Meet the Bachelor of Science in Health & Wellness Management Faculty

Terry Aittama is a senior lecturer at UW-Stevens Point and has been teaching in the Health Promotion program, a National Wellness Institute (NWI) accredited academic program, for two decades. She has been involved in the creation and assessment of learning outcomes and curriculum and is the academic advisor for the NWI Student Chapter at UW-Stevens... [Read More]

Betsy Barrett is an adjunct instructor at UW-River Falls. Previously, she taught at UW-Stevens Point and Elmhurst College. She earned her BA from the College of Wooster, her MS from Miami University in Ohio, and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She volunteers at the National Wellness Institute; runs (with her yellow lab, Croix),... [Read More]

Theresa Dionne is a proud 2009 UW-Stevens Point graduate with an MA in Communication. Theresa currently lives in Dallas, Texas and employed as patient experience consultant at Methodist Health System. In this role she offers coaching and professional development to all health care employees in both the clinical and administrative settings. In addition, Theresa is... [Read More]

Myron Falken received an MS in microbiology from South Dakota State University. He received an MPH and a PhD in environmental health with an emphasis on epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. He worked as an epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health for 20 years and developed the blood lead surveillance system and the... [Read More]

Jason Horay has a BS from High Point University in Sports Medicine, and an MS in Health Promotion/Health Education from Mississippi State University. He is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and a Master Trainer with the CDC’s Work@Health Program. Jason was the Program Manager at Duke University’s LIVE FOR LIFE employee wellness program, and... [Read More]

Danielle Karvonen attended UW-Superior and graduated with her BS in Wellness/Fitness Management. She continued on at Benedictine University to obtain her MS in Public Health, and she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Health Information Management. Danielle chose the health field because she loves to help and educate others about health and wellness. In... [Read More]

Debra Lafler is an adjunct instructor for UW-La Crosse and UW-Stevens Point. She is also the Wellness/Employee Assistance Program Manager at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and a Consultant with Personal Wellness Development, LLC.  She received her Doctorate degree from Emerson in Spiritual Studies; her Master’s degree from Columbia University in Health & Behavior Studies, specializing... [Read More]

Erin Balliet Ratelis has been an innovator for change within the health and wellness industry for over 15 years. She is an insight-driven wellness professional with experience as a health and wellness consultant, wellness product developer, and thought leadership strategist in health care. She earned her BA in Community Health Education from UW-La Crosse and... [Read More]

Margaret Rehayem, M.A. is an adjunct faculty professor for the HWM program. She has been teaching at the University level for almost a decade and has been in the health and wellness field since the mid 1990’s. She currently works in the corporate health field, having created and managed a wellness program for 11 years... [Read More]

Sallie Scovill is an associate professor of Health Promotion/Wellness at UW-Stevens Point and teaches face-to-face courses in employee wellness and works with students during their internship selection course. She began her studies at Austin Peay State University outside Nashville, Tenn. as a political science major. After changing fields, she received a master’s in Sports Management... [Read More]

Dave Sprague is an adjunct professor in his fifth year of teaching at the University of Wisconsin, both online and classroom-based courses. His prior business work experience includes training and development, executive recruiting, sales and marketing, public speaking, management coaching and research consulting for several companies such as Boeing, Emory Hospital and Clinics, Johns-Manville, Norwegian... [Read More]

Judy Springer, PhD, has over 25 years experience in the health and wellness field working at hospital, community, corporate, and academic sites in various roles. Past experiences in the academic setting have included instruction in exercise physiology, fitness assessment and programming, sport nutrition, aging and wellness, and lifetime wellness. She previously facilitated Physical Education courses... [Read More]

Keven Syverson is the health education coordinator for Student Health Services at UW-River Falls. He has a BS in German from UW-River Falls and a master’s in Public Health in Community Health Education from the UW-La Crosse. His PhD in Public Health is from Walden University. He also provides campus-wide prevention-focused programming on issues such... [Read More]

Cheryl Vann is the fomer owner of Magazine Soho (a B2B magazine) , Ungeeked (social media and marketing company)  and Sohobiztube.com  ( a social media network for businesses). She has more than 25 years of marketing, PR and communications experience.  She currently instructs the elective, Developing  Social Media Strategies for Customer Engagement.  She is very... [Read More]

Emily Whitney received an MS in community health education at Utah State University and a PhD in health education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is currently an assistant professor at UW-La Crosse teaching health education and health promotion courses such as Drugs in American Society, Human Disease, Stress Management, and Health Aspects of Aging.... [Read More]

Liz Wiebe, M.S, currently works at the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation in Madison, WI as the Health Services Manager. Her background is in Health Education and Exercise Physiology, Most of her career has been in Worksite Wellness. She spent over 20 years at Lands’ End in Dodgeville, WI in a variety of roles, the... [Read More]