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Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH  

Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH, is the Director of the Center for Integrated Primary Care and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School.

Dr. Mullin is a clinician, educator, and researcher focused on the integration of behavioral health and primary care services. He maintains a clinical practice embedded in the Barre Family Health Center, a rural family medicine residency practice in Massachusetts. Dr. Mullin is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and provides training in Motivational Interviewing to healthcare providers. He is a developer of the Practice Integration Profile, a measure of the integration of behavioral and primary care services.

     
Amber Cahill, PsyD
  Amber Cahill, PsyD, is the Associate Director of the UMass Chan Center for Integrated Primary Care. She is passionate about primary care and its foundational role in caring for the health of communities; she’s provided clinical care in primary care settings since 2013. Dr. Cahill is also the Director of Behavioral Science for the Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency, where she develops and implements a behavioral science curriculum that educates resident physicians in addressing mental health, substance use, and health behavior change in primary care. Dr. Cahill completed internship training at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center in the primary care/health psychology track and went on to complete a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the UMass Chan Medical School in primary care, health psychology, and medical education. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Adler University with a concentration in primary care and behavioral medicine.
     

  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.
     
 

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.

   

 

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Dr. 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.

   

 

 

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.

   

 

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Dr. 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, trainings, 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.