TOT faculty

Philip Day, PhD

Philip Day, PhD, is Associate Director of Education and Associate Professor in the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, which he joined in August 2021. He has over a decade of experience developing curricula and teaching in both higher education and academic medicine. His scholarly work spans the breadth of Family Medicine, but his main focus is collaborating with busy clinicians to improve their scholarship, develop their pedagogical skills, and explore novel ways to educate trainees. Trained as an ethicist and philosopher, Dr. Day serves as the co-Chair of the Ethics and Humanities Collaborative for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and has a special passion for ethics education in the healthcare professions. Dr. Day became Director of Teaching of Tomorrow in 2024.
Email contact: Philip.Day@umassmed.edu

Suzanne Allen, MSN, RN, C-PNP

Suzanne Allen, MSN, RN, C-PNP, is a pediatric nurse practitioner practicing in the Division of Adolescent Medicine within the UMass Children’s Medical Center. Her areas of clinical expertise include the primary care for teens and young adults, as well as the medical management of Eating Disorders and Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. She has over a decade of experience taking care of teens and young adults with complex medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial needs and finds it a privilege to help adolescents and their families transition through the sometimes turbulent adolescent years. Suzanne participated in the 2022 Teaching of Tomorrow conference and found the experience impactful and immediately implementable in her role as a clinical teacher, and is excited to participate as faculty for TOT. She regularly precepts Nurse practitioner students from the Yale School of Nursing and the UMass Tan Chingfen Graduate school of Nursing as well as UMass Medical School students and UMass Pediatric Residents. She is an Instructor at UMass Chan Medical school and Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing.
Email contact: Suzanne.Allen@umassmemorial.org

Kathleen Barry, MD

Kathleen Barry, MD, is an Associate Professor in the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Barry completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of Virginia, where she focused on curriculum development and medical writing. At both the University of Virginia and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, she was responsible for the implementation and facilitation of a curriculum in evidence-informed decision making for residents. Since coming to UMass, she has worked with clinical and pre-clinical medical students and family medicine residents. She co-leads the Lifelong Learning curriculum for the second- and third-year residents. Her papers in American Family Physician have focused on translating evidence updates in primary care into easily digestible articles for the busy primary care physician. She is also an Associate Editor for the 5 Minute Clinical Consult and serves as a Clinical Mentor in the Center for Academic Achievement.
Email contact: kathleen.barry@umassmemorial.org

Nicole Cerda, MSN-Ed, RN

Nicole Cerda, MSN-Ed, RN, is a critical care nurse and nursing supervisor at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, MA. She has experience as a nurse educator in didactic, lab, and clinical settings and has instructed LPN and RN students as well as precepted fellow nurses. Her clinical background includes inpatient, outpatient, and home health care positions. After first attending TOT in 2022, she has enjoyed being able to help develop and present targeted education for current and future preceptors through the New England Nursing Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy. Her current areas of focus as a nurse educator are to facilitate opportunities for education at Critical Access Hospitals and to improve understanding of the process of learning so that educators are able to teach in a manner that is complementary to that process.
Email contact: Cerdanicole1223@gmail.com

Allen Chang, MD

Allen Chang, MD, is the Associate Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for Artificial Intelligence at UMass Memorial Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. He practices as a general internist. Dr. Chang previously served as Chair of the Clerkship Directors Committee at UMass Chan Medical School, as Assistant Clerkship Director for the Internal Medicine Clerkship, and as Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency. He is passionate about medical education and has received multiple Outstanding Clinical Educator Awards. He has also held leadership roles in Care Transformation and Clinician Wellness at Reliant Medical Group. In his current role, he is a key leader in the evaluation, implementation, and monitoring of AI across the health system.
Email contact: Allen.Chang@umassmemorial.org

Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP

Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, Dr. Susan Feeney is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Advanced Practice Programs at UMass Chan Medical School Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. She has provided family-based primary care and has been an educator for over 25 years. She teaches advanced pharmacology, clinical reasoning and family primary care across the lifespan to nurse practitioner students. She loves to mentor and promote student clinical reasoning in the clinical setting. Watching them experience “Aha” moments when things come together and observing their growth and transformation as clinicians is the most rewarding aspect of being a teacher. Susan feels that supporting providers who enhance their clinical teaching skills through participating in ToT has been a very gratifying and meaningful experience.
Email contact: susan.feeney@umassmed.edu

David Fish, MD

David Fish, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. Since completing his residency in 2010, he has been deeply engaged in medical education, working with medical students and residents. Clinically, he serves as a Med-Peds hospitalist, providing care for both adults and children. He recently transitioned his practice to Baystate Medical Center, where he has developed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and serves as program director. Dr. Fish's academic interests center on mentorship and health systems science, and he is actively involved in numerous academic initiatives at the medical school. His work focuses on clinical care, quality improvement, value-based healthcare, and patient safety, for which he has received multiple faculty teaching awards.

