Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship

We're now accepting applications from physicians, NPs, and PAs in primary care specialties (family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine) for multiple positions in our next cohort. 

Mission and Institutional Support

The Family Health Center of Worcester / University of Massachusetts Department of Family Medicine and Community Health’s Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship seeks to train primary care providers to become leaders in the delivery of comprehensive, integrated and holistic physical and mental health care in primary care settings serving structurally-marginalized urban communities by training them as clinicians, advocates, community health scholars, and teachers.

We specifically seek to help fill the gap that exists between the current psychiatric model, wherein massive limitations exist in accessing quality care for most of the country, and the compassionate, collaborative, and equitable care that all patients deserve. We focus longitudinally on two main principles: 1) the structural and socioecological determinants of mental health, and 2) the impact of traumatic stress on the physical and psychological wellbeing of structurally-marginalized communities.

Lou Brady, Family Health Center of Worcester's CEO, standing in front of the FQHC's Queen Street site that originally housed the City Hospital. Fellows provide care on the primary care teams at this site. 

We are indebted to the following individuals for their support of the fellowship: 

Louis Brady, MBA; President and Chief Executive Officer, Family Health Center of Worcester

Rob Zavoski, MD, MPH; Chief Clinical Officer, Family Health Center of Worcester

Héctor Pérez, LICSW, MSW; Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services and Manager of Behavioral Health Internship Program, Family Health Center of Worcester

Shawna Hershberger, LICSW; Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services and Manager of Primary Care Behavioral Health, Family Health Center of Worcester

Mary Denman, LICSW; Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services and Manager of Specialty Behavioral Health, Family Health Center of Worcester

Krystal Ortega, BSN, RN; Senior Director of Nursing, Family Health Center of Worcester

Hilary Mislan, MD; Lead Provider of Office-Based Addiction Treatment, Family Health Center of Worcester

Phil Bolduc, MD; Former Director of the Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship and Lead Provider of HIV and Viral Hepatitis Care, Family Health Center of Worcester 

M. Diane McKee, MD, MS; Chair, UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Stacy Potts, MD, MEd; Executive Vice Chair and Vice Chair of Education, UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Virginia Van Duyne, MD; Program Director, UMass Chan Family Medicine Residency

Kim Yonkers, MD; Chair, UMass Chan Department of Psychiatry 

Auralyd Padilla Candelario, MD; Program Director, UMass Psychiatry Residency