About Us

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About Student Wellbeing

 

Our Mission

Our comprehensive wellbeing services strive to empower each and every student to gain knowledge, access resources and make healthy choices to pursue optimal health and quality of life.

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Student Wellbeing units are interested in your feedback to help us improve our services. The more information you can provide, the more we are able to address concerns and issues. This feedback form will be read about once weekly.

If you have immediate concerns about your experience, please call 302-831-2226.

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The University of Delaware has earned the highly regarded Campus Prevention Network (CPN) Seal of Prevention for our best-in-class digital prevention and wellness programs.

The CPN Seal represents the highest standard for online prevention education, with a rigorous set of criteria to ensure we are making a measurable impact across the critical areas of sexual assault, alcohol and drug misuse, mental health, and diversity and inclusion. Only 12% of colleges and universities in the country achieved this recognition.

Learn more about the Campus Prevention Network Seal.

2022 Campus Prevention Network Seal of Prevention

About Our Units

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Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD)

CCSD is a nationally accredited counseling center that serves as the mental health hub of the university, providing triage services, promoting navigation of both on- and off-campus resources, delivering a variety of mental health services, conducting outreach trainings, and offering consultation to parents, faculty and staff.

CCSD is staffed by an interdisciplinary mental health team and hosts a robust nationally accredited training program for future mental health professionals. Staff are specialists in mental health problems and developmental issues particular to emerging adulthood.

CCSD is accredited by the International Associate of Counseling Services, Inc.

Phone: 302-831-2141

Fax: 302-831-2148

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Student Health
Services (SHS)
 

SHS is the primary undergraduate and graduate student healthcare unit on the UD campus. With a focus on primary care, SHS provides in-person and telehealth services, averaging 46,000 patient visits per academic year.

Partnering with students and staff, SHS enhances the development of personal and social responsibility and fosters safe, healthy, inclusive and supportive communities at UD.

SHS engages with all aspects of the University community to encourage student success, cultivate knowledge and provide Blue Hens with the services, care and skills to make healthy choices.

Phone: 302-831-2226

Fax: 302-831-6407

Email: studenthealth@udel.edu

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Student Wellness and Health Promotion (SWHP)

SWHP provides services to support students’ behavioral and emotional wellness, and helps students evaluate options for maintaining healthy lifestyles through prevention, intervention and education.

To help students develop their wellness foundation through education and practice, we provide guidance through large-scale events, small group workshops, in-class presentations, reading materials and online activities. Robust content equips Blue Hens for individual and community wellness.

SWHP builds and maintains diverse partnerships with on- and off-campus resources, while working to engage all members of our UD community to make this campus a healthier, more well place to be.

Phone: 302-831-3457

Email: studentwellbeing@udel.edu

Staff Directory

Wellbeing Operations

Wellbeing Operations

Helen Ann Lawless


Director of Strategic Wellbeing & Training, Interim Director of Student Wellness and Health Promotion
 
Wellbeing Operations

Angie Cunningham


Administrative Specialist, Office of the AVPSL
 
Wellbeing Operations

Suzi Halpin


Building and Facilities Manager
 
Wellbeing Operations

Kristen Hobson


Administrative Assistant
 

Center for Counseling and Student Development

CCSD Administration

Cynthia Diefenbeck, PsyD, APRN


Director, Psychologist, Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, adjustment concerns, trauma, mind-body connection

CCSD Administration

Stacey Boyer, PsyD


Associate Director of Clinical Services, Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, dissociation/dissociative disorders, relationships, identity and diversity concerns, wellbeing in helping professions, psychological assessment, consultation, training, supervision

CCSD Administration

Brad Wolgast, PhD, CBSM, DBSM


Assistant Director of Training, Senior Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Sleep disorders and their behavioral treatments

CCSD Administration

Christine Jehu, PhD


Assistant Director of Embedded Services, Senior Sport Psychologist
 

Areas of Interest
Sport psychology, working with student athletes, identity development, LGBTQ+, training future psychologists

CCSD Administration

Gregory Cooper, PMHNP, APRN


Assistant Director of Psychiatric Services
 

Areas of Interest
Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD, trauma, pharmacogenomics, mind-body-spirit connection

CCSD Administration

Amanda Wroten


Administrative Specialist
 
CCSD Administration

Annette Goodwin


Administrative Assistant III
 
CCSD Administration

Jessica Greenleaf


Administrative Assistant III
 
Psychology

Kelly Ozambela-Correño, PhD


Psychologist II
 

Areas of Interest
Wellness, positive coping and adjustment to life transitions, identity development, trauma, relationship and family issues, diversity and social justice. outreach, consultation, training and supervision

Psychology

Patrick McGuffin, PhD


Psychologist II
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety disorders, phobias, mood disorders, development of problem-solving skills

Psychology

Michele Juarez-Huffaker, PhD


Psychologist II
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety, depression, life transitions, identity issues (LGBTQQIA), eating disorders, trauma, relationship issues, multicultural and social justice concerns, training and supervision, international and graduate students

Psychology

Clare Devine, PsyD


Psychologist I
 

Areas of Interest
Student-athlete mental health, sport psychology. social justice, identity development, wellness

