April J. Ancheta (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Bridge to Faculty Program in the Division of Adolescent Medicine and a former fellow of the Penn Medicine National Clinician Scholars Program. Dr. Ancheta is interested in understanding the impacts of school nursing and school health services on the mental health of adolescents, particularly among sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents. Her work lies at the intersection of education and health experiences and seeks to uncover the role school nurses play in addressing growing mental health concerns among youth of multiple marginalized identities. Dr. Ancheta is also an Affiliate Trainee at CHOP’s PolicyLab, and a CHOP Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) former fellow.
She obtained her PhD in Nursing from the Columbia University School of Nursing, her MS in Health Policy from Penn, and her BS in Nursing from Rutgers University. Dr. Ancheta has previously worked clinically in inpatient surgical care settings.
