Meet the Team
The mission of the Student Affairs Health and Wellness Program is to foster a supportive environment that empowers you to attend to multiple facets of your health and wellbeing, including emotional, financial, social, spiritual, occupational, physical, intellectual, and environmental wellbeing. Through education, resources, and community-building, we foster resilience, promote healthy habits, and create a culture of self-care that enhances both personal and professional growth. We view health and wellness as a process that is culturally informed and unique to everyone. By integrating wellness into the fabric of medical education, we strive to equip you to care for yourself as well as your patients.
Meet the Team
Karen Stanley-Kime, PhD, LP, ABPP
Assistant Dean for Student Wellness and Engagement
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Bio
Karen Stanley-Kime (she/her) is the Assistant Dean for Student Wellness and Engagement. She is a board-certified clinical psychologist with a passion for serving underserved populations. Dr. Stanley-Kime earned her Ph.D. from Eastern Michigan University and completed a specialized residency at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA, where she received intensive and extensive training in psychosocial rehabilitation for individuals with serious mental illness. Dr. Stanley-Kime's recent role at MSU's Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS) involved directing a program for students experiencing high acuity psychological diagnoses, such as bipolar spectrum disorders, and assisting individuals experiencing chronic suicidality. In all her interactions, Dr. Stanley-Kime strives to center a person’s humanity with a nonjudgmental approach, curiosity, and humility.
Dr. Stanley-Kime resonates with the College of Human Medicine's focus on community care, both in serving external communities (e.g., underserved and rural communities in Michigan) and the internal community of CHM students. Her role as Assistant Dean for Student Wellness and Engagement is to collaborate with students, faculty and staff of CHM to develop and implement services that tend to you as a multifaceted individual.
Dr. Stanley-Kime lives in Lansing with her husband, Justin; daughter, Cecilia; and dog, Butterscotch. She enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, learning, and reading
Mike Alnarshi, LMSW
Assistant Director for Student Counseling and Well-Being
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Bio
Mike Alnarshi, LMSW, is the Assistant Director of Student Counseling and Wellness at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. For six years, Mike was a Counselor at MSU’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services where he helped develop and implement the Intensive Clinical Service Unit (now called SEEC) which provides students with evidenced based, trauma informed, and culturally competent crisis response services, individual counseling, group counseling, psychiatry, case management, and referral coordination services to a diverse student population who presented with severe and persistent mental illness. Mike is passionate about educating students on topics such as mental and behavioral health and well-being, mindfulness, meditation, radical acceptance, and self-compassion. He also prides himself on connecting students with referrals to high-quality resources based on their specific needs which may be influenced by their racial and ethnic background, gender and sexual identity, family culture, trauma history, and academic and professional pursuits.
Mike earned a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan – Flint in 2011 and a Master of Social Work from Michigan State University in 2016. He is happily married and is the father of a beautiful baby boy. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and friends, listening to music, walking, and reading.
Amy Byerley, PhD
Assistant Director for Student Counseling and Well-Being
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Bio
Amy Byerley, PhD (She/Her/Hers), is a licensed psychologist with diverse training and clinical experiences in health psychology, pediatric, and developmental psychology. She grew up in Niles, Michigan. A science geek with an initial interest in botany, she opted to pursue a career integrating science and people. Plants felt too solitary.
Dr. Byerley earned her MA degree in Counseling and PhD in Psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She completed her predoctoral internship in school psychology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. She fell in love with the people, the culture, and music/art/architecture in New Orleans and will always consider the city to be part of her home. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology/Health Psychology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock. Her year at ACH ignited her passion for psychology practice in an interdisciplinary medical setting, particularly in specialty areas of pain management and sleep psychology.
After returning “home” to Michigan, she practiced as a psychologist in the interdisciplinary outpatient pain rehabilitation program at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital for 5 years. Over the past 7 years, Dr. Byerley has worked as an outpatient psychologist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, specializing in evaluation and treatment of youth with sleep problems, gender care needs, chronic pain, and complex medical conditions. She thrived while working as part of inter-disciplinary teams; collaboratively creating a vibrant pediatric Gender Care Clinic.
Through her clinical experiences. Dr. Byerley also discovered a passion for working with learners including medical students, residents, and fellows. She developed a strong interest in promoting health and wellness for medical providers, and proactively teaching skills to build professional resiliency, prevent clinical burnout.
Dr. Byerley lives in Rockford, MI with her wife Melissa and their 9-year-old twin daughters, Charlotte and Quinn. Her wife works as a psychologist in private practice locally. They love spending time outdoors, biking, rock hunting, and going for walks. They frequently enjoy camping trips, most often in Traverse City, Michigan. Their family has a passion for music with a growing collection of records. Dr. Byerley loves reading books, challenging herself to beat the previous year’s number of books on Goodreads.
Erica Farr, MPH, CHES
Community Health Outreach Specialist
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Specialty Areas
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Immunization compliance
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Compliance with Health Training-Basic Life Support and Blood Borne Pathogen Awareness
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COVID surveillance
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