Arts in Medicine is comprised of arts in health practitioners (collectively called “artists in residence”), administrators, and often visiting artists in residence. The work is supported by adjunct artists and program champions. Every individual on our team has a connection to the arts through their own personal creative and/or contemplative arts practice.
Click the names on this page to learn more about who we are why we do what we do here at UF Health and in the community!
Arts in Medicine Administration
- Lauren Arce – Nurse Coordinator, Dance
- Jenny Baxley Lee – Director, Dance/Movement Therapist
- Erin Beardslee – Administrative Assistant, Visual Arts
- Jernie Millán – Community Arts Coordinator, Music
- Sam Moss – Service Learning Manager, Music
- Kyle Searles – Operations Assistant
- Kris Sullivan – Program Manager, Community Arts
Artists in Residence
- Rusti Brandman – Dance
- Sunita Shepherd – Visual Arts
- Michael Claytor – Music
- Cathy DeWitt – Music
- Sarah Hinds – Visual Arts, Community Arts
- Andrew Hix – Literary Arts
- Molly Kempson – Visual Arts, Community Arts
- Ricky Kendall – Music, Visual Arts
- Rayvon Rollins – Music
- Whitney Wilson – Dance
Integrative Therapies
- Tammy Bernard – Yoga, Wellness Education
- Andrew Hix – Massage, Tai chi, Qigong
- Nancy Lasseter – Wellness Education
Visiting Artists in Residence
- Amanda Bush – Yoga, Integrative Therapies
- Jackie Larson – Dance
- Chyna Miller – Visual Arts, Community Arts
- Pia Molina – Visual Arts
- Shera Curtis – Dance, Community Arts
- Jahirah Williams – Music, Community Arts
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
- Harley O’Neill – Dance