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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. |
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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
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Benjamin Danielson, MD |
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M.A. Bender, MD, PhD |
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Julianne O'Brien, ARNP |
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Ken Feldman, MD |
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Lenna Liu, MD, MPH |
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Jim Stout, MD,MPH |
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Cynthia Brown, ARNP |
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Diana Brovold, RN, MSN |
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Seema Mhatre, LICSW, MPH |
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Jo Montgomery, ARNP |
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Linda Murfeldt |
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Gabrielle Seibel, ARNP |
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Antwanette Lyons |
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Caren Goldenberg, MPH |
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Crystal Lyons |
DENTAL CLINIC
MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC
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Mark Fadool, MS, LMHC |
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David Ingram, MSW, LICSW |
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Andrea Pascarelli, Psy.D. |
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Leafar Espinoza, PhD, MPH |
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Wanjiku Njoroge, MD |
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Diane Magyary,PhD, ARNP |
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Beth Emmons, LICSW |
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William French, MD |
GARFIELD TEEN HEALTH CLINIC
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Seema Mhatre, LICSW, MPH
Family Support Worker/Social Worker
Seema Mhatre can greet people and count to ten in six different languages. It’s a skill that comes in handy with Odessa Brown’s multicultural families and patients.
This Bethesda, Maryland, native works tirelessly to help provide families who come into OBCC with community resources as well as primary and specialty health care.
While in high school, Seema worked at a Montessori pre-school. While she enjoyed the work, she realized that what she really wanted to do was work with children who did not have access to such a privileged environment.
After receiving her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, Seema earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Washington and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Carolina.
Before joining OBCC, she worked at the 45th Street Clinic as Coordinator of the Homeless Youth Clinic and later at Children’s Hospital in the Endocrine Department helping kids and families manage diabetes.
With the arrival of their son, Taj, Seema and husband, Mark, (who also works at OBCC) have kept busy changing diapers and reading bedtime stories – usually the same one, over and over again.
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| “We want people to see us as their second home,” she says. “Being culturally focused means being open and respectful, looking at a person without judgment, and hearing – really hearing – their story. The honor of working here is meeting people from so many different backgrounds and cultures and experiences, and they tell you their stories so easily. That’s precious.” |
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