Psychology

Brittany Rivero, PsyD


Psychological Assistant
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, LGBTQIA+ concerns, body image concerns and eating disorders, multicultural issues, identity development, adjustment, concerns related to religion/religious identity

Psychiatry

Richard Kingsley, MD


Psychiatrist
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Psychiatry

Linda Olivere, FNP, PMHNP, APRN


Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
 

Areas of Interest
Mind-body connection of mental and physical health, adjustment and interpersonal relationship concerns, anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD, mood disorders

Clinicians

Ashley Kraemer, MS, LPCMH, NCC


Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Clinicians

Ashley Harriz, LPCMH, NCC


Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
ADHD, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disorders

Clinicians

Cindy Scheffler, LCSW


Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
Anxiety concerns. mood concerns, body image and eating disorders, trauma, loss and grief, adjustment

Clinicians

Lauren Bauer, LCSW


Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
Autism, ADHD, human development, attachment, anxiety. LGBTQIA+, social justice, training and supervision

Clinicians

Kyle Hitchens, LCSW


Mental Health Clinician
 

Areas of Interest
Trauma, navigation of change, identity development, meaning-making, belonging

Clinicians

Rebecca Brandt, LCSW


Mental Health Care Coordinator
 

Areas of Interest
Young adults and adolescents, anxiety, depression, domestic violence, trauma, treatment using psychedelic therapies

Clinicians

Danielle Lopez, LCSW


Mental Health Care Coordinator
 

Areas of Interest
Working with first-generation/non-traditional college students, familial/relational concerns, anxiety, depression

Coordinators

Corrie Schmitt, MAJ, LMSW


Care Coordinator
 

Student Health Services

SHS Administration

Rick Hong, MD, FACEP


Executive Director, Student Health Services and University Medical Director
 
SHS Administration

Kelly Frick, MD, FAAFP


Interim Medical Director
 
SHS Administration

Andrew Reisman, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM


Medical Director of Athletic Medicine, Student Health Services and Chief Medical Officer, Athletics
 
SHS Administration

Cherie Ward, MSN, RN, CEN


Director of Nursing, Associate Director of Medical Operations
 
SHS Administration

Andrea Trungold


Administrative Specialist
 
Physicians

Carla Basadre, MD, CAQSM


Sports Medicine
 
Physicians

Allison Buonocore, MD


Primary Care
 
Physicians

Mary Ann Connor, DO


Primary Care
 
Physicians

Geoffrey Gustavsen, MD, FAAFP, CAQSM, FAAMA


Primary Care / Sports Medicine
 
Physicians

Chantel Imran, MD, FACOG


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 
Physicians

Charlene Jones, MD, MPH, CAQSM


Sports Medicine
 
Physicians

Audrey Pessu-Uwah, MD


Primary Care
 
Nurse Practitioners

Nancy Moore, APRN, CNP


Primary Care / Travel Health / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 
Nurse Practitioners

Monika Patel, MSN, APRN, FNP-C


Primary Care / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 
Nurse Practitioners

Janet Reid, MSN, ANP-BC


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 
Nurse Practitioners

Ludora Riegel, MSN, WHNP-BC


Second Floor Medical Services / Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
 
Registered Dietician

Maria Taplin, MS, RDN, LDN, ACE-GFI


Dietician
 
Registered Dietician

Amy Wilcoxon, MA, RD, LDN, CDCES


Dietician, Nutrition Coordinator
 
Nursing Clinical Coordinators

Mary Barfell, BSN, RN


Dispensary Nursing Coordinator
 
Nursing Clinical Coordinators

Kathryn Morrison, MSN, RN


Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Nursing Coordinator
 
Nursing Clinical Coordinators

Lori Duhamell, BSN, RN


Sports Medicine Nursing Coordinator
 
Nursing Clinical Coordinators

Jodie Scott, BSN, RN


Immunization and Allergy Nursing Coordinator
 
Nursing Clinical Coordinators

Christopher Leounes, BSN, RN


Primary Care Nursing Coordinator
 
Laboratory

Theresa Matarese, BS, MLS(ASCP)SBB


Laboratory Manager
 
Radiology

Kim Feldmann, AS, RT(R)(M)


Radiology Coordinator
 

Student Wellness and Health Promotion

SWHP Administration

Helen Ann Lawless


Director of Strategic Wellbeing & Training, Interim Director of Student Wellness and Health Promotion
 
SWHP Administration

Sue Parkowski


Administrative Assistant III
 
SWHP Administration

Kathy Parlamenti


Administrative Assistant II
 
Programs

Dorothy Broiles


Administrative Support, AlcoholEdu
 
SWHP Administration

Jessica Estok


Assistant Director, Substance Use Recovery
 
SWHP Administration

Amy Richardson


Assistant Director, Substance Use Intervention
 
Programs

Jennie Maslow


Program Coordinator, BASICS
 
Programs

Joanne Sampson


Program Coordinator, Violence Prevention
 
Programs

Zainab Shah


Program Coordinator, Victim Advocacy
 
SWHP Administration

Sophia Angeletakis


Graduate Assistant
 

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