Our team consists of arts in health administrators, practitioners, and facilitators. Click the links below to explore their personal and professional experience in the arts in health field, and their work with Arts in Medicine.
Arts in Medicine Administration
administration, nursing, dance
Lauren Arce, MSN, RN, OCN, AHN-BC
Nurse Coordinator, Dancer
administration, dance/movement
Jenny Baxley Lee, PhD, MA, BC-DMT
Director
administration, visual arts
Erin Beardslee
Communications and Grants Specialist, Visual Artist
administration
Ali Irizarry
Administrative Specialist, Photography
administration, music
Jernie Millán
Community Arts Coordinator, Vocalist
Administration, music
Sam Moss
Senior Program Manager, Vocalist
administration, visual arts
Kris Sullivan
Senior Operations Manager, Visual Artist
Arts in Medicine Practitioners
The artists below are employed by UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine to facilitate creative arts engagements at the hospital bedside and in the community.
YOGA, MEDITATION
Tammy Bernard, M.Ed., C-IAYT
music, songwriting
Michael Claytor
visual arts
Sarah Hinds
MASSAGE THERAPY, Literary Arts
Andrew Hix, LMT
visual
Molly Kempson
music, songwriting
Ricky Kendall
music, songwriting
Rayvon “Ray” Rollins
visual arts
Sunita Shepherd
dance
Whitney Wilson
Artists in Residence
The artists below are in residence with UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine, facilitating arts engagements either at the hospital bedside or in the community setting.
yoga, meditation
Amanda Bush
dance
Jackie Larson
visual arts
Pía Molina
dance
Shera Curtis
music, songwriting
Jahirah Williams
Community Arts Facilitators
AIM Champions
- John Graham-Pole, MD – AIM co-founder
- Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN – AIM co-founder
- Tina Mullen – Director Emeritus of AIM, Adjunct Lecturer for UF Center for Arts in Medicine
- Brad Pollitt – VP of Facilities, Retired
- Helen Welsh – Nurse Manager, 8East
- Michael Okun, M.D. – Executive Director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, Professor and Chair of Neurology
- Jill Sonke, PhD – Research Director for UF Center for Arts in Medicine
Adjunct Artists
- Ferol Carytsas – Director & Lecturer for UF Center for Arts in Medicine, Music
- Barbara Esrig – Literary Arts
- Mary Lisa Kitakis-Spano – Visual arts
- Adria Klausner – Visual arts
- Sandra Murphy-Pak – Visual Arts
- Ellie Sommer – Writing, Retired