Chesapeake Regional Chapter
Officers
President: Nneka Holder, MD, MPH, FSAHM (she/her)
Treasurer: Channelle Carr, MD, MHS (she/her)
Secretary: Tiffany Mark, MD (she/her)
Members-at-Large
Kevon-Mark Philip Jackman, DrPH, MPH (he/him)
Our Mission: The Chesapeake Regional Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine serves the Washington, DC, Maryland, and northern Virginia area. Our members come from a variety of medical and non-medical disciplines including physicians, nurse practitioners, psychologists, social workers, health educators, and other health professionals. We are committed to improving the physical and psychological health and well-being of all adolescents through advocacy, clinical care, health promotion, health service delivery, professional development, and research.
Our Objectives:
- Promote positive youth development, illness prevention, achievement of individual potential and a sense of physical, mental and social well-being.
- Pursue optimal adolescent health and developmentally-appropriate health care, through scientific research that provides evidence based effective health promotion, prevention and treatment of illness and injury.
- Promote respect for individual dignity, equity, and justice, and recognition that age-appropriate, developmentally-sensitive health care is a right and not a privilege.
- Advance adolescent health by increasing awareness of the health needs of adolescents and young adults through effective advocacy, communication, and dissemination of knowledge.
- Recognize that advancing adolescent health depends upon effective partnerships among adolescents, families, health professionals, public and private sectors, communities, schools, and other social institutions.
Highlights of Chapter Activities
- Fall Meeting with trainee research presentations
- Annual Spring Dinner and Business Meeting
- E-mail list for Chapter News and legislative updates
- Annual Saxena Award Honoree
For information on upcoming meetings, to change your address or e-mail on our mailing list, or to join/pay chapter dues, please contact Tiffany Mark, MD – Chesapeake.SAHM@gmail.com.
Join this chapter — membership in SAHM is not required to join a chapter, but you are invited to join.
