meet our team
Our team works hard to make sure you have the resources you need to make your program thrive.
Each of us at NaRCAD brings specialized strengths to all of our clinical education collaborations.
Put us together, and you'll find a multi-faceted team who cares deeply about our learning community. Want to meet us? Join a Community Check-In, enroll in a Training Series course, come to one of our interactive events, or reach out directly. We're ready to share our expertise in AD program development, evaluation, training, strategic partnerships, marketing, and communications with you.
Put us together, and you'll find a multi-faceted team who cares deeply about our learning community. Want to meet us? Join a Community Check-In, enroll in a Training Series course, come to one of our interactive events, or reach out directly. We're ready to share our expertise in AD program development, evaluation, training, strategic partnerships, marketing, and communications with you.
Michael Fischer, MD, MS
Founder & Director Dr. Fischer is a general internist, epidemiologist, and health services researcher. He is Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He practices primary care internal medicine at BMC’s safety-net clinic and supervises residents in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. With extensive experience in designing and evaluating interventions to improve medication use, he has conducted numerous studies demonstrating the potential gains from improved prescribing. In 2010 he and Dr. Jerry Avorn co-founded NaRCAD and since then he has led its growth and has published on the principles of academic detailing and its application to a range of clinical areas. Read more. 
Jerry Avorn, MD
Co-Founder & Special Adviser Dr. Avorn is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Emeritus of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics (DoPE) at Brigham & Women's Hospital. A general internist, geriatrician, and drug epidemiologist, he pioneered the concept of academic detailing and is recognized internationally as a leading expert on this topic and on optimal medication use, particularly in the elderly. Read more. 
Zack Dumont, BSP, ACPR, MSPharm
Training Facilitator Zack is a clinical pharmacist with the RxFiles Academic Detailing Service in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been involved with the RxFiles since 2008, with experience in both academic detailing and content development of RxFiles’ evidence-based drug therapy comparison tools. Read more. 
Mary Liz Doyle Tadduni
PhD, MBA, MSN, RN Training Facilitator Mary Liz is a nurse with experience in nursing education, and in nursing and hospital administration. Since 2004, she has worked in Academic Detailing with the Independent Drug Information Service in Pennsylvania. In 2010, with the inception of NaRCAD, she has served as a faculty facilitator in Academic Detailing Training Techniques. She has also been a faculty facilitator in Academic Detailing Training Techniques with the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). Read more. 
Julia Bareham, BSP, MSc
Training Facilitator Julia is a pharmacist with RxFiles Academic Detailing Service in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She also works casually as a community pharmacist for a large retail chain. Her work at RxFiles involves providing academic detailing services across the province of Saskatchewan, and the development of evidence-based drug therapy educational materials. Read more. 
Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH
Training Facilitator Shuchin currently serves at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) as faculty physician and Clinical Director of Health Integration. He is an associate clinical professor of medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, Board-Certified in Addiction Medicine. Additionally, he is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. He leads on various initiatives and projects around addiction, HIV, Hepatitis C, homelessness, and the criminal justice system. Read more. 
Lexie Hach, MA, DrPH(c)
Training Facilitator Lexie Hach is an Integrated Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS) and Special Projects Coordinator with the Bureau of HIV, STI, and Hepatitis Capacity Extension Program. A program under the Division of Public Health at the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Iowa HHS). Lexie was instrumental in developing and implementing an academic detailing program that began in 2016 in Iowa's rural communities focused on HIV, STIs, and Hepatitis. In her six years as an academic detailer, Lexie educated clinicians on best practices related to HIV, STIs, and Hepatitis in central Iowa. Read more. 
Amanda Kennedy, PharmD, BCPS
Detailing Consultant Amanda is a residency and fellowship-trained board-certified pharmacist. She formerly served as Director of the Vermont Academic Detailing Program at the University of Vermont Office of Primary Care for over 20 years. She is currently the Director of Clinical and Translational Science and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. Read more. |
Bevin Amira
Deputy Director Bevin manages NaRCAD’s strategic partnerships, building collaborations with public health leaders at the national and federal level. With career experience in building learning communities to increase engagement and sustainability, Bevin has expertise in creating interactive, interdisciplinary training curricula at healthcare-based non-profits. In collaboration with the dynamic NaRCAD team, Bevin facilitates NaRCAD's virtual and in-person learning sessions to encourage hands-on skill development and best practices sharing amongst peer programs. Read more. 
Anna Morgan-Barsamian, MPH, RN, PMP
Senior Manager, Training & Education Anna oversees NaRCAD's educational initiatives, including conferences, trainings, and learning sessions. Her efforts have significantly expanded NaRCAD's reach, and have included leading content development, managing the DETAILS blog, hosting the Changing Minds podcast, overseeing the facilitation team, and building key partnerships. Read more. 
Loren Regier, BA, BSP
Training Facilitator Loren is a Pharmacist and Consultant Editor with RxFiles Academic Detailing Service in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Loren has guided the development of this provincial academic detailing service since the first “ground breaking” pilot project began in 1997. Loren is active as a member of the Canadian Academic Detailing Collaboration and provides training and consultation to various programs and initiatives. Read more. 
Jacki Travers, PharmD
Training Facilitator Jacki is a clinical pharmacist with Pharmacy Management Consultants (PMC), a division of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. Since 2015, she has led the PMC academic detailing program. Her AD efforts are primarily in service to Oklahoma Medicaid providers, who in turn care for some of the state’s most vulnerable population. She has served as a training facilitator for the NaRCAD Academic Detailing Techniques trainings since 2019. Read more. 
Vishal Kinkhabwala, MD, MPH Training Facilitator Vishal Kinkhabwala is the HIV Prevention Activities Coordinator with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) based in Lansing MI. Through this position, he has been active with academic detailing for 2 years and has helped to develop and further the program which aims to increase patient access to PrEP and other HIV Prevention strategies throughout the state of Michigan. Read more. 
Jessica Alward, MS
Training Facilitator Jessica Alward, MS has been an academic detailer with the State of New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services since 2018. Her primary topics include HIV, STIs, HCV and other infectious diseases. Jess helped to develop the Public Health Education & Detailing program which strives to provide education to providers, organizations, and New Hampshire residents. Read more. 
Chirag S. Rathod, PharmD
Training Facilitator Chirag is a clinical pharmacist, academic detailer and instructor with Illinois ADVANCE at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). He graduated with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Midwestern University in 2012 and is currently a Master of Business Administration (MBA) candidate at UIC. He has been working at UIC since 2012 and has been involved in a number of collaborations with the Retzky College of Pharmacy, College of Dentistry, and College of Medicine in addition to currently teaching workshops and classes utilizing improv as a tool to enhance communication skills amongst both future health care professionals and undergraduate students. Read more. 
Nicole Seymour, BSP, PharmD, ACPR
Training Facilitator Nicole Seymour is an academic detailing pharmacist with the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) Academic Detailing Service in Ontario, Canada. Since joining the CEP in 2018, Nicole has supported family physicians & primary care nurse practitioners with virtual and in-person discussions across a wide range of topics, including: opioid use disorder, chronic non-cancer pain, benzodiazepine use in older adults, COVID, type 2 diabetes, falls prevention, heart failure and more. Read more. |