Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH, is the Director of the Center for Integrated Primary Care, a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School, and a Professor at the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. Dr. Mullin is a clinician, educator, and researcher focused on the integration of behavioral health and primary care services. He maintains a clinical practice at the Barre Family Health Center, a rural family medicine residency practice in Massachusetts.

"After spending time in primary care, I couldn't imagine practicing any other way."

— Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH, Course Director

Laurel Banach, MD, AAHIVS, is a board-certified family medicine physician and HIV specialist. She completed her medical training at UMass Chan Medical School and Worcester Family Medicine Residency, followed by a fellowship in HIV and viral hepatitis care at Family Health Center of Worcester. Dr. Banach provides low-barrier care through street medicine, hospital medicine, and primary care for individuals who are incarcerated or experiencing homelessness. Her clinical and academic work focuses on patients with substance use disorders and infectious comorbidities, advancing harm reduction strategies, and educating the next generation of healthcare providers.

David Bauman, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and principal member of Beachy Bauman Consulting. Dr. Bauman regularly consults with health systems around the globe regarding the integration of behavioral health into primary care, as well as helping providers and systems provide contextual and compassionate healthcare. He also serves as the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Academic Director at Community Health of Central Washington, where he oversees a variety of PCBH training programs (i.e., predoctoral psychology internship, post-doctoral psychology fellowship, and psychosocial medicine curriculum within the family medicine residency). Further, he is the Region Training Director of the National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC)-Cascades Region psychology internship. Lastly, Dr. Bauman works as a Behavioral Health Consultant at Central Washington Family Medicine.

Bridget Beachy, PsyD, a licensed psychologist, is dedicated to the integration of BHC services into medical settings. Dr. Beachy is currently the Director of Primary Care Behavioral Health at Community Health of Central Washington (CHCW; FQHC in Washington state), where she practices as a BHC and enjoys delivering clinical services to patients of all ages. Dr. Beachy has a passion for consulting and presents internationally, nationally, and at the state and local levels.

Nelly E. Burdette, PsyD, is a clinical health psychologist with expertise in integrated behavioral health and primary care systems transformation. She currently serves as Chief Clinical Officer at the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island (CTC-RI), a statewide initiative dedicated to advancing primary care through innovative models and integrated behavioral health, quality improvement, and value-based care. Dr. Burdette’s professional interests include training and fostering psychological safety within healthcare teams, integrating behavioral health into primary care and oncology, and positioning psychologists as leaders in healthcare systems change. In addition to her leadership work, she continues to provide clinical care, with a strong commitment to serving underserved populations in community health settings. She is a frequent speaker, educator, and collaborator focused on workforce development, sustainability, and operationalizing integrated care.

Carlos Cappas, PsyD, MBA, is the Chief Behavioral Health Officer at Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC). In his role, Dr. Cappas leads a team of over 70 behavioral health professionals, providing a comprehensive range of integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings and in School-Based Health Centers. At LCHC, Carlos continues to evolve its behavioral health services through clinical and operational integration, adoption of integrated telehealth services, and the expansion of a behavioral health workforce pipeline to recruit and retain professionals in community-based settings. A native of Puerto Rico, Carlos received his doctoral degree from Ponce Health Sciences University in Puerto Rico and is a graduate of the UMass Chan Medical School’s Fellowship in Clinical Health Psychology in Primary Care. He also holds a master’s degree in business administration from UMass Boston.

Rachel Davis-Martin, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist providing direct patient care at Hahnemann Family Health Center. Her primary faculty appointment at UMass Chan is in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Center for Accelerating Practices to End Suicide (CAPES), where she conducts research focused on enhancing detection of suicidality, using innovative technology to increase access to evidence-based treatments for suicide risk, and improving care transitions throughout the healthcare system. Additionally, Dr. Davis-Martin is a certified trainer in several evidence-based suicide prevention approaches, including the Stanley Brown Safety Planning Intervention and the Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk in Outpatient settings, and conducts trainings on suicide prevention across Massachusetts and nationally.

Elizabeth Dykhouse, PhD, is the Fellowship Director of the Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education Fellowship at UMass Chan Medical School, where she has trained and supervised fellows since 2017. Dr. Dykhouse also serves as Associate Program Director and Director of Behavioral Science for the Worcester Family Medicine Residency. She provides integrated behavioral health care at Barre Family Health Center, a rural primary care practice in central Massachusetts, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her clinical and teaching background is in primary care and health psychology, with particular expertise in culturally and linguistically responsive care, including work with medical interpreters and direct clinical care in Spanish. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Seattle Pacific University and completed specialized training in rural and primary care psychology, including a primary care fellowship with Salud Family Health Centers. She is also a graduate of the STFM Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship.

Lauren Eidt Pearson, MSW, LICSW, is an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School and a Behavioral Health Clinician at the Barre Family Health Center. Her clinical interests include integrated behavioral health, disaster mental health, geriatric mental health, grief, and Palliative/Hospice care. Lauren received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her graduate degree from Adelphi University. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, reading, and being a therapy dog handler.

Ethan Eisdorfer, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and medical educator. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School and is the Behavioral Science Educator for the UMass Internal Medicine Residency program. Additionally, he serves as an Integrated Behavioral Health clinician in primary care. Dr. Eisdorfer is also a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Shahida Fareed, PsyD, MPH, MBBS, is the Director of Behavioral Health for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Fareed provides integrated behavioral health care at the Fitchburg Family Practice and is closely involved in resident wellness, scholarly activities, and behavioral science teaching in the Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Fareed completed her doctorate in psychology at Adler University and her internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center, with training across primary care, ambulatory outpatient clinics, and inpatient psychiatry. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Internal Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center and has several years of experience practicing as a primary care psychologist. Her clinical interests include depression and anxiety in primary care, chronic illness, sleep and psychosomatic disorders, health behavior change, and clinician well-being. Dr. Fareed also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Oklahoma and an MBBS with an emphasis in Family Medicine from Karachi University, Pakistan, bringing a uniquely interdisciplinary and global perspective to integrated primary care.

