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PRIDE IN THE PAST
POWER OF THE PRESENT
FORCE OF THE FUTURE 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 8 - 10, 2015
Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort
Phoenix, Arizona
the missing link
in
healthcare
PRIDE IN THE PAST
POWER OF THE PRESENT
FORCE OF THE FUTURE
The Cummings Graduate Institute
for Behavioral Health Studies is an educational and
healthcare teaching program designed to be on the
cutting edge of advances in
mental and behavioral treatment interventions.
The Cummings Institute is dedicated to
preparing highly competent healthcare professionals to
deliver the highest quality of behavioral health services
as part of integrated healthcare teams.
Our innovative and practice-oriented teaching model is
based on the Biodyne Model and has three pillars:
medical literacy,
behavioral interventions,
and entrepreneurship.
We are committed to whole-person healthcare
and access to quality healthcare
for all people.
Who We Are
Program Overview The aim of this conference is to
exchange knowledge, experience, and
new ideas in the design and delivery of
integrated health care. The conference
will focus on four key themes:
Engagement and partnership with
patients, providers, and decision makers
Transforming care systems
Overcoming key barriers to
implementation of integration efforts, and
Entrepreneurial opportunities.
Location
The Conference will take place at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort, Arizona’s
premier Native American owned luxury Phoenix resort. Designed to be an authentic
representation of the Gila River Indian Community's heritage and culture, the
architecture, design, art and legends of the Pima (Akimel O'otham) and Maricopa (Pee
Posh) tribes are celebrated in every detail at our Phoenix resort. The AAA Four Diamond
resort includes Aji Spa with private pool and cafe, Whirlwind Golf Club with two 18-hole
Troon-managed golf courses and the only AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five Star award
restaurant in Arizona — Kai.
A group rate of $199 per night has
been arranged for attendees of the
Cummings Institute 2015 Fall
Conference. The rate is available
Wednesday, October 7 through
Sunday, October 11.
Please email Dr. Cara English at
for assistance with reservations.
PRE-CONFERENCE MEETINGS: Thursday, October 8 3:00 – 4:00 pm Cummings Graduate Institute Staff Meeting
Jackrabbit Room
4:00 – 6:00 pm Cummings Graduate Institute Faculty Meeting
Jackrabbit Room
6:00 – 9:00 pm Welcome Reception for Students, Faculty, and Staff
Beehive Patio
DAY 1: Friday, October 9 7:30 – 8:30 am Networking Breakfast
Jackrabbit Room
8:30 – 9:15 am
Welcome Janet Cummings, Psy.D
Keynote Address Nicholas Cummings, Ph.D, Sc.D
Jackrabbit Room
9:15 – 10:45 am Improving Healthcare in Oklahoma through Integrated Behavioral Health
Larry Ford and Leonard Fowler, Hands to Guide You Jackrabbit Room
11:00 am – 11:45 pm Lunch
Jackrabbit Room
12:00 – 4:30 pm Site Visits Integrative Health Center, University of Arizona
Head to Toe Integrated Pediatrics Specialty Care
4:30 – 5:30 pm Break
5:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner and Social
Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse, Wild Horse Pass
DAY 2: Saturday, October 10 7:30 – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
Jackrabbit Room
8:30 – 11:30 am Financial and Legislative Barriers to Integration Roundtable Discussion led by Cara English, DBH
Jackrabbit Room
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
Ko-Sin
1:00 – 4:00 pm Entrepreneurship Throwdown Eugene Furnace, DBH (C)
Jackrabbit Room
4:15 – 5:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up
Jackrabbit Room
2015 FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AGENDA
SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Welcome Dr. Janet L. Cummings, Psy.D.
Keynote Address When It Comes to Innovation, All Textbooks Are Irrelevant
Dr. Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D., Founder, Chairman of the Board
Improving Healthcare in Oklahoma through Integrated Behavioral
Health Larry Ford and Leonard Fowler, Hands to Heal You
Larry and Leonard discuss their entrepreneurial venture in Oklahoma. Basing their business model on
the innovative Biodyne Model of Entrepreneurship, they have catalyzed innovations in integrated
healthcare delivery.