Susan Hogan, MD, MPH

Susan Hogan, MD, MPH (she/her), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She is the Program Director for the Preventive Medicine Residency in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and a Co-Director of the Medicine and the Human Experience Curriculum at UMass Chan. She previously was the Co-Director for the Early Clinical Learning Curriculum. After completing residency in Family Medicine at Brown University, Susan completed training in Preventive Medicine at UMass Chan. She works closely with residents and medical students and is interested in understanding ways we can teach learners about social drivers of health through community engagement.
Email Contact: Susan.Hogan@umassmemorial.org

Mary Segraves Lindholm, MD

Mary Segraves Lindholm, MD, is an Associate Professor in the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She has been caring for patients and teaching medical students and residents for over 30 years. Dr. Lindholm is the Director of the Medical School’s Third-Year Clerkship in Family Medicine. She has been a longstanding member of the Teachers of Tomorrow faculty and particularly enjoys helping clinical educators develop their teaching skills. She presents regionally and nationally on teaching techniques and best practices.
Email contact: mary.lindholm@umassmemorial.org

Sonia Marcello, DO (she/her)

Sonia Marcello, DO (she/her), is an assistant professor in the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her interest in adult learning within the context of undergraduate and graduate medical education led her to pursue a clinical practice in an academic setting after she completed her family medicine residency training at UMass Chan in 2023. She serves as a small group facilitator for the Early Clinical Learning Course at UMass Chan Medical School and for the Medical School's Third-Year Clerkship in Family Medicine. She finds working with learners in the pre-clinical and clinical settings very rewarding and is excited to be joining Teachers of Tomorrow as a faculty member this year.
Email contact: sonia.marcello2@umassmemorial.org

Kenneth S. Peterson, PhD, FNP-BC

Kenneth S. Peterson, PhD, FNP-BC, is an Associate Professor at the UMass Chan Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and has over 30 years of teaching and practice experience. Dr. Peterson is a family nurse practitioner who has focused his clinical work on caring for populations most at risk and exposed to social injustices. He has been engaged in the education of nursing, medical students, and resident physicians in both classroom, community, and clinical settings. He is actively involved in leadership, curriculum planning, teaching, practice, and scholarship. In 2009, Dr. Peterson completed his PhD in Social Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy & Management with a focus in Health Policy and Health Services Research. He is committed to improving patients’ experiences with the health care delivery system, especially for marginalized and underserved individuals and families.
Email contact: kenneth.peterson@umassmed.edu

Stacy Potts, MD, MEd

Stacy Potts, MD, MEd, is the Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education and Clinical Affairs at UMass Chan Medical School. She practices full-spectrum family medicine with obstetrics at the Barre Family Health Center, where she has been joyfully teaching residents and medical students for twenty-five years. She is passionate about the transformational time of Graduate Medical Education in professional identity formation. The Teaching of Tomorrow model is foundational in her teaching philosophy and drives her interest in self-determined learning as core to clinician education.

Nancy Skehan, MD FACP

Nancy Skehan, MD FACP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. A general internist practicing primary care and hospital medicine, Dr. Skehan serves as the clerkship director in internal medicine at UMass and also co-chairs the T.H. Chan Education Policy Committee. In these roles, she has developed a novel curriculum focused on Post-Acute Care and provides oversight to the entirety of the medical school curriculum. In addition to Teaching of Tomorrow, she has also served as core educational faculty for the Duke University Teaching and Leading in Evidence-Based Practice Workshop. Her interests include assessment in medical education, evidence-based medicine, transgender health, and transitions of care.

Jill M. Terrien, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN

Jill M. Terrien, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, is an Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and is the project director and academic partner for an HRSA-funded family nurse practitioner residency. She also has a second HRSA grant focused on supporting nursing preceptors across all levels of nursing education and employment. Her expertise includes curriculum design and evaluation, academic and community partnerships, and interprofessional education. She teaches at UMass Chan Medical School, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing in courses that include population health, social determinants of health, healthcare disparities, and the healthcare system.
Email: jill.terrien@umassmed.edu

G. Susan Foley

G. Susan Foley, is the project coordinator for the Clinical Faculty Development Center in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. She specializes in the planning and execution of both center and departmental events, overseeing every stage of delivery – from concept development, budgeting, and payments processing to event promotion, participant recruiting, vendor coordination, and post-event evaluation. Known for exceptional organizational skills and a commitment to excellence, Susan has successfully managed events ranging from large-scale multi-day academic conferences to small, intimate receptions, ensuring each aligns with UMass’s mission.
Email contact: Susan.Foley@umassmed.edu