About Us

Michelle Durham

MD, MPH

Michelle P. Durham, MD, MPH is the Director of Clinical Training for TEAM UP for Children. She is an adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist whose public health and clinical roles have always been in underserved and under-resourced communities. She is dedicated to health equity and advocacy for equitable mental health treatment globally and locally. Her research focuses on workforce development that reflects underrepresented groups, training and education for both the pediatric workforce and mental health professionals. Dr. Durham practices clinically at Boston Medical Center (BMC), is the Training Director for the BMC general psychiatry residency program and the Associate Director for the BMC Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities. She received her MD from Louisiana State University in New Orleans, LA, completed her residency training at BMC and her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. She received her Master’s in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. Prior to completing her medical education, she worked as the Assistant Director for the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. She is involved at the state and national level in the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to improve the standard of care for children and adolescents.

Sonia Erlich

LMHC, MFA, MA

Sonia Erlich, LMHC, MFA, MA is the Manager of Clinical Role Development for TEAM UP for Children. Born and raised in Boston, Sonia has worked toward improving the health and wellness of this city and its communities for more than fifteen years. She provides psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups of various ages, identities, cultures, and life circumstances and primarily sees clients at DotHouse Health Center in Dorchester. Her therapeutic approaches draw upon mind-body techniques, creative expression, and trauma-informed practice. Prior to her clinical work, her field experience included wilderness therapy in Utah, case management in Boston, teaching in after school programs, and group leadership in community centers and residential treatment facilities. As a meditation facilitator, yoga teacher, and reiki practitioner, she uses a range of healing approaches to create meaningful, accessible interventions in both clinical and community settings. Sonia earned her M.A. in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing.

Mahader Tamene

MSC

Formerly senior program manager of TEAM UP, Mahader Tamene is currently a PhD student in the Division of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. As a public health scholar rooted in social theory, Mahader is dedicated to advancing health and justice for underserved populations from which she came and beyond. Her research focuses on maternal and child mental health disparities, particularly community-based interventions that address the structural forces driving these disparities. Mahader has worked in community health education, health research, program implementation and evaluation both domestically and abroad. She holds an MSc in global health and population from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in public policy and African/African-American studies from the University of Chicago.

Marilyn Augustyn

MD

Marilyn Augustyn, MD, is a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and Division Director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She has worked at BMC for over 25 years caring for children and families from diverse communities. Her research interests include the impact of exposure to violence and in utero drug exposure on child outcome as well as the impact of autism spectrum disorder on urban children and families. She is the Co-editor of the Challenging Case Section of the Journal of DBP and is section co-editor of DBP for the Online Resource UpToDate.

Andrea Chu

MPH

Andrea Chu, MPH, is the Manager of Research Operations for the Feinberg Broder-Fingert Lab at Boston Medical Center. As a Latina, she is drawn to the intersectionality between culture and mental health service use. Her research interests include disparities in behavioral health outcomes for low-income children, screening and early detection of autism, and the impact of state-level policies on the provision of services for children with developmental delays. She received her BA in Psychology and Sociology from Boston University and my Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health.

Christine Crawford

MD, MPH

Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH, is the Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. She also serves as the Associate Medical Director for the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). She completed her adult psychiatry residency as well as child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. She received her MD from University of Connecticut and her Masters in Public Health at BU School of Public Health where she concentrated in Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has been engaged in a number of community outreach initiatives through the Boys and Girls Club of Boston, NAACP and NAMI. She has authored multiple book chapters and peer reviewed publications on mental health disparities, black mental health and sociocultural psychiatry. She has made appearances on numerous media outlets and provides seminars on mental health and racism at various corporate and community-based settings.

