Family Health Section: Contacts
The Family Health Section of the Bureau of Community Health Promotion within the Division of Public Health has responsibility to improve the health of women, infants, children, teens and families as they progress through the critical developmental milestones of life. A major emphasis of the programs in the Family Health Section involves prevention, early screening, and early intervention.
Our programs include Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Newborn Screening (NBS), Violence and Injury Prevention, Opioid and Overdose Harm Prevention, Reproductive Health and Family Planning (RHFP), and Infant and Maternal Health.
Unless otherwise indicated, staff are based out of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services building at 1 W. Wilson St., Madison
Fax Number: 608-267-3824
Ashley Bergeron – Family Health Section Manager
Kathy Hanson – Grant Specialist Advanced
608-261-9304
Maren Holm – Staff Development Specialist
Maddie Kemp – Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellow
Ashley Kreul – Grant Specialist
608-266-3504
Angela Rohan, PhD – Senior MCH Epidemiologist/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Assignee
608-267-0241
Bob Steiner, Newborn Screening Program Medical Consultant
Meg Diedrick – Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Fellow
Health Equity Coordinator - vacant
Kara Benjamin – Director of Adolescent Health Initiatives
608-267-7796
Sharon Gilbert – Home Visiting Nurse Consultant
608-640-6040 (mobile)
Erika Hagen MS, PhD – Adolescent Health Coordinator
Katrina Heche, MPH – Title V Block Grant Director/State Systems Development Initiative Grant Director
608-266-3959
Mary Kusch, MPH – Title V Evaluator and Epidemiologist
Virginia Loehr – Child and Adolescent Health Consultant
Leah Ludlum – Maternal and Child Health Public Health Nurse Consultant
608-381-9132
Shawn Meyer – Maternal and Child Health Public Health Nurse Consultant
608-504-6373
Maggie Smith – Adolescent Health Coordinator
608-886-2947
Maternal and Child Health Public Health Nurse Consultant – vacant
Maternal and Child Health Nurse Consultant – vacant
Julie Thiel,BS Pharm , PharmD – CYSHCN Unit Supervisor
Becky Burns, MSSW – CYSHCN Statewide Coordinator
608-265-0505 (Waisman)
Tami Horzewski, MS, CHES – Wisconsin Newborn Blood Screening Coordinator
608-266-8904
Michelle Lund – Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Director
Tim Lybeck – Clerical Assistant
608-267-9008
Vince Milisauskas – WE-TRAC and Wisconsin Birth Defects Registry Information System Specialist
608-267-7148
Melissa Olson, MS – CYSHCN Epidemiologist/Birth Defects Epidemiologist
608-575-1471
Mandy Quainoo – Newborn Screening Follow-up Coordinator
Leah Reuter - Newborn Screening Data Reporting and System Integration Specialist
Elizabeth Seeliger, AuD – Wisconsin Sound Beginnings Program Director
608-422-1254
Kaitlin Tolliver, MSW, LCSW – CYSHCN Birth Defects Program Coordinator
Tamara Thompson – Newborn Screening Out of Hospital Coordinator
Julie Katrichis, MSN, CNL – RHFP Unit Supervisor
Alexa DeBoth – RHFP Epidemiologist
Dr. Mary Landry, MD – Title X Medical Director
Chelsea Onchuck – RHFP RN Consultant
Ashley Dombrowicki - RHFP RN Consultant
RHFP Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber (APNP) - vacant
Kenmikiiya Terry – Maternal and Infant Mortality Prevention Unit Supervisor
608-332-8583
Sharain Anderson, MSN, RN – Maternal Mortality Review Nurse Abstractor
Amy Bardon, MSN, RN – Maternal Mortality Review Nurse Abstractor
Robert Fontella – Health Education and Outreach Specialist
Emily Morian-Lozano, MPH, MSW – Maternal Mortality Review Epidemiologist
608-266-2684
Karen Morris – Maternal Mortality Review Nurse Abstractor (Western Regional Office)
Mireille Perzan – Maternal and Infant Mortality Prevention Epidemiologist/Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Project Director
Jacqueline Sills-Ware – Community Partnership Specialist
Hannah Schmidt – Community Partnership Specialist
Mary Wienkers, MPH – Maternal Mortality Review Coordinator
Lidarose Young – Maternal Mortality Review Program Records Gatherer