Officers and Board Directors
President
Charles Scruggs
Director, Health Professions Advising Center
University of California, Riverside
Health Professions Advising Center,
Rivera Library, Suite B03
900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-5416
Past President
Douglas Watson
Pre-Health Counselor Utah Valley University
Orem, UT 84058
801-863-6484
President-Elect
Kristi Weddige
Director of CSM Student Services; Academic and Pre-Health Professions Advisor
Cal Poly-SLO
San Luis Obispo, CA
Secretary-Treasurer
Kimberly Mueller, M.S.
Director, Office of Health Professions Advising
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
509-527-5766
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Lynn Howard.
Director of Student Recruitment
Washington State University
Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Spokane, WA
509.358.7518
Historian
Craig Vaske
Manager, Student Advising College of Health Sciences
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
307-766-3499
Membership and Retention Chair
Jane Byrnes, MSA
Pre-Health Manager
Colorado College
Colorado Spring, CO
719-389-6429
jbyrnes@coloradocollege.edu
2025 -WAAHP Regional Meeting Chair
Katherine Brackmann
Assistant Director of Graduate & Professional School Engagement
Career & Professional Development
Health Professions Pathways Program (H3P)
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA
509- 313-4237
Members at Large
2022-2025
Josh Deason, MA
Pre-Professional Advisor
Exploratory and Pre-Professional Advising Center
University of Nevada, Reno
775-784-4684
2023-2026
Lena Njoku M.Ed
Director, UC PRIME Pathways Program (UCPPP)
University of California, Irvine
Allyson Sterling, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Regis University
303-964-6234
Jessica Woods
Senior Academic Advisor
University of Colorado
Colorado Springs
710- 255-3260
jwoods7@uccs.edu
2024-2027
Dana Parcher, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Pre-Health Advising
University of Colorado, Boulder
Maureen Leong-Kee, MA
Associate Director of Health Professions
Oregon State University
Maureen.Leong-Kee@oregonstate.edu
WAAHP Representatives to NAAHP
2023-2025
Charles Scruggs
Director, Health Professions Advising Center
University of California, Riverside
951-827-5416
Grace Cardenas Leal, M.S.
Coordinator, Pre-Professional Advising
Exploratory & Pre-Professional Advising
University of Nevada, Reno
775- 784-4684
Media Specialist
Kimberly Mueller, M.S.
Director, Office of Health Professions Advising
Whitman College
509-527-5766