CWRU Student-Run Health Clinic

This is our final week of celebrating Women's History Month. Thank you all for following along and seeing some of the great women who have impacted Case, the SRHC and the city of Cleveland so profoundly. If you have not liked our page and followed us yet, please do so to continue to stay in the loop and support our free Student-Run Health Clinic!

For our final week we are spotlighting Dr. Jesse Honsky, DNP, MPH, RN, PHNA-BC, who is an assistant professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Director for Community Based Experiences for the CWRU Office of Interprofessional Education, Research, & Collaborative Practice. She completed her BSN at the College of St. Benedict, in St. Joseph, MN in 2003. Earned an MPH and MSN with a focus in advanced public health nursing from CWRU in 2012 and her DNP from CWRU in 2017. Before teaching full time she worked as a public health nurse in Yakima, WA and Missoula, MT and as a peri-operative nurse in Cleveland, OH. She started teaching full time at FPB in 2012. In 2103-2015 she helped establish the MetroHealth School Health Program as their first program director. In this role she collaborated with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to bring primary care clinics directly to children and adolescents in schools. In 2015-2017she served as the assistant director for the CWRU Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. In the school of nursing she teaches clinical in both in-patient and community health settings. Her interest in interprofessional education began in 2013 when she became a faculty adviser for the Student Run Health Clinic and has grown over the years. Now as Director of Community Based Experiences she coordinates community-based project experiences for over 450 students from different health professions at CWRU. This spring semester she is working with an interprofessional team of faculty and students to coordinate health profession student volunteers at COVID vaccine clinics in the Cleveland area.

As we continue our celebration of Women’s History Month, the Student-Run Health Clinic media spotlight this week is on Dr. Lisa Navracruz MD, FAAFP, AAHIVS.

A lifelong Clevelander, Dr. Navracruz has been the medical director of the SRHC since 2012. She graduated from medical school at Stanford in 2000 and her time as the Student Director of the Student Health Clinic at Stanford is part of what drew her to the position as Medical Director here at the CWRU SRHC. In this role she oversees the clinic's operations including transitioning the clinic to its new location at NFP and utilizing our resources to provide COVID-19 vaccines to the community. As of this coming weekend the clinic will have provided well over 1,000 vaccine doses to residents of Greater Cleveland.

She has also been a professor at Case since 2016 teaching Physical Diagnosis and other clinical skills to preclinical level Medical Students and she also coordinates the community patient care preceptor program. Her role at Case is heavily focused on getting students more involved in the community.

In her clinical career, Dr. Navracruz has also been focused on providing HIV Primary Care first with Care Alliance from 2004-2019 and now at Neighborhood Family Practice. Her dedication to providing much needed care to underserved communities in all of these roles has had an immense impact on our city.

On behalf of the SRHC and Case Western Reserve University we want to recognize you for your accomplishments and thank you for your contributions to the university, to the field of healthcare, and to the world!