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Meet Our Fellowship Team


	Jordan Howard-Young, MD (they/he) Program Director Jordan is the Director of Psychiatric Services at the Family Health Center of Worcester as well as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry within the UMass Chan Medical School. They also serve as Co-Director of the Certificate in Advanced Mental Health Care in Primary Care for the UMass Center for Integrated Primary Care. Jordan is passionate about community psychiatry, public health and advocacy, anti-racism and anti-oppression work, substance use care, refugee and asylee care, gender affirmation, and the care of structurally-marginalized communities. Prior to entering medicine, they worked as a community organizer, union organizer, and policy analyst on national healthcare reform legislation. Within their clinical practice at FHCW, they provide both primary and psychiatric care for patients on their panel, as well as performing psychiatric evaluations of patients referred by other clinicians in the practice. Their clinical interests include complex trauma, perinatal mental health, OCD, disordered eating, and adolescent medicine. At FHCW, they are Co-Chair of the Trauma-Informed Care Committee and a member of the Clinical Leadership Council, Incident Committee, Steering Committee, and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Committee. They are a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and completed their residency and chief residency in family medicine at FHCW within the UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency. They also hold a master’s degree in international development and health from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in Denver, CO, where they focused on refugee health in the Middle East. They are also a diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Jordan developed the Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship over the course of their residency with the support of WFMR faculty and FHCW leadership before completing the training program themselves. They have served as Program Director since 2022.
	Stephany Giraldo Eierle, DO, MPH (she/her/ella) Assistant Program Director for Curriculum and Recruitment Stephany is Lead Provider of Perinatal Psychiatry at the Family Health Center of Worcester, as well as faculty of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health within the UMass Chan Medical School. Stephany has various passions including trauma-informed care, anti-oppression work, patient empowerment, public health and advocacy, maternal and child health, reproductive justice, sports medicine, OMT, and mental health. Within the field of psychiatry, she has a particular interest in perinatal mental health, complex trauma, eating disorders, sexual wellness, provider well-being in the context of moral injury, self-compassion, and mindfulness. She is a member of the Trauma-Informed Care Committee at FHCW and is a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting. Stephany is a first-generation American and the first in her family to obtain higher education. She was inspired to pursue a career in medicine by her parents, who lacked access to culturally- and linguistically-appropriate care. She prides herself on being able to care for her patients at FHCW in Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese. She earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) at Nova Southeastern University after completing a year-long Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP) Predoctoral Fellowship. She went on to do her residency within the UMass Worcester Family Medicine Residency and then went on to complete her Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship at FHCW. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in psychology at Florida International University and her Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Miami.
	Tia Strong, LICSW (she/her) Assistant Program Director for Evaluations and Behavioral Health Skills Tia is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker working at Family Health Center of Worcester as a Primary Care Behavioral Health Provider. She is new to the Primary Care Psychiatry team and will be providing psychotherapy supervision to fellows. Within her clinical practice at FHCW, she is a member of the OBAT team, HIV team, Gender-Affirming Care team, and she works with the OB team by meeting with perinatal patients with a history of substance use. She is active in numerous FHCW committees, including Trauma-Informed Care Working Group, Clinical Operations, Workforce Work Group, and Central Community Health Partnership and FHCW collaboration group. She is a Simpact-SUD Scholar graduate from Simmons University where she earned her MSW. Her clinical interests include SUD/recovery/addiction, sexual health/sex therapy, gender-affirming care, trauma, anxiety disorders, nutrition, and chronic pain. Tia has a strong passion to provide accessible, equitable, and quality care for patients from all walks of life. She has completed numerous trainings in psychotherapy treatment modalities, including CBT, MI, Solution Focus, Internal Family Systems, and DBT.
	Marie Hobart, MD (she/her) Adult Psychiatry Faculty Mentor and Clinical Advisor Marie is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and has served as a mentor and faculty member for the Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship since it launched in 2021. She served as Vice Chair for Public Sector Psychiatry at UMass from 2016-2022, working with physician staff at Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital and the Department of Mental Health Clinical Services in Southeastern MA. She was the project lead for two SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) grants integrating primary care into mental health clinics in Worcester and Leominster. She has been a member of the UMass Chan Department of Psychiatry since 1992, retiring from her full-time roles in October 2022. She currently works part time as an on-site consultant for the UMass Fitchburg Family Practice Program. She previously served as Chief Medical Officer for Community Healthlink, where she worked for more than three decades focused on the care of those with serious and persistent mental illness and co-occurring addiction and developmental disabilities. She was a consultant for the Homeless Families program at the Family Health Center of Worcester for many years. She is an active member of the Department of Psychiatry’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society’s Anti-Racism and Public Sector Committees. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and completed residency training in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School training program.
	Jee Yeah Park, PMHNP-BC (she/her) Psychiatric Nurse Practice Mentor Jee is the Lead Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at the Family Health Center of Worcester and the Assistant Director of the PMHNP Fellowship Program. She provides mental health care to underserved populations, supervises psychiatric nurse practitioners, and helps train the next generation of PMHNPs. Her clinical interests include anxiety disorders, PTSD, and ADHD, with a strong focus on community psychiatry and military mental health. As part of a U.S. military family and an immigrant from Korea, Jee has firsthand insight into the unique mental health challenges faced by both service members and immigrant communities. She has seen how stigma, cultural expectations, and systemic barriers prevent many individuals from seeking care. This personal and professional experience drives her commitment to culturally competent, trauma-informed mental health care, particularly for those who feel unseen or underserved. Before becoming a PMHNP, Jee spent over a decade working in emergency and trauma settings, where she witnessed countless psychiatric crises exacerbated by gaps in community resources. These experiences reinforced her dedication to expanding access to comprehensive mental health care for those most in need. She earned her PMHNP degree from the City University of New York, Hunter College.
	Smita Srivastava, MD (she/her) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty Mentor Bio coming soon!

	Emma Howard-Young, MD (she/her) Pediatric Curriculum Consultant Emma is a pediatrician at the Family Health Center of Worcester where she works with both the Pediatric and Psychiatric Services teams. She is the pediatric curriculum consultant for the pediatric track of the Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship. Emma has always loved taking care of children and their families and is passionate about primary and preventative care, with a focus on mental and behavioral health for children of all ages. During her pediatric residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, she realized the scope of the child mental health crisis and then saw it magnified as the COVID pandemic affected children in unprecedented ways. She is dedicated to thinking about mental health challenges in culturally-humble ways, working to de-stigmatize mental health diagnoses and treatment, and to become more anti-racist in her practice and personal life. At FHCW, she is a member of the Trauma-Informed Care Committee, which strives to make systemic improvements to all aspects of patient care. She is a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at Baystate Medical Center. She loves to spend time with her partner, Jordan, and their toddler. She spends her free time baking and doing any kind of artistic or creative project.