Financial and Legislative Barriers to Integration Dr. Cara English, DBH
Despite potential for improving health outcomes and reducing medical costs, integrated care faces
many challenges that prevent implementation for decision makers and independent providers. Health
professionals nationwide have encountered difficulties fiscally sustaining the integrated care model
due to reimbursement constraints. Merging behavioral health and medical fields together means over-
coming a host of barriers that include differences in the way the two fields operate, differing payment
systems, a lack of funding for the initiatives, and concerns about sharing information between behav-
ioral health and medical providers.
This session will provide opportunities for attendees to share strategies that effectively overcome or
work around these barriers, as well as approaches for addressing additional barriers and/or opportuni-
ties to participate in advocacy efforts.
Entrepreneurship Throwdown Eugene Furnace, DBH(C)
According to Jain & Tsang (2014), “[a]ll of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an
entrepreneur.” This session opens the door to sharing wild ideas for disruptive innovation! Join us as
we fight the status quo, poke holes in opaque paths to entry and payment systems, and develop new
policies, technologies, and programs that respond to the unprecedented opportunities in healthcare
today. A DBH has the right kind of crazy to change our systems of care!
Site Visits Driving directions can be accessed via the QR code to the right.
Visit 1: University of Arizona Integrative Health Center
3033 N Central Avenue • Phoenix, AZ 85012
ihc.arizona.edu
A comprehensive primary care center in downtown Phoenix, the UofA IHC was designed and envisioned
by Dr. Andrew Weil to be the world’s leading integrative medicine institution. The Integrative Health
Center is an affiliation between the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) and District Medical
Group (DMG).
DMG is a not-for-profit entity consisting of over 350
providers representing all the major medical and
surgical specialties as well as subspecialties.
DMG physicians have received several outstanding
awards, including Phoenix Magazine's "Best Doctors in
the Valley" numerous times. Many DMG physicians are
recognized locally, nationally and internationally as
innovative leaders.
Launched in October 2012, the Integrative Health Center is DMG's first step into Integrative Medicine,
and it is the first primary care health center that follows the vision of the Arizona Center for Integrative
Medicine.
Visit 2: Head2Toe Therapy, Inc.
5314 North 7th Street • Phoenix, AZ 85014
headtotoeinc.com
SITE VISITS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
Head 2 Toe’s new 27,000 square-foot Therapy Center is
unique in the Southwest and is specifically designed from the
ground up for children with special needs. Professionally
painted wall murals are a delight to view from every direction.
Multiple play areas encourage motor function skills and
engage the children to learn as they play. Special treatment
rooms for a full array of therapies focus on every child’s
specific needs. Head 2 Toe offers multiple therapies all in one
location, allowing parents or guardians to avoid multiple trips
and providing opportunities to run errands or enjoy some
quiet time.
PRESENTERS
2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D. is a former President of the American
Psychological Association. For half a century not only was he able to see the
future of professional psychology, he helped create it. A recipient of the American
Psychology Foundation Gold Medical for a Lifetime of Achievement in Practice
Award, he has received over 30 awards from the APA, the National Science
Foundation, the U.S. Congress, and even the University of Athens. Dr. Cummings
launched the professional school movement by founding the four campuses of
the California School of Professional Psychology. As Chief of Mental Health for
the Kaiser Permanente health system, he developed an integrated behavioral
health treatment model and conducted the medical cost offset research that
demonstrated psychological interventions save medical and surgical dollars.
Foreseeing the industrialization of healthcare, he founded American Biodyne, the nation's first and only
psychology-driven managed behavioral health organization which, before his stepping aside, grew to 25
million covered lives in all 50 states, with 10,000 employed psychologists and social workers. Other
organizations he founded are the National Academies of Practice, the National Council of Professional
Schools of Psychology, and the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association. He was founder
of the Nicholas A. Cummings Doctor of Behavioral Health progam (DBH degree) at Arizona State
University with Provost Elizabeth Capaldi before withdrawing it after seven years. In 2015, at age 91,
with his daughter Dr. Janet Cummings and an intrepid team which includes Dr. Cara English, he founded
the Cummings Graduate Institute, the first provisionally-licensed, free-standing university in 23 years.
