Who We Are

Vice Chair for Community Health – Hugh Silk, MD, MPH
Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Vice Chair for Community Health. At UMass Chan, he is a Learning Communities Mentor and Pathways Director of the Structural Inequity, Advocacy, and Justice pathway. He also teaches at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM). He is a reviewer for over a dozen medical/dental journals, a section editor for Dynamed, associate editor for Families, System and Health, and a member of several national educational committees.  He is a member of both the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has helped develop three dozen national and state education programs.  He has been an invited speaker at over fifty education symposiums, presented at over one hundred national and international conferences, published seventy-five journal articles, eighty chapters, and a dozen policy briefs. 

Community Health Clinical Providers and Educators
 

Laurel Banach, MD
Assistant Professor, FMCH
Clinician: Worcester Health Care for the Homeless, Road to Care
Hospitalist: UMass Memorial
 
Katharine Barnard, MD
Associate Professor FMCH
Medical Director: Hector Reyes House, Worcester RISE for Health
 
Jeff Baxter, MD
Associate Professor FMCH
Chief Medical Officer, Spectrum Health Systems
Providing substance use disorder care across the Commonwealth

Jennifer Bradford, MD
Assistant Professor and Director of Social Justice and Inclusion FMCH
Director, Longitudinal Opioid Curriculum
Medical Director, Community HealthLink Detox Continuum
Clinician, Road to Care  
 
Jay Broadhurst, MD
Assistant Professor FMCH
Provides substance use disorder care at Spectrum Health Systems

Liam Burke, MD
Assistant Professor FMCH
Medical Director of UMass Memorial Care Mobile
Provides medical and dental care in the community via mobile services

Erik Garcia, MD
Associate Professor FMCH
Clinician: Road to Care, Homeless Medical Respite, Benedict Family Medicine
 
Susan Hogan, MD
Assistant Professor FMCH
Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency
Co-Director, Medicine and the Human Experience Curriculum
Clinician: Benedict Family Medicine
 
Jillian Joseph, PA
Assistant Professor FMCH
Clinician: Road to Care, Barre Family Health Center
 
Michelle Ojeda
Community Health Worker - Oral Health Navigator: Road to Care
 
David Runyan, CNP
President and CEO of Worcester Free Clinic Coalition Inc overseeing the medical student run seven free clinics in Worcester (https://www.wfccinc.org/free-medical-programs)

Olga Valdman, MD
Assistant Professor FMCH
CEO and Executive Director, Worcester RISE for Health

Key Partners

MassAHEC Network
New England AIDS Education and Training Center