily focuses her evaluative efforts on the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools and the Maryland Community Health Resource Commission’s School-Community Partnership grants. Dr. Knox takes a strengths-based approach to understanding home and school contextual factors that promote well-being in children and adolescents. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the effectiveness of culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches. Dr. Knox is from Georgetown County, South Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina and her Master of Science and PhD in School Psychology from North Carolina State University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in school mental health at the NCSMH.
Carolyn Camacho is a program director for Identity, a 21-year-old multi-service nonprofit organization serving thousands of youth, and families living in high poverty areas of Montgomery County, Maryland. Identity works with youth in schools and the community to help improve social and emotional learning and wellness, achieve academic success and prepare for work. Ms. Camacho provides leadership for and oversees Identity’s three high-school-based Wellness Centers serving 1,300 at-risk youth annually, and oversees the Family Strengthening and Reunification Program for the organization as a whole serving over 3,000 youth and their families annually. An engineer by training, she approaches all of her work through a systems lens.
Ms. Camacho regularly presents on trends in trauma-informed positive youth development and restorative practices especially related to immigrant youth and families, to local government bodies, coalitions, school and community stakeholders, and Spanish language media. She is a member of the board of the Maryland Assembly on School-Based Health Care (MASBHC) and the Gaithersburg Beloved Community Initiative. Ms. Camacho is fluent in English and Spanish and has a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Adrienne V. Coverdale serves as the Director of Finance and Administration at New Song Community Learning Center located in the heart of the Sandtown-Winchester area of West Baltimore. Adrienne has over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit environment, primarily in grant funding, and also managed the cash management, budgeting and forecasting of a $650 million dollar revitalization of the largest community project in Maryland located in East Baltimore. She serves as Director of Finance at P.O.P Inc. (Play on Purpose), a nonprofit organization that develops youth through leadership and athletics while fostering an appreciation for education, ultimately equipping all young people with the tools to become better scholars, athletes and leaders on and off the court. Adrienne has over 10 years of experience as an independent tax consultant specializing in personal and small business taxes, and has served MASBHC as a financial consultant for three years.
Caroline Kemp, DNP, FNP-BC is a family nurse practitioner with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in health policy. Her nursing background spans critical care, a federally qualified health center for people experiencing homelessness, and school nursing. Dr. Kemp has worked in college health as a nurse practitioner for the past four years. Her clinical interests include the connection of physiologic and mental wellbeing, LGBTQ+ health, and preventative care. Her doctoral capstone project was a policy analysis on state, local, and school-based policies and models for mental health services in the school setting, conducted in 2021-2022. She presented her findings in a national public webinar through the American Public Health Association in April of 2022. Dr. Kemp earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Villanova University and her doctorate degree from George Washington University. She grew up in North East, MD and currently lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Erin Dorrien is director of Policy and Government Affairs at the Maryland Hospital Association. She leads MHA’s workforce and capacity strategies, including an approach to quantify the need for behavioral health services in the community. Erin also supports MHA’s strategies to increase physician and community engagement in support of Maryland’s unique Total Cost of Care Model.
Prior to joining MHA, Erin served as chief of Government and Public Affairs for the Maryland Health Care Commission. There she shepherded legislation through the General Assembly to modernize oversight of cardiac interventions convening multiple stakeholder work groups and special projects around rural health care delivery, physician self-referral, step therapy, and palliative care.
Previously she was with the Department of Legislative Services where she staffed the House Appropriations Committee on matters related to health and human services.
Erin holds a Master of Public Policy with a concentration in health policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany. She serves on the board of the South Baltimore Learning Center and is an active volunteer with Moveable Feast.
Joan Glick, MS, BSN, RN, PNP-BC is a master’s-prepared board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner with over 30 cumulative years of academic, clinical and administrative experience. Joan currently serves as the Senior Administrator for the School Health Services division of the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. Joan moved to Montgomery County and worked in private practice and at a HMO. She subsequently worked as a school nurse in a middle and elementary school assignment for 7 years prior to entering the world of administration and school-based health care. Over a decade of experience as a school-based health professional has afforded her a “bird’s-eye” view of the unique health needs in the school environment, as well as their impact on the surrounding communities. She began her nursing career as a pediatric nurse practitioner working at Somerville Hospital in Massachusetts, providing pediatric primary care in this high needs community.
