About Us — Administrative Team

Nancy S. Adelsheim, Executive Director

WHS Administrative Team and Board of Directors

Executive Director

Nancy S. Adelsheim, MMHS, was named Women’s Health Services (WHS) Executive Director in May 2009. Ms. Adelsheim has a Master’s Degree in Management of Human Services with a specialization in Health Care Administration and Health Policy which she obtained from Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School of Public Policy.

She has worked in key leadership roles at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Chicago Physicians Group, and locally with Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Anesthesia Associates of New Mexico. She has more than eighteen years experience working in physician group practices and hospital settings.

Dr. Justina Trott, Director of Policy, Research and Education

Director of Policy, Research, and Education

Dr. Justina Trott is Director of Policy, Research and Education to further our vision and implementation of the Center of Excellence in Women’s Health model. Dr. Trott’s role is to lead an initiative in partnership with the WHS Executive. These organizational models include multiple components of care: primary care services, health care screenings and wellness, outreach and education, professional education, leadership, and research that are informed by sex- gender-based medicine.

Dr. Trott has been President and serves on the Board of the American College of Women’s Health Physicians. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Trott is also a faculty member of the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program. She was appointed chair of the New Mexico Governor’s Women’s Health Advisory Council after successfully petitioning the governor for the establishment of the office. She was also appointed to the New Mexico legislative task force to create a cultural competency curriculum for health professionals. Dr. Trott received her BA in chemistry from New York University and her MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Lynn Bickley, Internal Medicine Physician

WHS Medical Director

Internal Medicine Physician

Dr. Bickley is Board Certified in internal medicine. She has served on the faculty at the University of Rochester and Texas Tech University HSC School of Medicine, where she was professor and Associate Dean of Curriculum. She is the author of a widely used medical student and nurse practitioner textbook, “Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking.” Her focus is primary care.   Dr. Bickley is a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Residency in Internal Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, New York.  She completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital.

Loretta Martinez  - Office Manager

Marla Sievers  – Director of Finance and Human Resources.

Jewel Cabeza De Vaca – Community Relations &Legislative Liaison

Katy Yanda - Outreach and Education

Sharon Tolleson – Marketing Development

WHS Board of Directors

Board Executive Committee

Ethel Hess – President

Sarah Steadman – Vice-President

Judith Wilson – Treasurer

Ellen Biderman -  Secretary

Board of Trustees
Ann Ross
Celina Jimenez
David Ginsberg
Elizabeth Morris
Mary Ann Shaening
Olivia Sloan
Prudy Krieger

Annual Report

WHS Annual Report June 2009 to July 2010 (864KB PDF)