Health Center Staff

Staff 

Kris Burkett, CMA

Kris is our Certified Medical Assistant/Patient Care Representative Lead. She will help schedule an appointment, and answer any questions you might have about immunizations or other services.

Beth Hesketh

Beth is the Medical Fiscal Specialist and a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. She received her B.A. from Evergreen in 1993. Beth is responsible for the business operations in the clinic such as maintaining and ordering supplies, contracting with service vendors and answering any billing questions that students may have.

Practitioners

Susan Camp

Susan is an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She completed her registered nurse training at Nazareth College, Borgess School of Nursing in Kalamazoo, MI in 1971 followed by nurse practitioner training at the University of California, San Francisco in 1977. She returned to UC-San Francisco in 1988 to complete a Master of Science in Community Health Nursing and Occupational Health. She has worked in college, occupational, and international settings. Since moving to Washington State in 1990, she has worked primarily in local public health departments managing reproductive health and communicable disease programs. She has also worked in refugee settings in Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand and Azerbaijan and continues to be active in international health programming. Susan came to TESC as a volunteer in 2001 and joined the staff two days a week in April of 2003 to provide primary care.

Maureen Considine

Maureen is a women'’s health care nurse practitioner. She completed her nursing program at Spokane Community College. She went on to attend the Women'’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Harbor Hospital/UCLA in 1985. She worked as a nurse practitioner and health educator for the Northeast Tri-County Health District in Colville, Washington, prior to moving to Olympia to work for the Department of Health in the family planning and HIV/AIDS programs. She has a special interest in health education and teaches this topic for the MPH program at the University of Washington. She volunteers at the Student Health Center about 4 hours a week, providing womenÂ's health care.

Barbara Krulich

Barbara is a Certified Physician Assistant and is the Director of the Medical Assistant Training Program. She graduated from the MEDEX Physician Assistant Program at the University of Washington in 1998, following a successful career as a nurse and medical office manager. She joined the Health Center staff in 2001 after working at Group Health Cooperative as a nurse and then as a Physician Assistant. She has a strong interest in preventative health and complimentary/herbal medicine and is a graduate of both "Spirit of Plant/5-Element Medicine" and the Wiracocha Institute.

Elizabeth McHugh

Elizabeth is a Certified Physician Assistant and is the Director of Health and Counseling Services. She graduated from Evergreen in 1991 and went on to the Physician Assistant Program at the University of Kentucky. After she finished her medical training in Kentucky, she returned to the Pacific Northwest and worked for Group Health Cooperative in the Puget Sound area. She came back to Evergreen in 1998. Elizabeth earned her Masters in Phyisician Assistant Studies (M.P.A.S.) in 2005, with a sub-specialty in Psychiatry.

Polly Taylor

Polly is a nurse-midwife, graduating with a nursing degree from Syracuse University in New York. She completed a Master in Public Health degree and nurse-midwifery program at John Hopkins University in 1981. She was a nurse-midwife in rural West Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving to Washington state. In her primary work, she is a public health nurse consultant for the state Department of Health, providing technical assistance. She has worked for Navajo Reservation, the Nisqually tribal clinic and St. PeterÂ's Perinatal Clinic prior to volunteering at the Student Health Center. She works in the Student Health Center about 4 hours a week, providing women'’s health care including yearly exams.