Meet Our Board.
Allison Anderson, President and Past President
Allison is a CPNP at Latitude Food Allergy Care in Redwood City, CA. She is the SF Bay Area chapter president, and previously served as the chapter's community outreach co-chair (2017-2019). Allison graduated from the UCSF PNP program in 2017, and has experience in school nursing as well as asthma and allergy care for pediatric patients. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, indoor gardening, hiking and SUP.
Michelle Santilhano, President Elect
Harriott Greer Silliman, Treasurer
Carrie Chan, Secretary
Carrie Chan, CPNP-PC serves as Manager of Advanced Practice at Stanford Children's Health and has been a nurse practitioner with the Stanford Children’s Orthopedic Center and Sports Medicine Program since 2012. Carrie is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is co-chair of the NAPNAP Pediatric Orthopedic Special Interest Group, and secretary on the executive board of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners Society. She is also pursuing her Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Carrie received her BA in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley before pursuing her BSN and MSN at the University of Pennsylvania.
Megan Pugh, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Meaghan works as a PNP in pediatric primary care at Pinwheel Pediatrics in Concord. She also teaches the Heart to Heart class for LPCH speaking to parents and pre-teens about puberty and growing up. She graduated from the PNP program at UCSF in 2012. When she is not working or teaching, she enjoys being outdoors hiking, biking or skiing with her husband and rambunctious toddler.
Rumi Yokota, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Rumi went to UCSD then graduated from Samuel Merritt's ELMSN program in 2012. She has been working in pediatric primary care and pediatric cardiology since then. She currently works as a NP in Stanford Children's pediatric cardiology department, SFGH's pediatric primary care and pediatric cardiology outpatient clinics. She also works at Kaiser SF's newborn nursery.
Claudine Cho, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Claudine is a PNP in primary care through John Muir in San Ramon and is a graduate of the UCSF PNP program. She has been a part of the SF Bay Area NAPNAP board since 2015 in various roles, including newsletter, CE co-chair, and last year's president. She hopes to continue serving the NP community in the coming years.
Ashley Walker, Membership Chair
Jaclyn March, Community Outreach Co-Chair
Jaclyn March began her career as a NICU nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital after obtaining bachelor's degrees in biology, psychology, and nursing at Southern Methodist University and the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to Penn for her MSN in pediatric primary care, and started her NP career working in a rural primary care office in middle Tennessee. In 2016 she moved to the Bay Area where she accepted a position in pediatric cardiology at LPCH. She has been an active member of the Bay Area community through her involvement in the Junior League of San Francisco (a women's leadership and volunteer organization), and is excited to maintain this involvement in a more pediatric and healthcare focused lens with NAPNAP. She is a new mother and is very thankful for the expertise of all her NP friends!
Keely Giss, Community Outreach Co-Chair
Keely is a PNP on the Stanford Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine team. She initially got her BS in Kinesiology at USC before earning her MSN with a speciality in Pediatric Primary Care through Vanderbilt University. She began her practice in pediatric primary care at a FQHC in the East Bay for 3.5 years before joining the Ortho team at Stanford Children’s Health 2 years ago. She now provides care in clinic and assists in the OR. She's a member of NAPNAP, POPS (Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners Society), and recently began precepting UCSF PNP students. Clinical interests include telling "dad jokes" bad enough to make teens chuckle while assessing their ankle stability, as well as making enough noises/faces to make toddlers giggle while checking their hip range of motion.
Kristin Cosner, Website Chair
Kristin currently works as a pediatric oncology Nurse Practitioner at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. After her daughter finished cancer treatments in 2013, she founded and directed Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation. As a recent graduate from the UCSF AC-PNP program, she received the UCSF Chancellors Award for Public Service and the Nursing Alumni Student Award for Meritorious Service. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and her daughters playing in the surf in Santa Cruz, biking, skiing, and running.