Dr. Cummings has written over 450 journal articles and 51 books, 11 of them with his daughter, and 1
of which has been published in Mandarin and is now in 1700 universities in China. He continues as
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Board Chair of the
Cummings Foundations.
Janet Cummings, Psy.D., is the daughter of Dr. Nicholas and Dorothy
Cummings and is an internationally-recognized psychologist. Janet’s academic
background includes degrees in pre-med, linguistics, and clinical psychology.
Janet completed her internship and post-doctoral residency at Arizona Biodyne,
and remained as a staff psychologist there for several years. With supervision
from some top Biodyne psychotherapists, she became a master psychotherapist
and expert in the Biodyne Model. She has continued to utilize the Biodyne Model
exclusively in her private practice and other work settings. She has served as the
president of the Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation since its inception
in 1995. Under Janet’s guidance, the foundation has sponsored many projects
aimed at furthering the integration of behavioral health into primary care
medicine, including The Cummings Psyche Award (the premier scientific award in
the mental health field, with a $50,000 prize) and the launching of the first Doctor of Behavioral Health
(DBH) Program at Arizona State University. Janet is the author of over two dozen journal articles and
book chapters, and she has co-authored or co-edited ten books with her father. She functioned as a
professor in several university programs, including the University of Nevada and the DBH program at
Arizona State University. Janet’s latest endeavor is as President of the Cummings Graduate Institute for
Behavioral Health studies, where she also teaches Pathophysiology and Psychopharmacology. Janet
resides in Reno with her two children, Mary and Kent. Of the many jobs that Janet has held, she
considers motherhood to be the most important and the most rewarding.
PRESENTERS
2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Cara English, DBH, comes from a long line of educators, nurses, and
community servants. Her current role as the Director of the Doctor of Behavioral
Health program for the Cummings Graduate Institute is the culmination of her
passions of health, psychology, and social justice, and her genetic predisposition
towards education, medicine, and community service. While completing her
bachelor’s degree in psychology, Dr. English contributed to the continuing
education of licensed psychologists in Arizona as a staff member at the Arizona
Psychological Association (AzPA). Dr. English continued her training at Northern
Arizona University, where she chose to pursue an applied master’s degree
program in community counseling while gaining field experience at a homeless/
domestic violence shelter for women and children, and at a locked, residential
substance abuse/dual diagnosis treatment for adolescents. Her work as a
community-based and school counselor was honored with the Greater Phoenix
Child Abuse Prevention Council’s Bullying Prevention Award. Dr. English began pursuing the innovative
Nicholas A. Cummings Doctor of Behavioral Health (DBH) degree in 2011. Cara gained experience
serving as a behavioral health consultant in a free, school-based community health center in Chandler,
Arizona, where she specialized in treating and preventing childhood and family obesity, prediabetes, and
type II diabetes. Dr. English graduated in December 2013, and joined the ASU Doctor of Behavioral
Health program as a full-time instructor in January of 2014. She was thrilled to be invited to serve as the
DBH program’s Director as the degree’s visionary founders, Drs. Nicholas and Janet Cummings, moved
the program to a new venue. She looks forward to the positive impact this program and its national and
international graduates will have on patient care. Dr. English resides in the Phoenix area with her
devastatingly handsome husband of 13 years and their extremely precocious 9-year-old son.
Larry Ford has nearly two decades of experience in healthcare. He started his
career nearly two decades ago as a Registered Respiratory Therapist, and over
the years he was able to obtain immense knowledge and education in disease
management. Larry has started several disease management programs and
support groups. The most recent was an outpatient program for patients with
chronic respiratory failure that was very successful at reducing hospital
readmissions. During his years of working in various leadership positions in
healthcare, Larry realized the need for change in healthcare. He has served in
various leadership positions, including CEO and Director of Clinical Operations
and the state representative for public relations chair for Respiratory Care. Larry
later returned to school, and earned another bachelor’s degree in Behavioral
Science and Ethics from Mid-America Christian University. He went on to
complete a Master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in Human Relations. In 2012 he was then
admitted to the Doctor of Behavioral Health program at Arizona State University. He credits Dr.
