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Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH

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Director of the 
Motivational Interviewing Course 

Director of the
Primary Care Behavioral Health Course 

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, researcher, and consultant specializing in integrating 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. 

Dr. Mullin completed his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and received his Master's in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He completed his intership in Primary Care Psychology in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his fellowship in Primary Care Family Psychology in the Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. 

 

 

 Amber Cahill, PsyD


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Co-Director of Advanced 
Mental Health in Primary Care Course

Amber Cahill, PsyD, is an Assistant Professor in the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, as well as the Associate Director of the Center for Integrated Primary Care. She is currently a Bloomberg Fellow in the Addiction & Overdose track at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Cahill 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 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. She has extensive experience co-leading Project ECHO hubs for primary care clinicians who are new to treating opioid use disorders and prescribing buprenorphine. Dr. Cahill has been a content advisor and creator on several grants and projects focused on medical education and substance use disorder (SUD) care. Her clinical and academic interests include integrated primary care, training primary care clinicians and teams in comprehensive mental health care, expanding treatment of SUD in primary care, enhancing SUD training in medical education, harm reduction-informed care, providing inclusive, comprehensive care for transgender and gender diverse patients in primary care, and the intersection of hormones and mental health including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, PMDD, and perimenopause/menopause related mental health.  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 in 2014 with a concentration in primary care and behavioral medicine. 

 

 

Jordan Howard-Young, MD, MA

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Co-Director of Advanced 
Mental Health in Primary Care Course

Jordan Howard-Young, MD, MAis the Director of Psychiatric Services at the Family Health Center of Worcester and Program Director of the FHCW/UMass Chan Fellowship in Primary Care Psychiatry. They serve as 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 UMass Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC). 

They are a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, where they participated in the population health and urban underserved tracks, served as president of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society, and worked as a patient advocate for unhoused people. They completed their residency in family medicine through the Worcester Family Medicine Residency, serving as chief resident in their final year. While there, they also spent 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 completed longitudinal experiences in refugee health, gender affirmation, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychopharmacology. They also hold a master’s degree in international development and health with graduate certificates in global health affairs and humanitarian assistance from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in Denver, CO, spending six months in the Middle East studying health access, agency, and political perspectives among Palestinian refugees, government officials, and international organizations in the Kingdom of Jordan.

Jordan 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. Before entering medicine, they worked as a community organizer, union organizer, and policy analyst on national healthcare reform legislation. They are co-chair of the FHCW Trauma-Informed Care Working Group and a member of the FHCW Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. 

   

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Faculty for the
Motivational Interviewing Course

Ethan Eisdorfer, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and medical educator. He serves as the Director of Behavioral Science for the Greenfield Family Medicine Residency Program and as an Integrated Behavioral Health clinician in primary care. He is passionate about patient-centered communication, Motivational Interviewing, and evidence-based behavioral health care. Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Affiliated Faculty in our Courses

Advanced Mental Health in Primary Care Course 

  • Description: The Certificate in Advanced Mental Health Care in Primary Care course was developed for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who work in primary care and want to increase their confidence, knowledge, skill, and capacity to treat mental health conditions. Created by an interdisciplinary group of experts, our faculty are practicing clinicians and educators in primary care with extensive experience at the complex intersections of psychiatry, psychology, social health, and primary health care. Download our flyer to share with colleagues and decision-makers.

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Certificate of Intensive Training in Motivational Interviewing Course 

  • Description: The Certificate of Intensive Training in Motivational Interviewing course is a semester-long course founded on the principles described by Miller & RollnickThe evidence tells us that clinicians only begin to successfully use MI when they have had opportunities to engage in the deliberate practice of Motivational Interviewing. We engage students beyond the academic understanding of active skills practice through live, online Learning Labs, during which you will have the opportunity to practice with other students from around the country who are taking the course.  Students will also have two one-on-one practice sessions with an experienced MI coach. Download our flyer to share with colleagues and decision-makers.

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Primary Care Behavioral Health Course, Part 1

  • Description: The Primary Care Behavioral Health Course, Part 1 course recognizes the skills of specialty mental health clinicians and helps translate prior knowledge and experience into the fast-paced, evidence-based, generalist culture of primary care. PCBH includes a range of topics from orientation to integrated behavioral health models, working on a primary care team with physicians and nurses, and addressing cultural influences on health care. 

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Primary Care Behavioral Health Course, Part 2

  • Description: The Primary Care Behavioral Health Course, Part 2 course expands core competencies to prepare clinicians for the full complexity of integrated care — covering population-level strategies, complex clinical scenarios, and evidence-based, patient-centered clinical skills. The course emphasizes behavior change and trauma-informed approaches as foundational principles. Learners strengthen their ability to collaborate with primary care clinicians around medication management, chronic medical and mental health conditions, and the care of patients at risk of suicide. The course centers on aligning care with patient values, supporting longitudinal relationships, and functioning as an effective member of a primary care team.

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