Mia MacLean Vernic, Newsletter Chair
Mia is a recent graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing PNP-PC program. At VUSN, she was a recipient of the Hilliard & Nancy Travis Scholarship and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Mia has experience working as a school nurse and currently volunteers as an RN at RotaCare’s free clinic. She is now studying for her PNP-PC board certification exam and working on getting her California licensure. Mia also completed her bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt University, where she played division one SEC soccer, studied child development, and worked in the Children’s Learning Research Lab. As a San Francisco native, Mia enjoys running, yoga, being outdoors, and trying new restaurants in her free time!
Catie (Straut) Cable, Legislative Co-Chair
Catie works as a PNP in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford Children's Health. She previously worked in primary care in San Rafael, CA. Catie graduated from UCSF's PNP MSN program in 2018 with a minor in Global Health, completed her BSN at Columbia University School of Nursing in New York, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University. Catie lives in San Francisco with her husband and their labradoodle, Gus. Catie has served on the SF Bay Area NAPNAP Board since 2018, first as Continuing Education Co-Chair and now as Legislative Co-chair.
Onica Kuch, Legislative Co-Chair
Onica has worked in Pediatric Neurology for over 10 years and prior to that worked in Pediatric Oncology for 10 years. She has started a new role at Stanford Children's Health and previously worked at UCSF, as well as CPMC. Additionally, she has given extensive lectures in the subjects of pediatric headache and concussion. She is interested in seeing Nurse Practitioners thrive in California and looks to help with this a legislative co-chair with local NAPNAP. She was previously involved as a speaker and membership chair.
Kaitlin KK Dougles, ACPNP Student Representative
KK Dougles is a second-year AC-PNP student at UCSF. Prior to moving up to the bay to attend UCSF, KK worked as an RN on the medical/pulmonary units at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and Children's Hospital Los Angeles after receiving her BSN from UCLA in 2016. Currently, she works at Sutter PAMF as a pediatric advice RN while in school. KK's interests include the pediatric pulmonary population and medically complex chronically ill children. KK hopes to continue to serve the acute and chronically ill pediatric population and their families as an advanced practice provider.
Jacob DeWees, PCPNP Student Representative
Allison is a CPNP at Latitude Food Allergy Care in Redwood City, CA. She is the SF Bay Area chapter president, and previously served as the chapter's community outreach co-chair (2017-2019). Allison graduated from the UCSF PNP program in 2017, and has experience in school nursing as well as asthma and allergy care for pediatric patients. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, indoor gardening, hiking and SUP.
Michelle Santilhano, President Elect
Harriott Greer Silliman, Treasurer
Carrie Chan, Secretary
Carrie Chan, CPNP-PC serves as Manager of Advanced Practice at Stanford Children's Health and has been a nurse practitioner with the Stanford Children’s Orthopedic Center and Sports Medicine Program since 2012. Carrie is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is co-chair of the NAPNAP Pediatric Orthopedic Special Interest Group, and secretary on the executive board of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners Society. She is also pursuing her Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Carrie received her BA in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley before pursuing her BSN and MSN at the University of Pennsylvania.
Megan Pugh, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Meaghan works as a PNP in pediatric primary care at Pinwheel Pediatrics in Concord. She also teaches the Heart to Heart class for LPCH speaking to parents and pre-teens about puberty and growing up. She graduated from the PNP program at UCSF in 2012. When she is not working or teaching, she enjoys being outdoors hiking, biking or skiing with her husband and rambunctious toddler.
Rumi Yokota, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Rumi went to UCSD then graduated from Samuel Merritt's ELMSN program in 2012. She has been working in pediatric primary care and pediatric cardiology since then. She currently works as a NP in Stanford Children's pediatric cardiology department, SFGH's pediatric primary care and pediatric cardiology outpatient clinics. She also works at Kaiser SF's newborn nursery.
Claudine Cho, Continuing Education Co-Chair
Claudine is a PNP in primary care through John Muir in San Ramon and is a graduate of the UCSF PNP program. She has been a part of the SF Bay Area NAPNAP board since 2015 in various roles, including newsletter, CE co-chair, and last year's president. She hopes to continue serving the NP community in the coming years.
