Official website of the Massachusetts School Based Health Alliance
Allison Kilcoyne, a Family Nurse Practitioner, spent most of her 15 year career working in and advocating for School Based Health.
Most recently she implemented an SBHC in Peabody Veterans Memorial High School in Peabody, Massachusetts. She was a primary care provider that led an interdisciplinary medical and behavioral health care team at a high school SBHC in nearby Lynn, Massachusetts. Allison has presented at the Alliance’s national conference on psychopharmacology in SBHC, mental health programmatic evaluations and engaging undocumented minors into the health care system. In her clinical practice she was able to engage youth into the health care system and see first-hand the impact of SBHCs on youth development. Previously she had served as the school nurse leader for the City of Peabody. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania and Northeastern University, she is a long time preceptor of nurse practitioner students; guest lectures in nearby graduate schools of nursing, has participated in funded SBHC research projects and has co-authored articles and book chapters on adolescence and school health.
Jordan is a pediatric nurse practitioner and program director for the Chelsea High School School-Based Health Center, a satellite clinic of Massachusetts General Hospital, where she provides primary care for the students.
Jordan knew that she wanted to combine her love of health education and counseling with a more clinical aspect, so she pursued a master’s degree in nursing from Yale University and became a certified pediatric nurse practitioner. She stayed in New Haven for two years to run a school-based health center there, and took the job at Chelsea High School in 2000. She loves working with the Chelsea population, which includes many students who come from lower-income families that have recently arrived from Central America.
Jordan is a strong advocate for school-based health care, and is an active volunteer for Williams College, currently serving as the President of the Williams College Society of Alumni.
Anna Berrian is a pediatric nurse practitioner working at the Peabody High School Based Health Center. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and began her career as a nurse working in the pediatric ICU in New York Hospital in Manhattan. She has also worked in cardiac intensive care and pulmonary research at Children's Hospital Boston.
Anna has always had a love for school health and went to Simmons College to pursue a masters degree and obtain her NP certification. As an NP student, she had clinical rotations at the MGH School Based Health Center in Revere. She obtained a job there after graduation and worked there for 11 years as an NP, and later clinical manager. She has also been an active preceptor of NP students. Her favorite part of the job is taking care of the students and forming meaningful relationships with them. In addition to work, Anna enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.
Julie has always had a passion for school based health, graduating with the goal of working with adolescents in a school setting.
Currently Julie is a nurse practitioner at a school based health center outside of Boston. She also runs the #Healthy Group, an obesity clinic for adolescent girls.
In her spare time she enjoys travelling, cooking, and updating this website, of course.
