Our Team

Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH is the Director for the Center for Integrated Primary Care, the Director of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He also serves as a Senior Scientist with the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network. Dr. Mullin is a clinician, educator, researcher, and consultant specializing in the integration of behavioral health and primary care services. 

In recent years his work has focused on expanding primary care access to treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.

He completed his internship 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 is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She 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 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in primary care, health psychology, and medical education. 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 is also a faculty in the Center for Integrated Primary Care (umassmed.edu/cipc/) where she has co-

created and led Project ECHO hubs for primary care providers who are new to treating opioid use disorders and prescribing buprenorphine. Dr. Cahill was a content advisor and creator for a SAMHSA grant, DATA Waiver Training for Massachusetts Students, and helped develop asynchronous, interactive online training on opioid use disorder and buprenorphine for medical and nursing students. Her clinical and academic focus has been on integrated primary care, improving the treatment of substance use disorders in primary care, and enhancing substance use disorder education and training, particularly in medical education, with an emphasis on teaching harm reduction-informed care.

Dr. Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is also the Associate Director of Research and the Director of the Group Visits Program in the Center for Integrated Primary Care. She completed a three-year Clinical Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research and Faculty Development at Beth Israel in Boston MA. She received her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Additionally, she was awarded an NIH K award grant focusing on Integrative Medicine, technology, and health disparities.

Her research concentration is patient-oriented research regarding chronic pain and evidenced-based integrative medicine access in low-income patients. Current research is focused on the adaptive role of an Integrative Medical Group Visit (IMGV) which combines the principles of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and a Medical Group Visit to support health behavior change and reducing pain and stress. 

With funding by the Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute, she is the primary investigator on a randomized controlled trial of IMGV compared to a primary care visit in for participants with chronic pain and depression. She is leading the implementation of this medical group visit model nationally and provides training on medical group visits around the United States.

As former Wellness Committee Chair at Boston Medical Center she taught mindfulness and resiliency training to medical students, residents, and clinicians for over nine years. She is a certified instructor of the Mindfulness Practice curriculum developed by Krasner and Epstein and teaches mindfulness skills and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to patients with chronic conditions. 

Additionally, completed a 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification training and has completed training in Mindfulness-Based Self Compassion.Her research also focuses on innovative technologies such as Embodied Conversational Agents and Our Whole Lives; a holistic e-health toolkit, an online platform that teaches mind-body techniques. Dr. Gardiner lectures nationally and internationally. She has published over 90 reviewed papers on medical group visits, chronic pain, technology, dietary supplements, pregnancy, preconception care, stress, and integrative medicine in underserved patients.

He went on to attend the University of Denver for undergraduate studies, majoring in both international development and health and integrated biological sciences, with a minor in religious studies. He earned a master’s degree in international development with graduate certificates in global health affairs and humanitarian assistance from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, spending 6 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. He subsequently graduated with his doctorate of medicine from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, where he 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 people experiencing homelessness. He joined the FHCW and UMass families in 2018 as a resident in the Worcester Family Medicine Residency, serving as chief resident in his final year. While there, he also spent two years as co-chair of the Diversity in Recruitment Task Force, was a founding member of the Structural Oppression and Anti-Racism Committee, and completed longitudinal experiences in refugee health, gender affirmation, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychopharmacology.

Amy Green, BSM  is the manager of the Center for Integrated Primary Care at UMass Chan Medical School. Amy opens the lines of communication between customers, clients, and organizations to get projects completed. With over 14 years with the Center, Amy is a veteran of maintaining digital content in our online learning platform for the Center’s lengthy list of courses, point contact for expenses and income, maintaining the Center’s website, and all continuing education. 

Jess Baer, MS is the instructional designer for the Center for Integrated Primary Care at UMass Chan Medical School. Ms. Baer works side by side with our faculty experts to develop not just the interactive online modules, but the overall structure and flow of our online courses. Prior to joining the CIPC team, she worked in a public school system and for 

Leiana Edwards is a design and marketing professional, specializing in graphic design, social media marketing, and web development. Leiana studied health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and now lives in New York City.