Faculty

Elizabeth Dykhouse, PhD
Fellowship Director
Director of Behavioral Science – Worcester Family Medicine Residency

Dr. Dykhouse directs the fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education. She has worked with fellows since joining the department in 2017. Dr. Dykhouse provides weekly supervision to the fellows and mentors their development as junior faculty members. She assists fellows in setting their own learning goals and directs the evaluation of fellow’s work.

In addition to directing the fellowship, Dr. Dykhouse is the Associate Program Director and the Director of Behavioral Science for the Worcester Family Medicine Residency at UMass Chan Medical School.  She provides patient care at the Barre Family Health Center, a rural primary care practice in central Massachusetts.  She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. Her background is in primary care psychology and health psychology.  Dr. Dykhouse is particularly interested in the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate care and has experience working with interpreters as well as practicing directly in Spanish.

Dr. Dykhouse received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Seattle Pacific University. She completed her internship in Rural and Primary Care Psychology at I Ola Lahui Rural Behavioral Health with placements in Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii and her fellowship in Primary Care Psychology with Salud Family Health Centers in Denver, Colorado. She also completed the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship.

Amber Cahill, PsyD
Director of Behavioral Science - Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency 

Secondary Site Supervisor – Fitchburg Family Practice

Dr. Cahill is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Behavioral Science for the Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency (FFMR), 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. Her role in the fellowship is a supervisor in the FFMR focused on training and mentoring fellows in becoming medical educators. Dr. Cahill is also the Associate Director of the Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC) and often engages fellows in contributing to curriculum and content development through the CIPC. She is also 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. 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.

Shahida Fareed, PsyD
Site Supervisor - Fitchburg Family Practice

Dr. Fareed is the site supervisor for the fellow’s patient care at the Fitchburg Family Practice. She is a Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Behavioral Health for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. She is a behavioral health clinician providing direct patient care in Fitchburg and a faculty member in the Fitchburg Family Medicine Residency. She earned her Doctorate in Psychology from Adler University, Chicago and completed her internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center in primary care, ambulatory outpatient clinics, and at a state inpatient psychiatric facility. 

She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center in Internal Medicine and has been working as primary care psychologist for past few years.  Along with treating individuals with depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders, her clinical interests include working with individuals living with chronic illnesses, sleep disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, health behavior change, and provider wellness. 
 
In addition to her Doctorate in Psychology Dr. Fareed earned a Master’s in Public Health from Oklahoma University.  She also received her Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) with an emphasis in Family Medicine from Karachi University, Pakistan. Outside of her professional life she likes to paint, cook, travel and read books.

Jenna Mullarkey, Psy.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Hahnemann Family Health Center 

Dr. Mullarkey is the site supervisor for the fellow’s patient care at Hahnemann Family Health Center. She provides weekly clinical supervision and oversees the fellow’s activities in the health center and on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service. She is a behavioral health clinician providing direct patient care at Hahnemann and is a faculty member in the Worcester Family Medicine Residency, teaching residents at both Hahnemann Family Health Center and on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service. Her clinical interests include evidence-based interventions in integrated primary care, pediatric behavioral health, health behavior change, and motivational interviewing.

Dr. Mullarkey received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology and her Masters in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College. She completed her predoctoral internship with the Munroe-Meyer Institute at University of Nebraska Medical Center with a focus on Behavioral Pediatrics and Integrated Care. She is a graduate of the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education at UMass Chan Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Sarah Pearson, PsyD (she/her)
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Barre Family Health Center
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health

Dr. Pearson serves as the primary clinical supervisor for the fellow's patient care at the Barre Family Health Center. She is a behavioral health clinician providing direct patient care in Barre and a faculty member in the Worcester Family Medicine Residency. Her clinical interests include providing brief, evidence-based interventions in integrated primary care, delivering patient-centered, trauma-informed care, chronic pain management, behavioral sleep medicine, health behavior change, and chronic disease management.

She is passionate about teaching behavioral science curriculum and biopsychosocial topics to family medicine residents, and continuing to explore and develop ways in which we can best support residents’ learning and wellbeing based on their unique needs and experiences throughout their medical training. Dr. Pearson is also committed to increasing the training of future psychologists and other mental health providers to provide care within the integrated primary care environment, and is a primary supervisor for psychology doctoral practicum students completing their placement at Barre, as well as for the clinic's new Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Fellowship.  

Dr. Pearson received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University New England in Keene, NH. She completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, including a major rotation in Family Medicine and minor rotations in Bone Marrow Transplant & Oncology and Behavioral Sleep Medicine. She is a graduate of the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education at UMass Chan Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.