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Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts School. She directs the group medical visit program at the Center for Integrated Primary Care.

 

 

Sarah Pearson, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. She is a behavioral health faculty member within the Worcester Family Medicine Residency. In this role she provides teaching around behavioral science competencies for family medicine residents through both didactic and experiential approaches in the primary care environment. She also provides behavioral health consultation and clinical services for patients across the lifespan at the Barre Family Health Center. 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.   

Dr. Pearson earned her B.A. in Psychology from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts and completed her Psy.D. in clinical psychology at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. She completed her predoctoral internship within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with a major rotation in Integrated Primary Care, and minor rotations in Bone Marrow Transplant & Oncology and Adult Sleep Medicine. She then completed a two-year postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Psychology and Medical Education at UMass Chan Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health.