Brittany Gouse

MD, MPH

Brittany Gouse, MD MPH is in her final year of training at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)/Boston Medical Center (BMC) Psychiatry Residency and completing her Community Psychiatry Fellowship. She is a Clinical Instructor at BUSM. She received her MD/MPH at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine. Her interest in mental health services began in medical school with her advocacy work to reduce disparities in access to inpatient psychiatric care in children and adolescents experiencing a mental health crisis. In training, she works with young adults through BMC’s Wellness and Recovery After Psychosis program. She hopes to dedicate her clinical and research career to reducing disparities in access to psychosis care and the investigation of the stress-diathesis model of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Tamkeenat Syed

MD, MPH

Tamkeenat Syed MD, MPH is completing his final year of training at Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Psychiatry Residency Program. She received her MD/MPH from Meharry Medical College and completed her undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her interests include mental health parity and advocacy, equitable systems of care on local and global levels, treatment modalities for medication-resistant mental health disorders and conditions, and psychotherapy.

Lovern Moseley

PHD

Lovern Moseley, PhD, is a Child and Adolescent Psychologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). She is the Site Training Director for the BUSM Mental Health Counseling Program. Dr. Moseley is a team member of the BMC Child Protection Team which is part of the Department of Pediatrics. The Child Protection team works with patients, families and staff to protect children from abuse and neglect. She is also a member of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County’s Child Sexual Trauma Response Partnership (CSTR). CSTR unites community mental health agencies to identify the unique mental health service needs of child sexual abuse victims and their families and enhances a service delivery system to meet those needs. She has co-authored the chapters on Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders and Mood Disorders in the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 20th Edition. She also co-authored chapters on Breath-holding Spells, Lying, Stealing, and Truancy, Aggression, and Self-Injurious Behavior in the forthcoming 21st edition of the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. Dr. Moseley has worked extensively with parents and children struggling with emotional and behavioral disorders and those with traumatic exposures. She has experience in evidence-based treatments for PTSD including TF-CBT and treatment of traumatic grief, Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Dr. Moseley specializes in Christian counseling, marriage & family therapy including work with interracial couples, multiracial individuals, blended families, foster care/adoption and individuals of Caribbean descent. She also works with issues around the transition to adulthood and career concerns.

Alexander Chang

MD

Alexander Chang, MD, is completing his final year of training at Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Psychiatry Residency Program where he is also serving as Chief Resident. He is a Clinical Instructor at BUSM. He received his MD from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and completed his undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley. His interests include trauma-informed care, psychotherapy, transitional age youth, LGBTQ communities, and addiction.

Emily Feinberg

SCD, CPNP

Emily Feinberg, ScD, CPNP is the Director of TEAM UP for Children and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on developing effective interventions to support family well-being among young children with developmental risk and addressing disparities in behavioral health outcomes experienced by low income, ethnically diverse children. She has worked to develop models of family navigation to support engagement in services among young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other mental health conditions. She has a long standing commitment to community health centers where she conducts her research and works as pediatric nurse practitioner. She continues her clinical practice of 23 years at DotHouse Health where she has had the privilege of caring for multi-generation families.

Betsy Groves

LICSW

Betsy Groves, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center. Ms. Groves holds an appointment as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and as Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches courses on child mental health and development. She has served for the past 12 years on the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault of Massachusetts, and in 2011 was appointed to the National Advisory Commission for the US Department of Justice Office of Violence against Women.

Yaminette Diaz-Linhart

Titles

Yaminette Diaz-Linhart, MSW, MPH is a doctoral candidate and a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received her MSW/MPH from Boston University and her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Anthropology and Psychology. She currently serves as a Commissioner for the Massachusetts Community Behavioral Health Prevention and Promotion Commission. Before becoming a doctoral student, Ms. Diaz-Linhart practiced as a behavioral health clinician, coordinated multiple federally-funded research studies, and directed a legislative commission on postpartum depression for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She also worked as a Program Director at Boston Medical Center overseeing research and clinical programs that employ social health staff, like community health workers and patient navigators. Her research interests include studying how organizations employ and manage social health staff to promote worker well-being by understanding work design, worker voice, employee involvement work practices, and workforce issues.