Ashley Walker, Membership Chair
Jaclyn March, Community Outreach Co-Chair
Jaclyn March began her career as a NICU nurse at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital after obtaining bachelor's degrees in biology, psychology, and nursing at Southern Methodist University and the University of Pennsylvania. She returned to Penn for her MSN in pediatric primary care, and started her NP career working in a rural primary care office in middle Tennessee. In 2016 she moved to the Bay Area where she accepted a position in pediatric cardiology at LPCH. She has been an active member of the Bay Area community through her involvement in the Junior League of San Francisco (a women's leadership and volunteer organization), and is excited to maintain this involvement in a more pediatric and healthcare focused lens with NAPNAP. She is a new mother and is very thankful for the expertise of all her NP friends!
Keely Giss, Community Outreach Co-Chair
Keely is a PNP on the Stanford Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine team. She initially got her BS in Kinesiology at USC before earning her MSN with a speciality in Pediatric Primary Care through Vanderbilt University. She began her practice in pediatric primary care at a FQHC in the East Bay for 3.5 years before joining the Ortho team at Stanford Children’s Health 2 years ago. She now provides care in clinic and assists in the OR. She's a member of NAPNAP, POPS (Pediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners Society), and recently began precepting UCSF PNP students. Clinical interests include telling "dad jokes" bad enough to make teens chuckle while assessing their ankle stability, as well as making enough noises/faces to make toddlers giggle while checking their hip range of motion.
Kristin Cosner, Website Chair
Kristin currently works as a pediatric oncology Nurse Practitioner at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. After her daughter finished cancer treatments in 2013, she founded and directed Team G Childhood Cancer Foundation. As a recent graduate from the UCSF AC-PNP program, she received the UCSF Chancellors Award for Public Service and the Nursing Alumni Student Award for Meritorious Service. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and her daughters playing in the surf in Santa Cruz, biking, skiing, and running.
Mia MacLean Vernic, Newsletter Chair
Mia is a recent graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing PNP-PC program. At VUSN, she was a recipient of the Hilliard & Nancy Travis Scholarship and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Mia has experience working as a school nurse and currently volunteers as an RN at RotaCare’s free clinic. She is now studying for her PNP-PC board certification exam and working on getting her California licensure. Mia also completed her bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt University, where she played division one SEC soccer, studied child development, and worked in the Children’s Learning Research Lab. As a San Francisco native, Mia enjoys running, yoga, being outdoors, and trying new restaurants in her free time!
Catie (Straut) Cable, Legislative Co-Chair
Catie works as a PNP in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford Children's Health. She previously worked in primary care in San Rafael, CA. Catie graduated from UCSF's PNP MSN program in 2018 with a minor in Global Health, completed her BSN at Columbia University School of Nursing in New York, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University. Catie lives in San Francisco with her husband and their labradoodle, Gus. Catie has served on the SF Bay Area NAPNAP Board since 2018, first as Continuing Education Co-Chair and now as Legislative Co-chair.
Onica Kuch, Legislative Co-Chair
Onica has worked in Pediatric Neurology for over 10 years and prior to that worked in Pediatric Oncology for 10 years. She has started a new role at Stanford Children's Health and previously worked at UCSF, as well as CPMC. Additionally, she has given extensive lectures in the subjects of pediatric headache and concussion. She is interested in seeing Nurse Practitioners thrive in California and looks to help with this a legislative co-chair with local NAPNAP. She was previously involved as a speaker and membership chair.
Kaitlin KK Dougles, ACPNP Student Representative
KK Dougles is a second-year AC-PNP student at UCSF. Prior to moving up to the bay to attend UCSF, KK worked as an RN on the medical/pulmonary units at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and Children's Hospital Los Angeles after receiving her BSN from UCLA in 2016. Currently, she works at Sutter PAMF as a pediatric advice RN while in school. KK's interests include the pediatric pulmonary population and medically complex chronically ill children. KK hopes to continue to serve the acute and chronically ill pediatric population and their families as an advanced practice provider.
Jacob DeWees, PCPNP Student Representative