Staff Bios
Abbey Alkon, RN, Ph.D. is the Director of the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP) and Associate Professor, UCSF School of Nursing Department of Family Health Care Nursing. Dr. Alkon earned her Pediatric Nurse Practitioner/MSN and MPH degrees at the Columbia University and her doctorate in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Alkon is the Principal Investigator on the CCHP projects and Investigator on the CHAMACOS project, University of California, Berkeley Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research. Her child care publications include:
Alkon, A., Ramler, M., & MacLellan, K. (2003). Evaluation of Mental Health Consultation in Child Care Centers. Early Childhood Education Journal, 31 (2): 91-99.
Alkon, A., Goldstein, L.H., Smider, N., Essex, M., Kupfer, D., & Boyce, W.T. (2003). Developmental and Contextual Influences on Autonomic Reactivity in Young Children. Developmental Psychobiology, 42 (1): 64-78.
Alkon, A. (2003). Nonparental Child Care. In Rudolph's Pediatrics, 21st Edition, Rudolph AM, Rudolph CD (Editors), McGraw-Hill, NY. Chapter 5: 512-515.
Alkon, A, Sokal-Gutierrez K, Wolff, M. (2002). Child Care Health Consultation Improves Health Knowledge and Compliance. Pediatric Nursing, 28(1):61-65.
Wayne, W, Alkon, A, Buchanan, E. Creating a State Strategic Plan for Integrating Services for
Children Using Multiple Qualitative Methods. Maternal Child Health Journal, 12:15-23.
Alkon, A, Bernzweig, J, To, K, Mackie, J, Wolff, M, Elman, J. Child Care Health Consultation
Programs in California: Models, Services and Facilitators. Public Health Nursing, 25(2):126-139.
Alkon, A, To, K, Wolff, M, Mackie, J, Bernzweig, J. Assessing health and safety in early
care and education programs: Development of the CCHP Health and Safety Checklist.
Journal of Pediatric Health Care. In Press.
A. Rahman Zamani, MD, MPH is Director of Programs. He oversees the Healthline Project, supervises the production of all CCHP publications, and serves as senior editor of CCHP's Child Care Health Connections newsletter. He came to CCHP with a master's degree in public health in the area of health care management; a DTM & H in tropical medicine; and a medical degree in general medicine. His numerous certifications and training experiences include the National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2000; the Institute of Child Health, University of London, Pediatric Priorities, 1985; Tuberculosis Control Program, Italian Cooperation for Development, 1990; and Management & Planning of Immunization, UNHCR/UNICFEF and JSI, 1989. He is fluent in Farsi, Pushto, English, Urdo and other asian languages. Since starting with CCHP in 1996, he has written dozens of articles for Child Care Health Connections newsletter, health & safety notes and fact sheets for families. His other publications include:
Health and Safety in the Child Care Setting: Prevention of Infectious Disease, A Curriculum for the Training of Child Care Providers. California Childcare Health Program, 2001.
Health and Safety in the Child Care Setting: Prevention of Injuries, A Curriculum for the Training of Child Care Providers. California Childcare Health Program, 2001.
Modules for Training of Trainers in Primary Health Care in Bangladesh, 1994.
Modules for Training of Field Works in Primary Health Care in Bangladesh, 1994.
Prevention is Better than Cure, Curriculum for Health Education in Schools, 1987.
Bobbie Rose, RN, is a Public Health Nurse with nine years experience as Health Chair for a school based health program in Berkeley. Her experience also includes case management with the Visiting Nurse Association, health education in the preschool setting, as well as hospital based acute care. She is a graduate of Marquette University College of Nursing, class of 1981.
Tahereh Garakani, MA, Ed, is the Infant/Toddler and Inclusion Specialist. Tahereh has over 20 years of experience in child development, advocacy and training. She worked as a director of Head Start, director of child development programs, education coordinator, Parent Involvement Coordinator, mental health coordinator, and disability services coordinator. She is also a part-time college instructor, and teaches Early Child Development courses to early care and education professionals.
Tina Hawkinson, Administrative Assistant II and Publications Manager, provides support to two of the nurses who staff Healthline, Infant/Toddler and Inclusion Specialist, Director of Programs, and publications staff. She coordinates the tracking of inventory, the printing and mailing of CCHP publications including the Child Care Health Connections newsletter. She also maintains databases for CCHP publications and activities. Her background includes extensive work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and numerous professional positions creating systems to help streamline the operation of various organizations. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and studied the psychology of art and psychology at the Notre Dame de Namur University.
Yolanda Abrea, Fiscal Assistant and Office Manger, monitors operating expenses and maintains current budget information for the CCHP projects. She has over 16 years of experience working at UCSF in the School of Dentistry. She has developed many systems and protocols that are currently being used at the school today. During her UC experience she was a manager in the Pediatric Dental Center; where she worked closely with special programs such as CCS, Healthy Families and Healthy Kids. She also worked with residents, faculty and researchers on Caries Prevention and education.
Vickie Leonard, RN, FNP, PhD, is one of the Healthline nurses at CCHP. She is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in maternal and child health and a Nurse Practitioner who has worked with children in both primary care and subspecialty clinic settings. She was a nurse coordinator in the Bleeding Disorders Clinic at Children’s Hospital Oakland and in the Regional Spina Bifida Clinic at Kaiser in Oakland, CA. She has worked in a CHDP clinic; a residential program and child care program for teen mothers; taught pediatrics, ethics and health policy in the nurse practitioner program at the University of San Francisco; and is currently also a research associate working on a national study of nursing education at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She has a BA in psychology, in addition to her nursing degree. She earned her MSN and PhD from the University of California San Francisco
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