Carmen Rosa Noroña

LICSW, Ms.Ed., CEIS

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, Ms.Ed., CEIS, is from Quito, Ecuador where she completed her licensure in clinical psychology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in addition to a three-year training program in psychoanalysis. Subsequently, she received a Fulbright scholarship to earn a Master’s degree in Early Intervention from Wheelock College. She is certified in the administration of the Newborn Behavioral Observations System (NBO) and trained as a Fussy Baby specialist. Her practice and research interests are on the impact of trauma on infant mental health and attachment, adapting mental health services to new immigrants in the Latino community, the intersection of immigration and trauma, multicultural supervision and consultation, and developmental assessment and intervention with children at risk for developmental delays. Ms. Noroña wrote a series of articles regarding the effects of institutionalization in young children and alternative systems of care in Ecuador that were published by UNICEF. At CWVP, Ms. Noroña serves as the clinical coordinator for the program; she provides clinical services and supervises graduate students. In addition, she is the associate director of the CWVP site of the Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN), a research, development and treatment site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She provides Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) consultation to mental health agencies and training to Spanish and English-speaking multidisciplinary audiences, nationally and abroad, on topics related to the impact and treatment of early trauma. Ms. Noroña is a member of the Culture Consortium of the NCTSN, and has adapted and translated child assessment protocols for use with Spanish-speaking children and families. Ms. Noroña co-developed the Birth to Three Clinic, a specialty clinic in Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center that provided short-term clinical intervention to children birth to thirty-six-months and their caregivers with the goal of addressing attachment difficulties. In 2003, Ms. Noroña was the recipient of the Children’s Trust Fund Emerging Leader Award.

Anita Morris

MSN, FNP-BC

Anita Morris, MSN, FNP-BC is Director of Practice Transformation for TEAM UP for Children. She is a certified family nurse practitioner whose locus of clinical practice has always been in the Safety Net, working in community health centers with underserved populations. In 2001, Ms. Morris joined East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), where she led the development of new approaches to clinical care including patient‐centered practice design, establishment of the Chronic Disease Education and Management department, the Senior Care Options program, and a patient flow redesign of the on-site Satellite Emergency Facility, eventually serving as the health center’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to joining TEAM UP, Ms. Morris provided independent consulting services on various topics, including clinical model design, healthcare payment reform, and workforce development.

Grace Riordan

Grace Riordan is the Communications & Policy Coordinator for the TEAM UP Implementation Team. In addition to managing all internal communication with health center partners, Grace focuses on broadening the TEAM UP network through published articles, email newsletters, social media, and advocacy work. Grace holds a Bachelor’s degree in public policy with a focus on socioeconomic inequality from the University of Michigan. Her favorite part about working with TEAM UP is its focus on addressing the social determinants of health through community-based solutions.

Dana Rubin

MD, MSW

Dana Rubin, MD, MSW, is a board-certified pediatrician and child psychiatrist. She attended Medical School at the University of Illinois, graduating from the Medical Scholars Program where she received a joint degree in Social Work and Medicine. Interested in community health care, Dr. Rubin began her residency at Boston Medical Center in the Department of Pediatrics, with her primary care clinic placement at DotHouse Health. After completing Pediatrics, she was chosen for the Pollin Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, providing training and supervision in helping children and families cope with chronic illness. This one year fellowship lead her to apply for psychiatry training Massachusetts Mental Health Center, now part of the Longwood Training Program at Harvard. Since that time, she has practiced primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry at DotHouse Health and at Boston Medical Center. She teaches in the Departments of Psychiatry and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and supervises residents and fellows. She is one of the Clinical Champions for TEAM UP at DotHouse Health.

