Our Team

Shahin Sebastian is AACS Executive Director and the program manager of the Patient Navigator Program and the Hindi-Urdu, Russian and Malayalam Medical Interpreter with Cross Cultural Infotech. Ms. Sebastian holds a Master’s degree in Microbiology from Odesa State University, Ukraine. Ms. Sebastian is a community health educator, and co leads workshops on self-management of Chronic diseases, Chronic pain, and Diabetes and Mental Health First Aid. Ms. Sebastian is also a community mental health counselor with the PEARLS program (the Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding LiveS) and a Co Leader for SAVVY Caregivers training. Ms. Sebastian loves traveling, creative writing, forest bathing and self-improvement through guided meditation, book clubs, family and friends.

Dr. Cynthia Macri is the AACS President and is a board-certified OB/GYN & Gyn Oncologist, licensed in Maryland. She served 35 years in the US Navy, including leadership roles at the National Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Uniformed Services University, and the Pentagon before retiring in 2014. Dr. Macri is a peer leader for the suite of SMRC self-management programs and currently works at a big data analytics firm in Herndon, VA. In her spare time, she is an instructor for Flameworking at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA, plays competitive adult women’s soccer in the many local leagues and serves the Maryland State Veterans Commission, Governor’s Commission on Suicide Prevention, and the Veterans Administration Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.