Elizabeth Erkel, PhD, RN

erkelea@musc.edu

SCRIPT Job: Curriculum Consultant and Nursing Faculty

As the curriculum consultant, Dr. Erkel will contribute to the curriculum design and educational resources for students based on her extensive experience in curriculum development and teaching rural, transcultural and community health courses. She is available to course faculty throughout program planning and implementation as a scholar and mentor. Dr. Erkel remains a rural farm girl at heart, having grown up on a 240 acre farm in northeast Iowa, where her family raised chickens, hogs, beef cattle, and corn for market. She was active in 4-H throughout her youth and won top honors in Bremer County one year for her bread baking demonstration.

Kim Stephens, M.S.Ed. , Diane Kennedy, MS
Emily Warren, LMSW

stephensk@lcahec.com
kennedyd@lcahec.com
warrene@lcahec.com

 SCRIPT Job: Lowcountry AHEC SCRIPT Team

Lowcountry AHEC has been engaged with SCRIPT since the inception of the program in 1994. The Lowcountry AHEC SCRIPT team includes Diane Kennedy, Kim Stephens, and Emily Warren. Kim and Emily are responsible for the application process and placement of all students into SCRIPT sessions. In addition to this statewide activity, the Lowcountry AHEC team is responsible for coordinating SCRIPT in the lowcountry region. This includes housing, clinical placements, field trips, and community-focused health promotion activities.

Diane Kennedy is the Center Director of Lowcountry AHEC and is the lead SCRIPT team member. She oversees all aspects of the program in the lowcountry region and has been involved with SCRIPT since 1997. Prior to coming to Lowcountry AHEC, she taught in the medical technology and continuing education departments at Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC. Diane holds Adjunct Faculty status at the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Emily Warren has been involved with SCRIPT since 2001. She coordinates the community-focused health promotion activities. Also, she teaches the interdisciplinary team building component in the SCRIPT Curriculum.

Kim Stephens is responsible for taking in all the applications and notifying students of their status. Also, she is responsible for course orientation assignments for all sessions. During the Lowcountry SCRIPT session, she is responsible for logistics, speakers, and field trips.

Nancie Stover-Nicholson, MPH & Rahha Larijani, MPA, EJD

rlarijani@upstateahec.org
NStover@upstateahec.org

SCRIPT Job:  Upstate AHEC SCRIPT Coordinators.

As Upstate SCRIPT Coordinators, Nancie Stover-Nicholson and Rahha Larijani are responsible for coordinating the components of SCRIPT specific to the upstate session. This includes housing, clinical placements, field trips and various local speakers. They will also be working to identify opportunities for community-focused health promotion activities and to support the student teams.

Nancie received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Clemson University in 2003 and is her Masters of Public Health from the University of South Carolina in 2008. Nancie joined Upstate AHEC as a Health Professions Student Coordinator in August 2007. Prior to her employment with Upstate AHEC, Nancie was a Program/Quality Manager with a nonprofit agency in Greenville, SC.

Rahha came to Upstate AHEC after seven years with Pfizer pharmaceuticals as a Senior Professional Healthcare Representative. She has earned her BS degree from East Carolina University in Biology, her MPA from Troy State University in healthcare and her EJD from Concord Law School in Healthcare Law.

Kam Richardson
Tracy Coward
krichard@mcleodhealth.org

tcoward@mcleodhealth.org

SCRIPT Job: Pee Dee AHEC SCRIPT Coordinator

As the Pee Dee SCRIPT Coordinators, Kam Richardson and Traci Coward are responsible for coordinating the components of SCRIPT specific to the Pee Dee session. This includes housing, clinical placements, field trips, and various local speakers. They will also be working to identify opportunities for community-focused health promotion activities and to support the student teams.

Julie Ghent and Jeff Cauthen

SCRIPT Job: Mid-Carolina SCRIPT Coordinators.

Julie Ghent is one of the Health Professions Student Coordinators with Mid-Carolina AHEC, Inc.  She has been with Mid-Carolina since 1997.  Julie's first assignment with Mid-Carolina AHEC was to implement their student rotation program.  Prior to her employment with AHEC she was a Human Resources director.

Jeff Cauthen, originally from Heath Springs, South Carolina, graduated from the Citadel before spending ten years on active duty with the United States Air Force. Jeff joined the staff of Mid-Carolina AHEC as a Health Professions Student Coordinator in November 2006. He currently resides in Kershaw with his wife Jennifer.