Odessa Brown Children's Clinic
Meet our staff

Our staff is a family of compassionate, skilled professionals who listen to and love, laugh with and cry with, teach and learn from, believe in and appreciate the strong and resilient families we serve.
 
We recognize where they have been, accept them where they are, and have faith in where they have the potential to go. To learn more about our staff members, click on their names.

MEDICAL CLINIC
Benjamin Danielson, MD
M.A. Bender, MD, PhD
Julianne O'Brien, ARNP
Ken Feldman, MD
Lenna Liu, MD, MPH
Jim Stout, MD,MPH
Cynthia Brown, ARNP
Diana Brovold, RN, MSN
Seema Mhatre, LICSW, MPH
Jo Montgomery, ARNP
Linda Murfeldt
Gabrielle Seibel, ARNP
Antwanette Lyons
Caren Goldenberg, MPH
Crystal Lyons

DENTAL CLINIC
Chris Delecki, DDS
Seok Bee Lim, DMD
Alberto Enrico, DDS
Geoffrey Greenlee, DDS, MSD
Yoo-Lea Yea, DDS, MSD

MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC
Mark Fadool, MS, LMHC
David Ingram, MSW, LICSW
Andrea Pascarelli, Psy.D.
Leafar Espinoza, PhD, MPH
Wanjiku Njoroge, MD
Diane Magyary,PhD, ARNP
Beth Emmons, LICSW
William French, MD

GARFIELD TEEN HEALTH CLINIC
Happy Salinas-Santos, ARNP
Rosie Moore
Michele Acker, ARNP



Michele Acker, ARNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Beginning with her desire to become a nurse at the ripe age of five, Michele Acker has dedicated her life to caring for children and teenagers as a pediatric nurse practitioner.

The Tacoma native’s father, a doctor, exposed her to the medical field; her very first job was working as a nurse’s assistant in his office.

Michele received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in nursing from the University of Washington.

Before joining the Odessa Brown staff at the Garfield Teen Health Center in September 2006, Michele worked at the Nathan Hale Teen Health Center and at the Children’s Virology/Infectious Disease Clinic at Harborview.

Michele and her husband, Randy, have a grown daughter, Heather, and a grandson named Aidan. They also have two cats, Mel and George. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, walking, knitting, reading and making jewelry.



Michele says she feels privileged to work with a “great staff” and to interact with the patients she sees daily at OBCC.



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