Cummings and the Doctor of Behavioral Health Program for introducing him to Integrated Behavioral
Health. Through the immediate knowledge gained through the Doctor of Behavioral Health Program,
Larry was able to cofound a CARF-accredited organization called Hands To Guide You, Inc., an
outpatient clinic for Behavioral Health. Hands To Guide You was founded on the very principles of
integrated care, population health management, and improving the quality of care. He believes there is
no health without behavioral health and envisions a healthcare system where physical and behavioral
health providers work together to provide collaborative and patient-centered care.
Leonard Fowler is from Los Angeles, California, by way of Chicago, Illinois. He
has over 20 years working with families and children. Leonard Fowler has a
master’s degree in social work from the University Of Kansas with a concentration
in Clinical Child and Family Therapy. He has worked for the Los Angeles
Department of Children and Family Service and community-based not-for-profit
organizations in addition to acting as CEO/President of his own company, Circle of
Life Family Counseling, LLC, with the mission of improving the lives of the families
and communities that he served. In 2013, he began a new journey with the DBH
program at Arizona State University with the same mission in mind: improving
the lives of the families and the communities we serve. Leonard Fowler met Larry
Ford while attending the Arizona State University Doctor of Behavioral Health
Conference. They hit it off right away and and created a partnership based upon the revolutionary
Biodyne entrepreneurship training with a vision to advance integrated care. From this came Hands to
Guide You, Inc. an outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic serving the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
metropolitan area. Leonard Fowler is a board-licensed social worker in the state of Oklahoma. He was
also a voting council member for the Ryan White Title IV Program, governing five million dollars for
programs providing integrated services in the Kansas City area.
PRESENTERS
2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Eugene Furnace is an educator, trainer, author, and speaker. He has earned
degrees and certifications in psychology, nursing, and business administration.
Eugene has provided counseling and health promotion for nearly 15 years and has
taught undergraduate and graduate students for 8 years. As a professional,
Eugene has provided direct care and offered clinical consultations for practitioners
and managerial consultations for administrators and business owners.
Integrative, whole-person care has been Eugene’s orientation in delivery and
management of counseling and health services with a firm belief that mental
health is inextricably associated with physical health and overall well-being. He
has posited this model from the patient bedside to the executive office as a
counselor, as a clinical director, and as a consultant. As an educator, Eugene has
taught and tutored courses in psychology, sociology, human anatomy and
physiology, and business. Additionally, he has provided exam preparatory
assistance for individuals seeking advancement and/or licensure as nurses, marriage and family
therapists, and clinical social workers. Currently, Eugene is a Staff Development Officer for Riverside
University Health System – Behavioral Health, overseeing training and fidelity for contracted service
providers, and continues to teach in an adjunct capacity.
CUMMINGS Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies
4809 E. Thistle Landing Dr, Ste 100 • Phoenix, AZ 85044 480.285.1761
AREA ATTRACTIONS
2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Friday evening will find us at Rawhide, an 1880’s Western town with a steakhouse, saloon, and
shops. Live action shows will make us feel like we’re back in the wild West!
In addition to historical fun, Wild Horse Pass offers many other entertainments, including a spa, golf
course, pool, equestrian center, outlet mall, and casino. There’s even a boat ride on the resort’s
two-and-a-half-mile river. All facilities on the resort are available via complimentary shuttle or boat ride.
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Directions from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport:
Take AZ-143 South
Merge onto I-10 East toward Tucson
Exit Wild Horse Pass Blvd
Turn right onto Wild Horse Pass Blvd
Continue on Wild Horse Pass Blvd through two signal lights
Follow the signs onto to the resort grounds
and guest registration
Hotel and
Guest Rooms
Thursday evening’s
Welcome Reception
will be held on the
Beehive Patio.
Conference sessions
will be held in the
Jackrabbit Room.