Joan received her Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing from Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing, graduating with distinction, and holds a Master of Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Nursing. She is certified as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Ms. Glick serves as Secretary on the MASBHC Board.
Cathleen Shannon, RN, MSN, CPNP-PC is a pediatric nurse practitioner board-certified in primary care and working in a SBHWC in a Montgomery County High School. Since she signed on and began working in the SBHWC environment, she said she “has never looked back”. She feels her role as a pediatric nurse provider in a SBHWC is a perfect fit for her talents and interests in pediatric primary care. Her commitment to MASBHC has grown over the years as she attended the MASBHC annual meetings and participated in advocating for SBHWCs by lobbying legislators this past Fall. She has been inspired by hearing all the wonderful things other states are doing in their SBWCs as part of the Weitzman Institute School-based health webinars and would like to bring some of these great things to Maryland children and their families. She has a reputation for getting things done and would love to lend her talents to make SBHWCs a success under the professional umbrella of MASBHC.
Tresa M. Wiggins, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC Tresa is the nurse practitioner at The Rales Health Center at the KIPP School of Baltimore, where she has been working since it opened in 2016. In addition to her clinical work caring for the students at KIPP, she is the vision program manager of the GOSEE program, through which she coordinates expanded vision screening, optometric services, and vision case management. She has presented this work at the national school-based health care convention and locally. She has also worked with the attendance team at the school, and the youth advisory council.
In 2007, Tresa joined Johns Hopkins as a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive care unit. She has worked at a pediatric walk-in clinic in Howard County, MD, where she provided both acute and primary care for patients up to the age of 21 and travels annually to a community in Haiti to provide direct patient care as a nurse practitioner.
Tresa graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and became a pediatric nurse practitioner in 2011, after she received a Master of Science in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. During nursing school, she worked in Cleveland public schools and provided care on the Gila River Indian community in Phoenix, AZ. Tresa’s interests and focus in her profession are in increasing access to high quality health care in underserved communities, and advocate to decrease health inequities facing children and their families.
Patryce Toye, MD is recently retired from her position as Senior Medical Director for MedStar Family Choice, the Medicaid Managed Care Organization in the MedStar Health System. MedStar Health is an integrated delivery system in the Baltimore-Washington area. MedStar Family Choice is a NCQA accredited health plan. Dr. Toye is also the Medical Director of record for the MedStar Medicare Advantage Plan with members in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
After beginning her career with several years in private practice, Dr. Toye spent many years as an attending physician in a community hospital emergency room. She joined HelixCare, the predecessor to MedStar Health, as the Division Director for Urgent Care, then served as the Assistant Medical Director and Director of Quality Assurance for the HelixCare medical group before moving to the health plan. She has been a Medical Director at MedStar Family Choice since 2000 and the Senior Medical Director since 2014. As Medical Director, she has helped set the medical policy, utilization policy, and quality agenda that have resulted in MedStar Family Choice’s success.
Dr. Toye received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences with distinction in all subjects. She attended medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. She stayed on to do her internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She also holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Leigh Weihs, MSN, MPH, FNP is a family nurse practitioner working with the Baltimore County Public Schools in their school-based health center program since 2015. In addition to her experience with BCPS, she has worked in both pediatric and family private practices. Prior to becoming a nurse and nurse practitioner, Leigh was a Presidential Management Intern, spending time on the Hill, in the budget office of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and within a Medicaid HMO. She then worked for HSS as a policy analyst within the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) where she advocated for community health centers and other HRSA programs as states developed their Medicaid managed care programs. She also worked as an analyst with the Healthcare for the Homeless Program. Following this policy work in DC, she became a nurse practitioner so that she could continue her public health efforts in a more hands-on manner and feels that her work with SBHCs is the perfect fit for combining her interests in public health and nursing. Lastly, Leigh is a member of the MD Association of School Nurses and hopes to bring the views and interests of MASN to MASBHC.