Deepu George, PhD, is a primary care behavioral health clinician by trade, with a passion for designing initiatives that focus on compassionately improving individual and system efficacy to deliver whole-person-centered care. Dr. Deepu is scientifically rooted in the contextual behavioral science tradition, with training in family systems and the science of community engagement and capacity building. Dr. Deepu enjoys developing strategic visions and plans that are biased toward belonging, the dignity of individuals and groups, and matters of justice. Dr. Deepu’s focus on being in the right relationships with people around him that are deep, trusting, and nourishing as that brings out the best in him, and Dr. Deepu believes in others. In all this, Dr. Deepu also nurtures a spiritual calling rooted in a faith that prioritizes loving response to the widow, the orphan, the despised, the marginalized and the foreigner. In this calling, Dr. Deepu is seeking theological training and ordination within the Episcopal church, with a strong commitment to integrate a value of being wholehearted and being a servant of love to all aspects of his work and life.

Jordan Howard-Young, MD, MA, is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UMass Chan Medical School. They are also Co-Director of the Certificate in Advanced Mental Health Care in Primary Care for the Center for Integrated Primary Care. They are also the Director of Psychiatric Services at the Family Health Center of Worcester (FHCW) and Program Director of the FHCW/UMass Chan Fellowship in Primary Care Psychiatry.

They are a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. They completed their residency through the Worcester Family Medicine Residency, serving two years as co-chair of the Diversity in Recruitment Task Force, were a founding member and leadership councilor of the Structural Oppression and Anti-Racism Committee, and chief resident in their final year.

Dr. Howard-Young is passionate about community psychiatry, public health and advocacy, anti-racism and anti-oppression work, substance use care, refugee and asylee care, gender affirmation, and the care of structurally marginalized communities.

Jillian Joseph, MPAS, PA-C, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School and a Senior Advanced Practitioner with UMass Memorial Health. She practices full-spectrum family medicine at Barre Family Health Center and serves as Clinician and Co-Director of the Road to Care Mobile Clinic, a community-based program focused on harm reduction, addiction services, and care for underserved populations. Ms. Joseph has over a decade of clinical experience spanning primary care, emergency medicine, and urgent care. Her academic work centers on health equity, substance use disorder treatment, harm reduction, and quality improvement in primary care settings. She is deeply involved in medical and PA education, serving as small group faculty, clinical preceptor, and course coordinator across multiple institutions. She has developed and led regional and statewide curricula, including Project ECHO and CME programs focused on overdose prevention and opioid use disorder management. Jillian is a nationally recognized speaker and published author, with peer-reviewed work in addiction medicine and contributions to The 5-Minute Clinical Consult. Her work has been recognized with multiple institutional and community awards for innovation, leadership, and service.

Shannon McCleery, PsyD, is the current Behavioral Health Postdoctoral Fellow and an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. She will also start as the new Behavioral Science Director for the Lowell Community Health Center Family Medicine Residency in July 2026. Dr. McCleery is a clinician and educator focused on integrated behavioral health and chronic disease management. She maintains a clinical practice embedded in the Fitchburg Family Health Center, an urban family medicine residency practice in Massachusetts.

Jenna Mullarkey, PsyD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Mullarkey is the Education Director in the Hahnemann site of the Worcester Family Medicine Residency and works closely with residents on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service. Dr. Mullarkey provides integrated primary care at the Hahnemann Family Health Center. Her clinical and teaching interests center on evidence-based interventions in integrated primary care, pediatric behavioral health, health behavior change, and motivational interviewing. Dr. Mullarkey earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and completed her predoctoral internship at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, with a focus on behavioral pediatrics and integrated care. She is a graduate of the UMass Chan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education.

Tope Oluwa, MSW, LICSW, is a Behavioral Health Consultant at the Hahnemann Family Health Center, where she engages patients/families with the goal of improving their emotional well-being.  Her past/present efforts include community engagements that promote self-worth, dignity, and respect.  Tope earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.  She enjoys time with family and reading.

Stacy Potts, MD, MEd, is Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education and Clinical Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She completed her ucy and Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She received her Master's of Education from the University of Cincinnati. Her passion for graduate medical education has led her to multiple roles, including previous roles as Chair of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine and as the Writing Group Chair for the FM residency requirement revisions. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ACGME-International Medical Specialties Review Committee. She is a member of the AFMRD National Institute of Program Director Development Academic Council and the Director of the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program. She continues to practice full-spectrum family medicine and is a proud mother of many, enjoys quilting, and running marathons.

Neftali Serrano, PsyD, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting integrated care as the standard of care for all. He has devoted his career to working with healthcare entities to develop integrated care services through his consultation work, training, coaching and site leadership. Dr. Serrano's clinical and research interests center around leveraging integrated care to create access and equity for underserved populations. Among many of his media creations, in 2014 Dr. Serrano edited an e-book titled “The Implementer’s Guide To Primary Care Behavioral Health,” a practice management handbook, which was updated with a second edition on 2024. One of Dr. Serrano's most outstanding contributions to the field of psychology has been his passion to teach and train the future Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) workforce. In over 25 years of practice as a clinical psychologist, he has trained hundreds of students and professionals in the practice of behavioral health consultation in primary care. Dr. Serrano is the father of three children, Emma, Sophia, & Caleb, and the husband of Kare,n an Emergency Medicine physician. Dr. Serrano also holds an Adjunct Instructor appointment at the University of North Carolina Department of Family Medicine, where he practices in the PCBH model.

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