Lee Ellenberg

LICSW

Lee Ellenberg, LICSW, is the MASBIRT TTA Training Manager, Lee leads the training and implementation efforts. He led MASBIRT implementation as the Clinical Program Supervisor in a variety of healthcare settings and provided clinical supervision to more than 25 Health Promotion Advocates and behavioral health staff. He currently provides clinical supervision to behavioral health clinicians working at Boston Medical Center's CARE Counseling Program. Lee has trained both locally and nationally on SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing. He has been a behavioral health clinician for more than 25 years. In addition, he teaches Cambridge College courses on Strategies for Change, Addictions, and HIV and has incorporated SBIRT training into many of these courses.Previous to working with MASBIRT, he was the Social Work Manager of HIV services at Cambridge Health Alliance and the Associate Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services at Fenway Health. Lee has also served on the board of directors of Cambridge Cares About AIDS.

Alexandra Heinz

MSW, MPH

Alexandra Heinz, MSW, MPH, is Trainer at MASBIRT TTA Alex works to develop and deliver dynamic trainings in SBIRT and Motivational Interviewing to assist organizations to implement these strategies in their practice with clients. Since joining the team in 2017, Alex has provided training, technical assistance, and coaching to individuals and organizations across the state of Massachusetts. Her past experience includes several years of direct service provision in the non-profit sector with youth and adults in areas of intimate partner violence, sexual health, mental health, substance use, and infectious disease. Alex holds a Master’s of Social Work and a Master’s of Public Health from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s of Arts from Boston College.

Donna Pincus

PHD

Donna B. Pincus, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and Director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Dr. Pincus has focused her clinical research career on the development of new treatments for child and adolescent anxiety disorders. She has received numerous federal grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop new treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and their families, and has over 15 years of clinical and research experience working with youth with anxiety and related disorders.

Martha C. Tompson

PHD

Martha Tompson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and Director of the Family Development and Treatment Lab. Her research focuses on the role of the family in promoting individual mental health. She has examined adults and children with a variety of mental disorders and their families. She is particularly interested in family processes and family treatment among individuals with depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The goal of this work is to identify strengths and deficits in family systems, which may impact on the course of mental disorders, and to develop programs for helping families cope with these disorders. Dr. Tompson received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. She completed an internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and postdoctoral training at the UCLA Department of Psychology. She joined the BU faculty in 1997.

Lisa R. Fortuna

MD, MPH

Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH is the Chief of Psychiatry and Vice-Chair at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. She has been an investigator on several National Institutes of Health and foundation-funded studies of Latino and immigrant mental health, integrated care, access to care including a principle investigator of a NIMH funded R01 aimed at optimizing family navigation for addressing child behavioral health in primary care and a Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) funded multi-site large pragmatic trial on the treatment of childhood anxiety comparing face to face vs. digitally delivered CBT in English and Spanish called Kids FACE FEARS. Her areas of expertise are child and adolescent psychiatry, treatment and research on PTSD across the lifespan, immigrant mental health and disparities/ access to care including digital interventions research.

William Beardslee

MD

William R. Beardslee, MD, directs the Preventive Intervention Project at Judge Baker Children's Center and also the Prevention of Depression Study. He has served as the Academic Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston and is the Gardner-Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In 1998, Dr. Beardslee was appointed to the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Beardslee's long-standing research interest has centered on the development of children who are at risk due to severe parental mental illness and focuses on the ways in which self-understanding helps individuals cope with adversity. His early work describes civil rights workers and how they were able to endure and indeed significantly change the South. He studied resilience in survivors of cancer and in children of depressed parents that led to the development of effective public health interventions for families facing depression, and a ten year randomized trial examination of the two strategies which showed that they were safe and led to lasting gains. This approach has since received high ratings in the National Registry of Effective Programs and is being disseminated widely in Finland, Norway, Costa Rica, and in programs in this country. Dr. Beardslee is currently directing a long-range study at Judge Baker funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) that explores the effects of clinician-facilitated, family-based preventive intervention. This research is designed to gauge the impact of direct intervention and measure its ability to enhance resilience and family understanding for children of parents with affective disorder. In June 2002, Dr. Beardslee published a book for families and lay caregivers about the process of dealing with depression: Out of the Darkened Room: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family When a Parent Is Depressed (Little, Brown and Company).